Image via Daniel Everett Patrick Show your love of the game by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon so that we can keep churning out interviews with legendary producers, feature the best emerging rap talent in the game, and gift you the only worthwhile playlists left in this streaming hellscape. Miguel Otárola says […]
SpotemGottem is one of many a young rapper who is hounded by allegations of snitching. Those allegations were too much for Lil Durk. Durk was supposed to do a feature for Gottem, for which the Florida rapper paid Smurk 100K. However, Durk returned the money when he heard the rumors that Gottem was a truthteller. […]
Wiz Khalifa, Logic, and Nelly are among the rappers who have recently sold their catalogs. Money Man claimed he also got an offer but turned down a big check. Got offered 40m’s for my catalog I’m cool rn tho — Big Money (@MoneyMan) September 18, 2023 “Got offered 40m’s for my catalog I’m cool rn […]
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The whole story struck us odd: Given that 6ix9ine can’t pay his security, how did he have a million for a Kodak verse? It turns out he didn’t. 6ix9ine explains that a vape company — who were featured in the video — gave Kodak the money for a song that wasn’t even Tekashi’s song. “Yeah, […]
Eminem is a pretty reclusive guy. But we can’t say we are too surprised that Em left his home in Detroit to “surprise” the crowd at 50 Cent’s show in The Motor City last night. Shady rapped his verse on “Patiently Waiting” and “Crack A Bottle” for the fans at the Pine Knob Music Theatre. He […]
Soulja Boy has become the first rapper to have his chain fall apart while he performed. (Probably.) Soulja Boy’s Chain Falls Apart While Performing #SouljaBoy pic.twitter.com/rLvrdoXnxO — Real1Of1TV (@Real1of1TV) September 16, 2023 In a post directed to No Jumper, he explained what happened. Soulja Boy responds to video of his chain falling apart 😂 pic.twitter.com/JtC7LmF2Ev […]
The relationship between Blueface and Chrisean Rock is starting to thaw. Blue wasn’t even there when their child was born earlier this month, and he threatened to take the boy from Chrisean due to molestation fears. However, he switched it up and started saying nice things about her earlier this week. Now he’s signed Chrisean […]
Xzibit thinks Hip Hop is a bad spot. And he has a solution for how it can get right again. “Hip Hop is huge. And it made so many people so much money, they think anybody can do it. Everyone feels that Hip Hop is so accessible that anybody can do it,” Xzibit told a […]
But that’s not going to happen. Drake explained why he was forced to push back his album two weeks. “Okay, my dilemma I am faced with is I either cancel show to finish the album or I complete the mission and drop the album before the last show I owe you all these memories we […]
Kenny “Big Zoo” Petty and his boys are on the prowl. Nicki Minaj’s husband posted a video from New York last night of him and his goons looking for Offset, whose wife Cardi B has a long-running beef with Nicki. Offset wasn’t even in town. Set learned he was being looked for during a private […]
Lil Baby has been dragged into the drama between Blueface and Blue’s BM Chrisean Rock. Blue threatened Offset earlier this year for getting in Chrisean’s DM. There was also talk that the boy born to Chrisean earlier this month was really Baby’s. Baby may be readying his response. He speaks disparaging of Blue in this […]
Something must have happened between Nicki Minaj’s husband, Kenny Petty, and Offset and his crew during the VMAs. Because now Petty (aka Big Zoo) and his crew are looking for Set. Nicki Minaj husband big zoo and fellow goons stake out looking for Offset. Btw Offset was too busy having dance battles in kaicenat room […]
The cover art for Drake’s new Sza featured single “Slime You Out” is Halle Berry getting slimed at the 2012 Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards. It’s a pretty funny photo. However, Halle Berry doesn’t see the humor in how it was used. “Didn’t get my permission. That’s not cool. I thought better of him,” Halle answered when asked […]
If you ask Puff Daddy, he did a great thing when he gave his artists and former artist back their publishing. If you ask Mark Curry, it was a worthess gesture because almost all of the publishing is worthless at this point. Aubrey O’Day, who was in Puff’s girl band Danity Kane, wouldn’t even sign […]
In 2016, there was all sorts of chatter that Drake and Odell Beckham Jr. were living together even though they had plenty of money to have their own homes. The main source of this gossip was Beckham himself, who kept making it clear that his current residence was Drake’s Calabasas mansion Seven years later, The Ravens […]
Ice Cube never seemed to be one for jokes at his expense, and he proved that when Elon Musk turned him into a meme. pic.twitter.com/PNqzTeDT0J — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 14, 2023 “Remember Ice Cube? This is him now, feel old yet?” wrote Musk next to a split photo of a young looking Cube on […]
Image via Timmy Risden Show your love of the game by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon so that we can keep churning out interviews with legendary producers, feature the best emerging rap talent in the game, and gift you the only worthwhile playlists left in this streaming hellscape. Jack Riedy has said […]
Kodak Black isn’t particularly big and is often drug-addled. He is also 26. Add that all up, and he doesn’t have much potential as a college football player. But here he is in the Florida Atlantic University locker room, soaking up the pre-game speech like he’s about to run through a brick wall for coach. […]
Future has a bunch of kids and pays a lot of child support. But experience and investment may not have made him much of a dad. When Ciara, who shares a nine-year-old son with Future, was asked how they co-parented the boy, she laughed and laughed. About 30 seconds of laughter in total. Zimbabwean media […]
Chris Brown is a fairly prolific artist. While he only drops an album every two or three years, when he does, there are a lot of songs on them. According to the 34-year-old, he has at least 1500 songs sitting around. “Man, it’s so hard with me because, just to be honest with you, I […]
Lil Baby is dealing with his grief. His homie died, and he still can’t believe it. In fact, he still hits his DM like he’s still alive. My nigga died it still ain’t hit me sometimes I Dm his page 😔 — Lil Baby (@lilbaby4PF) September 14, 2023 My n*gga died it still ain’t hit […]
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To celebrate the 16th anniversary of his Curtis album, 50 Cent posted some racy potential material from the project. Everyone assumed the woman in the photos was Ciara, whom Fif was dating at the time, and worried about how Ciara’s husband, Russell Wilson, would take seeing his bride looking like that. He has nothing to worry about. […]
Saweetie graduated from the University of Southern California, a fine institution. However, there are concerns about her literacy after she struggled to read a teleprompter during the VMA preshow. As you can hear, Saweetie struggled to read the rather simple text. It could be that she can read fine, and she needs glasses. Or perhaps […]
It certainly looked like things got tense between Megan Thee Stallion and Justin Timberlake last night at the VMAs. Megan Thee Stallion seemingly got into argument with NSYNC backstage at the #VMAs 👀😳 pic.twitter.com/jsFtpdC25b — Hip Hop Ties (@HipHopTiesMedia) September 13, 2023 As you can see, Meg appears to be dressing Justin down. But, no, she […]
They also caused a lot of chatter after dancing seductively with each other on stage. But Nelly has now confirmed that he and the R&B singer are an item again after they broke up in 2004. “We cool again,” he said during an interview on the Boss Moves with Rasheeda podcast. “I think it surprised […]
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Last week, YSL Polo was found guilty of the murder of Xavier Arlandor Turner in January of 2020. Polo had been charged in Fulton County’s sprawling RICO case against Young Thug and the other YSL. Now that he’s been convicted of the 2020 murder, prosecutors no longer see the need to keep on the RICO […]