While some, like Charlamagne tha God, called the confrontation between Drake and Kendrick Lamar the greatest rap battle ever, others didn’t care for it. Questlove is one of those people. In May, he called it “a wrestling match level mudslinging and takedown by any means necessary.” Another individual troubled by the battle is André 3000, who said it […]
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Earlier this week, T.I was arrested at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport on a warrant for first and second-degree assault and use of a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence. The warrant had been filed against him in Baltimore. T.I. was released a few hours after the arrest, with his lawyer claiming the warrant […]
Lil Pump has been MAGA from the beginning. To prove it, he has a Trump tattoo. Now he’s threatening anyone who talks greasy against his guy with his hands. Lil Pump sends out a warning: “If anybody says something slick about uncle Donny in the streets I’m smacking the fuck out you” pic.twitter.com/dc9SZzicLc — SAY […]
T.I. considers himself quite the learned man He uses big words, after all, and almost always uses them correctly. His son, King, tends to flex in less intellectual ways. Tip and King were guests on 2 Chainz and his son Halo’s podcast. During the chat, King was given a spelling test and quickly failed, much […]
Lil Woadie is a 16-year-old rapper from Seattle. His social media and YouTube footprint suggest he has some fans but is nowhere near a household name. Woadie has apparently picked up a ten-years older fiancée who drops him off at high school every day. That boy is a 16-year-old rapper named Lil Woadie, and his […]
Nelly was arrested today in St. Louis for ecstasy possession and driving without insurance. The 49-year-old has long been linked to ecstasy use. The St. Lunatic secretly wed Ashanti last December, and they are expecting their first child any day now. We suspect a heavily pregnant Ashanti won’t be happy when she hears news of […]
Offset has something to say about backstabbing and hating. But it doesn’t appear to have anything to do with Cardi B, who just filed for divorce from Set. “A n*gga will live with you. Eat off you. Help his family. and still be hating inside cuz they ain’t pop on they own e the n*gga […]
Kodak Black has struggled with drug addiction. It’s led him to many bad situations, including prison. He doesn’t want others to follow his path of shame. Speaking to a youth football team in his home state of Florida, Yak delivered a very honest anti-drug message. Kodak Black stops by a youth football team in Florida […]
Drake has long cultivated friendships with ballers Two basketball players he’s been tight with, LeBron James and DeMar DeRozan, have favored Kendrick Lamar in their beef. However, Steph Curry has stayed loyal and was recently caught on tape telling Lebron how sick he is of hearing “Not Like Us.” This week, he explained why he’s still […]
Drake dropped three new songs this afternoon. One of them, “It’s Up,” features 21 Savage. Savage was one of the few rappers who stuck with Drake when Drizzy’s old friends like Future and Rick Ross turned on him. This is probably why some folks think Savage went after Kendrick Lamar on the track. Fans think […]
Taylor Swift will put an end to Kanye West’s streak of number-one albums 11. According to HitsDailyDouble, The Tortured Poets Department will log another week at number one, with an SPS of 125K. That’s about double what she did last week, thanks to a new variant and a discount in her online store. It will easily […]
Nicki Minaj doesn’t seem to like that her half-sister Ming Luanli is talking about her in interviews. Nicki ripped a big mouth while on StationHead. Alhthough she didn’t mention Ming’s name, it’s. Mainly, because Ming is an up-and-coming rapper, who recently had an interview on the podcast We In Miami. [embedded content] “Why would a […]
R&B singer Jon B has two problems with Gunna and Chloe Bailey sampling his song “They Don’t Know” for their cut “You & Me.” One, neither of them asked his permission to sample the record. Two, he hates the way it sounds. Damn, Jon B didn’t like Gunna and Chloe Bailey sampling his record They […]
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According to HitsdailyDouble, Ice Spice’s Y2K! did 20K in its first week and landed 34 on their album chart. Billboard has her at a more respectable 28K and 18th place. We are not sure what’s going on with that rather large discrepancy. Ice reacted to the larger number on Twitter with a reference to her first project. […]
Hookahs were a big thing a decade or so ago. Now, they aren’t as big of a thing. The Game believes they shouldn’t be a thing at all if you have an X and a Y chromosome. The Game speaks on men smoking hookah: “Any n**** that smoke hookah can jump up & land in […]
When Eminem was hot, there was no streaming. However, the 51-year-old has adjusted well to the streaming era. On the back of his new album The Death Of Slim Shady he became only the seventh artist ever to surpass 50 billion streams on Spotify. The other six are quite a bit younger. Drake – 101bTaylor Swift […]
One could say that Tory Lanez has been pretty productive during his 10-year prison sentence for shooting Megan Thee Stallion. Last month, the rapper said he “cracked the code” on how to make high-quality music over the prison phone. He then dropped his project, Prison Tapes, and people were impressed by how good it sounded. Tory called […]
Rumors are flying about why Cardi B filed for divorce from Offset. And it’s not necessarily the cheating. According to a source who spoke to People, Offset wasn’t helping out enough with the kids. “As a mom, she expects a partner that contributes fully and that puts the family first. This just wasn’t happening. In […]
The Gunna rehabilitation tour continues. This weekend, YSL founder Mondo apologized to Gunna for suggesting he snitched. The founder of Young Stoner Life ‘YSL Mondo’ apologizes for labelling Gunna a rat 🐍 “Saying Gunna was a rat was dead ass wrong […] technically he didn’t rat he just kinda folded under pressure […] I’m not […]
A lot of folks think Gunna snitched on Young Thug and the rest of the YSLs. However, Thugger has never expressed that opinion. In fact, Thug’s dad, Jeffery Williams Sr., has gone out of his way to say Wunna did nothing wrong. He did it again by appearing in Gunna’s video for “One Of Wun”. […]
Vultures 2 actually dropped late last night. Kanyologists are currently studying the lyrics. For now, we have some shade Ye applied to Drake on the track “5:30” Kanye namedrops Drake on VULTURES 2 👀 “You a fake b*tch, you don’t really love Ye b*tch, go listen to Drake b*tch” — Kanye on 5:30 pic.twitter.com/ZQjJEN9RTq — […]
Mustard is about 80 percent of the reason Kendrick Lamar’s Drake diss “Not Like Us” is a smash hit. But his own music isn’t doing so well. The producer’s album Faith Of A Mustard Seed just finished off its first week with a mediocre 18K. He responded by lashing out at Drake in a racial […]
Big Sean’s interview with Charlamagne is notable for its discussion of Sean’s beef with Kendrick Lamar and an apology Kendrick sent Sean’s way for dissing him in a leaked verse. But CTG doesn’t believe Sean and Kendrick are on equal footing. During the chat, CTG made it clear he doesn’t think the Detroit spitter is on […]
If you are following the saga of Ice Spice’s weight, you know the number on the scale keeps getting smaller and smaller. Ice Spice has made it clear she’s dropping the LBS through sweat equity, not Ozempic. But the latest photo of Spice has sparked widespread concern that she’s wasting away. Fans worried over Ice […]
There were two big pieces of personal news from Cardi B yesterday. First, that she is divorcing Offset. Second, that she is pregnant. If you are wondering if the thing in her belly belongs to set, she’s answered that in her divorce filing. Bardi, who cites “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for the divorce, is […]
About a decade ago, Young Money was the hottest imprint in the game. That’s because of Lil Wayne, Drake, and Nicki Minaj. During a stop on the All The Smoke podcast, Weezy discussed how he met his two young charges. Lil Wayne Tell His Story On How He Met Nicki Minaj & Drake pic.twitter.com/4F11nNOh2f — Shawn […]