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Music The Internet Thinks Ray J Started The Beef Between Biggie & Tupac The conspiracy theory points to a 15-year-old Ray J as the source of the beef. By Madusa S. June 05, 2021
Music Sheck Wes Details Aggressive Encounter With Swedish Police Following A$AP Rocky Arrest Sheck Wes claims he was stopped & frisked by Swedish police. By Aron A. July 08, 2019
Music Kanye West Reportedly Holding "Yandhi" Hostage In Dispute With Def Jam & EMI The forthcoming album may be caught in the artist's legal battle. By Zaynab January 27, 2019
Music Rihanna's Father Denies Exploiting Her Image In Ongoing Legal Family Battle He says he has every right to use the name "Fenty" in his business dealings. By Erika Marie April 17, 2019
Music Young Thug Accedes To Nardwuar's Interview, While Travis Scott Idles Onstage Young Thug blesses Nardwuar "The Human Serviette" with a one of a kind interview, even by his standards. By Devin Ch May 12, 2019
Music R. Kelly Could End Up Back In Jail Again Over Child Support Payments: Report Kells has reportedly skipped payments to Drea Kelly in the past two months. By Aron A. April 16, 2019
Music Lil Xan Shares Third & Final Album Cover For "Be Safe" Lil Xan is now on his third album cover for "Be Safe." By Alex Zidel February 22, 2019
Music Jhene Aiko Shares Musings From Her Poetry Book "2Fish" The visionary singer released her book of poems back in 2017. By Erika Marie February 22, 2019
Original Content From Kanye To Uzi: What Does Streaming's Ability To Alter Music Mean For The Album? Now that altering music in real time is more commonplace, we examine whether this is a helpful or harmful for the world of hip-hop and music at large By Robert Blair April 24, 2019
Music Joe Budden On Eminem's "Untouchable": "One Of The Worst Records I've Ever Heard" Joe Budden drops harsh take on Eminem's latest: "It's trash!" By Mitch Findlay December 13, 2017
Music First Week Album Sales Are In For Lil Uzi Vert, XXXTentacion & A$AP Mob Lil Uzi Vert has landed the #1 album this week with over 125K units sold with "Luv Is Rage 2." By Kevin Goddard September 01, 2017
Music XXXTentacion Addresses His Controversial IG Post XXXTentacion's IG post of him "hanging himself" was a preview of an upcoming video, not real. By Kevin Goddard August 24, 2017