He has also been arrested during this time. Furthermore, a few years ago, Mark Cuban attempted to help West. The former Dallas Mavericks owner got him into rehab, which led to a job at that same facility.

After years of struggles, West appears to be doing okay again. In fact, he has been doing some livestreams here and there with N3on. They have seemingly developed a real friendship, and on Tuesday, N3on surprised West with a lavish gift.

In the clip below, West is left completely speechless as N3on shows him his brand new Maserati.

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Delonte West Gets A New Car

It’s a Maserati SUV, which can cost over $100K brand new. That’s not a gift you buy someone unless you care deeply for their well-being and want them to be taken care of.

N3on is someone who has been controversial in his own right over the years. He grew his platform on the basis of being an edgelord. He has even been called out for his past racism by platforms like The Breakfast Club.

Over the last year or so, N3on has been attempting to change that image. He has mostly been successful in that endeavor, especially with his befriending of Delonte West. However, there are still those who are skeptical of his intentions.

Let us know what you think of N3on as a streamer in the comments below.

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Ross was booked for Greensboro and Charlotte, NC, and, per Omega14’s filing, required to perform for at least an hour at each stop. Moreover, Omega14 said that the contract limited canceling the performances only to “severe injury or death.” 

Omega14 said Maybach Music Group manager Tawanda Roberts told them at 1 p.m. on the day of the Greensboro concert that he “refused to perform” that show and the one in Charlotte the following day. Ultimately, they said that they weren’t reimbursed for the expenses attached to the show, such as venue booking, production management, marketing, lodging, transportation, and more.

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Rick Ross Sued Over Missed Concerts

Omega14 said that they weren’t provided with a concrete explanation for the cancellation, even after spending $261,000 in expenses and lost profits. However, the company also said that Ross performed in Orlando and Miami Beach on the days he was scheduled to perform in North Carolina, claiming his actions were “inconsistent with an inability to perform caused by severe injury or illness.”

“Rick Ross and defendants engaged in conduct that was unethical, unscrupulous, and substantially injurious to consumers and businesses including but not limited to plaintiff, the numerous orchestral musicians, choir members and venue operators,”  Omega14 said in its complaint.

The lawsuit comes a few days after his ex-girlfriend Jazzma Kendrick accused him of physically abusing her. Kendrick alleged that he left her with an injured lip and used her as a “punching bag.”

Ross has not publicly responded to the lawsuit or Kendrick’s allegations. 

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But tragedy has a way of bringing things into perspective, and Quavo recently revealed how the death of Takeoff “eased” things between himself and Offset.

“It threw out all the things that I was upset about or that we had friction about,” he told Complex, noting that he can only speak from his own perspective. “It was enough for me to say, alright, cool. Whatever you’re going through, I’ll go through with you.”

Quavo added that the title of his forthcoming album, QRÖMELIFE, reflected the difficulty of grieving Takeoff. “Me losing my brother, it can’t get no tougher than that,” he said.

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Quavo Discusses Offset Reunion

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This week, we’ll get to hear Quavo and Offset on the same song together for the first time since 2022 on the song “Away,” which they premiered at a listening party last weekend. However, in 2023, Offset explained to Hot 97 that Migos’ break-up stemmed from Takeoff’s passing, not his issues with Quavo specifically. Still, in June 2023, they got together at the BET Awards to pay tribute to Takeoff with a special performance. 

In terms of the upcoming Migos album, Quavo revealed that he and Offset have been hard at work and will likely try to finish it up by the end of the year. Following its release, they announced plans to go on a reunion tour together. We will keep you all posted on any further updates surrounding the upcoming project. Quavo’s upcoming album, QRÖMELIFE, produced by Pharrell Williams, is due out on October 2nd. 

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There were two arguments, in particular, that led to their falling out. The first was when Skip told Shannon to put his glasses back on during a Tom Brady discussion. Secondly, Sharpe did not appreciate Bayless’ flippant comments following the Demar Hamlin situation.

Eventually, Shannon left Undisputed, and Bayless was never able to make it work with Richard Sherman, Keyshawn Johnson, and Michael Irvin. The show got canceled, and Bayless left FS1. Now, he is back with Stephen A. Smith on First Take. However, he only does Friday shows.

