Dale told the court he was trying to gather information about who had opened fire on Shakur and Suge Knight when he pressed the rapper for details. “He was still talking, and I was trying to convince him to tell me the name of whoever his assailants were,” he testified. Dale said Shakur repeated the response a couple of times before the officer realized he was not going to get anything further from him. A transcript of the testimony records Dale saying, “I couldn’t get him to talk to me any further than that.”

The two had crossed paths only minutes earlier under far different circumstances. Dale testified that he and another officer stopped the BMW carrying Shakur and Knight because it lacked a visible license plate. They issued a warning and let the pair continue. Roughly 10 minutes later, Dale responded to the shooting scene and ultimately climbed into the ambulance with Shakur as paramedics rushed him to University Medical Center.

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The Rapper’s Final Moments Have Been Disputed

His account also complicates one of the most repeated stories about Shakur’s final conscious moments. Retired Las Vegas officer Chris Carroll said in 2014 that he asked Shakur who shot him while tending to him at the scene and received a profane response before the rapper appeared to lose consciousness. Carroll characterized those as the last words he heard Shakur speak. Dale’s sworn testimony now places Shakur talking again during the ambulance ride, with another refusal to identify whoever was responsible. Carroll’s account, based on his own recollection, was widely reported nearly 18 years after he gave it.

That refusal carries added context inside Duane “Keefe D” Davis’ trial, where prosecutors are reconstructing a case marked from the beginning by witnesses who either could not or would not identify the people involved. Former homicide detective Brent Becker testified that Knight later provided investigators with little useful information and that he believed Knight was lying during his police interview. Other witnesses have described fears of retaliation and reluctance to cooperate with authorities.

Prosecutors accuse Davis of organizing the shooting after Shakur and members of the Death Row entourage attacked Davis’ nephew, Orlando Anderson, inside the MGM Grand following the Mike Tyson-Bruce Seldon fight. They do not allege Davis pulled the trigger. Instead, the state says he obtained the gun and helped direct the retaliation from the white Cadillac that pulled alongside Shakur and Knight on the Las Vegas Strip. Davis has pleaded not guilty, and his defense maintains that the stories he later told about the killing were exaggerated or fabricated rather than reliable admissions.

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Combs’ filing against Jones gives legal form to a complaint his team has made since December. Before The Reckoning premiered, his attorneys sent Netflix a cease-and-desist letter alleging that the series contained footage stolen from a documentary Combs was developing about himself. The material included video recorded during the days before his September 2024 arrest, capturing conversations with members of his team as the federal investigation closed in. Netflix rejected the accusation at the time. Director Alexandria Stapleton said the filmmakers obtained the footage legally and held the necessary rights to use it.

The new countersuit places Jones at the center of Combs’ explanation for how some of that material left his control. According to the complaint, Jones gained access to Combs while working as a producer and videographer and allegedly took footage that was later sold to Netflix. Combs also accuses Jones of making defamatory statements during his appearances in The Reckoning. Those allegations have not been proven, and neither 50 Cent nor Netflix is named as a defendant in the filing.

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Emmy Nominations For The Reckoning

That is the part 50 appears most interested in separating from his own role. His involvement with the documentary has always made him an obvious target whenever Combs’ team criticized the project, particularly because the two men have spent years publicly antagonizing one another. But Fif served as an executive producer through G-Unit Film & Television, while Stapleton directed the series. Netflix also said that, when the documentary premiered, Jackson did not have creative control over the finished project.

The legal dispute is also arriving at a particularly visible moment for the documentary. Sean Combs: The Reckoning earned three Emmy nominations this year for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series, Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program for Stapleton, and Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program. Jackson is among the producers nominated with the series.

What the countersuit does not yet do is settle who legally controlled that footage or whether Jones had the authority to provide it. Combs is pursuing those claims against Jones, while Netflix continues to stand by its position that the material was lawfully obtained. 50, despite his prominent connection to The Reckoning, remains outside the case for now.

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The material comes from an interview Davis gave while facing an unrelated federal drug case. According to AllHipHop, Lee’s notes documented information about South Side Compton Crips, rival gang conflicts, and people surrounding Davis at the time. The interview itself is notable for the contrast between what Davis said then and what he would say publicly years later. During the 1998 session, Davis denied involvement in Shakur’s killing. His subsequent interviews and 2019 memoir, Compton Street Legend, placed him inside the white Cadillac from which the fatal shots were fired and described him obtaining the gun used in the attack. Prosecutors are now relying heavily on those later statements to make their case.

