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Music NBA YoungBoy & Mellow Rackz Link Up In Paris Amid Kodak Black Drama Kodak Black was previously engaged to Mellow Rackz, and this is seemingly fueling his beef with NBA YoungBoy. By Gabriel Bras Nevares July 10, 2025
Music Diddy's Former Chef Claims She Feared Being Murdered For Accusing Him Of Abuse Jordan Atkinson wrote a letter to the Diddy trial's Judge Arun Subramanian asking that he deny Sean Combs' bond after the jury's verdict. By Gabriel Bras Nevares July 04, 2025
Music Funk Flex Hopes Everyone Can "Move On" After Diddy's Not Guilty Verdict The jury in Diddy's criminal trial found him not guilty of sex trafficking and racketeering in court on Wednesday. By Cole Blake July 02, 2025
Music Aubrey O’Day Says Diddy Verdict Makes Her “Physically Ill” A jury recently found Diddy not guilty of three out of the five charges he was facing, including sex trafficking and racketeering. By Caroline Fisher July 02, 2025
Music Diddy Judge Issues Response To Jury’s Drug Distribution Question Yesterday (June 30), jury deliberations finally began in Diddy's federal sex trafficking and racketeering trial. By Caroline Fisher July 01, 2025
Music T-Pain's Old Drake Tweets Resurface As Feud Ignites T-Pain kicked off a feud with Drake by dissing him during a recent appearance on the "Crash Dummies" podcast. By Cole Blake June 30, 2025
Relationships Ashanti’s Mother Was Horrified About Nelly Performing At Donald Trump's Inauguration In a new episode of Ashanti and Nelly's reality show, the songstress' mother shares her concerns about Nelly's Donald Trump performance. By Caroline Fisher June 30, 2025
Music Chris Brown Shows Love To T-Pain Amid Drake Tensions Chris Brown broke up the intense backlash T-Pain has been receiving after Drake called him resentful for his comments on Drizzy's retirement. By Gabriel Bras Nevares June 29, 2025
Music Aubrey O'Day Reveals Why She Didn't Testify In Diddy's Trial Aubrey O'Day has long been critical of Diddy, even before her former Danity Kane bandmate Dawn Richard took the stand in his trial. By Gabriel Bras Nevares June 28, 2025
Music Kendrick Lamar & SZA Break Another Absurd Record With Their "Grand National" Tour Kendrick Lamar just announced some South American and Australian shows later this year, although SZA won't be around for those. By Gabriel Bras Nevares June 27, 2025
Politics 50 Cent Fires Back At Zohran Mamdani's "Breakfast Club" Diss Zohran Mamdani joked that 50 Cent won't be happy about his tax proposal for New York's top earners, earlier this month. By Cole Blake June 26, 2025
Music Yeat Revitalizes A Drake Classic On Our New "Fire Emoji" Playlist Update This week's "Fire Emoji" playlist update is led by Yeat, Quavo, Takeoff, Westside Gunn, Doechii, Lil Tjay, and 42 Dugg. By Gabriel Bras Nevares May 03, 2025