The respective superstars have been feuding since the end of 2022, the same year Her Loss dropped. Their beef hasn’t been as loud as Drizzy and Kendrick’s, for example. But it’s still been quite palpable. Thankfully, we have some promising news by way of 21 Savage, who’s extremely close with both artists.

During his interview with Big Bank on Perspektives With Bank, he reveals that Drizzy has made a lot of progress with Metro. According to Savage, he’s done so by apologizing “multiple times.” As a result, the beat smith has become more accepting of a reunion, musically speaking.

“Metro felt a certain type of way about something,” 21 begins. “Drake told me and Metro that he understood where he was wrong and he apologized multiple times. Now, Metro is kind of more open minded… I feel like in the future, the near future, we’ll see them work together again.”

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Why Do Drake & Metro Boomin Have Beef?

That’s certainly great to hear that things are on the up and up. From what we learned from Young Thug’s leaked jail calls earlier this year, it sounded like Drake really hurt Metro.

If you don’t remember, the YSL head honcho revealed the reason behind their friendship falling apart. Months prior to HEROES & VILLAINS release, Metro’s mom, Leslie Wayne passed away. According to Thugger, Drake wasn’t being that good of a friend after that happened and was more focused on trying to get on that album.

In part, Young Thug said, “you come back two three weeks later like, ‘Yo, let me get this song…’ instead of figuring it out… You using the fact that you’re Drake as a weapon now.” He also added, “He probably just sent some stupid condolences…instead of giving him some wisdom or something real…”

If you’re curious, Drake was eager to get on “Trance,” which wound up featuring Travis Scott and Thug. Audio of The Boy’s version did leak online as well, though.

Prior to learning this, it was speculated that him and Metro were feuding over a girl. However, in an interview with GQ last year, the latter put that rumor to bed. “Me and [Drake], we had a personal issue, and for the record, not over no girl or nothing silly like that. It was a personal issue that really hurt me and disappointed me.”

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Release Date: December 12, 2025

Genre: Hip-Hop

Tracklist for McKenzie

1. LL Smaky
2. White Knight
3. I Admit It
4. Where We Went Wrong ft. Noodah05 & Jay Montana
5. Feel Like Diddy
6. Leave
7. Make Me Sick ft. Big Yayo & Mgm Lett
8. Mil Ticket
9. Famous Hoes
10. 5 Minutes
11. Outside ft. Lil Rae
12. Ring Ring Ring
13. Do or Die ft. TopOppGen
14. Soul Ties
15. IRL
16. Perky Mills
17. Not Worried
18. Red Roses & Pearls
19. Still The Same
20. McKenzie

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For those unaware, Dash and the R&B legend dated from 2000 until her tragic death a year later, and rumors of her alleged entanglement with Hov have been more speculative. On the Point Of View program, the hosts asked Dame about his relationship with the Detroit-raised star, positing that they dated in the 1990s. But he got heated, saying that her career would’ve been “astronomical” if she hadn’t passed away.

“It’s not a God complex, I wanted to do an interview, and I’m answering questions,” the executive stated. “She told me I was the coolest. I got to be the coolest. She understood me.” Then, he said that Jay only tried to get with Aaliyah, but that never panned out.

“My artist did not, he was trying her,” Dame Dash alleged concerning Jay-Z, as caught by joebuddenclips/fanpage on Twitter. “Everybody put their bid in. As a man, I’m never, ever wifing a girl that any of my friends smashed. It’s not happening. I just told you that, now you’re reading the papers wrong. I would never. That should tell you something right there. We were both putting in our bid. None of us had scored. That’s how it went. We were all trying to get at Aaliyah. Everybody. That was Aaliyah. So it wasn’t him. Just ’cause he tried and gave flowers and got denied don’t mean I can’t try, and win. Obviously, that’s what I’m saying. There must be something attractive of what I’m doing.”

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How Old Was Aaliyah When She Dated Dame Dash?

However, one of the hosts alleged that Dame allegedly pursued multiple women on Hov’s horizon, and he wasn’t happy with the suggestion. “Again, you don’t know what you’re talking about,” he remarked. “You’re talking about a stupid-a** joke that wasn’t around. No, he’s a liar, and he ran. He’s a b***h-a** n***a to me, pause. We got into a fight in Paris, he ran. Stop believing those people. That shouldn’t be your source of information. I don’t think you listen to those things. I just gave you the answer, I just said: I would never, ever wife a girl that my man boned.”

