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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
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 Jay-Z Capitalizes On “Imaginary Players” Success With Music Video Re-Release On YouTube Jay-Z’s “Imaginary Players” was a diss track about Ma$e. It sampled the 1981 track “Imaginary Playmates” by Rene & Angela. By Bryson "Boom" Paul August 30, 2025
Music Cardi B Sarcastically Persuades Fans To Buy "AM I THE DRAMA?" Box Sets Cardi B's civil assault trial has her cracking more jokes as she prepares to unleash her sophomore album "AM I THE DRAMA?" next month. By Zachary Horvath August 29, 2025
Music Wack 100 And Suge Knight Claim Drake's 2Pac Chain Is "Fake" Drake shared a picture of the necklace while traveling for his "Some Special Shows 4 U" tour in Europe, this week. By Cole Blake August 26, 2025
Music Charleston White Says He's Hoping Boosie Badazz Gets The Max Sentence In His Gun Case Charleston White is once again trolling Boosie Badazz for taking a plea deal in his federal gun case, earlier this month. By Cole Blake August 26, 2025
Music R Kelly Reportedly Terrified Following Prison Overdose According to members of R Kelly's legal team, he broke down in tears during a phone call from prison recently. By Caroline Fisher June 19, 2025
Music DJ Akademiks Issues Warning To Young Thug About His Next Album According to DJ Akademiks, Young Thug's next album better be good. By Caroline Fisher November 13, 2024
Music Nelly Is Off The Hook Following Arrest For Alleged Ecstasy Possession Things are looking up for Nelly. By Caroline Fisher November 13, 2024
Music Al B Sure Says His Love For Quincy Brown Is Being Used Against Him Al B Sure vented about his relationship with his kids on social media. By Cole Blake November 13, 2024
Music Cardi B Reveals The Status Of Her New Song That Takes Shots At Offset Fans have been wanting Cardi B to release the song as a single for her long-awaited sophomore studio album. By Cole Blake June 09, 2025