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Music Ja Rule Argues His Feud With 50 Cent Was Bad For New York Hip-Hop Despite wanting to avoid promoting any negativity, Ja Rule also declared himself a "better rapper" than 50 Cent. By Cole Blake November 12, 2025
Music Adamn Killa Detained By Chicago Police Over “Arrest Me, Daddy” Trend According to Adamn Killa, he "went and made more ‘Arrest me, daddy’ videos right after" police released him. By Caroline Fisher November 12, 2025
Music Drake Sparks New Album Buzz By Liking Post About “ICEMAN” Drake's highly anticipated ninth studio album "ICEMAN" doesn't have an official release date, but it's expected to drop sometime this year. By Caroline Fisher November 05, 2025
Music Lil Baby Pledges His Allegiance To Drake And Gets Clowned In The Process Drake is going to be dropping "ICEMAN" next week, and Lil Baby is out here pledging his allegiance to his frequent collaborator. By Alexander Cole May 04, 2026
Relationships Ebro Says He Expected Klay Thompson To Cheat On Megan Thee Stallion Megan Thee Stallion accused Klay Thompson of cheating on her in a statement on Instagram over the weekend. By Cole Blake April 27, 2026
Music B2K Verzuz Pretty Ricky: How To Watch B2K and Pretty Ricky will be competing on Verzuz tonight, and it should make for a pretty compelling matchup. By Alexander Cole June 25, 2026
Music A$AP Rocky Receives Solid Second-Week Sales Projections For “Don’t Be Dumb” A$AP Rocky's long-awaited fourth studio album, "Don't Be Dumb," moved roughly 123K album-equivalent units in its first week. By Caroline Fisher January 28, 2026
Music Rich The Kid Claims He Might Have Given Kanye West His Final Hit Recently, Rich The Kid took to his Instagram Story to throw some serious shade at his collaborator, Kanye West. By Caroline Fisher January 14, 2026
Music 50 Cent Enjoys Best Career Streaming Day On Spotify Thanks To His Diddy Docuseries The success of 50 Cent's documentary on Diddy seemingly has viewers and/or fans of his revisiting the best of his catalog. By Zachary Horvath December 11, 2025
Sports Drake, Adin Ross, And Stake Facing Second Class Action Lawsuit In New Mexico Drake in entangled in another legal dilemma. The difference this time though is that he's the one being sued, along with Stake and Adin Ross. By Zachary Horvath October 30, 2025
Music Drake's Speech Earns A Standing Ovation At Vybz Kartel's First Ever Show In Canada Drake surprised his hometown fans by joining Vybz Kartel onstage to share some wholesome words about the Jamaican icon. By Zachary Horvath October 27, 2025
Original Content 2017 BET Hip-Hop Awards Cyphers: Top 5 Verses Many stepped up, but which rappers killed the BET Cypher the hardest? By Mitch Findlay October 11, 2017