“In my opinion, I always said it was me, Uzi, X– like we’re talking actual SoundCloud. In my opinion, I’ll probably get some flak for this, but I’d like to say Lil Tracy. Oh and Carti. I think my Rushmore is me, Uzi, Carti, X, and Lil Peep,” he said.

From there, he explained why he left Juice Wrld off the list. “Juice really wasn’t a part of our era,” he noted. “He came after us. I remember in that era, X was going crazy. I remember Tay K was going crazy, I think Tay K would’ve been huge had his situation…”

When Kurrco shared the clip on X (formerly Twitter), debate ensued in the replies. “Ppl saying juice, trippie, summrs dont know what the purpose of a mt rushmore list is, its for the founding fathers. Really nobody that came out after late 2015 ish should be on the list, and even that is pushing it,” one user argued. Another wrote: “Carti, Peep, and Uzi and X. Each of these individuals create a genre and style and is still replicated today.”

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Lil Uzi Vert’s Next Album

Yachty’s praise of Lil Uzi Vert comes as the rapper has been making headlines for a new interview with Dazed, published on Tuesday. During the discussion, they told the outlet that they’re working on a new album.  

“You gotta understand, I got so many flows,” they said. “My fans don’t really appreciate when I make a big mainstream song. They say, ‘Well, we want a trapped-out Uzi.’ Then I make a trap song and they say, ‘Uzi, you know better than this, you make quality music, we can’t even hear it.’ So instead of meeting those people in the middle, I make two different genres of music… I have my real drops that I usually drop on holidays or I have a countdown.”

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“Not one time did Lil Baby acknowledge the f*cking camera,” he pointed out. “You know he was on some ‘I gotta tell this n***a to delete this sh*t.'”

Ak’s latest jabs come just a few days after he weighed in on a potential upcoming Young Thug and Lil Baby collab. He didn’t hold back in the slightest, making it clear that his expectations are not high. Moreover, he claimed that the two artists have little to no chance of succeeding without the help of their former friend, Gunna.

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DJ Akademiks Disses Young Thug & Lil Baby

“Am I expecting some heat from these two? I’mma be honest with y’all, no. I know some of y’all think I’m just gonna be hating. No, I’m gonna call a spade a spade,” he stated at the time. “This is two ice cubes linking up together, man. They might as well be in the freezer together. That’s a fact.”

“They better be driving to Gunna’s crib,” Ak continued. “They better put in the GPS, ‘Gunna Wunna’s crib.’ Straight up. […] This is damn near the ice bucket challenge. Y’all might as well just go to Gunna’s crib. Gunna got the sauce, I’m sorry.”

“Lil Baby don’t got no national hits right now,” he added. “This sh*t’s looking cold. Young Thug has the biggest fumble since he got out of jail. Biggest. We’ve never seen a fumble like this. From Gucci, to T.I., to YoungBoy, to Boosie. He did everything possible wrong and then dropped an album that was underwhelming at that.”

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Filing for divorce, Lin cited “irreconcilable differences” in her marriage with .Paak, according to TMZ. As for a separation date, she wrote “TBD,” as did .Paak in his own filing in 2024. .Paak and Lin married back in 2010 and share two kids. They are ages 9 and 13.

.Paak and Mai made headlines, last month, by cozying up to one another while dining at Andy’s in Los Angeles. In footage shared by TMZ, .Paak had his arm around Mai as they sat close in a private booth.

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Jeezy & Jeannie Mai’s Divorce

As for Jeannie Mai, she and her ex-husband, Jeezy, divorced in 2024 after three years of marriage. They share a four-year-old daughter, Monaco. Mai reflected on the breakup and how she’s been trying to avoid any “turmoil” for their child during an appearance on the Question Everything podcast in January. “That’s not something I want her to ever have to think about,” she said at the time. “My job is to define peace for her. So, she’s going to get that.”

“Divorce, it’s experiencing death alive,” Mai added, speaking of the separation as a whole. “There’s no way to understand that feeling of space shared with somebody and all of a sudden it closing in, to where you even wonder if you can trust yourself in your thoughts because one day you had a plan and you had these thoughts and then suddenly it becomes something else.”

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“Ahahahaaa this the one and not the 2,” she replied. This earned a fiery response from YB, who didn’t hold back in the slightest. “Girl f**k yo baby! You a never try again! Tell the world knock on my door,” he declared. “Tbh have y’all can go to court b*** I’ll gladly pay it’s f** you. I don’t play or do no pretending idc idgaf fwm.”

