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Music Lil Durk's Bail Proposal Gets Firm Rejection In Murder-For-Hire Case Lil Durk will remain behind bars until his trial on October 14, 2025 after being arrested in the murder-for-hire case, last year. By Cole Blake June 10, 2025
Politics Chance The Rapper Calls Larry Hoover A "Political Prisoner" While Addressing Commutation Chance The Rapper and Larry Hoover both rep the city of Chicago, and the former took to social media to address the latter's commutation. By Gabriel Bras Nevares May 29, 2025
Music 6ix9ine Reveals How Many Years In Prison He's Facing Following Mall Altercation Following an altercation at a mall, 6ix9ine is facing some serious jail time as he violated his probation, yet again. By Alexander Cole October 29, 2025
Music Tamar Braxton & Birdman Stir The Pot At Cash Money & No Limit "Verzuz" Toni Braxton's absence had folks bringing up her and Tamar's contentious sisterhood and Toni's relationship with Birdman. By Gabriel Bras Nevares October 26, 2025
Music Rick Ross Selling His Luxurious Florida Pad For $6.5 Million Rick Ross is putting a gorgeous home on the market, but he's still got another beautiful home in Georgia to go back to. By Zachary Horvath October 24, 2025
Music A$AP Rocky Album Snippet Has Fans Saying A Classic Is Coming A$AP Rocky has teased quite a few snippets during this rollout, but this one really has the fans' ears perked up. By Zachary Horvath December 23, 2025
Music Drake Cosigns Timothée Chalamet's EsDeeKid Remix Despite Kendrick Lamar Support Many other artists have shouted out Timothee Chalamet and EsDeeKid's new collab, and maybe Drake didn't see that Kendrick Lamar interview. By Gabriel Bras Nevares December 21, 2025
Music Blueface Claps Back At 21 Savage's "Streets" Takes With "F**k The Industry" Blueface joins 6ix9ine, BossMan Dlow, Boosie Badazz, and other rappers taking issue with 21 Savage and Young Thug's anti-"streets" comments. By Gabriel Bras Nevares December 21, 2025
Music A$AP Rocky Finally Unveils Cover Art & Pre-Save Links For "Don't Be Dumb" A$AP Rocky is dropping "Don't Be Dumb" in due time, and it appears as though Tim Burton helped him with his cover art. By Alexander Cole December 17, 2025
Music DJ Akademiks Posts Video Of Himself Partying With Maino As Feud Intensifies DJ Akademiks and Maino have been trading shots over the last week following Ak's jokes about Fabolous' fashion choices. By Cole Blake December 16, 2025
Music Aubrey O'Day Claims 50 Cent's Diddy Doc Sent Her To The Hospital Aubrey O'Day reflected on the 50 Cent documentary about Diddy and explained why she had to miss a Danity Kane reunion tour stop. By Gabriel Bras Nevares December 13, 2025
Music Fivio Foreign Reveals He's Checking Himself Into Rehab Fivio Foreign says that he wants to change and stop making "a lot of dumb mistakes that I've been making." By Cole Blake December 31, 2025