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Music "Say Drake," Kendrick Lamar A Million Streams From First-Ever Rapper To Surpass 100 Million Spotify Monthly Listeners Kendrick Lamar set to achieve Spotify Hip-Hop's biggest milestone yet. By Bryson "Boom" Paul February 16, 2025
Music Drakeo The Ruler Threatens To Quit Rap, With Murder Charge Looming Drakeo The Ruler sticks it to Detective Hardiman. By Devin Ch January 10, 2019
Music Drake's "So Far Gone" Projected To Debut In Top 10 On Billboard 200 Drake's 2009 breakout mixtape is heading to the Billboard charts for the first time. By Aron A. February 21, 2019
Music Pooh Shiesty Reveals Star-Studded "Shiesty Season" Tracklist Pooh Shiesty's first tape "Shiesty Season" arrives this Friday. By Alex Zidel February 03, 2021
Music Kendrick Lamar & SZA Reach Settlement In "All The Stars" Lawsuit: Report Kendrick Lamar & SZA were accused of biting an artist's paintings in the "All The Stars" music video. By Aron A. December 27, 2018
Music Doe Boy Speaks On Relationship With Future, Says He's A "Last-Minute Person" For Verses Doe Boy explains how Future and Southside's guidance helped bring his debut album, "Oh Really" to life. By Aron A. January 26, 2022
Reviews Playboi Carti Pops Up In Brooklyn Briefly Before Concert Goes Awry The preamble to Carti’s Rolling Loud set had the potential to be great, but went horribly awry before you could even say “Flatbed Freestyle.” By Luke Hinz October 12, 2019
Music Tay-K Indicted For Capital Murder In Second Murder Case: Report The murder in question occurred in a Chick-fil-A parking lot in April 2017. By Noah C November 17, 2019
Music DJ Akademiks Reacts To Kendrick Lamar Calling Him "Compromised" On Drake Diss "6:16 In LA" Akademiks had to respond. By Alexander Cole May 03, 2024
TV Megan Thee Stallion & DaBaby Boss Up On "Cash Sh*t" At 2019 BET Hip Hop Awards She also performed her verse from "Hot Girl Summer." By Erika Marie October 08, 2019
Music Michael Jackson's Former Bodyguard Insists He Was Straight Bill Whitfield says that Michael Jackson's accusers are lying. By Alex Zidel March 18, 2019
Music XXXTentacion Murder Suspect Asked To Undergo Competency Evaluation By Judge His intellectual ability to communicate is being questioned. By Zaynab October 21, 2018