Aaliyah was 21 when she and Dame began to publicly go out together. She passed away at the age of 22 in an airplane crash.

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For those unaware, the controversial but nonetheless successful release of this documentary reignited tensions between 50 Cent and Ja Rule. Allegedly, these might play out into big attempts to assemble a team against Fif. As caught by DJ Akademiks on Instagram, the Queens rapper and producer took to the social media platform to respond to an IG comment.

“Tell Fif that Ja Rule & his 1st mama started following each other on IG an hour ago, prepare for the worst, Jay-z/Ja rule/Rocnation/Desiree Perez are out to get him out the paint,” the comment read. “f**k em all, my momentum make them all get together. LOL,” 50 responded in his post’s caption. We will see if this hypothetical tension actually manifests into something concrete. For now, it’s completely speculative, although we know the Murder Inc. MC is on his warpath.

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What Has 50 Cent Been Accused Of?

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As for 50 Cent’s criticisms of Jay-Z, these are much more general and one-sided as of late, calling it “competitive” in a Big Boy interview last year. However, he still supports folks like Nicki Minaj when they go after Jay online, so his trolling doesn’t really emphasize that supposedly “competitive” aspect in favor of salacious commentary.

But 50 Cent’s facing hardcore accusations of his own. Amid his beef with Ja Rule, he accused 50 of mistreating women via abuse and other alleged means, bringing up accusations his ex Daphne Joy made against him in 2013. He hasn’t addressed them very thoroughly at press time, but we will see if that changes.

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Release Date: December 12, 2025

Genre: Hip-Hop

Tracklist for Olympic Sh*t Talking

1. Spudd The Jeweler, Pt. 2
2. Smooth Shit Talking
3. Big Boom
4. Pluto Taught Me
5. Dr Dolittle
6. Epstein Files
7. Stressing in Ah Mansion

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He announced it this past weekend at the Art Basel in Miami with an art piece. A couple of days later, 21 Savage revealed a quick turnaround for it, promising it would be out this Friday. Many have been excited throughout this week, and it was for good reason.

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Who Is Featured On 21 Savage’s What Happened To The Streets?

More times than not, 21 Savage pairs a strong feature list with some of the best beat smiths in the game. That’s no different on WHAT HAPPENED TO THE STREETS? The full, detailed tracklist can be found below, but it’s worth pointing out a few key players here.

Some of the masters of creating dark and murderous atmospheres are peppered nicely throughout the 14-song set. Metro Boomin headlines that but Southside, Wheezy, Zaytoven, the always-improving COUPE, and OZ are here too.

As for the features, everyone’s going to gravitate towards the Drake cut, “MR RECOUP.” We can’t fault them for it either, though—the track slaps. But Latto, GloRilla, and Young Nudy and the rest of vocal costars bring a lot of energy alongside 21’s cold bars and delivery.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE STREETS? Tracklist & Credits:

1. WHERE YOU FROM Prod. by Southside, Wheezy & Juke Wong
2. HA Prod. by Zaytoven
3. STEPBROTHERS (feat. Young Nudy) Prod. by Coupe
4. CUP FULL Prod. by Taurus, DJ Cash and Serraonthebeat
5. POP IT (feat. Latto) Prod. by Coupe
6. MR RECOUP (feat. Drake) Prod. by Kid Hazel
7. J.O.W.Y.H (JUMP OUT) Prod. by LB, Kid Hazel and Oscar Zulu
8. DOG $HIT (feat. GloRilla) Prod. by Spiff Sinatra and Isaiah Brown
9. CODE OF HONOR (feat. G Herbo) Prod. by Casper and Taurus
10. GANG OVER EVERYTHING (feat. Metro Boomin) Prod. by FNZ, Metro Boomin and BoogzDaBeast
11. HALFTIME INTERLUDE Prod. by Oz and Reske
12. BIG STEPPER Prod. by d.a. got that dope
13. ATLANTA TEARS (feat. Lil Baby) Prod. by Dopamine, Sad Pony, Keanu Beats, MitchGoneMad and Childboy
14. I WISH (feat. Jawan Harris) Prod. by Spiff Sinatra and Isaiah Brown

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Release Date: December 12, 2025

Genre: Hip-Hop

Tracklist for Half Clip

1. Outside ft. Skepta
2. Banana Clip
3. Richer ft. Seyi Vibez

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“They want to tear the top n***as down,” he posited. “So how can you win a battle when n***as want you to lose it? Even if you win, you lose! No matter what. Even if Kendrick never responded, man. If Drake just dropped songs, and Kendrick never responded, he still don’t win. ‘Cause his position didn’t change. He was already the top n***a.”

