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Music Kanye West Reportedly Filmed DJ Akademiks Interview Wearing "All Black Costume" Kanye West tweets are one thing, but the rapper allegedly did an interview wearing an extremely controversial outfit. By Elias Andrews March 20, 2025
Music Playboi Carti Fans Torch Rapper After New Snippet Bites Yeat's Sound Playboi Carti is really trying fans' patience with the rollout for his album, and now they have started to criticize the rapper's music. By Elias Andrews March 06, 2025
Music JID Reveals The Tracklist For "God Does Like Ugly" With Some Twists JID's highly anticipated fourth album "God Does Like Ugly" is going to be here on August 8. "WRK" is the lone single from the rollout. By Zachary Horvath August 05, 2025
Music Freddie Gibbs Appears To Diss Jim Jones & Benny The Butcher On New Album “Alfredo 2” Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist dropped "Alfredo 2" today, and fans were quick to point out some apparent shade. By Caroline Fisher July 25, 2025
Music YNW Melly Murder Retrial Pushed Back Until 2025 After Numerous Other Delays A Florida judge ruled that YNW Melly will face trial again in September of next year, and also updated his tampering case. By Gabriel Bras Nevares July 08, 2024
Music Famous Rappers Who Are Cancers Rappers born during Cancer season are known for their self-protection, as well as their musical intuition. By Demi Phillips June 26, 2023
Music Offset's Fight With 42 Dugg Led To Lil Baby Beef, Wack 100 Claims Offset and Lil Baby's feud can apparently be traced back to a dice game with 42 Dugg. By Cole Blake January 03, 2024
Pop Culture Chris Brown Says He's Willing To Do A "Verzuz" Battle With Usher, Talks Going Against Drake With all the talk about the recent Verzuz battle, Chris let us know who he'd be willing to go head-to-head with. By Lawrencia Grose June 26, 2022
Music Joe Budden Appears To Come Out As Bisexual Joe Budden seemingly came out on the latest episode of his podcast, saying that he is bisexual. By Alex Zidel November 04, 2021
Music Why Fans Think Drake Will Reference "Top Gun" On His Upcoming Project Drake's back on his movie grind. By Elias Andrews August 15, 2024
Music Tommy Richman Checks Streamer For Asking Him To Sing “Million Dollar Baby” Tommy Richman got into a heated exchange with D Lou recently, earning mixed reactions from social media users. By Caroline Fisher June 05, 2025
Music Kendrick Lamar & SZA Smash Yet Another Record Thanks To “Luther” Kendrick Lamar and SZA's track "Luther" has become the longest-running No. 1 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. By Caroline Fisher June 04, 2025