He states that the Chapter 7 filing from Dame Dash cannot simply wipe away $4.8 million in court-ordered judgements. Christopher Brown points to two instances with one being a 2022 verdict that awarded $823,000 to Dear Frank‘s director Josh Webber.

But remember, that saw a $4 million dollar bump after Dame Dash derailed a Fast Life, a film that Webber was set to direct. He made some harmful comments about him on the Earn Your Leisure podcast.

The Roc-A-Fella co-founder thinks his bankruptcy will allow for this to pass. “All the people that you owe money to, they’re not allowed to sue you anymore. They’re not allowed to sue you for a certain period of time, cause there’s nothing to collect. This dude Chris Brown, he muddies the waters a lot because he’s a lawyer and he’s intelligent. I’m not going to take that from him. But I think he’s dumb because he just wasted a lot of time. Allegedly. I don’t want to catch another lawsuit. Even though I can’t get sued, I got PTSD, I think.”

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Why Did Dame Dash File For Bankruptcy?

He delivered those comments on The Art of Dialogue a couple of months ago.

However, with Brown’s filing, he’s arguing that Dash’s past comments about Webber so destructive and intentional and that bankruptcy “bars the discharge of debts arising from willful injury.”

Overall, Dame Dash is still nowhere near out of the woods yet. But this move by Brown ensures that this arduous road to financial recovery will be even more challenging.

The executive already has $25 million in debt stemming from unpaid taxes, child support, legal judgments.

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He began by admitting that Kellerman is “extraordinary” and “phenomenal” at covering boxing, but laughed off the idea that he’s not comfortable debating him. “We’re talking about First Take though,” Smith then added. “And he took it someplace that all I want to say is are you really sure you want to go there? See, there’s a lot of stuff that goes on behind the scenes. Are you sure you want to go there? Because I’m not unless you take me there.”

Smith continued: “We worked for 5 years together, 2016 to 2021. And yes, I didn’t think we worked [well] together any longer. I did not want to do a debate show with Max Kellerman. What I keep trying to explain to all of y’all is that under no circumstances do I dislike or hate this dude. This ain’t some Stephen A. and Michelle Beadle thing going on where she was coming at me like that or me going at [Jason Whitlock]. This is not that.”

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Max Kellerman & Bill Simmons

As for Max Kellerman’s interview on The Bill Simmons Podcast, it marked one of the rare media appearances he’s done since leaving First Take in 2021. In explaining the reason for Smith asking for his removal, Kellerman joked: “If you’re doing a debate show and you’re a competitive person, why would you want me as a partner? That’s bad. You want to go 15 rounds every day with ‘Muhammad Kellerman?’ That’s just bad. It’s embarrassing.”

Kellerman originally replaced Skip Bayless as Stephen A. Smith’s co-host on First Take in 2016. Within two years of leaving First Take, ESPN laid off Kellerman fully.

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What’s more is that 50 Cent’s production is now the number one trending watch on Netflix. That’s quite impressive since part one of Stranger Things 5 is also out. One of the most, if not the most popular show in the streaming service’s history is also in the midst of its series finale.

But even though Netflix was the one to win the bid for The Reckoning, he’s still okay with jumping ship. If you haven’t heard, they were assumed to be winners of the Warner Bros. sweepstakes a couple of days ago.

According to Netflix’s press release on the matter, they labeled it as a “definitive agreement.” However, in the last 24 hours or so, Paramount has swooped in an attempt to steal Warner Bros., as well as their film and TV studios in HBO Max and HBO.

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How Much Did Netflix Acquire Warner Bros. For?

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Per NBC, Paramount has issued a counteroffer to WBD valued at a staggering $108.4 billion. Their all-cash proposition also includes a $30 per share, providing shareholders $18 billion more than Netflix’s deal. Speaking of which their offer sheet was for $82.7 billion at $27.75 per share.

Paramount is reportedly confident that Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) will accept. 50 Cent couldn’t care less who wins, though. He just wants to be on the winning side.

