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Music Nate Dogg's Son Voices Frustration With Late Rapper's Estate Over Catalog Sale Naijiel D. Hale, one of nine children that the late Nate Dogg fathered, called his father's wife a "b***h" who didn't support him. By Gabriel Bras Nevares March 13, 2025
Music Doechii Hits The Stage With Lauryn Hill As Special Guest At Miami Jazz In The Gardens Festival Lauryn Hill and Doechii join Cardi B as the only female rappers to have won Best Rap Album at the Grammy Awards. By Gabriel Bras Nevares March 09, 2025
Music DJ Akademiks Offers A Surprising Prediction About Diddy's Criminal Case's Outcome Diddy was recently hit with a new federal indictment that accuses the Bad Boy mogul of forced labor and employee assault. By Gabriel Bras Nevares March 08, 2025
Music Xzibit Explains Why Kendrick Lamar Calling Drake A Pedophile Is Fair Game In A Rap Battle Kendrick Lamar's accusations against Drake on tracks like "Not Like Us" led to Drizzy's defamation lawsuit against UMG. By Gabriel Bras Nevares March 07, 2025
Music Doechii Can Barely Walk In Paris As Fans Mob Her During Meet-And-Greet Event Doechii already has a lot to celebrate in 2025, whether that's her first Grammy wins or her new singles and collaborations. By Gabriel Bras Nevares March 06, 2025
Music Kanye West Wants Drake To Speak At His Funeral Kanye West surprisingly showed love to Drake on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday, despite their up-and-down relationship. By Cole Blake March 05, 2025
Music DJ Akademiks Claps Back At Charlamagne Tha God For Taunting Him Over His Drake Coverage Drake and iHeartMedia have since reached an "amicable resolution" in their legal dispute as the Toronto rapper continues going after UMG. By Cole Blake March 04, 2025
Music Kendrick Lamar Affiliate Hitta J3 Calls Out Rubi Rose For Hypocritical Drake Comments Rubi Rose recently made some interesting comments about the historic feud between Kendrick Lamar and Drake. By Alexander Cole March 04, 2025
Music Bump, Bump, Bump: Omarion Reveals He Doesn't Speak To Former B2K Groupmates Omarion says there is no love loss for the legacy B2K established but there is no friendship between him and members Lil Fizz, Raz B, & Boog. By Bryson "Boom" Paul March 02, 2025
Music NBA YoungBoy Announces Plans To Drop A New Album Before Celebrating His Prison Release NBA YoungBoy will apparently bring many leaks to official platforms on this new album, which will be his last drop before his prison release. By Gabriel Bras Nevares February 28, 2025
Music Drake Removes iHeartMedia From Texas Petition After Reaching "Amicable" Resolution Drake sought depositions against the company, but has decided to focus all his attention on UMG instead. By Elias Andrews February 26, 2025
Music Nipsey Hussle & Bino Rideaux's Album Gets Official Release Timeline From Blacc Sam Nipsey Hussle is getting a posthumous album with Bino Rideaux, this summer, according to his brother, Blacc Sam. By Cole Blake February 26, 2025