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Music Boosie Badazz Celebrates Avoiding Jail Time In Federal Gun Case Boosie Badazz received a time served sentence in his federal gun case, and must pay a $50K fine and complete 300 hours of community service. By Gabriel Bras Nevares January 10, 2026
Music Drake & Top5 Beef? A Brief History Of Their Relationship It appears that Top5 is no longer rocking with Drake. By Aron A. December 09, 2025
Music Drake Gets Stream Sniped By Fans During Surprise "ICEMAN" Live Session Drake premiered a fiery new song titled "What Did I Miss?" during this "ICEMAN" livestream, and dropped it just a few hours later. By Gabriel Bras Nevares July 05, 2025
Music Kanye West's New Album Announcement Leaves Fans Confused Over "BULLY" What's shocking isn't Kanye West's sporadic and unreliable release strategy for his next album "BULLY." It's how chill he's being about it. By Gabriel Bras Nevares December 28, 2025
Pop Culture Iggy Azalea Wages War On Grok Amid Flurry Of Inappropriate Edits Grok, Twitter's AI chatbot, has been a controversial addition to the app and Iggy Azalea is one of many against the tool. By Zachary Horvath January 02, 2026
Pop Culture Suspected CEO Killer Luigi Mangione Moved To Same Prison As Diddy There are now several famous inmates. By Elias Andrews December 19, 2024
TV Drake Shows Love To Charleston White During Unlikely FaceTime Call Adin Ross is well-connected, and this allowed for a meeting between internet personality Charleston White and megastar, Drake. By Alexander Cole July 09, 2025
Music Drake Concludes Wireless Festival Takeover With Global-Themed Day Three Setlist This weekend, Drake became the first artist in history to headline all three days of Wireless Festival in London. By Caroline Fisher July 14, 2025
Music Gunna Responds To Young Thug's Scathing Tweet & Delete On New Album "The Last Wun" The deleted tweet in question has to do with Gunna and Young Thug's fractured friendship after the YSL RICO trial. By Gabriel Bras Nevares August 08, 2025
Music A$AP Rocky Will Cover Rent For All Tenants In The Harlem Building He Lived In As A Teenager A$AP Rocky announced the campaign the promote his highly anticipated new album, "Don't Be Dumb," which drops next month. By Cole Blake December 30, 2025
Pop Culture Chingy & Sidney Starr: How A Lie Derailed The Rapper's Career In 2010, Sidney Starr spilled the T on her relationship with Chingy, but it turned out to be an outright lie. By Tamara McCullough August 21, 2023
Music 50 Cent Mocks Dame Dash After Film Company Sells For $100 This week, Dame Dash's film company was put up for auction in an attempt to pay off some of his defamation lawsuit judgments. By Caroline Fisher December 31, 2025