Whether it’s explaining why he doesn’t want to date Kim Kardashian or his reaction to Brittany Renner’s body count, Shannon Sharpe often goes viral for his words and actions. Today, people are reacting to him shooting his shot at Megan Thee Stallion, which he did while talking to Chad Ochocinco on their podcast Nightcap With Unc & […]
Diddy’s former bodyguard, Gene Deal, isn’t necessarily the most reliable source when it comes to Puff. But his latest allegations gell with the multiple lawsuits against The Diddler over the past few weeks. According to Deal, Puff wanted to get his girl band Danity Kane hooked on drugs and then pimp them out. Diddy’s former […]
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Andre 3000 wasn’t thinking about the charts when he dropped New Blue Son, an album of flute music with nary a bar in it. But charts still came coming. The album’s opening song, “I Swear, I Really Wanted to Make a ‘Rap’ Album but This Is Literally the Way the Wind Blew Me This Time” […]
Nicki Minaj has called out the folks who owe her an apology. “If you had the opportunity to apologize and didn’t take it, always remember: you had the opportunity of a lifetime,” she wrote. At this point, it’s unclear who Nicki is referring to since she has beef with Cardi B, Latto, Lil’ Kim, Remy […]
There’s a good chance that Joe Budden may be returning to the microphone after walking away from his rap career in 2016. On Sunday, November 26, he and his co-host were discussing Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign’s new cut “Vultures,” which seems to inspire him. So, Joe said that he might jump on a […]
The word on the street is T.I.’s son King is a spoilt twat who needs a spanking. T.I. damn near put him over his knee this afternoon. The Harris family was enjoying the Falcons game, livestreaming of course, when an argument broke up between King and his mom and dad. Rapper TI is forced to snatch […]
Blueface and his mom’s contentious relationship is highly inappropriate, full of nudity and talk of genitals. His mom is keeping that weird energy going by launching her OnlyFans on Blue’s birthday. Karlissa Saffold considers herself quite a catch. But perhaps not as much as she was in her prime. “Y’all already know I was nothing […]
Tom Brady was seemingly Antonio Brown’s biggest champion, pushing the Bucs to take a chance on the troubled WR and then winning a title with him at Super Bowl LV. However, AB doesn’t see it that way and has spent the last couple of years shading the GOAT QB. He continued that trend by suggesting […]
Diddy’s Thanksgiving suprise was a third woman coming forward to accuse him of a violent sexual attack. The unnamed female says Puff and singer Aaron Hall drugged and raped her and her friend in 1991. After the assault, Diddy tracked down the woman and beat and choked her to convince her not to the police. […]
Everyone is opening their Puff Daddy files in light of him settling his ex Cassie’s sexual abuse lawsuit. In the suit, Cassie accused him of blowing up Kid Cudi’s car when he heard she was dating the rapper, among other things. According to Suge Knight, that wasn’t the only time he got violently jealous of Cudi. […]
Tory Lanez just did his first of many Thanksgivings behind bars. Suge Knight is already an old hand at feasting on Thursday without freedom. They both got the same Thanksgiving meal even though they are at different California prisons. The two rap figures chowed on roast turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, cornbread dressing, diced carrots, dinner […]
Iggy Azalea hasn’t been hot on the charts in years. Cardi B still hasn’t followed up her 2018 debut album. But it doesn’t matter for their bottom lines. Iggy made $48 million on OnlyFans over the past year, making her the top celebrity earner. Cardi B came in second with $45 million. Amber Rose netted […]
While you were stuffing your face this Thanksgiving, Ice Spice ate like she was in prison. The 23-year old, recently nominated for a Best New Artist Grammy, posted her Thanksgiving plate, which was underwhelming. “Happy Thanksgiving,” she captioned a photo of either a piece of bread or a very thin sandwich with one bite missing. […]
Lil Baby claims he gets between 250 and 350K for a feature. The 28-year-old recently tried to get 200K for a fit check. But it wasn’t always that way. Baby stunted his show prices from 2017, right before his debut album Harder Than Ever dropped. They ranged between $2500 and $5500. Lil Baby shares his show […]
