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Original Content Rise & Grind: Toosii Talks "Love Cycle" With Summer Walker & Getting Booed At His First Concert Toosii takes center stage for this week's edition of "Rise & Grind." The "Love Cycle" artist reveals that he doesn't listen to very much rap music and talks about being boo'd off stage when he opened up for A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie. By Madusa S. May 10, 2021
Music The Weeknd Surpasses 500 Million Spotify Streams This Year Abel is the most streamed artist in 2022. By Thomas Galindo January 16, 2022
Music J. Cole Says He Was "Genuinely Nervous" About Hopping On Bia's "London" J. Cole shares the backstory behind how he got on Bia's new single, "London." By Aron A. April 08, 2022
Music Adele's "25" Beats Drake's "VIEWS" As Best Selling-Album Of 2016 Here's your music industry round-up for 2016. Desiigner had the year's most-streamed song with "Panda." By Angus Walker January 03, 2017
Music Little Ms Golden, Lil Baby's Baby Mama, Is Back In The Booth Little Ms Golden, the mother of Lil Baby's first son, is working on the follow-up to her Tory Lanez-assisted single "Leaving You." By Joshua Robinson February 08, 2021
Music Kehlani Burner Account Responds To PARTYNEXTDOOR Cheating Song: Report PARTYNEXTDOOR released a song that many are speculating is about Kehlani, and the singer defended herself (via a possible burner account) on Twitter. By Alex Zidel March 27, 2020
Music Drake's "More Life" Earns Estimated 600 Million Streams In First Week: Report The Apple Music numbers eclipse those of "VIEWS" by 50 million. By Trevor Smith March 25, 2017
Music Safaree Samuels' Uncle Tragically Stabbed to Death Safaree wants help finding the person who killed his uncle. By Milca P. August 27, 2017
Music Nelly Responds To St. Lunatics' Ali With Group's History: "Actual Factuals" The rapper has swiftly stepped forward to defend himself after he was accused of abandoning the St. Lunatics. By Erika Marie February 03, 2021
Music Kevin Gates Sports Outlandish Footwear In Photo With Fan A photo taken of Kevin Gates and one of his fans at Saks Fifth Avenue has fans scracthing their head to the rapper's peculiar choice of footwear. By Joshua Robinson March 10, 2021
Music Detroit Rapper Bandgang Jizzle P Reportedly Shot & Killed Bandgang Jizzle P, also known as Bandgang AJ, was reportedly shot and killed in Detroit this week. By Alex Zidel September 24, 2020
Music XXXTentacion & Jimmy Wopo Passed Away Three Years Ago Today Today marks the three-year anniversary of XXXTentacion and Jimmy Wopo's deaths. By Joshua Robinson June 18, 2021