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Music Diddy's Legal Team Is Urging The Judge To Throw Out Kid Cudi's Stunning Testimony Last week, Kid Cudi made headlines as he was one of the more high-profile witnesses in the now-infamous Diddy trial. By Alexander Cole May 27, 2025
Music Digital Nas Disses Kid Cudi And Advocates For Diddy's Freedom After Cudi's Trial Testimony Digital Nas is firmly on the Kanye West train, calling Kid Cudi out for testifying during Diddy's criminal trial. By Gabriel Bras Nevares May 22, 2025
Music "JACKBOYS 2" Seems Closer Than Ever After New Travis Scott & Don Toliver Snippet Emerges While we still don't have a release date for "JACKBOYS 2," Travis Scott and Don Toliver are making sure fans don't forget about the hype. By Gabriel Bras Nevares May 10, 2025
Music Lil Durk Offered Strict Security Plan To The Court Before His Judge Denied Bond Lil Durk's proposed bail release in his murder-for-hire case included 24/7 private security, $2 million, and direct reports to the court. By Gabriel Bras Nevares May 08, 2025
Music DJ Akademiks Gives His Best Predictions Possible For Drake's Next Solo Album DJ Akademiks, like many fans, knows that Drake could do anything on his upcoming LP, but recent comments from collaborators are exciting him. By Gabriel Bras Nevares May 08, 2025
Music SZA & Kendrick Lamar Tie With Diddy & Faith Evans As “Luther” Continues To Top Charts Kendrick Lamar and SZA's have some celebrating to do, as "Luther" recently spent its 11th week on top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. By Caroline Fisher May 07, 2025
Music Diddy Admits To Being "Nervous" While Addressing The Judge On Day 1 Of His Trial Diddy has officially begun his trail for numerous alleged sex crimes and for now, they are simply looking for jurors. By Alexander Cole May 06, 2025
Politics Billy Porter Blasts Nicki Minaj Over Donald Trump Support In recent weeks, Nicki Minaj has been called out by Don Lemon, Trevor Noah, and more for her allegiance to Donald Trump. By Caroline Fisher February 03, 2026
Music A$AP Rocky Gives DJ Akademiks His Flowers Despite Drake Beef Given the difference in views that A$AP Rocky and DJ Akademiks have with Drake, seeing this collab is a bit eyebrow-raising. By Zachary Horvath January 19, 2026
Sports Cam'ron Offers Johnny Manziel Some Advice After Beef With Gillie Da Kid Cam'ron issued a warning to Johnny Manziel over his beef with Gillie da Kid, saying that Gillie will "knock him the f**k out." By Devin Morton August 17, 2025
Music Cash Out Ordered To Pay Sex Trafficking Victim $40 Million Amid Life Sentence One of Cash Out's sex trafficking victims has been awarded $10,000,000 in compensatory damages and $30,000,000 in punitive damages. By Caroline Fisher January 13, 2026
Music Boosie Badazz Celebrates Avoiding Jail Time In Federal Gun Case Boosie Badazz received a time served sentence in his federal gun case, and must pay a $50K fine and complete 300 hours of community service. By Gabriel Bras Nevares January 10, 2026