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Music Drake Participates In Viral "Shabang" Challenge, Hits 100 Million Listeners On Spotify Drake has been having himself a grand old time in Turks and Caicos, which has led to him doing the "Shabang" challenge. By Alexander Cole June 13, 2026
Music Pooh Shiesty Continues To Seek Bail As Trial Date Gets Pushed Back Pooh Shiesty's trial has been pushed back to next February, and now, the artist is looking to make sure he gets bail By Alexander Cole June 12, 2026
Music OVO Kai Doesn't Buy Rick Ross' Explanation For Flying Commercial Ross is defending himself for flying commercial. By Tallie Spencer June 11, 2026
Sports LeBron James Reveals What He's Listening To Right Now & It's Not "ICEMAN" We shouldn't be surprised. By Aron A. June 10, 2026
Music Offset Goes Off On Driver Who Grabbed Women In a video, Offset is seen yelling at a chauffeur who was allegedly being physically aggressive with women. By Erika Marie June 09, 2026
Music Drake's "ICEMAN" Stays At Number One On Billboard 200 In Its Third Week If Drake's "ICEMAN" goes number one next week on the Billboard 200 albums chart, it will be the longest-running chart-topper of the year. By Gabriel Bras Nevares June 07, 2026
Music Toronto Woman Tears Into Drake While Calling "The Breakfast Club" Charlamagne Tha God joked about someone from OVO making a call to get "The Breakfast Club" off the air before a Toronto Drake hater called in. By Gabriel Bras Nevares June 05, 2026
Music Daphne Joy Appears Unbothered With New Twerk Video Following Diddy Tape Controversy Daphne Joy is moving on with her life. By Tallie Spencer June 04, 2026
Music Sauce Walka Alleges Drake Has Been Spending Boatloads Of Cash On Women In Houston Sauce Walka has not been particularly fond of Drake this week, and now, according to DJ Akademiks, he is leveling big-time accusations. By Alexander Cole June 04, 2026
Music Megan Thee Stallion's Latest Snippet Proves She's Done With Her Wifey Era Megan Thee Stallion remains one of the biggest artists in rap, and following her breakup with Klay Thompson, fans want new music. By Alexander Cole June 03, 2026
Music Jay-Z & The Roots Host Private Philadelphia Show Before Picnic Set Beyoncé was in attendance for this Philadelphia concert, which took place before Jay-Z and The Roots' headlining Picnic festival set tonight. By Gabriel Bras Nevares May 30, 2026
Music DJ Screw's Mixtapes Are Finally Coming To Streaming The introduction of DJ Screw's indelible work onto streaming services began this week with the "Originals (Volume 1)" drop. By Gabriel Bras Nevares May 29, 2026