This earned him some serious backlash, as social media users called him out for dissing his own son.

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NBA YoungBoy & Arcola Drama

Now, it looks like he might be feeling the weight of that backlash, as he appears to have deactivated his social media accounts. It’s unclear exactly when the accounts were deactivated, but it was after Arcola accused him of allowing their son to get hurt on his watch.

“You don’t even love yourself b*tch!” she wrote. “I know it’s f*ck my baby, it’s been f*ck my baby when you let his finger get burned and yo lying a** wife said he got bit bye a ‘dog’ f*ck you and everything you stand for b*tch, you gone rot in hell too.”

“I took care of KAELL BY MYSELF AND YOU KNOW THIS BE FR MY N***A,” she said in a follow-up tweet. “WHEN I DID ASK FOR STUFF IT WAS THE BARE MINIMUM AND YOU COULDNT EVEN DO THAT. I LOST ALL RESPECT FOR YOU WHEN YOU LET THAT B*TCH HIT ME WITH WHATEVER YOU WANNA CALL IT AND OUR CHILD WAS IN MY HANDS. I WOULDA RESPECTED YOU MORE IF YOU WOULDVE SLAPPED ME OR SH*T EVEN TELLING ME I GOTTA RUN A FADE WITH SOMEBODY BUT YOU LET ALL THIS SH*T TRANSPIRE WITH KAELL IN MY HANDS.”

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“People act like it’s a crime to dislike cats when they genuinely aren’t friendly animals,” she posted on Threads. “They don’t wanna be domestic just leave em alone! Like it’s not organic I’m sorrryyy be fr it’s rare that cats are immediately lovey without years of pain and work put in [crying emoji] yall be scratched and beat tf up by your own animals I can’t lmaoooo.”

Cat lovers were quick to call her out. Many accused her of being uneducated and insisted that she just hadn’t met the right feline friend. Doechii, on the other hand, stands by what she said. Amid the uproar, she posted a clip of Tiffany “New York” Pollard getting a shoe thrown at her. She captioned it, “Me vs Cat owners.”

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Doechii Controversies

She later responded to a critic who claimed that she doesn’t need to justify her opinion on cats with misconceptions, and that she’s allowed to simply say they’re not for her. “I did! And they aren’t misconceptions these are most definitely true and happen errday you CANNOT trick me,” she explained. “If i tell a cat owner to lift they arm sleeve rn they’ll be tore up.”

Doechii later urged social media users to relax, reminding them that her opinion on cats really has nothing to do with them. “Ima keep it real you gettin TOO worked up over this,” she said. “Long as you and your cat are good that should be all that matters at the end of the day! The world will be fine if Doechii thinks cats are mean.”

This isn’t the first time Doechii has sparked controversy online, either. Last March, the “Anxiety” performer also went viral for joking that men as a whole are a dating red flag during an episode of Hot Ones Versus. After the 2025 Met Gala, social media users even accused her of mistreating her assistants due to chaotic footage of her leaving a hotel.

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“You see two or three of that n****s b*tches and be like, I can understand why he’s f*cking these girls on the side. Yo Cardi, those b*tches is bad. I’m still putting you up there because you my homie, but his side chicks are bad,” he said. “… Cardi, I give you the number one spot, but it’s not like he’s f*cking a bunch of ugly ducklings.”

From there, he brought up Jay-Z, Tyga, and more celebrities who have allegedly cheated over the years, arguing they hooked up with less attractive women. Akademiks also brought up Cardi’s ex-husband, Offset, citing allegations that he was unfaithful in their relationship as well.

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When Did Cardi B & Stefon Diggs Break Up?

Stefon Diggs and Cardi B went public with their relationship back in 2025, and they welcomed their first child together, later that year. Things took a turn for the worse days before the Super Bowl. At the game, Cardi made an appearance during Bad Bunny’s Halftime Show, but didn’t stay to support Diggs for the end of the game. When it ended, the two unfollowed one another on Instagram.

She seemingly referenced the drama during a recent concert, remarking on stage. “You can’t be out here playing with a b**** like me. There’s n***** out here praying for a b**** like me. I’m too sexy to be lonely and too grown to be played with n****. Who you playin’ with mothaf****?! … None of them b*****s f*****g with me,” she said.

Taking to X after a clip of the moment went viral, Cardi issued a clarification. She wrote: “Dear blogs, when I perform a song I always introduce the song with a lil razzle dazzle. Not everything is a shot or personal. I’m actually repeating lyrics from the songs…Relax.”

