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Music Social Media Has A Field Day As Diddy's Courtroom Sketches From Sentencing Go Viral There have been sketches from Diddy's trial that generated some attention, but the batch from yesterday is going even crazier. By Zachary Horvath October 04, 2025
Music Who Is James Broadnax? The Texas Death Row Inmate Travis Scott & Young Thug Are Fighting To Save Killer Mike, T.I., and other hip-hop artists have joined Travis Scott and Young Thug in bringing national attention to Broadnax’s case. By Aron A. March 12, 2026
Viral Drake Shares Passionate Praise For India Love And Fans Can't Help But Feel Bad For DDG Drake's Streamer University message for India Love clashed with her romantic link to DDG and a recent flirty interaction with Duke Dennis. By Gabriel Bras Nevares May 26, 2025
Music QC P Trolls Young Thug With Diabolical Instagram Profile Picture QC P has been going after Young Thug ever since the latter allegedly warned Lil Baby that his label boss was a rat. By Zachary Horvath September 02, 2025
Music YNW Bortlen Accepts Plea Deal: Everything We Know YNW Bortlen recently agreed to a shocking plea deal that shortened his prison sentence by decades. What does it mean for him and YNW Melly? By Devin Morton September 12, 2025
Music Kanye West Believes The Music Industry Is Trying To Replace Him With Kendrick Lamar Kanye West has appeared extremely jealous of Kendrick Lamar since his Twitter rants restarted back in February. By Zachary Horvath April 14, 2025
Music Meek Mill Has A Request For J. Cole After Announcing New Album Meek Mill's been pretty quiet lately regarding new music, but he's looking to make a splash after tweeting at J. Cole about his next album. By Zachary Horvath March 23, 2026
Music Joe Budden Podcast Co-Host Calls Nas' "Illmatic" A "Hard Listen" During a recent episode of his podcast, Joe Budden and the rest of his crew revealed their thoughts on Nas. By Caroline Fisher October 28, 2025
Music NBC Fires Back At Diddy's $100 Million Defamation Lawsuit Over Scathing Documentary "Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy" features a number of allegations that Diddy is furious with the company over. By Cole Blake July 22, 2025
Music Playboi Carti Seemingly Responds To Assault Allegations Involving Gio Ramos Playboi Carti was allegedly cited for allegedly assaulting his limo driver after an alleged altercation with Giovanna Ramos in Utah. By Gabriel Bras Nevares October 25, 2025
Music Dame Dash Launches Massive Defamation Lawsuit Against Cam'ron Dame Dash and Cam'ron have been beefing for years, with most of the claims in this defamation lawsuit relating to business moves. By Gabriel Bras Nevares September 19, 2025
Music Drake Kicks Off Day 3 of Wireless Festival With The Preview Of A New Central Cee Collab Dropping Friday Drake announced that Central Cee will be apart of the upcoming OVO Fest at the UK rappers Toronto concert in April 2025. By Bryson "Boom" Paul July 13, 2025