As for Sharpe, he is still doing Nightcap with Ochocinco, and Club Shay Shay. In fact, today, Sharpe and Bayless are going to release an interview that was conducted on Club Shay Shay. It’s a reunion no one expected, and it will certainly be an illuminating conversation.

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Shannon Sharpe x Skip Bayless

“My episode of Club Shay Shay drops tomorrow. @ClubShayShay I had an amazing couple of hours reminiscing with my Undisputed partner and friend @ShannonSharpe about what made us legendary and why the show ended prematurely,” Bayless wrote on X.

The episode is set to be released at noon, and there is no denying that this could be one of the most-watched episodes in the history of Club Shay Shay. Fans want to know how these two feel about each other these days. They also want to know if they will ever work together again.

Given the way Shannon and Skip are speaking about the episode, it appears as though this won’t be a combative interview. Instead, it will just be two men looking to figure out what went wrong.

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However, perhaps one of the most bizarre allegations in the piece is that Diddy has paid thousands of dollars to obtain this lifestyle at FCI Fort Dix. Moreover, the artist is even paying for Chinese massages. Given everything that Diddy has been accused of over the past few years, this particular detail has stood out amongst onlookers.

Meanwhile, a rep for Diddy believes this story is a complete nothingburger.

“The continued scrutiny of every mundane detail of Sean Combs’s life in prison has reached the point where the media characterizes ordinary prison life as news,” Diddy’s spokesperson said. “The only real news is that Sean continues to serve his sentence while awaiting the court’s decision on his appeal.”

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Diddy Living Lavish In Prison

A spokesperson for FCI Fort Dix spoke on the story, noting that contraband has proven to be a problem for a long time. However, they refused to say whether or not they would investigate Diddy and if he would receive any punishment for his alleged acts.

“Like all correctional agencies, contraband, particularly cell phones, narcotics, and weapons, remains a constant challenge, and we continue to tackle the problem of contraband being introduced into our facilities,” a prison spokesperson said.

This story came hours after it was revealed that Diddy would be leaving prison a few weeks early. His prison release date was changed for the eighth time. Now, he is expected to come home on January 21, 2028.

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Release Date: September 30, 2026

Genre: Hip-Hop

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Release Date: September 30, 2026

Genre: Hip-Hop

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Quotable Lyrics from Quebec Remix

Fuck this shit, I’m slidin’ every chance that I get
No, I’m not alone, I brought my dogs all in here
All I buy is Rollies, this is not Cartier
Give the lo’ they probably gon’ spin there

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That disconnect has become difficult to wave away as just a few people living under a particularly sturdy rock. CNN’s Audie Cornish said she had brought “Choosin’ Texas” up to multiple people who told her they had never heard it, while another panelist said he only knew the track through news coverage. Doja Cat also went viral after appearing genuinely unfamiliar with Langley, repeatedly saying, “I don’t know what that is,” when asked about the singer. Meanwhile, Rolling Stone spent the summer making almost the opposite case, calling “Choosin’ Texas” unavoidable and arguing that some resistance to crowning it Song of the Summer may be tied to lingering bias against Country music. None of those experiences necessarily cancel out the others. That may be the problem.

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Breaking Carey’s record makes that tension even harder to ignore because Mariah was never merely a chart monster. She belonged to a class of superstars whose music traveled well beyond the people most inclined to buy her albums. A Rock listener could know “Fantasy.” A hardcore Hip Hop head could recognize “Touch My Body.” Someone with little interest in contemporary R&B could still get ambushed by “We Belong Together.” Taste did not provide much protection. Her records existed in a media culture that could make a superstar hard to avoid, and that all-around recognition became part of what enormous chart success was expected to look like.

Langley has now surpassed one of music’s most recognizable figures without “Choosin’ Texas” requiring the same degree of cross-cultural saturation to get there. That doesn’t make its success any less legitimate. Yet, it does make the achievement more interesting. Billboard can quantify consumption and radio exposure, but those numbers cannot tell us whether the same listeners are actually hearing the same music. In an era of personalized streaming ecosystems and increasingly separate cultural lanes, the biggest song in the country may no longer need the entire country in the room.

