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Music Drake Doubles Down On UMG Payola Claims With New Motion For Discovery Drake may have played nice with iHeartMedia, but the rapper is adamant about learning the truth with UMG's marketing tactics. By Elias Andrews March 03, 2025
Music Diddy's Legal Team Refutes Lawsuit Claims From Former Da Band Member Sara Rivers has sued Diddy for alleged abuse, but the mogul has denied her allegations through his legal team. By Elias Andrews February 28, 2025
Music Diddy's Alleged Sex Worker Wants To Work With Feds In His Criminal Case One of Diddy's alleged victims wants to cooperate with prosecutors in his criminal case as his trial date approaches. By Cole Blake February 27, 2025
Music Memphis Police ID First Suspect In Sauce Walka And Sayso P Shooting There's been lots of debate surrounding the Sauce Walka and Sayso P shooting, but police have finally had a breakthrough. By Elias Andrews March 26, 2025
Viral Yung Filly Faces Second Overseas Sexual Assault Allegation Yung Filly received sexual assault charges in Australia last year over an alleged incident the day after his Perth concert. By Gabriel Bras Nevares March 24, 2025
Music Philadelphia Rapper Accused Of Assault Complains To Police About Being On The News & Promptly Gets Arrested Crowley Geez has been accused by police of allegedly assaulting a woman in Philadelphia, earlier this month. By Cole Blake March 24, 2025
Music DJ Vlad Denies VladTV's Involvement In Big U & Bricc Baby RICO Arrests After Past Interviews DJ Vlad spoke to Adam22 about this matter, who also denied that No Jumper has anything to do with Big U and Bricc Baby's RICO case. By Gabriel Bras Nevares March 22, 2025
Music Drake Is Allegedly In Talks To Amend His UMG Lawsuit Over "Not Like Us," But There's A Catch Drake's lawyer Michael J. Gottlieb continues to double down on his accusations against UMG of payola practices and covert promo. By Gabriel Bras Nevares March 21, 2025
Music 6ix9ine Might Go Back To Jail For Multiple Probation Violations A federal court summoned Tekashi 6ix9ine to attend a hearing over a week from now to address alleged probation violations and a recent raid. By Gabriel Bras Nevares April 12, 2025
Crime Young Thug’s Brother Unfoonk Address Snitching Allegations In Note Atlanta hip hop has been divided by the suspicion that Young Thug allegedly snitched during a 2-hour interrogation. By Bryson "Boom" Paul August 30, 2025
Music 50 Cent Reacts To YNW Melly's Efforts To Secure Prison Release 50 Cent has some thoughts on YNW Melly's request for a new legal team ahead of his double murder retrial in 2027. By Gabriel Bras Nevares August 28, 2025
Music Drake's New York OVO Store Vandalized By Alleged Arsonist With Hammer A woman reportedly caused $24,000 in property damage when she trashed Drake's NYC location of his OVO brand. Cops arrested her shortly after. By Gabriel Bras Nevares August 28, 2025