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Music Mos Def Wants All The Smoke, Teams With King Los & Black Thought To Issue An Open Rap Challenge To Any Rapper Mos Def’s Brooklyn rap style has been acknowledged by many in hip hop, ranging from Drake to Joey Bada$$ to Jay-Z. By Bryson "Boom" Paul September 12, 2025
Music Kodak Black Leaves Fans Concerned After Drinking Lean While Driving On IG Live Kodak Black sparked a lot of fan concern after a recent Instagram livestream where he filmed himself drinking lean while driving. By Devin Morton September 10, 2025
Music Joey Bada$$ Fails To Chart With "Lonely At The Top" Despite Strong Hype Joey Bada$$ fans were incredibly excited for his return, especially after his pretty resounding win against the West Coast. By Zachary Horvath September 09, 2025
Music Fat Joe Admits He Lost Millions Over Beef With 50 Cent & Jay-Z According to Fat Joe, lucrative deals with both Air Jordan and Reebok fell through due to his issues with high-profile peers. By Caroline Fisher September 09, 2025
Music Yeat Takes Shot At Kendrick Lamar On New Drake Collab “Dog House” Drake dropped off his newest track last night, "Dog House" featuring Yeat and Julia Wolf, which features shade directed at Kendrick Lamar. By Caroline Fisher September 09, 2025
Music YSL Woody Says He's Not Doing Okay Amid Young Thug's Fallout With YSL YSL Woody has expressed a lot of conflicted feelings about Young Thug and how he's gone about everything since the YSL RICO trial. By Zachary Horvath September 08, 2025
Music Young Thug Admits He Doesn’t Trust Gay Men Who Aren’t Up Front About Sexuality Young Thug claims that in his eyes, gay men who don't disclose their sexuality right away are violating "man code." By Caroline Fisher September 08, 2025
Music Trippie Redd Seemingly Responds To Young Thug's Disrespect In Leaked Clip Trippie Redd isn't interested in beef with Young Thug or anyone else in what he calls a fake and individualistic industry. By Gabriel Bras Nevares September 05, 2025
Music Funk Flex Proclaims He “Built” Hot 97 After Radio Station’s Shake-Up After Hot 97’s new lineup was announced, longtime DJ Funk Flex was enthralled in feuds with DJ Enuff and Pete Rock. By Bryson "Boom" Paul September 05, 2025
Music Young Thug Apologizes To GloRilla After Disrespectful Jail Call After GloRilla's response to Young Thug, we will see if he addresses the other alleged leaked jail calls that bash other artists. By Gabriel Bras Nevares September 04, 2025
Music DJ Akademiks Agrees With Young Thug's Kendrick Lamar Criticism DJ Akademiks compared Kendrick Lamar to Drake while reacting to Young Thug's criticism of the Compton lyricist. By Gabriel Bras Nevares September 04, 2025
Music Erykah Badu Suggests Beyonce Copied Her With New "Cowboy Carter" Album Cover Badu honed in on Beyonce's hair in the special edition cover. By Lavender Alexandria March 20, 2024