In a hilarious IG post earlier today, which shows Fif leading an AI-generated board meeting and pointing at his poster for The Reckoning, he writes, “Good morning guys please don’t let my momentum agitate you. The bidding war for WBD is heating up and I don’t care how it go’s. I’m leaving with the winner.”

The caption is different now though and flexes his docuseries’ stats. “This is my 3rd meeting today at Netflix, look guy I know you spent a lot of money on Stranger Things but it can’t f*ck with me. I’m #1 in 43 countries and #2 in 8 others just facts.”

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“Wait, wait, wait. What’d you just say?” Busta asks in the video when the TikToker mentions Tracy Morgan. “Put your camera down… I’m taking a picture to show love, and you’re trying to be funny… You don’t play with a grown man, little boy. That’s how people get f***ed up.”

It isn’t the first time someone has trolled Busta Rhymes by comparing him to Tracy Morgan. Back in 2020, Busta shared a fitness update on Instagram, writing: “DON’T EVER GIVE UP ON YOURSELF!! LIFE BEGINS RIGHT NOW!!! MY DEDICATION IS DIFFERENT!! I WOULD NEVER PUT OUT AN ALBUM AND NOT BE IN THE BEST SHAPE OF MY LIFE!! I RESPECT MYSELF TOO MUCH AND I RESPECT Y’ALL TOO MUCH!!! I’M ONLY HERE TO INSPIRE!!”

In response to the post, 50 Cent posted an older picture of Busta and Tracy Morgan with the caption: “They really kinda look alike right LOL. He gonna curse me out when he wake up.”

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Busta Rhymes’ “Vengeance” Album

In other news, Busta Rhymes announced that he’s working on a new album titled, Vengeance, back in August. He did so while getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. “The name of the new album is ‘Vengeance,’ and the goal is to put it out sometime early in September,” he said at the time, according to Variety.

Despite the plan, September came and went with no new album from Busta Rhymes. It remains unclear when he will officially share the project. It follows multiple EPs he put out, earlier this year, titled Dragon Season… The Awakening and Dragon Season… Equinox.

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But before it came out, Kendrick and everyone responsible for pushing it out to the masses were torn on what song to lead with. It’s understandable that serious conversations were being had, especially because Lamar was really gaining a lot of momentum.

In a video from Justin Hunte, aka The Company Man, he spoke with DJ Mormile about this. He was in charge of A&R and urban music over at Interscope during this time. He is now the EVP of West Coast at Def Jam.

During their past chat, Mormile reveals that “The Recipe” and “Swimming Pools (Drank)” were the songs they were deciding between to fill that role. The former wound up becoming the lead single and it gained a lot of buzz amongst fans for its prideful representation of Los Angeles.

The lyric video boasts over 120 million views at the time of writing and for years, fans have been waiting on an actual visual. Folks thought it was going to drop after ScHoolboy Q shared some behind-the-scenes shots from the video shoot.

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Kendrick Lamar & Dr Dre Collabs

However, up until now, it’s been a mystery as to why it didn’t materialize. DJ Mormile tells Hunte the wild reason around the nine-minute mark why it’s still the case.

Ultimately, Mormile and a few others actually wanted “Drank” to be lead single. But because he had so much faith in Lamar despite not selling any records for Interscope and they had to shoot a visual for “The Recipe” because it was the lead-off track, they made one just to get to the one for “Drank.”

Hilariously, Mormile recalls telling another senior employee at the label back then, “‘We are gonna lead with “The Recipe,” even though I think it’s the wrong song.'”

“‘We’re gonna shoot the video. It’s probably gonna be very expensive. It’s probably never gonna come out… But this is how we’re gonna do it because this is how the process has to happen…'”

In the end, everything still worked and Kendrick did become the next rap superstar.

It still is a shame that “The Recipe” doesn’t have the accompanying visual. But the song is still a classic and is tied to an all-time LP. It’s not the only one him and Dr Dre have though. “Compton,” which is also on the deluxe version is another. They also have a handful of collabs on Dre’s Compton such as “Deep Water” and “Darkside/Gone.”

