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Music Willow Smith Surprises Jada Pinkett Smith By Performing With Mom's Band For Mother's Day, Willow surprised mom Jada with a special "Red Table Talk" performance with Jada's band. By Erika Marie May 05, 2021
Music Ludacris Spits Bars With Utter Ease In New Freestyle Ludacris serves up a quick reminder that he's still formidable with the bars, delivering a quick freestyle over a Drumma Boy banger. By Mitch Findlay February 12, 2021
Music King Combs Says "Pops" Diddy Is A "Hard Critic": "He Don't Be Saying Everything Is Hot" The 20-year-old is continuing the Bad Boy legacy, but makes it clear that he's putting in the work, By Erika Marie November 17, 2020
Music NBA Youngboy Allegedly Turned Down Lil Baby Feature For No Good Reason DJ Akademiks says Youngboy Never Broke Again turned down a Lil Baby feature because he didn't feel like making music. By Alex Zidel March 11, 2021
Music Def Jam Issues Statement On DMX's Passing Def Jam has issued a statement following DMX's death. By Alex Zidel April 09, 2021
Sports TDE's Punch Has The Ultimate Sports Hot Take: "Steph [Curry] Is Better Than Jordan" TDE exec Punch made a bold claim on Twitter recently by placing Steph Curry over Michael Jordan following another one of the Golden State Warrior star's record-breaking performances last night. By Keenan Higgins May 05, 2021
Pop Culture Issa Rae Partners With City Girls For HBO Max Series "Rap Sh*t" The eight-episode series will be about two high school friends reuniting to form a rap group. By Erika Marie February 11, 2021
Music Yung Bleu Criticized For Sharing DMX DMs Yung Bleu shared his messages with DMX, confirming that the two have a collaboration releasing soon. By Alex Zidel April 09, 2021
Music Timbaland Catches New Heat Over Old Interview Where He Says He Love Aaliyah Fans are revisiting his 2011 interview where he said he was in love with Aaliyah & married his wife because she looked like the late singer. By Erika Marie March 10, 2021
Music 50 Cent Flexes His Influence: "I Can Still Move The Needle" 50 Cent reminds the masses that he's still capable of moving the needle, as evidenced by his clever use of a King Von banger in "Power: Book II." By Mitch Findlay January 15, 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
Relationships Quavo Confirms He Repo'd Saweetie's Bentley In New Music Preview Quavo disses Saweetie in an alleged new song preview, rapping, "She slimy, she sneaky, I'm taking back that Bentley." By Alex Zidel April 09, 2021