As caught by Bars on Instagram, Drizzy took to his IG Story today (Saturday, February 28) with a screenshot of the following post: “I am a vivet designer and these are my concepts.” We don’t have any context for this, and this isn’t necessarily a shot at Kai. Maybe it’s poking fun at would-be designers looking to cash in on a new brand.

Still, fans brought up Drake’s trolls concerning Kai Cenat in the past, as well as inevitable reflections on the Kendrick Lamar battle that continues to muddy hip-hop discourse to this day. So maybe there’s a more charitable interpretation here. But given the two’s interactions as of late, it seems like jokes and memes will take precedent over any earnest shows of love.

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Did Kai Cenat Stop Streaming?

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That’s because Kai Cenat previously criticized Drake’s ICEMAN album rollout, specifically dogging the third livestream he did for it. “I can’t fake it. That was so a**,” he had remarked. “Biggest waste of my f***ing time… I can’t fake it, that was a**.”

Drake clapped back at Kai Cenat by trolling him during his “Mafiathon 3” stream. Maybe some fans have interpreted these interactions as combative, but it seems more clear that they’re just joking and having fun with each other.

However, this Vivet reference came more out of the blue, so fans can’t make heads or tails of it just yet. Maybe Cenat will respond, but what would that even look like?

Kai Cenat hasn’t outright confirmed that he’s permanently stepped back from livestreaming. However, he is on a long hiatus right now, and we don’t know if he’s returning. On the other hand, Drake has at least one more ICEMAN stream to deliver before the album eventually comes out.

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At the Phoenix repair shop where the CD-carrying vehicle got fixed, Cole filmed and dropped the “Old Dog” music video in his latest and final “Trunk Sale” tour vlog on YouTube. The Petey Pablo collab puts on heavily for North Carolina, and it’s very cool to see these impromptu releases.

The visual begins at around the 2:55-minute mark of the video below. J. Cole did something similar with “Legacy,” dropping that music video in the middle of a vlog. With the final stop being in Los Angeles a few days ago, the “Trunk Sale” tour wrapped up with one last vlog. Although many folks have divisive opinions on it, every clip of Cole with fans or hanging out with his friends shuts the haters down decisively.

Elsewhere during this last “Trunk Sale” tour vlog, J. Cole reflected on The Fall-Off‘s rollout and what it means to him. You can catch these reflections at around the 20:20-minute mark of the video below.

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Is The Fall-Off J. Cole’s Last Album?

He spoke on working on The Fall-Off for ten years and perfecting it, releasing other projects in that time more casually, and the fulfillment and happiness he feels now that he engaged with fans in person. Stepping out of a typically secluded lifestyle speaks to how proud the Dreamville artist is of this album.

“To see this much [love] in a condensed time period, person after person… You get to see the real-world result of the music,” he expressed. “The Internet has f***ed s**t up so much for me where sometimes, you just see numbers. The number of views on a video or the number of streams. You become numb. What the f**k does that even mean?

“It’s not until you actually see in person what it looks like, it reminds me of how it was,” Cole continued. “When we first started, when we first sold our first mixtape out this trunk of this car, The Come-Up… The first real-world spotting of somebody playing your s**t. Somebody playing some s**t I made that I don’t know. Now, fast-forward, we damn near 20 years later, and I’m getting to experience that all over again. I couldn’t have gotten that by staying in the house. There was no other time to do this than this album. The way that I feel in my heart about this one, it deserved this, and I’m grateful. It was fulfilling. I got enough to last me the next 20, 30, 40 years of satisfaction. So I appreciate everybody showing love.”

While Cole said he’ll still make music, The Fall-Off is his last true album as “Jermaine Cole via J. Cole.” It’s the conclusion to his main story, but it’s not the total end.

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Fans noticed how at the end of the video, the 2093 rapper got a call from “The Boy.” Of course, this might just be a simple reference to them filming the visual at his mansion. But some fans think that this actually teases a collaboration between the “As We Speak” duo, even possibly hinting that the U.K. MC will be a part of this as well.

But there’s nothing confirming this or explicitly hinting towards it, although fans have plenty of material to go over. For example, Rap on Instagram brought up how Drake’s ICEMAN livestreams included phone calls with his collaborators, including Yeat.

Although we don’t know if their “Dog House” collab with Julia Wolf will make that album’s final tracklist, it did coincide with the two’s ICEMAN episode three call. So maybe they have something else cooking up, or this might be confirmation that “Dog House” is making the final cut, or die-hards are just reading too deeply into this for the sake of the LP’s highly anticipated arrival.

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When Is Drake Dropping ICEMAN?

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We still don’t have a release date for Drake’s ICEMAN album, although he continues to tease it as a 2026 drop. Now that winter is pretty much over, fans are very curious as to whether or not we will get more rollout activity or if a surprise drop is around the corner.

Perhaps this presumably teased Yeat collab (if fans’ speculation is onto something) will appear on this album, or on the rage-adjacent artist’s own upcoming LP. We’ll just have to wait and see.

Drizzy’s been a fan of Yeat for a while now, as they also have the “IDGAF” collaboration under their belts. He’s also cosigned EsDeeKid in the past as a huge fan of rap music on the other side of the pond, so we’ll see if he pops up somewhere as well.