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From there, he says he explained the mix-up to her, making the situation all the more awkward. When Kardashian left, Holding alleges that he was confronted by Ye, who was not at all happy about the incident. “She’s the most famous woman in the world and you call her by another woman’s name?” he allegedly asked.

Holding says that despite the unfortunate encounter, he kept his job.

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Kanye West & Tony Saxon Legal Battle

As for why Ye is at odds with Tony Saxon in the first place, Saxon alleges that the rapper failed to pay him what was promised for work on one of his properties. He also alleges that he was subjected to unsafe working conditions. Ye’s legal team, on the other hand, denies this.

“It was Saxon who set for himself an impossible standard. He wanted to work 24/7, he wanted to camp at the house. He wanted to be the guy in charge,” his lawyer Andrew Cherkasky explained in court last week. “Ye will tell you he was shocked hearing there was no bathroom there. … Nobody asked [Saxon] to stay there, certainly not overnight.”

“[Saxon] claimed he broke his neck working for Ye. He did not,” Cherkasky added. “He’s a guy who had almost nothing who came across an opportunity to work for a billionaire.”

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These demos from the TPAB recording sessions contain some of the Compton lyricist’s most beloved tracks to this day, namely “untitled 02” and the single version of “07.” But they also expanded on their parent album’s sonic directions, themes, and collaborative circle in a way that gave them their own identity, an impressive feat when considering the lack of sequencing and mixing details. Most importantly, though, they grounded Lamar’s rocketing status, letting fans know he would not eschew experimentation for establishment. UU‘s a smaller-scale collection of this era’s ideas that thrive in the more intimate and loose setting, reminding us to this day that masterpieces rest on their granular details, not their grandeur.

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Kendrick Lamar’s Collaborators

Beyond K.Dot’s own pen and direction, those details come to life thanks to the musicians who make untitled unmastered. so captivating. Mainstays from this era like Terrace Martin, Thundercat, Sounwave, Anna Wise, Bilal, and SZA all do great work on here. We can still hear this era’s Los Angeles-adjacent jazz-funk lineage influence Kendrick’s current work. Even the George Clinton connection returns via a Funkadelic remix verse’s repurposing on “untitled 08.”

But it’s the new names on UU that set it apart as a hazier, darker tracklist. Cardo Got Wings infuses menacing trap into the aforementioned “untitled 02” and “07,” marking their first (but certainly not last) official collaboration. Hearing them recently link up as often as they have makes listening back to UU even more of a prophetic treat, and it goes to show Dot’s never had a static signature sound. He’s always been more driven by exploration.

On the other hand, untitled unmastered. also shows off more unique collaborations for Kendrick Lamar, such as an old Cee-Lo Green collab that saw the light of day on “untitled 06” and production on that same track from A Tribe Called Quest’s Ali Shaheed Muhammad. As the jam session at the end of “untitled 07” playfully displays, the collaborative spirit around this era laid fresh ground for many different ideas to grow. Crucially, it all feels closer, more at home, and less encumbered by concept or context.

Plus, some TDE participation from Punch and Jay Rock on “untitled 05” helps connect the dots in Lamar’s career in a way that some later LPs didn’t. That familial feeling ties UU together. Otherwise, it would’ve felt much more disheveled, random, or even cash-grabby.

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The Sound Of untitled unmastered.

As it stands, untitled unmastered. lives up to its title if you don’t have the background of To Pimp A Butterfly as a cushion. Randomness and disjointedness lead us from track to track with less care than TPAB, but it also prods at listeners to perceive the EP as an interconnected set of songs rather than a straight line from one idea to the next. There’s no poem linking disparate vignettes together; only a “Pimp, pimp! Hooray!” refrain here and there courtesy of Captain Obvious.

Jokes aside, the instrumentals on UU reflect this quality as well. There are explicit examples, such as the three-part “untitled 07,” exercises in song structure such as the swaying pace of “untitled 04,” and more linear progressions like that of “untitled 01” being book-ended by seductive, smoky vocals and a melted melodic outro. Saxophones and keys dance on various tracks with much personality, and moods shift with even more of a jolt than the all-encompassing nature of TPAB.

However, none of these elements were necessarily missing on that 2015 album. It just all comes across as muddier on untitled unmastered., and that’s not a reference to its sound quality. Take “untitled 08,” for example, whose funkiness you might compare with “King Kunta.” Whereas “Kunta” has a lot more fire to its delivery and palette, “08” is comfortable with the bassline, acidic synths, and smooth background vocals stealing the show. Then, of course, there’s the matter of Kendrick himself on both tracks.

