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Music Ashanti Receives Backlash Over Nelly's Inauguration Performance Fans come for Ashanti over Nelly's inaugural performance. By Bryson "Boom" Paul January 19, 2025
Music Kendrick Lamar Finally Surpasses This Spotify Benchmark Despite Drake's UMG Lawsuit K.Dot is one of only three rappers to achieve this. By Gabriel Bras Nevares January 19, 2025
Politics Soulja Boy Defends Donald Trump Inauguration Party Performance: “They Paid Me A Bag” Soulja Boy is under fire. By Caroline Fisher January 19, 2025
Music Nelly Defends Decision To Perform At Donald Trump's Inauguration Nelly says he respects whoever is in the office. By Cole Blake January 19, 2025
Music Old Footage Of Snoop Dogg Slamming Trump Supporters Resurface After Crypto Concert Snoop Dogg's past comes back to bite him in the butt. By Bryson "Boom" Paul January 18, 2025
Music Don Toliver Plays Snippet Of New Music On Social Media, Fans Think "Jackboy 2" On The Way Don Toliver follows Travis Scott with new preview. By Bryson "Boom" Paul January 18, 2025
Music DJ Akademiks Seemingly Retracts His Claims That Drake Helped LeBron James Cheat Ak is pumping the brakes on this narrative. By Gabriel Bras Nevares January 17, 2025
Music LiAngelo Ball Scores Impressive Billboard Debut For "Tweaker" Following Lucrative Record Deal Ball's legend continues to grow. By Zachary Horvath January 17, 2025
Music Queen Naija Sparks Fierce Debate With Shady Tweet About TikTok Ban Queen Naija has a hot take. By Caroline Fisher January 17, 2025
Music Playboi Carti Shares Kind DM From Erykah Badu Following Iggy Azalea's Harsh Comments To say this was unexpected is an understatement. By Zachary Horvath January 17, 2025
Music Wack 100 Ominously Warns Drake That More Allegations Will Come Due To UMG Lawsuit Wack alleges that Drizzy might force UMG to push a "Red Button." By Gabriel Bras Nevares January 17, 2025
Music Tory Lanez Claims He Influenced Current Generation Of Streamers Tory wants his flowers! By Elias Andrews January 16, 2025