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Music Maino Explains Why DJ Akademiks Beef Isn't As Deep As People Think DJ Akademiks and Maino have been going at each other despite their previous link-ups, and it's all because of some fashion trolling. By Gabriel Bras Nevares December 28, 2025
Music Drake Pops Out In Houston While Fans Beg For New Album "ICEMAN" Drake promised that his final "ICEMAN" stream will be his team's best work for the rollout, and die-hards can't wait to see it pay off. By Gabriel Bras Nevares December 19, 2025
Sports Ja Rule's Wild Golf Swing Almost Leaves People Injured At Celebrity Golf Tournament Thankfully, no injuries were reported. By Tallie Spencer December 18, 2025
Music Kay Flock Sentenced To Three Decades In Prison In March of this year, New York rapper Kay Flock was convicted of racketeering and attempted murder charges. By Caroline Fisher December 16, 2025
Music Former Escort Claims Lawyers Exploited His Cassie Allegations Against Diddy Clayton Howard's lawsuit against Cassie alleges prosecutors in Diddy's trial used his story to arrest him and then ignored his other claims. By Gabriel Bras Nevares December 14, 2025
Music Dame Dash Refuses To "Tear Down" Diddy While Blasting 50 Cent Docuseries Dame Dash previously suggested that 50 Cent was going after Diddy in order to gain favor among white audiences. By Gabriel Bras Nevares December 12, 2025
Music 21 Savage Unveils Tracklist & Features For "What Happened To The Streets?" Features for 21 Savage's new album have been speculated, with some assuming the likes of Travis Scott, Lil Baby, and Young Thug. By Zachary Horvath December 11, 2025
Music Marlon Wayans & 50 Cent Escalate Their Feud With More Fiery Shots At One Another 50 Cent first called out Marlon Wayans in response to his criticism of Netflix's new documentary, "Sean Combs: The Reckoning." By Cole Blake December 10, 2025
Music Wale Reflects On Distance With Drake And Painful Kid Cudi Fallout Wale spoke candidly and earnestly about his industry relationships with Kid Cudi and Drake amid the release of his new album. By Gabriel Bras Nevares December 07, 2025
Music Ja Rule Accuses 50 Cent Of Allegedly Being "No Different" Than Diddy Folks who thought Ja Rule would stop at calling 50 Cent a snitch over executive producing a Diddy doc might want a refresher on their feud. By Gabriel Bras Nevares December 07, 2025
Music Ja Rule Seemingly Blasts 50 Cent As A Snitch Amid Diddy Docuseries Although Ja Rule didn't name Diddy or 50 Cent, the Bad Boy mogul might agree with Ja's purported sentiment over "Sean Combs: The Reckoning." By Gabriel Bras Nevares December 07, 2025
Music 21 Savage Seems To Kick Off New Album Rollout With Art Installation 21 Savage's last album came out almost two years ago, and the follow-up to "american dream" might be coming very soon. By Gabriel Bras Nevares December 06, 2025