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Music Hallelujah! Kanye West & The Sunday Service Choir Makes Its Return On March 16 Kanye West and Sunday Service are no longer at odds as they reconcile for an unknown cause after the choir worked with Will Smith. By Bryson "Boom" Paul March 09, 2025
Music Nelly Says Diddy Would Get Murdered By Sniper Jermaine Dupri In A Verzuz Nelly, J.D., and Diddy's history spans across the 2000s with massive hits such as "Stepped on My Jz" and "Shake Ya Tailfeather" By Bryson "Boom" Paul March 08, 2025
Music Joe Rogan Praised Kanye West Before Interview Mix-Up Earlier this week, Kanye West accidentally planned an interview with someone pretending they were Joe Rogan. By Caroline Fisher March 08, 2025
Music DJ Akademiks Offers A Surprising Prediction About Diddy's Criminal Case's Outcome Diddy was recently hit with a new federal indictment that accuses the Bad Boy mogul of forced labor and employee assault. By Gabriel Bras Nevares March 08, 2025
Music Xzibit Explains Why Kendrick Lamar Calling Drake A Pedophile Is Fair Game In A Rap Battle Kendrick Lamar's accusations against Drake on tracks like "Not Like Us" led to Drizzy's defamation lawsuit against UMG. By Gabriel Bras Nevares March 07, 2025
Music TI’s Defamation Lawsuit Against Assault Accuser Could Reportedly Get Tossed For Failure To Serve In December of last year, TI filed a lawsuit against his former friend Sabrina Peterson, accusing her of defamation. By Caroline Fisher March 07, 2025
Music Drake Reveals The Original Tracklist For "$ome $exy $ongs 4 U" With PARTYNEXTDOOR Drake and PARTYNEXTDOOR's "$ome $exy $ongs 4 U" remains a top five album on the Billboard 200 albums chart in its second week. By Gabriel Bras Nevares March 07, 2025
Music Fugees Star Pras "Hopeful" Donald Trump Will Pardon Him In Fraud Case Pras believes the current President understands his situation, and calls for the pardon of Tory Lanez as well. By Elias Andrews March 06, 2025
Sports Halftime Revenge? FIFA President Teases Drake 2026 World Cup Performance FIFA has an interest in escalating the Drake verses Kendrick Lamar battle on the world's biggest sports stage. By Elias Andrews March 06, 2025
Music Kanye West Declares New Album "Bully" Has That "Antisemitic Sound" Kanye West has teased this new album "Bully" for a while, both through his bigoted rants and through working with Playboi Carti and The Game. By Gabriel Bras Nevares March 06, 2025
Music JID Fans Are Ecstatic After He Previews New Album At Paris Listening Party The new project will be JID's first full-length effort since 2022's "The Forever Story" and fans can't wait to get their hands on it. By Cole Blake March 06, 2025
Music Yella Beezy Speaks Out After Picture Of Him With G$ Lil Ronnie's Murder Suspect Surfaces G$ Lil Ronnie and his 5-year-old daughter were both gunned down at Slappy’s Express Car Wash in Forest Hill, Texas on Monday morning. By Cole Blake March 06, 2025