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Music Playboi Carti Receives Nice Sales Bump In Latest First-Week Projections Update Playboi Carti is already prepped to have his biggest debut ever, but the final number keeps growing larger by the day. By Zachary Horvath March 18, 2025
Music Lollapalooza Announces Stacked Lineup For 2025 Lollapalooza 2024 was filled with heavy hitters in the rap and R&B departments. The same goes for this year, thankfully. By Zachary Horvath March 18, 2025
Music Plies Abandons Lawsuit Against Megan Thee Stallion, GloRilla, Cardi B & Soulja Boy Over Uncleared Sample GloRilla and Megan Thee Stallion originally teamed up with Cardi B for the remix of "Wanna Be" back in May 2024. By Cole Blake March 17, 2025
Music Lefty Gunplay Allegedly Arrested Just Minutes Before Hitting Rolling Loud Stage Lefty Gunplay has already had his run-ins with law enforcement in 2025 and it seems the struggles to stay out of trouble are continuing. By Zachary Horvath March 17, 2025
Music Kanye West Reveals Plans For A Playboi Carti Collaborative Album Playboi Carti dropped his long-awaited new album, "Music," on Friday night featuring a number of guest verses, but Kanye West was not included. By Cole Blake March 16, 2025
Music Offset Reportedly Maced After Allegedly Punching Security Guard At Dispensary A security guard is reportedly believed to have pressed charges against Offset after being hospitalized over the rapper's dispensary visit. By Caroline Fisher March 14, 2025
Music Diddy Demands Sequestered Jury Selection Process As Trial Looms Diddy is currently behind bars at the MDC in Brooklyn facing charges related to alleged sex trafficking and racketeering. By Caroline Fisher March 14, 2025
Music Jay Rock Detained By LAPD After Trying To Flee During Traffic Stop Jay Rock has a long and complicated history with the LAPD, and he got into a complicated situation with them Thursday night. By Elias Andrews March 14, 2025
Music Elliott Wilson Explains Why He Doesn't Like Jail Albums After Tory Lanez Drops "Peterson" Tory Lanez previously described his album as "the first in-real-time prison album… recorded in prison, for prisoners, by a prisoner." By Cole Blake March 13, 2025
Music Slim Thug Can't Believe Dawn Robinson Has Been Living Out Of Her Car For Years Slim Thug says the situation with Dawn Robinson shows the importance of artists owning the masters to their biggest hits. By Cole Blake March 13, 2025
Music Joe Budden Thinks Doechii Messed Up By Calling Straight Men Her “Red Flag” A comment Doechii made about straight men in an episode of "Hot Ones Versus" has earned mixed reactions from social media users. By Caroline Fisher March 12, 2025
Music Tekashi 6ix9ine's Jewelry & Platinum Plaques Sell For Shocking Amounts After IRS Raid Tekashi 6ix9ine previously revealed that he hadn't reported his income to the IRS for four years before the raid. By Cole Blake March 11, 2025