Megan Thee Stallion’s brand has been closely tied to her sexuality, but she’s changing things around. Pretty much, because she’s tired of being criticized for the people she’s slept with. Megan Thee Stallion says she’s turning over a new leaf and going to be “stingy with the cootie cat” pic.twitter.com/uUuIuO6gjL — Daily Loud (@DailyLoud) November […]
Diddy is facing his third lawsuit under the New York Adult Survivors Act, which expired on Thanksgiving — a law that gives sexual abuse victims the right to file a suit before the statue of limitations expire. In this latest suit, a woman listed as Jane Doe said she met Diddy and Guy singer Aaron […]
50 Cent just did a complete 180 on Diddy’s sexual assault lawsuits after clowning him nonstop. Fif began teasing the Bad Boy mogul after Cassie sued him for rape, abuse, and human trafficking, which he settled. Yesterday a second accuser, named Joi Dickerson-Neal, sued Diddy and accused him of drugging, then raping her, and showing […]
Bad news for Tekashi 6ix9ine. A judge has ordered the troll rapper to pay stripper Alexis Salaberrios $9,825,000 in damages for hitting her in the head with a bottle. Salaberrios, a dancer at the Gold Rush Cabaret in Miami, sued 6ix9ine in February of 2021. According to the suit, 6ix9ine threw the bottle at a […]
Wale has denied that Diddy held him over a balcony. Now Vanilla Ice is denying Suge Knight did the same to him. Ice isn’t denying he signed his publishing over to the Death Row mogul. Nor is he denying he did so on a balcony. But, according to Ice, the conversation was cordial. [embedded content] […]
Gucci Mane’s wife Keyshia Ka’oir’s trip to Miami went left. She took to Instagram today to announce her pink Lamborghini had been stolen in South Florida. “MY PINK LAMBO WAS STOLEN IN MIAMI! IF U SEE HER DM ME! I GOT SOME $$$$$,” Ka’oir typed on IG. Gucci has not commented on the grand theft […]
Cardi B is one of those artists who will quickly respond to a troll, something she recently did after someone mentioned the plastic surgery she’s received. Cardi B finally found the exercise pants she was looking for 💪🏼 pic.twitter.com/WyUamJQULu — 212 (@212mediaTV) November 21, 2023 “I hate influencers who do this get all the […]
Last year Massachusetts rapper Millyz called Machine Gun Kelly “garbage” after being asked to name his favorite white MCs. “He can’t rap, but he got a good rockstar image, but like I’m a real rapper,” said Millyz back then. “I really break down bars, syllables and words, so I look past image and flow. A […]
When Benny The Butcher came on the scene, he found success using a no-frills, meat-and-potatoes rap approach, spitting over boom-bap beats with soul samples. But he’s switched things up since then and began rapping over more commercial sounding beats, a move that one of his day-one fans don’t like. I’m on a 7 year run. […]
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The Two Chainz featuring Lil Wayne album Welcome 2 Collegrove is set to do 32K in its first week, according to HitsDailyDouble. That’s a drop from the 53K their joint album Collegrove did first week in 2016. The sequel should open at about 18 on the Billboard album chart. The other big rap release of the […]
Fetty Wap was as hot as anyone in the game around in 2014. However, by the end of 2016, it was all dipping. By 2018, he was more or less done. But Fetty had a lifestyle to maintain, and that’s when he turned to selling drugs. “Like, aight, the music wasn’t really doin’ that good. […]
Meek Mill has an undisclosed personal issue with Trippie Redd, which involved Trippie saying his name. So his fingers took to social media to air him out. “This guy no good!!! I ain’t even know you said my name … If you f*ck with me f*ck this guy right here … I wanna stand on n*ggas […]
Lil Baby is all about that business. When a fan approached the Atlanta rapper for one of those fit checks the TikTok kids so enjoy these days, Baby hit him with a big bill. “You got to give me 200 thou,” Baby told the fan. “I got you bro, pay pal,” the fan said. But […]
A lot of people like to go on and on about first-week album sales like it’s 1999 and don’t take into account that people just aren’t buying music anymore. That’s the crux of Joey Bada$$’s point on the matter. On Monday, November 20, he took to Twitter and told everyone to calm down when focusing […]