When Hits Were Impossible To Avoid

The old standard for a smash was never that everybody had to like it. Sometimes being sick of a song was proof that it had done its job. Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” spent 14 weeks at No. 1 in 1992 and 1993, setting a Hot 100 record at the time. Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men later pushed “One Sweet Day” to 16 weeks, while “We Belong Together” gave Carey another 14-week reign. Those runs were impressive on paper and hard to miss in real life.

Other artists produced the same kind of crossover from completely different corners of music. 50 Cent’s “In Da Club” broke out beyond Hip Hop, while Beyoncé’s “Crazy in Love” traveled outside R&B. Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” became familiar even to people with no interest in following her catalog. Country also had its own examples, including Shania Twain’s “You’re Still the One,” which reached No. 2 on the Hot 100. The common thread wasn’t genre or taste, but that the biggest records escaped the audiences most likely to choose them.

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The machinery behind that reach was hard to avoid. Radio and music television kept a relatively small group of songs in heavy circulation, while malls and restaurants carried many of the same records into public life. Movies could push a song into an entirely different audience, and award shows put artists in front of viewers who had tuned in for somebody else. None of that distribution system was neutral. Labels had enormous influence over which records programmers embraced, leaving plenty of worthy music without the same push. Still, listeners were routinely exposed to songs they had never selected for themselves. A hit could become part of someone’s memory before it ever became part of their taste.

“Old Town Road” proved that kind of breakthrough did not disappear with streaming. Lil Nas X’s 19-week No. 1 run came with a fight over Country classification and a Billy Ray Cyrus remix. Memes carried the song into spaces traditional promotion never could. It became a story as much as a single, forcing people outside its original audience to encounter it. “Choosin’ Texas” has now surpassed that chart run without needing a comparable national conversation to carry it across pop culture. The modern system can still produce an unavoidable hit. It just doesn’t need a viral moment to make history.

“Inescapable” Depends On Who You Ask

Rolling Stone and the people insisting they have never heard “Choosin’ Texas” may not actually be contradicting each other. In July, Rolling Stone called the track “inescapable, irresistible, and unstoppable,” arguing that Country bias helped keep an obvious frontrunner out of some Song of the Summer conversations. Inside contemporary Country, that assessment may be completely fair. Outside it, plenty of listeners seem to be having a very different year.

Personalized media makes those parallel realities easier to maintain. Spotify builds recommendations around listening behavior, while TikTok says no two For You pages are exactly alike. Add genre-specific radio and increasingly separate media habits, and a record can saturate one audience without ever becoming routine listening for another. “Everywhere” no longer has to mean everywhere. Sometimes it means everywhere you are.

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Now, Country bias may explain some resistance to Langley, but it does not fully define the recognition gap. Recent Country and Country-adjacent records have still spanned outside their expected audiences, including Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” and Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold ’Em.” “Choosin’ Texas” is unique because it has rewritten Hot 100 history without requiring an “Old Town Road”-scale controversy or larger cultural conversation to pull outsiders toward it. Langley doesn’t need that wider audience to have the biggest record on the chart. That possibility is much more revealing than an argument over whether everyone should have heard her by now.

Billboard’s measuring stick has also changed with the business. “All I Want for Christmas Is You” was already a holiday staple before it could build the chart history Langley eventually surpassed. Because it was not commercially available as a single in 1994, the song was ineligible for the Hot 100 under the rules then in place. It didn’t reach No. 1 until 2019, after later rule changes and streaming gave older holiday music more chart power. A stream documents consumption, not how many unrelated listeners recognize the song. Carey once had a cultural footprint larger than her chart résumé suggested. Langley raises the inverse question.

The Hit Is Competing With Everything Now

Still, streaming is only part of the pressure. Music now fights for attention against an entertainment supply that never really shuts off. The older music business concentrated attention through a smaller number of powerful outlets. Those gatekeepers were hardly benevolent, and access to radio or MTV could depend on label muscle or industry relationships—decisions listeners had no control over. Breaking those bottlenecks gave artists more ways to reach audiences and offered listeners far more control over what they consume. It also dismantled some of the spaces where a handful of records could dominate simply because millions of people kept passing through the same channels.