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K.Dot’s Perspective & Pen

“King Kunta” could stand in for the fierce, theatrical, yet nuanced perspective on To Pimp A Butterfly, and “untitled 08” is Kendrick’s less-flashy counterpart on untitled unmastered. His declarations of royalty and power have the subtext of bravado compensating for something else on “Kunta.” But “08” includes a far more explicit self-critique of K.Dot’s struggles and his frustrations with them in comparison to Africans he met on the trip that inspired this era.

On UU, Lamar changes the framework of his TPAB-era themes into something less imposing, but the thematic roots still resonate powerfully. This resonance’s jewel, “untitled 03,” tackles a lot without losing its entrancing groove. Kendrick asks an Asian man, Indian man, a Black man, and a white man for their pieces of advice: peace of mind, property, a partner, and a piece of his earnings, respectively. “untitled 05” briefly reflects on refraining from lashing out in a dark moment, and “untitled 06” is him vowing to accept his partner with their flaws and hoping they will accept him with his own.

In comparison to TPAB‘s dense and dramatic framings, such as a homeless man being God on “How Much A Dollar Cost,” the tales told on untitled unmastered. come off as more personal and isolated. But there are exceptions. “Apocalyptic” seems to be the buzzword for “untitled 01,” and for good reason. Kendrick Lamar ravenously raps about the evils of the world and his pleas to be saved from punishment, contrasting sexuality with mortality in a way his artistry has always espoused. But perhaps never as vividly as this.

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Ten Years Of Mastery

Going from “untitled 01” to the rest of the tracklist, untitled unmastered. zooms into the world that To Pimp A Butterfly created, shedding light on the experiences, people, ideas, and questions that were a bit too abstract, cynical, matter-of-fact, or despondent for its parent album. It’s become easy to underrate TPAB or nitpick its pretensions, but only if you don’t understand the world it came from. UU shows off the cloudy under-and-overtones of this era in a way that sets it apart, but also makes its connection to its origins unmistakable.

Today, another project like this from Kendrick Lamar might help ground his artistry, maintain his expansive sound, and humanize his status much in the same way UU did ten years ago. His place as an artistic giant with a sonically diverse L.A. flag to bear stands amid a lot of hate his way, overwhelming commercial and critical success, and even more of a pessimism-inducing vulture field than how the industry was during the TPAB era. Some feel like Kendrick’s gotten too big for his own good. But he likes the simpler gems sometimes, and so do we.

Above all else, the laurels mean nothing if the creativity, community, and craft aren’t there. For a classic like TPAB, one that didn’t need any more proof of excellence, untitled unmastered. overdelivered on its promise, and is still one of Lamar’s best works.

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“You’ve earned your flowers. I said the same thing to Ms. Tina Knowles. You guys put in the work, and obviously the talent was there, with your kids and your grandkids,” Gibson said at one point.

“What work did she put in?” Mathew asked in response. When Gibson brought up Tina’s role in the styling of their image, Matthew replied: “Ok, you’re absolutely right, and the styling. The imaging. You’re right.” Gibson tried to downplay the moment, concluding that it was “a joint effort” between the couple.

From there, Knowles ended the interview. He later claimed to Page Six that Gibson had been 15 minutes late for the meeting and allegedly peppered him with questions about Tina, rather than Destiny’s Child.

“How it starts is how it ends. It started on a bad note, and obviously ended on a bad note for him,” Mathew said. “I politely ended the interview, shook his hand, and took a photograph.”

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Matthew Knowles & Tina Knowles Marriage

Matthew Knowles and Tina Knowles married back in 1980, going on to share two children together. They welcomed Beyoncé in 1981 and Solange in 1986. They divorced in November 2011.

Matthew Knowles’ discussion with Kendis Gibson isn’t the first time he has made headlines for being part of a contentious interview. Last year, a clip from a previously conducted 2018 radio interview resurfaced on social media, featuring Matthew demanding that one of the hosts on Streetz 94.5 in Atlanta stop referring to him by his first name.

“Nobody calls me Mathew,” he said at the time. “It’s Mr. Knowles. I’m 66 and a grown-a** man that’s accomplished a lot of things. […] In their 60s, you say Mr. and Mrs. My mama would be really disappointed. […] People that call me Mathew are people that I know that have been friends of mine. We were in the same circles, financial circles, and those type of meetings. But nobody…”

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Release Date: March 4, 2026

Genre: Hip-Hop

Album: N/A

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