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Music Kanye West Alleges "They" Want Him Hospitalized After Twitter Outbursts Kanye West has been tweeting nonstop all week, and now he is claiming those close to him are taking action against him. By Elias Andrews March 20, 2025
Music Azealia Banks Asserts "Pitiful" Kanye West Has No More "Tricks" Amidst Rant Azealia Banks has been watching Kanye West melt down like the rest of us, and she was brutally honest about the rapper. By Elias Andrews March 19, 2025
Music Kanye West Bizarrely Claims Jay-Z Wants To Kill Him Before Reflecting On Their Relationship The comments on Jay-Z come as Kanye West has been targeting all sorts of celebrities with rants on social media. By Cole Blake March 19, 2025
Music Bricc Baby & Others Reportedly Arrested In Gang Takedown As Authorities Search For Big U According to U.S. Attorney Joseph T. McNally, Bricc Baby and others were arrested in an attempt “to make our communities safer." By Caroline Fisher March 19, 2025
Music BG Finally Explains Viral Video Of Birdman Appearing To Fall Asleep On Stage In the video, BG broke into laughter before seemingly nudging Birdman to get him back on track. By Cole Blake March 19, 2025
Music Kanye West Drops "BULLY V1" Album And Short Film Amidst Twitter Meltdown Kanye West has made surprising fans his number one priority and he did just that by dropping a new album unannounced. By Elias Andrews March 19, 2025
Music Snoop Dogg And Suge Knight Sued Over Death Row Defrauding Allegations Snoop Dogg and Suge Knight may be beefing, but now they're on the same side of a legal battle. By Elias Andrews March 18, 2025
Music Soulja Boy Tears Down "Dummy" Plies After Rapper Drops Sample Lawsuit Soulja Boy is always on the lookout for beef, and found one when Plies decided to reverse a suit involving a Soulja Boy track. By Elias Andrews March 17, 2025
Relationships Kim Kardashian Reportedly On Verge Of Stripping Joint Legal Custody Of Their Kids From Kanye West It appears that Kanye West's more recent tweets have sent Kim Kardashian over the edge, and it seems she's weighing all of her options now. By Zachary Horvath March 17, 2025
Music Beyonce Already Close To Selling All Tickets For "Cowboy Carter" Tour With A Month Left With admissions becoming scarcer, Beyonce is tacking on one extra date to the end of her "Cowboy Carter" trek. By Zachary Horvath March 17, 2025
Music Ja Rule Couldn't Believe His Ears When He Heard Billy McFarland Is Planning Fyre Festival 2 Ja Rule, who distanced himself from the disastrous Fyre Festival, went on Fox 5 New York to promote his upcoming tour with Nelly and more. By Gabriel Bras Nevares March 17, 2025
Music Drake Cryptically Teases Next Music Video From "$ome $exy $ongs 4 U" Drake's "Nokia" will be getting a music video after the song returned to the Billboard Hot 100 chart's top 10, last week. By Cole Blake March 17, 2025