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Music Kendrick Lamar's Lyrics About Drake Are Aging Like Fine Wine Amid Top5 Beef Top5 has been furious with Drake for promoting Pressa's new album, "Press Machine II," on his Instagram Story By Cole Blake December 09, 2025
Music Ray J Insists He Would “Never Point A Gun” At Princess Love After Arrest Last week, Ray J was arrested for allegedly pointing a gun at Princess Love when she came to pick up their kids. By Caroline Fisher December 04, 2025
Music 23 Brazy Hit With 58-Year Prison Sentence For Shooting Of A 10-Year-Old Authorities originally arrested 23 Brazy after she evaded police for 10 months between August 2023 and June 2024. By Cole Blake December 03, 2025
Music DJ Akademiks Accuses Netflix Of Obtaining Diddy Docuseries Footage Unethically 50 Cent has been teasing "Sean Combs: The Reckoning" for a while now, but according to DJ Akademiks, there might be more to the story. By Caroline Fisher December 02, 2025
Music Yak Gotti Issues A Heartfelt Apology To Lil Duke And Shouts Out Gunna Yak Gotti labeled Lil Duke his "broski" while apologizing to his former collaborator for ever having wronged him. By Cole Blake December 01, 2025
Music Tory Lanez Reveals New Album Recorded In Prison Will Drop Sooner Than You Think Tory Lanez described this new album as "the first in-real-time prison album... recorded in prison, for prisoners, by a prisoner." By Gabriel Bras Nevares February 28, 2025
Music Kevin Liles Claims He "Empowers Women" In Response To Sexual Assault Lawsuit An anonymous woman claims Kevin Liles sexually assaulted her in 2002 while she worked as an executive assistant at Def Jam. By Gabriel Bras Nevares February 28, 2025
Music Kendrick Lamar's Raw Vocals From Super Bowl Halftime Show Surface And They Are Impressive Now we have another metric to judge whether people really sang "Not Like Us" that loud at Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show... By Gabriel Bras Nevares February 24, 2025
Music Lil Tjay Shows He Still Gets Love By Linking Up With Huge Crowd Of Fans Lil Tjay has plenty of individual beefs and controversies that send hate his way online, but all that changes once he actually steps outside. By Gabriel Bras Nevares February 24, 2025
Relationships Kanye West Uses Bianca Censori’s Film Premiere As A Way To Clap Back At Divorce Rumors Kanye West has not been doing himself or Bianca Censori any favors lately, but he showed up to support her amid the divorce reports. By Zachary Horvath February 24, 2025
Viral What's Up With Duke Dennis? Streamer Reacts To GloRilla's Flirtatious Bar On New Remix Given Duke Dennis' popularity and GloRilla's it-girl status, we imagine these two will link up soon after this Jorjiana collab. By Gabriel Bras Nevares February 23, 2025
Music Pop Smoke's Killer Apologizes Before Receiving His Sentence Corey Walker took accountability for his role in the murder of Pop Smoke, which was also carried out by three other killers. By Gabriel Bras Nevares February 21, 2025