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Pop Culture Salt Bae Banned From 2023 L.A. Rolling Loud After World Cup Rolling Loud (jokingly) bans Salt Bae from their L.A. festival in March. By Aron A. December 23, 2022
Streetwear Everyone Is Wondering How Kanye West Feels About Playboi Carti's New Merch Playboi Carti released a new merch collection ahead of "Whole Lotta Red" with upside-down crosses, satanic symbols, and other vampire references. By Alex Zidel December 22, 2020
Music Lil Tecca Explains His Extremely Awkward Performance Of "Ransom" Lil Tecca is getting clowned for his low-energy performance of "Ransom." By Alex Zidel August 12, 2019
Original Content We Got The Jazz: A Brief & Incomplete History Of Jazz In Hip Hop We look at the reciprocity between hip-hop and jazz over the years. By Gus Fisher July 10, 2018
Music Tyler Perry Pops Out At Beyonce Show In Paris Amid Sexual Assault Lawsuit Beyonce and Tyler Perry have supported each other a lot over the years, and the latter attended a "COWBOY CARTER" show with Tina Knowles. By Gabriel Bras Nevares June 20, 2025
Music T.I. Focused On Movie & Comedy Career Amid Retirement From Touring T.I. says he's got plenty of projects in the works. By Cole Blake October 12, 2024
Music Snoop Dogg Reacts To Donald Trump Pardoning NBA YoungBoy And Commuting Larry Hoover There has been some confusion around how Donald Trump actually assisted Larry Hoover, but Snoop Dogg is happy to see him getting help. By Zachary Horvath May 31, 2025
Music Snoop Dogg & Death Row Records Push Hard To Toss Out $107 Million Suit Against Them Snoop Dogg and Death Row have been fighting this court battle since 2002, and it was amended in 2022 when the former became the founder. By Zachary Horvath April 22, 2025
Pop Culture Ari Melber Leaves Social Media In Shambles After Quoting Chief Keef On MSNBC Ari Melber recently used Chief Keef's 2012 hit "I Don't Like" to describe his feelings about Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill." By Caroline Fisher July 10, 2025
Music Diddy's Alleged Sex Worker Wants To Work With Feds In His Criminal Case One of Diddy's alleged victims wants to cooperate with prosecutors in his criminal case as his trial date approaches. By Cole Blake February 27, 2025
Music RZA Claims Hot 97 Banning Wu-Tang Clan From Radio Damaged Culture RZA looked back on Wu-Tang's issue with Hot 97, and the way it impacted their success and the genre as a whole. By Elias Andrews February 26, 2025
Music Peter Gunz Claims Jay-Z Cost Him $10K After Mocking His New Car The New York rapper got back at Hov, though. By Elias Andrews April 26, 2024