Last night’s Essence Festival in New Orleans was hyped up by Birdman as a Hot Boy reunion. “It’s been 15-20 years since we’ve been onstage together,” Baby had announced before the show. “We’ve got a great production and some special guests. It’s going to be amazing! We are working on a few things that we […]
DJ Akademiks has supported Drake throughout his beef with Kendrick Lamar and the rest. But Drizzy may have finally lost Drake this Fourth Of July. Ak can’t believe Drake, who Kendrick has been attempting to excommunicate from the culture, attended Michael Rubin’s White Party in the Hamptons. “The white party is a colonizer party. That’s […]
Megan Thee Stallion’s Megan album, which dropped last Friday, just had 30 million streams removed, presumably for bot activity. Megan Thee Stallion’s self titled album “MEGAN” has had 30 MILLION streams removed from her latest album repositioning her to #30 on Global Spotify pic.twitter.com/gZQUtQjeeb — Akademiks TV (@AkademiksTV) July 5, 2024 The album had been […]
Yesterday, Rick Ross mocked the folks who attacked him in Vancouver for disrespecting Drake. I’m thinking about the event that happened over there,” Ross began. “When the first dude stepped up to Rozay, the lil’ short fat one that looked like Bam Bam Bigelow from wrestling. When he stepped up, I squatted down and his […]
Blockstar was one of the people accused of killing Pop Smoke. He plead guilty. But since he’s a juvenile, he’s already out. He used his freedom to speak to Adam22 about the night of the murder. [embedded content] Off the bat, he cleared up the rumor that he was sent to kill Pop by his […]
Rick Ross paid the price for entering Drake’s domain of Canada. However, Drizzy has no concerns about bouncing south to the United States despite active beef with many of the country’s more famous rappers. The Canadian was front and center yesterday at Micheal Rubin’s annual white party in the Hamptons, where he celebrated the Fourth […]
Rick Ross has been trying to downplay what happened to him when he tried to play the Drake diss “Not Like Us” in Drizzy home country of Canada. But the fact remains he was punched and had to flee after his security guard was pummeled. According to Drake’s buddy Druski, there may be more of […]
On his new track, “Tobey”, Eminem has a bone to pick. “Ain’t feelin’ your top five favorite rappers/ So I know they ’bout to be pissed at me/ But this, to me, is a mystery/ How rappers I’ve already ripped could be/ Higher up on a list than me, “Shady raps. In Billboard’s recent ranking […]
Kendrick Lamar has pretty clearly won his beef with Drake. He’s also pretty clearly getting robotic help. The latest evidence, at least according to DJ Akademiks, that Lamar and his team have been botting the “Not Like US” video he dropped yesterday, which gained views at a suspicious speed. YouTube intentionally slows the views during […]
Kendrick Lamar’s much anticipated “Not Like Us” video is here. [embedded content] In the visuals, Kendrick plays OVO pinata and stunts the family Drake claims he abandoned. He also does push ups. The video was directed by K.Dot along with Dave Free, the man Drake suggested was the real dad to one of Kendrick’s children. […]
Julio Foolio was shot and killed last month in a Tampa Holiday Inn parking lot while celebrating his 26th birthday. When Foolio was killed, he had Jacksonville beef with Yungeen Ace, who continued to diss him after he was dead. Now we have a masked man claiming Ace put a 10K bounty on Julio’s head […]
A couple of months ago, Juvenile excited fans after saying he, Lil Wayne, Turk, and B.G. are working on a new Hot Boys album. But Wayne shot down that claim while he was a guest on the Not Just Football podcast. [Jump to the 19:09-mark] [embedded content] “That’s what he [claimed]?” said Weezy about Juvenile. […]
Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” celebration continues. Even though the track was released in early May, it’s taken on a new life thanks to Dot performing it several times at his June 19 Pop Out concert and shooting a video for it in his Compton hometown. Now, there are billboards related to the song being […]
Bronny James will wear the number 9 as a Los Angeles Laker to pay tribute to the late Juice WRLD. “Juice has just been a big part of me keeping calm in situations I’ve been through,” Bronny said in a press conference. “Just pay homage to him, especially since he passed. Before he died of […]
Lil Durk is back at work after spending time in rehab for Codeine and Xanax. But he may have something planned before his album Love Songs 4 the Streets 3. The Chicago rapper is teasing a feature run. ‘A smurk feature run,” he typed. Is that something you are interested in.
