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Music Drake Recalls Visiting Young Thug In Prison In New Audio From Ian Connor Ian Connor also shared alleged texts from Drake about the Young Thug visit, and now we have the voice message that he allegedly sent Connor. By Gabriel Bras Nevares September 06, 2025
Music Charlamagne Tha God Thinks GloRilla Could Hold Her Own Against Nicki Minaj In A Verzuz Battle While Chalamagne Tha God's cohosts on "The Breakfast Club" disagreed, GloRilla and Nicki Minaj do boast a lot of hits. By Gabriel Bras Nevares September 04, 2025
Music Drake Announces Release Date For "ICEMAN" Episode 3 Drake's second "ICEMAN" livestream premiered at the end of July. After it ended, he released the second single "Which One." By Zachary Horvath September 03, 2025
Music Drake Claps Back At "Entitled" Hip-Hop Journalists Who Trashed His Bobbi Althoff Interview Drake has stuck to chatting with streamers, content creators, and podcasters for the last couple of years now. By Zachary Horvath September 02, 2025
Relationships August Alsina Denies Grooming Allegations And Confirms Relationship With Zu August Alsina and Zu have also officially confirmed that they are dating after years of speculation on social media. By Cole Blake September 02, 2025
Tech Meek Mill Claims He's Developing An AI Tool That "Can Change The World" Meek Mill has received a lot of criticism for a multitude of reasons and now he's receiving even more backlash for dabbling in AI. By Zachary Horvath September 02, 2025
Music Trippie Redd Thinks Today's Rap Artists Are Trying To Recreate The 2017 Era Trippie Redd himself was one of the hottest names out in 2017, and we still feel the impact of "SoundCloud rap" today. By Gabriel Bras Nevares September 01, 2025
Music Freddie Gibbs Shows Immense Love To Clipse & "Let God Sort Em Out" Freddie Gibbs is like many hip-hop fans this year with his take on Clipse's "Let God Sort Em Out" and the run they're on. By Zachary Horvath September 01, 2025
Music Joey Bada$$ Feels "Lonely At The Top" On Our New "Fire Emoji" Playlist Update In addition to Joey Bada$$' long-awaited new album "Lonely At The Top," we got a new (technically old) track from Eminem. By Gabriel Bras Nevares August 30, 2025
Music Chris Brown Excitedly Teases Brand New Banger With Sexyy Red Chris Brown presumably previewed this new Sexyy Red collab after one of his "Breezy Bowl XX" world tour concerts. By Gabriel Bras Nevares August 29, 2025
Music Timbaland Addressed Bryson Tiller’s Comment On Rory & Mal About Advising Him To Quit His Job Then Abandoned Him Timbaland is renowned for crafting sounds for legendary acts including Ginuwine, Missy Elliott, Aaliyah, and Justin Timberlake. By Bryson "Boom" Paul August 28, 2025
Music YSL Duke Appears To Diss Yak Gotti In Fiery Rant YSL has been surrounded by drama, this week, as Young Thug has also been facing backlash over a resurfaced police interrogation. By Cole Blake August 28, 2025