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 […]
Meek Mill has responded to his album with Rick Ross, Too Good to Be True, selling 31,000 units in its first week and opening at number 23 on the Billboard 200 charts. In short, the Philly rhymer said that chart placements don’t matter, because he’s still making tons of money. “I’m getting a million a […]
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A$AP Rocky will have to go to trial for shooting A$AP Relli in 2021. Today, Rocky’s attorney tried to get the case dismissed but couldn’t convince the judge. According to AP News, A Los Angeles judge found Monday that there is enough evidence for A$AP Rocky to stand trial for allegations that he fired a […]
In Cassie’s already-settled lawsuit against Diddy, she allegedly Puff and his goons once dangled a rapper over a balcony for flirting with her. While she didn’t name the rapper, Ant Glizzy did: “I swear for God, [there’s] a balcony in the studio,” Ant said. “They got Wale over top his face, hanging out the balcony. […]
Last week, Snoop Dogg shocked the world with this message. I’m giving up smoke. pic.twitter.com/DDVl9Syixw — Snoop Dogg (@SnoopDogg) November 16, 2023 “AFTER MUCH CONSIDERATION & CONVERSATION WITH MY FAMILY, I’VE DECIDED TO GIVE UP SMOKE. PLEASE RESPECT MY PRIVACY AT THIS TIME,” Snoop typed. We weren’t alone in thinking that Snoop wasn’t being entirely […]
50 Cent took some time off from clowing Diddy over Cassie’s bombshell lawsuit to make fun of Rick Ross and Meek Mill’s low sales for their album Too Good To Be True. The LP only did about 31,000 units in its opening week. Oh No 31,009 😆😆😆 you might want to spend some quiet time […]
Drake has more than just a somewhat new album this week. He also debuted a new facial tattoo. The ink reads “miskeen”, which is an Arabic word meaning “poor” or “hopeless.” It’s also a slang term used in Toronto and, from what we can gather, Jamaica. So it’s very Drake. Some folks on Twitter weren’t […]
Boosie Badazz is sick of other rappers sampling or copying his work without paying or attributing him. Now he’s getting his lawyers involved. Boosie explained that he and his attorneys are going after about five other artists for theft. He named Rod Wave as one of them. “Rod Wave did it best, no cap. Rod […]
Blueface’s mom went viral earlier this year after she said she turned down sex with Shaq, Usher, and 50 Cent. With Shaq, it’s a little more complicated than that. During a chat with Jason Lee, Karlissa Safford said she was good to go, but a little Blueface cock blocked. Blueface mom says she was supposed […]
Megan Thee Stallion’s ex, Pardison Fontaine, is settling scores. In the track “Megan Thee Person,” Pardison suggests Megan has sex with everyone, including her producers, implies she was lying about being shot by Tory Lanez, and says she is disgusting on the inside. Had me beefin’ with n*ggas you know you was f*ckin’Beautiful girl, but […]
Drake’s reissue with bonus tracks, All The Dogs: Scary Hours Edition, has a decent chance of finishing first place in its opening week. HitsDailyDouble is projecting it for a 110-130K opening, which is also about what they are projecting the fourth week of Taylor Swift’s re-recording of her 2014 album 1989 will do. On Drake’s new track […]
NBA YoungBoy remains stuck in Utah despite his lawyers’ efforts to get his house arrest lifted. Perhaps it’s for the best. His social media behavior — including mocking his opps — suggests he would get in trouble if allowed to leave the state. On the other hand, he might be getting a little too faded […]
Cassie’s bombshell lawsuit against Puff Daddy alleges he was very jealous of her when he wasn’t paying men to have sex with her. He allegedly blew up Kid Cudi’s car when Cudi and Cassie started dating. According to Shy Glizzy’s bodyguard, Ant Glizzy, Diddy also went Suge Knight on Wale because he thought he was […]
Does Druski, a comedian, have real beef? He’s embroiled in a feud with Birdman that includes chain-snatching. Whether it’s a skit or not is unclear. Now Famous Dex has banned Druski from Chicago for posting an old video of him getting into it with Soulja Boy. Famous Dex mad at druski for posting this old […]
Drake had bad things to say about Kanye, Pusha T, and Joe Budden on his new Scary Hours 3 EP. And he had good things to say about Taylor Swift. When it came to Tekashi 6ix9ine, it was outright mockery. “Y’all the type to catch a charge and act like the rapper named after a […]
Cassie has filed a $30 million lawsuit against her former boyfriend, Diddy, that alleges he beat her, raped her, and paid other men to have sex with her. That Puffy is a “violent hip hop homosexual,” as Azealia Banks called him, has been the subject of rumors for years. Now that those chickens are coming […]
Drake dropped his Scary Hours 3 project today, November 17, and he takes shots at his foes, Pusha T, Joe Budden, and Kanye West. Here’s what Drake had to say about Pusha — who he’s been beefing with for years — in the song “Wick Man”. [embedded content] “Man, I remember n*ggas was joking ’bout […]
DJ Akademiks has a long list of people who want to put their hands on him since he makes a living out of talking smack. The City Girl’s former makeup artist, who’s now a rapper, Saucy Santana is one of them. Accused rapist Diddy is another. But not all people who want to get at […]
In her $30 million lawsuit against her ex Diddy, Cassie alleges that Puff blew up Kid Cudi’s car in 2012 when Cassie began dating Cudi. Other non-Cudi-related allegations against Puffy include beating and raping Cassie, and masturbating when he paid other men to have sex with her. We don’t know how much of that is […]
Any bad day for Puff Daddy is a fun day for 50 Cent. Today was a very, very bad day for Diddy. His ex-GF Cassie filed a $30 million lawsuit against the rap mogul. In it, she claims Puff beat her, raped her, plied her with drugs, forced her to have sex with male hookers […]