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Music Hit-Boy Opens Up On Career Soundtracking P*rn Hit-Boy shared some surprising information in new tweets today. By Lavender Alexandria June 20, 2023
Music The Alchemist Admits He Once Thought Ye’s Name Was “Cognac West” The producer talked about his first time meeting Kanye West during an interview with “New Rory and Mal.” By Hayley Hynes October 09, 2021
Music Lil Baby Drops Intimate Performance Of "Emotionally Scarred" Lil Baby takes "My Turn" to VEVO's CTRL series, turning in a powerful performance of "Emotionally Scarred." By Mitch Findlay March 05, 2020
Music DJ Akademiks Passionately Argues That Drake Needs Hits On "ICEMAN" Recently, folks in Drake's circle have encouraged him to ditch the hits for more bar-heavy tracks, but DJ Akademiks completely disagrees. By Zachary Horvath April 03, 2026
Music Kevin Abstract Feels BROCKHAMPTON Was "Overlooked," Wishes They Were Respected More He recently shared that he wished the group would be "respected in the Rap world more" and treated like "true MCs." By Erika Marie July 22, 2021
Music Ray J Apologizes To Sexyy Red For Alleging They Slept Together Ray J said Sexyy Red is one of his favorite artists and explained that he misrepresented their actual interaction with this false claim. By Gabriel Bras Nevares June 08, 2025
Music Blueface Hit With Investigation Over Jaidyn Alexis Fan Incident Blueface could be in some trouble here. By Alexander Cole December 19, 2023
Music Frank Ocean Producer Reveals He's Working On New Music In Miami Maybe we get our hopes up a little bit. By Elias Andrews July 19, 2024
Music Nicki Minaj Shares "Pink Friday 2" Cover, Says It's One Of Two It seems like there won't be a week that goes by in which we don't hear about the Queen's highly anticipated album this year. By Gabriel Bras Nevares September 04, 2023
Pop Culture VVSNCE Says Latto Refused To Work With Her After Free Features For Females Comments Kodak Black's artist had a few things to say after reading the "777" hitmaker's "Billboard" interview last week. By Hayley Hynes February 26, 2023
Music Halsey Shuts Down Pregnancy Rumors After Teasing "Biggest Secret" Halsey is not having a baby with Yungblud. By Alex Zidel February 19, 2019
Music YSL Duke Appears To Diss Yak Gotti In Fiery Rant YSL has been surrounded by drama, this week, as Young Thug has also been facing backlash over a resurfaced police interrogation. By Cole Blake August 28, 2025