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Music DJ Akademiks Attempts To Explain Drake's Sharp Fall Off On The Hot 100 As Kendrick Lamar Remains On Top Kendrick Lamar was able to retain the top spot on the Billboard chart, despite Drake's fall off from the top 10. By Cole Blake March 04, 2025
Music Playboi Carti Trolls Adin Ross By Including Their Phone Call In A New Leaked Track It's pretty clear that Playboi Carti is either dissing Adin Ross or simply being cheeky about finessing him for their livestream. By Gabriel Bras Nevares August 15, 2024
Music Cardi B Shocks Fans By Revealing Location Of Her New Piercing The rapper continues to surprise. By Elias Andrews January 27, 2025
Original Content How Compton's Most Wanted Influenced West Coast Hip Hop While N.W.A. was the most commercially successful rap group out of Compton, Compton's Most Wanted also greatly influenced West Coast hip-hop. By Caleb Hardy May 25, 2023
Music Machine Gun Kelly Opens Up About Drugs And Being Hit By A Bus MGK has lived quite the life. By Alexander Cole July 22, 2019
Music Pepa Struggled With Sharing Alleged Abuse By Treach In "Salt-N-Pepa" Biopic As DJ Spinderella publicly states that she does not support the film, Pepa spoke about her ex-husband & the desire to depict the good side of their relationship. By Erika Marie January 23, 2021
Music Lil Durk Reportedly Arrives At Los Angeles Federal Prison Over Alleged Murder-For-Hire Durk is reportedly waiting for his first hearing or arraignment. By Gabriel Bras Nevares November 14, 2024
Music Jelly Roll Urges Eminem And MGK To Squash Years Long Feud The artist claims they're similar. By Elias Andrews January 03, 2025
Music Ice Spice Apologizes For Using AI-Generated Cover Art For Her New Single She took to Twitter to claim she didn't even know it was AI in the first place. By Lavender Alexandria April 26, 2024
Music Jill Scott Was Bothered That Live Performance Microphone Fellatio Video Circulated Jill Scott spoke about the viral video from 2018 that showed her showing off some tongue action on a microphone. By Erika Marie May 13, 2020
TV Regina King Says Janet Jackson Had "Chemistry" With Tupac During "Poetic Justice" Filming Janet and Pac may not have just been love interests in the movie. By Thomas Galindo February 06, 2022
Music Beyonce's Albums, Ranked What is your favorite Beyonce album? By Caleb Hardy March 15, 2023