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Music Snoop Dogg Reveals Spotify Earnings, Recalls Nearly Filing For Bankruptcy "One plus one ain’t adding up to two," Snoop says. By Caroline Fisher December 08, 2023
Music Lul Tim Regrets Quando Rondo Incident That Led To King Von's Murder Tim thinks things got too heated until it was too late. By Gabriel Bras Nevares November 15, 2024
Music Drake And PARTYNEXTDOOR's "$OME $EXY $ONGS 4 U" On Pace For Disappointing First Week Sales The 6 God's projections are down. By Elias Andrews February 18, 2025
Music Paul Wall Admits To Learning He Was White At Shockingly Late Age The people's champ was confused. By Elias Andrews December 19, 2024
Music Kanye West's “Beg Forgiveness" Lyrics Save Stranded Skier's Life A San Francisco man recently got lost on a skiing trip, and listened to "Vultures 1" as he awaited rescue. By Caroline Fisher February 17, 2024
Music Knxwledge Hits Mach-Hommy With Bombshell Allegation About Stealing Beats Knxwledge and Mach-Hommy previously teamed up with one another back in 2017 for a brief, 8-song collaborative project. By Cole Blake April 16, 2025
Music Cardi B Walks Back Some Of Her "WAP" Lyrics After Showing Off Her Cooking Skills Cardi B is distracting herself from a nasty divorce from Offset, who recently filed for joint custody and for a 50/50 assets split. By Gabriel Bras Nevares March 15, 2025
Music King Von Has Over 300 Unreleased Songs: Report According to King Von's former manager, the late rapper has over 200 or 300 unreleased songs. By Alex Zidel February 26, 2021
Music Yungeen Ace Talks "Who I Smoke," Vanessa Carlton's Approval & Fan Criticism Yungeen Ace responds to the criticism surrounding his viral hit song "Who I Smoke" and the process behind having Vanessa Carlton clear the sample. By Alex Zidel July 05, 2021
Pop Culture What Happened To Rapper-Based Video Games? As Danny Brown's GTAV Radio Station goes, live, we look back at the days where gaming developers would place players in control of their favorite MC's across sports titles, beat-em-ups and action games. By Robert Blair December 21, 2019
Music Kanye West Misses Grammys, Wins 2 Awards For "Donda" Kanye West won two awards for Best Melodic Rap Performance and Best Rap Song. By Aron A. April 04, 2022
Original Content Drakeo The Ruler Always Counted His Blessings: Our Final Interview With The West Coast Staple In one of the rapper's last interviews before his death, Drakeo the Ruler expressed his gratitude for being able to pursue a rap career, and was equally awestruck that he had managed to obtain such a position of power and influence within the west coast specifically. We conducted this interview with Drakeo for our "12 Days of Christmas" series on December 12, 2021, during Rolling Loud, California. By Angela Savage December 22, 2021