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Music Cassie Reveals $10 Million Settlement With Hotel Where Diddy Assaulted Her The leaked video of Diddy physically assaulting Cassie in a hotel in 2016 became a controversial part of Sean Combs' federal trial. By Gabriel Bras Nevares May 16, 2025
Music DMX's Ex Wife Alleges That His Girlfriend Sent A Warlock To Her House To Stop Her Prayers DMX's ex wife Tashera Simmons made these comments about the late rapper's then-girlfriend on the Hardly Initiated podcast. By Gabriel Bras Nevares May 11, 2025
Music Elliott Wilson Calls Out Drake For Cryptic Post About “Uneasy” Next Chapter Drake recently took to Instagram to share a mysterious post about what's to come, leaving his fans to speculate. By Caroline Fisher March 16, 2025
Music Drake's "Not Like Us" Lawsuit Against UMG Has Officially Been Dismissed Drake was suing UMG for defamation following Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" diss track, and now, the lawsuit has been dismissed. By Alexander Cole October 09, 2025
Music Doechii's "Anxiety" Has Reportedly Led To A Major Pay Day For Gotye Doechii's popular single, "Anxiety," famously samples Gotye's iconic 2011 song, "Somebody That I Used to Know." By Cole Blake June 10, 2025
Music TDE Punch Finally Reveals Why Kendrick Lamar Left "Not Like Us" Off "GNX" It's probably better that Lamar did so. By Zachary Horvath February 04, 2025
Music What We Learned From Clipse’s GQ Interview: Kendrick Lamar Feature, "Story Of Adidon" Politics & More From Pusha T's beef with Kanye and Jim Jones to how Kendrick Lamar became the catalyst for the Clipse's departure from Def Jam. By Aron A. June 04, 2025
Music NBA YoungBoy Buys His Security Guard A Home Near His Following Prison Release According to NBA YoungBoy's neighbor, there's been a notable increase in armed security around the rapper's property since his return. By Caroline Fisher April 12, 2025
Music Drake Goes The Extra Thousand Miles To Bring Vanessa Carlton Out At Wireless Festival Other special guests at night two of Drake's Wireless Festival takeover included fakemink, 21 Savage, Latto, and Sexyy Red. By Gabriel Bras Nevares July 13, 2025
Music Bow Wow Hints At Omarion Drama Ahead Of Joint Millennium Tour Bow Wow and Omarion have got the fans excited for their upcoming tour, but the former has made it sound like there's trouble. By Elias Andrews February 27, 2025
Music Judge Mathis Thinks Kanye West And Diddy's Other Friends Should Support Puff At Trial Judge Mathis made it clear he doesn't think people should support Diddy's alleged actions. But if they do, they might as well comfort him. By Gabriel Bras Nevares June 15, 2025
Music What Happened To Dr Dre & Kendrick Lamar's "The Recipe" Music Video? "The Recipe," which wound up being a bonus cut, was the first promotional single for Kendrick Lamar's classic "good kid, m.A.A.d city." By Zachary Horvath December 08, 2025