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Original Content Kendrick Lamar's "The Heart" Series Is A Reminder Of His God-Tier MC Status While we anticipate "Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers," we take a deep dive into Kendrick Lamar's "The Heart" series. By Aron A. May 11, 2022
Music Lil Kim Explains How Iconic 1999 VMAs Look Was Inspired My Missy Elliott Joke Missy teased Kim about her constant nip slips and the rapper's stylist, Misa Hylton, used it as inspiration. By Erika Marie January 20, 2021
Music 5 Cringe Lyrics From J. Cole's Verse On Cash Cobain's "Grippy" J Cole's first feature verse following the historic "big 3" beef has been turning heads online, for all the wrong reasons. By TeeJay Small May 28, 2024
Music Island Boys Confirm Break Up After Member Franky Venegas Arrested Island Boys took the internet by storm in 2021, but they have made it clear that their music making days are behind them. By Elias Andrews February 25, 2025
Music City Girls May Have Inspired A Rap Duo Appearing In "GTA 6" More details about "Grand Theft Auto VI" are coming in ahead of it's long-awaited release date on May 26, 2026. By Cole Blake May 08, 2025
Music Cam'ron Recalls How "Paid In Full" Role Allegedly Led To His 2005 Shooting Cam'ron also recently reflected via his "Talk With Flee" show on regretting not working with Eminem and Nas earlier in his career. By Gabriel Bras Nevares March 08, 2025
Music Drake Claps Back At "Entitled" Hip-Hop Journalists Who Trashed His Bobbi Althoff Interview Drake has stuck to chatting with streamers, content creators, and podcasters for the last couple of years now. By Zachary Horvath September 02, 2025
Pop Culture SpotemGottem Snitching Allegations Caused Lil Durk To Return His $100K, Shawn Cotton Confirms The rappers were planning a collaboration some time ago, but when Durkio heard some unflattering rumours, he backed out of the project. By Hayley Hynes September 18, 2023
Music Andre 3000's Tracklist For "New Blue Sun" Has Some Of The Wildest Song Titles You'll Ever See Andre 3000 is going all out. By Alexander Cole November 14, 2023
Music NBA YoungBoy's Lawyer Responds To Resurfaced Assault Footage NBA YoungBoy pleaded guilty to misdemeanor simple battery family violence in 2019 and paid a $1,500 fine for the Jania Meshell situation. By Gabriel Bras Nevares August 30, 2026
TV JAŸ-Z & Rick Rubin’s HBO Max Docuseries Lands A Release Date A new trailer for HBO Max’s “JAŸ-Z in 8” has arrived. By Aron A. August 26, 2026
Music Offset Reportedly Lost $900K Gambling Before Lil Tjay Incident Offset is doing "fine" and recovering at a nearby hospital after the shooting outside of a casino in Florida on Monday. By Cole Blake April 08, 2026