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Longstanding Lore About Orlando Anderson

Anderson sits at the center of both versions of the story. Hours before Shakur was shot on September 7, 1996, surveillance footage captured the rapper, Suge Knight, and others attacking Anderson inside the MGM Grand. Prosecutors say that beating supplied the motive for retaliation. Davis later wrote that he was riding with Anderson, Deandre Smith, and Terrence Brown when they encountered Shakur and Knight on the Strip. He has said he passed a gun toward the back seat and identified Anderson as the shooter. Anderson denied killing Shakur and was never charged. Other testimony has complicated that claim over the years, including a grand jury witness who identified Smith, not Anderson, as the gunman.

The 1998 FBI notes introduced at trial move beyond Las Vegas and into Anderson’s own death. According to Davis’ account, Anderson encountered members of a rival Crip faction at a Compton car wash on May 29, 1998. Gunfire broke out, and Anderson returned fire before leaving the scene. He was wounded during the exchange and later died. Two other men, Gerry Stone and Michael Stone, were also killed.

Anderson’s death eliminated one of the few men who could have directly answered investigators’ questions about what happened inside the Cadillac. The other men prosecutors place in that vehicle, Smith and Brown, have also since died. Davis is the only surviving occupant, leaving his own shifting accounts unusually important to a prosecution brought nearly three decades after Shakur was killed. Davis has pleaded not guilty to murder with a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further or assist a criminal gang. He faces life in prison if convicted.

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The struggle became especially difficult as she waited to see whether her solo music would connect. Miami pointed to “Tea Time,” released in February, as a record that did not receive the response she had hoped for. Without another task immediately in front of her, she found herself sinking further. “I had to keep working,” she told Yee, explaining that too much downtime could pull her into “that deep depression.” Her answer was often to book another studio session, putting herself around other people while returning to something she still loved doing. “But I ain’t gone lie, there was some days where I was just lying in the bed crying,” she said.

That makes the performance of “Spend Dat” particularly significant within her first sustained solo run. Released in April, the J. White Did It-produced single debuted at No. 66 on the Billboard Hot 100 before steadily climbing to No. 17, the highest position Miami has reached on the chart either solo or as part of City Girls. The song also became her first solo Top 40 hit, surpassing the No. 26 peak of City Girls’ “Act Up.”

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A Solo Summer Hit For Yung Miami

Miami and JT began concentrating on separate careers in 2024 after their final City Girls album, RAW, failed to generate the momentum of their earlier releases. Miami said at the time that the duo’s working relationship was no longer connecting the way it once had, while both women moved forward with individual projects. For Miami, that transition meant proving she could build something outside a partnership that had defined most of her career.

She now wants to document what that process actually looked like. Miami told Yee that she is working on a documentary covering the difficult stretches alongside the breakthroughs of her solo career. “It took so much to get here,” she said, adding that the happiness and confidence she feels now should not be mistaken for how she felt throughout the entire process.

Music is taking priority as she works toward her debut solo album. No release date for the album has been announced. For now, “Spend Dat” remains Miami’s biggest solo chart success, while the documentary she discussed with Yee is still in development.

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This all took place during a night on the town with Blueface. In fact, it happened just hours after Nevaeh’s baby shower. Overall, it was a chaotic scene, and Chrisean was not particularly proud of herself after the fact. She defended herself for engaging in the fight, but it is not something that she is proud of.

On Thursday, more footage from that evening made its way to the internet, and now, it puts Blueface in a negative light. As you can see from the clip below, he squares up with someone, only to get punched so hard he falls over. He eventually got up and went after the man who struck him. It is unknown what happened afterwards.

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Blueface Gets Into A Brawl

A few days later, Nevaeh gave birth to her and Blueface’s son, named Jonathan Jr. This is all happening as Blueface becomes a star over on Kick. He has become one of the platform’s top creators, and is making over $50K per week thanks to his various antics.

While getting into street fights probably isn’t a great idea, it certainly provides his streams with content. This kind of content brings in the viewers, and there is no denying that Blue will be looking to up the ante going forward.

Kick lets you get away with a whole lot more than Twitch, and creators like Blueface are positioned to take advantage of that.

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On Thursday, however, DJ Akademiks took to his live stream with something special for the fans. He had teased the stream on his X account, and his viewers had no idea what was coming. They probably never would have guessed that Ak was going live to preview a new song from The Game that just so happens to feature Drake.

This new song does not have a name. According to Akademiks, it is a song that will be featured on The Game’s upcoming album, The Documentary 3. As you will hear, the song features some bouncy West Coast production, as well as some catchy flows from both artists.

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The Game x Drake Coming Soon…Allegedly

“Me, Drake and Drake we the three amigos,” The Game raps on the track. Elsewhere in the song, he raps, “N****s circle got smaller than a peephole” and “If I have to pick a side, then I’m picking homicide.”