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The post comes after Top5 shocked fans over the weekend by posting a picture of Lamar and praising his iconic diss track, “Not Like Us.” He has been a loyal ally of Drake’s throughout his feud with Lamar over the last year.

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Why Are Drake & Top5 Beefing?

Top5 ended up explaining why he took aim at Drake while speaking with DJ Akademiks afterward. He revealed that he is upset with him for praising Pressa’s new album, Press Machine II, on his Instagram Story, following its release on Friday. Top5 and Pressa are currently at odds.

“Tell me that’s not crazy. He goes and posts my opp’s music,” Top5 said during the interview. He added that Drake definitely knows they’re still beefing as well. “Pressa was supposed to perform at Wireless, and I told Drake if he lets this guy perform, it’s a problem. So, Drake pulled him out last minute,” he explained.

Despite feuding, Top5 still defended Drake from the pedophile allegations on “Not Like Us.” “He’s not a rapist,” he said. As for his favorite line from the song, he added: “You know that part where he says ‘Chubbs’ with the ‘hand-me-downs?’ That’s facts.”

Additionally, Top5 revealed that he tried to reach out to Drake directly before airing out his issues online. “When I said this guy’s my opp, he wrote… ‘I’m trying to make Toronto look good.’ I said, ‘I’m gonna make L.A. look good tonight,'” he said. Drake has yet to comment on the situation publicly.

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Whether or not he will actually cut him off completely is another story but here’s the rundown. This weekend, Top5 went off on Drake for showing love to his rival, Pressa. Also a Canadian MC, the latter put out his new project, Press Machine II. The Boy reposted the tape on his Instagram Story, allegedly knowing that Top5 has issues with him.

Telling DJ Akademiks, he said, “Tell me that’s not crazy. He goes and posts my opp’s music. Pressa was supposed to perform at Wireless, and I told Drake if he lets this guy perform, it’s a problem. So, Drake pulled him out last minute,” he claimed.

Out of anger and seeking his lick back, Top5 went on to share photo of Kendrick Lamar as well as to promote “Not Like Us.” He quoted a lyric he loved on Ak’s stream saying, “You know that part where he says ‘Chubbs’ with the ‘hand-me-downs?’ That’s facts.”

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Who Is Top5?

Moreover, in response to the journalist asking him why he didn’t just talk with Drizzy directly he replied, “When I said this guy’s my opp, he wrote… ‘I’m trying to make Toronto look good.’ I said, ‘I’m gonna make L.A. look good tonight.'”

Now, he’s taking his new hate for The Boy up a notch. While on a call with hip-hop content creator, Trap Lore Ross, he deemed that Drake’s co-signs going forward are “dead.”

He goes on to say that “Nothing was the same since Kendrick ended him.” Top5 also claims that he’s disgusted over his UMG defamation lawsuit. “You don’t sue after you lose a rap beef,” he states.

But perhaps the comment that will set most people off is: “I’m tired of listening to “Not Like Us” in my f*cking mother’s washroom. I wanna listen to it in public now.”

If Drake did indeed repost Pressa’s album knowing about their beef, then that would be an ironic twist considering how he’s been moving over the last year.

But it will be interesting to see if the ICEMAN responds.

Top5 has always been somewhat of a provocateur, so there’s a chance he may not. He’s also known for a couple of tracks such as “Drill Some More,” “Demons,” and “Heard of Me.”

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Nas and DJ Premier have been hinting at working on a collaborative project for well over a decade at this point. Speaking with Rolling Stone, back in October, Nas confirmed that a couple of the ideas they had during previous attempts to get the project to come to fruition will appear on Light-Years. “I’m going to say at least two of those ideas happened on this album. We didn’t get a chance to do ’em when we were talking about ’em, but we finally got a chance to put those recordings together this year,” he said.

