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Music Lil Yachty Crashes Out On Karrahbooo & Mitch In Explosive IG Live Rant: Unpacking The Beef Lil Yachty went off on Instagram Live. By Aron A. August 23, 2024
Music Doja Cat Embarks On First World Tour In November With Upcoming "Vie" Album Doja Cat first-ever world tour will follow her hugely successful Scarlet tour that was one of the highest grossing of 2024. By Bryson "Boom" Paul August 22, 2025
Music Sex Worker Sues Diddy & Hotels For Alleged Exploitation & Sexual Battery Michael Ejiawoko accused various hotels of facilitating Diddy's allegedly coercive encounters and failing to disclose important information. By Gabriel Bras Nevares July 26, 2025
Music Lil Wayne Namedrops Kanye West & Kim Kardashian On New Mike WiLL Made-It & Lil Yachty Collab Lil Wayne continues to deliver. By Caroline Fisher August 02, 2024
Music Lil Kim Explains How Iconic 1999 VMAs Look Was Inspired My Missy Elliott Joke Missy teased Kim about her constant nip slips and the rapper's stylist, Misa Hylton, used it as inspiration. By Erika Marie January 20, 2021
Music Kendrick Lamar's "DAMN." Surpasses 10 Billion Spotify Streams Kendrick Lamar's most streamed album on Spotify joined an elite class of six other hip-hop-adjacent LPs on the platform. By Gabriel Bras Nevares August 11, 2025
Music Wale Addresses New Album's Release Date In "Slowdown" Freestyle Wale began promoting his forthcoming album at the top of the year with the lead single "Blanco." He has released two new songs since. By Bryson "Boom" Paul June 29, 2025
Music Joe Budden Claims He Has A Better Mixtape Discography Than Lil Wayne & 50 Cent Budden with another hot take. By Zachary Horvath October 08, 2024
Original Content The Day Kanye West, J. Cole, & Mac Miller Took Over A three-way showdown between Kanye West's "Yeezus," J. Cole's "Born Sinner," and Mac Miller's "Watching Movies With The Sound Off" has cemented June 18, 2013 in hip-hop history. By Joshua Robinson June 18, 2021
Music Judge In UMG Lawsuit Rules Drake Can See Kendrick Lamar's Contract, But There's A Twist Drake launched a massive wave of discovery requests earlier this month and one of them included seeing Kendrick Lamar's contract. By Zachary Horvath August 23, 2025
Music Andrew Schulz Claps Back At O'Shea Jackson, Jr. For Calling Him "Weird" The comedian is going at everybody. By Elias Andrews December 06, 2024
Music Brittany Byrd Breaks Silence Following Alleged Lil Uzi Vert Assault Lil Uzi Vert is accused of assaulting his ex-girlfriend Brittany Byrd at Dialog Cafe in Hollywood. By Aron A. July 07, 2021