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Music La Roux Backs Alleged Victim In Kanye West's "Horrific" Sexual Assault Case Kanye West and his legal team have countered the lawsuit by citing the rapper's First Amendment right to free speech. By Cole Blake March 11, 2026
Music Rihanna & A$AP Rocky Could Have “Easily” Been Hit By Bullets During Shooting A law enforcement official recently shared new details of the shooting that took place outside of Rihanna's Los Angeles mansion this weekend. By Caroline Fisher March 11, 2026
Music 50 Cent Hits Jim Jones, Maino, Fabolous & Dave East In New A.I. Video And Fans Are Divided 50 Cent has been beefing with Jim Jones, Maino, Fabolous, and Dave East since they criticized "Sean Combs: The Reckoning." By Cole Blake March 11, 2026
Music Live Nation & The DOJ Reach Settlement In Antitrust Case, Sort Of There's a lot of confusion and anger over the DOJ and Live Nation's agreed upon settlement and it seems this is nowhere near over yet. By Zachary Horvath March 09, 2026
Music DJ Akademiks' Trolling Backfires After He Said Young Thug Has The "Worst Build" DJ Akademiks has been very critical of Young Thug as of late, clowning him and Lil Baby for teasing collaborations without Gunna. By Gabriel Bras Nevares March 08, 2026
Music Doechii Confronts Industry Plant Rumors On New Song With SZA Today, Doechii surprised her supporters with a new song and accompanying music video featuring SZA, "girl, get up." By Caroline Fisher December 30, 2025
Music Ebro Responds To The Idea That He Ruined New York Hip-Hop Ebro Darden doesn't believe that the cancelation of his talk show on Hot 97 will lead to better coverage of hip-hop in New York. By Cole Blake December 30, 2025
Music DJ Akademiks Blames Drake & Kendrick Lamar Beef For Stalling Hip-Hop’s Progress During a recent livestream, DJ Akademiks shared his thoughts on the long-term impact of Drake and Kendrick Lamar's feud. By Caroline Fisher December 30, 2025
Music Dave East Accused Of Scamming Woman Out Of $30K According to one woman, Dave East allegedly ruined her life last year, nearly driving her to commit suicide. By Caroline Fisher December 30, 2025
Music Kodak Black Says He Would've Already Met Zendaya If XXXTentacion Were Still Alive Kodak Black has been expressing his love for Zendaya for years at this point, but has been unsuccessful in meeting her. By Cole Blake December 30, 2025
Music Kanye West's Viral Alleged Bucket List Includes Pole Dancing, Sharks, & Everything In Between Kanye West is going viral this morning and it is all thanks to an alleged bucket list that surfaced online over the weekend. By Alexander Cole December 29, 2025
Music Fabolous Fans Hope His Cryptic IG Message Is A 50 Cent Warning Shot Neither 50 Cent nor Fabolous are explicitly going at each other on social media right now... But their fans want blood. By Gabriel Bras Nevares December 28, 2025