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Nas & DJ Premier “Light-Years” Release Date

Light-Years will mark the conclusion of Nas’ ongoing Legend Has It… series for Mass Appeal Records when it releases on December 12. For the series, Nas has been helping release new projects from Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, Mobb Deep, De La Soul, Big L, and Slick Rick.

Elsewhere during the aforementioned interview with Rolling Stone, Nas discussed the critically acclaimed album series. “It’s 1995 all over again,” Nas said. “Sometimes I feel like 2025 has that feeling. It’s not going backwards, [it’s] going forward though. It’s that feeling of urgency, that vibration, the celebration of life and these songs and these albums, what they meant 30 years ago, it’s still thriving right now. Even from younger people, they’re all derivatives of that early sound. And these artists here, from Slick Rick — he is the reason that all of us even have a pen in our hands. You look at him and you think of Mobb Deep, and you think of Raekwon and Ghostface, De La Soul, [it’s] some of the most different, brave, bold, intelligent hip hop music ever made.”

He continued: “And of course, we lost some of our brothers along the way, [but] we’re still representing for them and they’re still representing themselves through the series. It’s a celebration of a great impact, a standard that they set that we could never forget because it keeps us aiming higher. This series is to encourage [and] inspire hip hop and remind us all [of] the pureness of hip hop. I hope that we all can do this together.”

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“I like Drake. I think he’s a dope artist. He puts out some great music, obviously. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be as big as he is,” Method Man began. “But, when he sent the record, we were overseas. He did send the record. Some brothers were trying to write to it and sh*t. I’m sitting there and I’m like, ‘I don’t like it.’ I was like, ‘What does this have to do with ‘Wu-Tang Forever?’ I’m not questioning his artistic ability or anything. I’m just saying for my taste, that was more or less like, ‘I’m not getting on that.'”

The song, which contains a prominent sample of Wu-Tang’s “It’s Yourz,” ended up being a hit and peaked at number 52 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. “No one knew it was gonna be that big. You become jaded when you’ve been in the business for a long time,” Method Man concluded.

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Drake’s “Iceman” Album

Looking ahead, Method Man’s comments on working with Drake come as the Toronto rapper is gearing up for the release of his next studio album, Iceman. There’s still no official release date for the project, and with 2025 almost over, his promise of releasing it before the end of the year seems unlikely.

That being said, he’s already released three singles. They include “What Did I Miss?”, “Which One” featuring Central Cee, and “Dog House” featuring Yeat and Julia Wolf. He’s also promised to have at least one more Iceman livestream episode in the works.

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In a clip caught by 2Cool2Blog from a recent Joe Budden Podcast interview, AlBee Al slams the rapper and producer for not giving a platform to local talent. “That n**** PlaqueBoyMax, he from Jersey, you never got nobody up there for Jersey.”

He adds, “When I say sh*t like this, now they gonna be like ‘let me get a n**** from Jersey.’ Now I’m the black sheep…”

After watching that clip, PlaqueBoyMax reviewed a song by AlBee Al called “My Brother.” He gives him props to him for the emotional songwriting, but then keeps it real about who he chooses to support.

“AlBee Al, you gotta understand I have brought on n****s from Jersey… I bring on n****s I f*ck with, ya feel me? You never reached out to me or talked to me.”

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PlaqueBoyMax Too Much Music

Max adds, “I would love to help out. Why wouldn’t I ever say get it how I got it? If I could help n****s that I see something in, I’ma do that and I always do that on my platform. So, I don’t know what n****s is talking about.”

It seems as if PlaqueBoy thinks AlBee Al is salty he hasn’t been invited to his studio to put the work in. That’s merely speculation, so take it with a grain of salt.

It will be interesting to see if this tension snowballs into something much larger in the coming days.

Overall, it sounds like the content creator is focused on closing out 2025 on a positive note. He just dropped off a new EP on December 5 called Too Much Music. It’s a seven-song set with zero features and just him putting his multitude of talents on display.

It’s his third one of the year, following up on his take on the UK grime scene with LONDON and the trap sound with ATLANTA. He’s also got a full project out too titled Five Forever.

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