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Music Snoop Dogg Files Trademark For His Own Hot Dog Brand "Snoop Doggs" Snoop Dogg is trying to secure the rights for "Snoop Doggs" hot dog brand. By Aron A. January 11, 2022
Original Content Summer Walker's "Still Over It": Everything We Know Summer Walker’s highly-anticipated sophomore album is slated for release at the top of November. Here’s our round-up of everything we know about the project, so far. By Angela Savage October 19, 2021
Numbers Cardi B Becomes First Female Rapper With 3 Diamond Records, Offset Reacts Cardi B earns her third Diamond-certified record with "I Like It." By Alex Zidel December 14, 2021
Music Drake Says He "Smoked" Tory Lanez In B-Ball, Lil Durk Chimes In Lil Durk wants to play ball against Drake and Tory Lanez. By Aron A. September 20, 2021
Music 42 Dugg Divides Fans With XXL Freshman Freestyle 42 Dugg's freestyle for the XXL Freshman list has earned mixed reactions from fans. By Alex Zidel June 29, 2021
Original Content The Astroworld Tragedy & An Examination Of Mosh Pit Culture In Hip-Hop In the wake of the heartbreaking events of last weekend, we look at the array of cultural factors that made an event such as Astroworld 2021 into a living nightmare for those in attendance. By Robert Blair November 12, 2021
Music Young Thug Signs New Publishing Deal With Kobalt Music Group All of Thugger's future music will be released through Kobalt. By Thomas Galindo November 11, 2021
Music Boosie's Banishment Explained By Head Of Instagram Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri opens up about the recurring bans of Boosie Badazz. By Mitch Findlay July 27, 2021
Original Content Rise & Grind: Duke Deuce Is The New Purveyor Of Crunk Music Quality Control signee Duke Deuce stars in this week's edition of "Rise & Grind," where he explains how Offset helped him sign his deal, the crunk revival, developing his own weed strain, and much more. By Alex Zidel March 22, 2021
Original Content How Bow Wow Paved The Way For Drake's Career We're examining the shared DNA between Drake and Bow Wow. By Robert Blair March 19, 2021
Music J. Cole Reveals "The Off-Season" Tracklist & Producers With "The Off-Season" set to drop at midnight, J. Cole has come through to unveil the tracklist and stacked production credits. By Mitch Findlay May 13, 2021
Music Young Thug & Gunna Open Up About "Slime Language 2" Following the release of "Slime Language 2," Young Thug and Gunna explain why loyalty and friendship are such important parts of the YSL empire. By Mitch Findlay April 16, 2021