“Houdini,” the first track on Eminem’s upcoming album The Death Of Slim Shady, reached number 2. His follow-up track, “Tobey” featuring Big Sean and Babytron, may also be headed to the top five. It enjoyed a very good opening half day on Spotify. Eminem, Big Sean & BabyTron’s ‘Tobey’ was streamed 1.6 million times in […]
50 Cent has already teased Rick Ross about getting jumped for playing Kendrick Lamar’s Drake diss “Not Like Us” at Vancouver’s Ignite Music Festival. But Fif isn’t done, because on Tuesday he mocked Ross on Live with the comedian Earthquake and singer Keith Sweat. [embedded content] “You saw that sh*t that happened in Canada, man? […]
Megan Thee Stallion is really famous. She’s on magazine covers. She has hit singles. She has high-profile girl beef. But can she sell albums? Her first album, Good News, moved 100K first week. Her sophomore album, Traumazine, did 63K first week. According to HitsDailyDouble, her new album, Megan, will also do about that. So […]
When Ice Spice busted onto the scene, she was lauded for her thickness. Then there were mutters she had gotten too thick. Nobody is muttering that anymore. The 24-year-old was looking quite svelte at a recent show. Ice Spice then and now 👀📸 pic.twitter.com/04waNBIUzm — Daily Loud (@DailyLoud) July 2, 2024 Her rapid weight loss […]
Eminem has raised the level of excitement over his new album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce), by giving fans a release date. “OH SH*T!!! THE DEATH OF SLIM SHADY (COUP DE GRÂCE) ☠️ 7/12!!!” he wrote on Instagram, Monday, July 1. Em’s rollout of the album has been nothing short of impressive, first […]
“I’d have her stretched out like quarter-to-three. I do it three ways, Ocho: deep, hard and continuously. That’s all I got, Ocho. You better stop playing,” he told Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson. The 56-year-old apologized for that comment when Meg did his Club Shay Shay podcast this week. Meg, before we go any further, I wanna […]
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There was a lot of talk that Gunna would never be accepted by the hip hop community after he walked out of jail with taking a plea deal in the state of Georgia’s case against Young Thug and the YSLs. But that hasn’t been the case, and Wunna is enjoying as much success as he […]
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Rick Ross and his crew got jumped in Vancouver by Caucasian OVO goons after he played “Not Like US” in Canadian hero Drake’s home country. While Ross got away with just a punch in the face, one of his security guards got it pretty bad. There is no way to tie Drake to the assault […]
When a rapper dies before his time, his sales usually explode Think of XXXTentacion and Juice WRLD, or, if you want to go back, 2Pac and Biggie. Julio Foolio was shot to death on his birthday last week. However, it’s the sales of his main opp, Yungeen Ace, that have been juiced. The ghost of […]
Nicki Minaj has been beefing with Lil’ Kim since she came onto the scene many years ago. Her former manager, Debra Antney, who is Waka Flocka’s mom, said during an interview that she reached out to Kim and tried to settle the beef. 🎙️| Deb Antney longtime manager of Nicki Minaj in the beginning of her […]
G Herbo has been spotted around town with Caitlin Clark foil Angel Reese, leading to speculation he’s climbing that mountain. That may not sit well with G Herbo’s girlfriend and BM Taina Williams. Here she is singing Sexyy Red’s hit “Pound Town,” emphasizing one line in particular. Taina Williams humorously sings, “My son needs a […]
Drake hasn’t put out any new music since his beef with Kendrick Lamar. We did get a Camila Cabello featuring Drake track”Hot Uptown” on Friday. It isn’t doing well. The track debuted at #149 on Global Spotify with 1.51 million streams and #92 on US Spotify with 526k streams. It’s not the Drake stimulus package […]
In 2014, Chicago rappers Cdai and RondoNumbaNine went to a neighboring South Side of Chicago apartment complex looking for revenge for a previous shooting. They ended up shooting and killing a cab driver who had nothing to do with what was bothering them. For their crime, Rondo got 39 years and Cdai 38. From the […]