At this time, it appears as though Drake’s part on the song is simply the hook. Regardless, Drake is sounding catchy as ever here, and it’s interesting to see the artist team up with The Game given everything that has been said as of late.

Fans are immediately going to take this as some sort of shot at Kendrick Lamar. Whether or not K-Dot feels the same way remains to be seen.

The Documentary 3 does not currently have a release date. The same thing can be said about this single.

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This discourse started during a conversation about J. Cole, and how his fans stood by him despite the infamous apology. Peter Rosenberg argued that while some Drake and Kendrick Lamar fans really do love hip-hop, there are many who simply see this as team sports. They see these artists as vectors for their personalities, and don’t care about the art form. Instead, the rap battle was just a way to engage in the act of cheerleading.

“There are a lot of hip hop fans that are Drake fans and Kendrick fans,” Rosenberg said. “But there’s also a sect of Drake and Kendrick fans that are not hip hop fans, they were just rooting for them in a battle. They’re like team supporters.”

Ebro followed this up by revealing a conversation he had with an anonymous woman rap star. As the MC explained to Ebro, many women rappers have fanbases who don’t love hip-hop. Instead, the fans love the personality and the image.

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Ebro On Women Rappers’ Fans

“She said, the problem that a lot of women who rap have, is that most of the fans who like women rappers, they’re not hip hop fans,” Ebro explained. “They’re fans of that woman, her aesthetic, where she’s from, whatever…She was like, ‘I grew up a hip hop fan. I want all of it: the ratchet stuff, the smart stuff, the street stuff, the pop stuff…”

This is certainly a generalization. There are millions upon millions of women rap fans out there who love women rappers for their lyricism, their skill, and everything that goes into the music.

That said, Ebro and Rosenberg’s overall point about some fans not actually loving hip-hop is an interesting one. Some people just want to be a part of the zeitgeist. They want to feel like they are a part of a cultural moment. Large-scale rap beefs serve as an opportunity to engage in the monoculture. Ultimately, it is a phenomenon that won’t go away anytime soon.

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That said, fans have been diving into all of the clips as they look to gather as much information as possible. In a video released today, the leaker could be seen flying a prop plane across Vice City, which looks pretty expansive. Throughout the clip, they play around with the radio, which brought up a UI at the top of the screen.

As you can see in the photo below, there is a classical music station, the iconic V-Rock station from GTA: Vice City, and a new station called “Dirty South Classics.” Based on the name alone, it is clear that this is going to be a station dedicated to classic Southern hip-hop songs.

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GTA 6 To Rep Southern Hip-Hop

In GTA 5, there is a similar station called “West Coast Classics.” However, with GTA 6 taking place in Florida, it only makes sense that Rockstar would want to pay homage to the “Dirty South.” If you remember, “Dirty South Classics” is also the name of a Goodie Mob compilation album.

Some iconic Southern rappers and groups would fit the Dirty South moniker. OutKast, Goodie Mob, UGK, Master P, Juvenile, Project Pat, B.G., and Scarface are just some of the artists who could end up on this station. One can only imagine the extensive playlist Rockstar Games is cooking up right now.

While we didn’t get a glimpse at all of the stations, it can also be presumed that there will be a radio station for contemporary hip-hop. With the game taking place in a fictional version of Miami, expect plenty of Florida artists.

GTA 6 releases on Xbox and PlayStation 5 on November 19, 2026.

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Release Date: August 20, 2026

Genre: British Soul, R&B

Tracklist for Gentlewoman

1. I Only Look to You
2. Gentlewoman
3. Sweet Thing
4. Imagine
5. Force of Love
6. Sentimental Love
7. Let Me Cry
8. Family Ties
9. Together
10. Their Smiles Are Not the Same
11. Honest Talk
12. All Because of Love
13. Thank You
14. Little Things
15. Gentlewoman (Acknowledgement)

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Release Date: August 20, 2026

Genre: Hip-Hop

Tracklist for Smaxk Season 3: Banks House

1. BANKS HOUSE
2. UP THE SCORE
3. DOPE BOY RESUME
4. HOW WE COMING
5. SHE DON’T EVEN KNOW
6. HOLD DAT DOWN
7. BOX YOU IN ft. SELFMADE BALLY
8. GREENBRIAR MALL
9. START YA DAY ft. RUNWAY RICHY
10. GUCCI FLIP FLOPS
11. YEAH YEAH
12. THOMASVILLE DAYS
13. BAGS ft. BABYDRILL
14. FINE AF
15. DTO ft. BALLY BABY
16. NO MORE CITY HOES
17. PLEASE DON’T JUDGE ME
18. BANKS SON

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