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Release Date: February 27, 2026

Genre: Hip-Hop

Album: N/A

Quotable Lyrics from Highly

Baby, taking that stuff you don’t like, might vomit,
Turn you around, I hit you from the back, pulling your bonnet,
Baby, I’m your moon and you are my comet,
Me and you a real big boom, and it’s massive like atomic

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Release Date: February 27, 2026

Genre: Hip-Hop

Album: N/A

Quotable Lyrics from B.R.A Lost Control

I’m that actual guy, with a capital Y,
Flow slicker than the n***a with the patch on his eye,
You was scared of our good brother in that Grand National, why?
Should’ve knew you and that lil’ Honda was going to have to collide

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During a livestream clip DJ Akademiks TV shared on Instagram, he broke down why he feels a comparison between the two feuds is in order. Ak started off by talking about T.I.’s family’s diss tracks against 50 Cent, and whether or not both sides went too far.

“50, just like Drake, there is no sympathy for the king,” he explained. “If anything, people are looking at 50 to say, ‘Yeah, n***a, you’re getting a taste of your own medicine.’ That’s the point. He’s in an un-winnable position… The problem with 50 is that he’s successfully bullied so many people that it took this one instance for the majority of people to not find him amusing anymore and want to see him lose. The reason why I compare Drake to 50 is that the moments when you’ve won so much that they want you to now catch the loss, you have to play really strategic and not just walk right into the lion’s den.”

From there, DJ Akademiks said T.I.’s family is beating 50 Cent rap-wise, but that Fif is more “diabolical” and doesn’t care about the music. He also brought up 50 Cent’s other beefs (like the Let’s Rap About It podcast) as examples of him being “top five dead or alive” in beefs. Ak believes the G-Unit mogul won most of his bouts outside of the music.

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Why Is 50 Cent Beefing With T.I.?

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For those unaware, 50 Cent’s beef with T.I. stems from 50 allegedly backing out of a Verzuz that they agreed to. He hasn’t responded in the booth, and this follows a lot of social media trolling. While there are other factors in the feud now, this still seems to be the root of the disrespect.

With this in mind, we’ll see if DJ Akademiks’ prediction is correct. Maybe Fif just lets it all roll over.

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According to Billboard, Judge Michael Fitzgerald ruled on Friday (February 27) that the rapper’s three codefendants in this case (Deandre Dontrell Wilson, Asa Houston, and David Brian Lindsey) will not be severed from his trial. They face similar murder-for-hire allegations. Ahead of this most recent delay, the three codefendants previously requested the severance due to the risk that evidence against Durk might negatively impact their defenses. Now, Judge Fitzgerald ruled that the trial’s delay will give them more time to prep for the joint trial.

“We are fully prepared to proceed to trial. The matter was continued by the court over our objection,” Smurk’s lawyer Drew Findling reportedly stated to Billboard. A spokesperson for prosecutors reportedly declined to comment. Meanwhile, the attorneys for the three codefendants reportedly did not immediately respond to requests for a comment.

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When Is Lil Durk’s Trial?

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Now, Lil Durk’s murder-for-hire trial will begin on August 20, according to this new report. He and his legal team previously opposed these delays.

Not only that, but the Chicago rapper and his lawyers deny the allegations against him, and he pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors are accusing him of ordering a hit on Quando Rondo earlier this decade, which allegedly led to a 2022 shooting in Los Angeles that targeted Rondo and killed his cousin Lul Pab.

As for other developments in Lil Durk’s case, the judge in this case allowed for certain lyrics and music video moments to enter as evidence in this trial. This became a controversial decision given the conversations around rap music being on trial.

With all of this in mind, we will see how this rocky case continues to develop amid all these delays and codefendant discrepancies. Fans of The Voice continue to speak out against these hurdles. But we will see what a court of law concludes with the appropriate evidence.

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While it’s not a full-on diss track throughout all of its bars, it’s impossible to ignore the sentiment. “I could never fall off,” he raps on the track, adding the following lines: “You was scared of our good brother in that Grand National, why? / Should’ve knew you and that lil’ Honda was going to have to collide… / But tell St. John that them raps just ain’t that jaw-dropping / You forgot I still owe you for ‘False Prophets.’“

With these bars, CyHi took aim at J. Cole’s apology for dissing Kendrick Lamar in 2024, while also making fun of Cole’s “Trunk Sale” tour for the new album. Throughout most of the rest of the track, he just shows off why he’s a great lyricist via some clever wordplay and impressive rhyme schemes.

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Why Did CyHi Diss J. Cole?

But perhaps the most important part of this diss is how it responds to J. Cole’s “False Prophets,” which came out a decade ago. Better late than never?

That aside, CyHi is defending Kanye West on “B.R.A Lost Control,” as Cole dissed Ye on “False Prophets” and also brought up his writers. CyHi is on that list, and it seems like he felt inspired to finally clap back amid Cole’s recent successes.

For those unaware, the North Carolina MC dissed the Chicago artist on that decade-old track over his decline of music quality, although he tried to empathize with what he saw as spiraling out of control.

More recently, CyHi’s been critical of modern hip-hop, leading fans to clown his assessment of street lyricism. Others agreed, though, and the response to “B.R.A Lost Control” reflects this dichotomy. Some fans found it impressive, whereas others see it as a clout chase. We’ll see if Cole decides to respond in any way, although that seems unlikely.

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Release Date: February 27, 2026

Genre: Hip-Hop

Album: N/A

Quotable Lyrics from Soul Unusual

Woke up today, and I was Blu, no “E,” thinking,
Without my ink pen, would I be OG?
I’ve been all around the world with fly girls making money,
Still, it’s something that they couldn’t take from me: soul

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Release Date: February 27, 2026

Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap

Album: Sophie’s Son (Coming Soon)

Quotable Lyrics from “Need That”

P**sy, money, weed, I need that
Cadillac convertible, that drop-top, best believe that
Put me in the trap house with them dope boys, I’ma bleed that
Sophia told me treat money like water ’cause I need that
I need that, I need that

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