These days, a hit can command an enormous audience without conquering everyone else’s attention along the way. For a song to break outside its core audience, it increasingly helps to become a story, a debate, a meme, or some other event capable of pulling people out of their own corners. “Choosin’ Texas” reached the top without needing that kind of cultural detour, which brings the conversation past Billboard and toward another institution that once helped decide what everybody was talking about: the VMAs.

The VMAs Lost The Shared Room

The 2026 MTV Video Music Awards managed something that should have looked like a comeback on paper. The show drew 8.43 million viewers, up 51 percent from 2025 and its largest same-day audience in 11 years. The number needs some context, though. CBS accounted for 7.61 million viewers after an NFL game, while MTV drew fewer than 700,000 during the main telecast. The football game went over its allotted time, delaying CBS by more than 20 minutes even though the VMAs had already started. By the time some viewers reached Madonna’s opening, clips and photos were already circulating online. Former MTV executive and 2026 producer Van Toffler later described watching that happen on social media as a “moment of terror.”

At its peak, the VMAs didn’t wait for social media to create the next day’s conversation. The show itself did it. Madonna’s 1984 “Like a Virgin” performance helped establish that reputation, while Beyoncé’s 2011 pregnancy reveal generated a burst of Twitter reactions and became part of one of MTV’s most-watched broadcasts. The red carpet mattered because attendance mattered. Viewers didn’t necessarily tune in because they loved every performer. They watched because the VMAs were one of the places where different corners of music were forced into the same room.

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The 2026 ceremony occasionally seemed more interested in creating material that could survive outside the show than in the awards themselves. Only six prizes were handed out during the two-and-a-half-hour telecast. Even Langley’s Best Country win happened off-air, meaning the singer with the longest-running No. 1 in Hot 100 history wasn’t even shown receiving one of the night’s major awards.

What Survives After The Number?

Langley already owns the record, and nothing about this conversation diminishes that achievement. Less certain is what a milestone of this size buys an artist beyond the charts. Mariah Carey’s biggest records helped turn chart success into household recognition. She was familiar even to people who never bought her music. Langley has built a massive audience of her own, but “Choosin’ Texas” raises the possibility that historic consumption no longer guarantees that same kind of familiarity.

Longevity, then, becomes about more than weeks at No. 1. Years from now, the more revealing question may be whether people remember how “Choosin’ Texas” sounded or simply remember that it broke Mariah Carey’s record. If the achievement ultimately becomes more famous than the song that achieved it, that would say far more about how music culture has changed than any argument over whether Ella Langley deserved the top spot.

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Release Date: September 30, 2026

Genre: Hip-Hop

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The shoe keeps the same low-cut, lifestyle-leaning shape from its original release, now carrying Nike branding instead of the Converse logo. Bright orange covers the entire build, giving it a bold, team-inspired look for his first appearance in the new colorway.

That color choice feels intentional given the setting. Orange ties directly back to Thunder branding, making this an easy pick for a first appearance in front of the home crowd.

Alongside the Shai 001, SGA also showed off a pair of Virgil Abloh’s Off-White x Nike Air Force 1s in a matching orange tone. Both pairs sat together backstage, giving fans a clear look at his footwear rotation heading into the new season.

Given how much buzz surrounded his original signature shoe, seeing it return under the Nike umbrella should draw plenty of early attention from collectors.

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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s Virgil Abloh Archive x Nike AF1

SGA’s original Converse Shai 001 debuted in February 2025, right in the middle of his first MVP season. He went on to add an NBA Championship, Finals MVP, and a second consecutive MVP while wearing the shoe.

That run of success made him one of Converse’s most valuable athletes almost overnight. Colorways like “Butter” became especially sought-after, regularly reselling for well above retail.

Nike officially confirmed his move to its Basketball signature roster back in June, closing out a six-year run with Converse that began in 2020. Since Nike and Converse operate under the same parent company, carrying the Shai 001 over rather than starting from scratch made sense for both sides.

That decision also gives Nike an easier entry point into his signature line. Rather than introducing a brand-new silhouette right away, leaning on a shoe fans already recognize keeps the transition feeling smooth rather than disruptive.

Pairing that debut with a Virgil Abloh Air Force 1 only added to the moment, tying Shai’s new chapter with Nike back to one of the brand’s most respected design legacies. It’s a small detail, but one that speaks to how much weight his footwear choices tend to carry.

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