Then, Bank slightly pushed back. After all, Kendrick did perform “Not Like Us” at the Super Bowl this year.

“I guess,” 21 expressed, giving K.Dot his flowers for being a great artist for many years. “To hear a n***a diss you at the Super Bowl? […] Drake couldn’t get that from him. That’s what my point was. He would’ve just been looking like he tearing a good n***a that minds their business down. This s**t rigged, man. Even if Drake won, he would’ve still been the bad guy for winning. It would’ve still been like, ‘Man, f**k that.’ ‘Cause Kendrick one of them rapper rappers. He knows how to say different s**t, writing s**t. J. Cole like that. They could consider them MCs. An MC really can’t lose. But Drake an MC for real, but he make hits too. So it’s different. Meek an MC, but he wasn’t them type MCs, bro.”

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21 Savage & Drake – “Mr. Recoup”

“I told that n***a not to even do all that s**t anyway,” 21 Savage revealed concerning Kendrick Lamar and Drake’s battle, as caught by Kurrco on Twitter. “I told that n***a, ‘Leave that s**t alone.’ But he felt like he was being challenged lyrically, so he wanted to respond.”

We will see if 21 Savage says anything else about this. Perhaps Kendrick or the 6ix God could chime in, too…

21 and Drake most recently collaborated on the new WHTTS album. Their track “Mr. Recoup” immediately became one of the most anticipated cuts, and we’ll see how it ages.

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Release Date: December 12, 2025

Genre: Hip-Hop

Tracklist from Pray 4 Me

1. Ausar’s Prayer
2. Ramen Noodles
3. Frankenstein ft. Marco Plus
4. The Mayor ft. SWAVAY
5. Doremi
6. 100x ft. Amindi
7. Patience
8. Screaming At The Sky
9. Huncho’s Prayer

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This was going to be the tribute album to his late mother, Donda. It was an album that was a long time coming. After over a decade of grief, Ye was going to come out and spill his guts for the world to see. We were going to get the most vulnerable version of the artist so far, and there was potential for this to be his magnum opus.

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Of course, the rollout for the album started off on shaky ground as his first listening party was a disjointed mess. None of the songs were finished, and it felt like he was simply showing off a bunch of demos. It was the musical version of throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks. A few weeks later, he would host a second listening party, and this turned out to be a truly iconic event. The second listening event in Atlanta was a demonstration of Ye’s dedication to his art. He had locked himself inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium for weeks. He slept there, ate there, showered there, and recorded there.

The second listening event showed us that Ye was officially back. Songs like “Hurricane,” “Jail,” “Jesus Lord,” and “Off The Grid” were shown off to thunderous applause. He would then go on to do the third listening party with “cancelled” artists by his side. DaBaby and Marilyn Manson stood proudly beside Ye during that final show in Chicago, and it was here that the comeback started to crack. Fans were forgiving because the music was good. However, those Make America Great Again tendencies were starting to rear their ugly head.

By 2022, Ye had gone completely off the deep end, much to the chagrin of fans everywhere. In fact, his fall from grace was perhaps one of the worst we have ever seen. On social media, the artist was going on anti-semitic tirades, all while praising the work of the Nazis and Adolf Hitler. Some thought this was all a ploy to get dropped by Adidas. While he did, in fact, get dropped by Adidas, the Nazism continued. He made appearances on Info Wars with Alex Jones, dined with Donald Trump at Mar-A-Lago with Nick Fuentes, and even stylized his name into a Swastika.

Around this time, Ye began dating Bianca Censori, and the two’s relationship was downright disturbing. Whenever the two were in public, Censori could be seen wearing obscene outfits in which she was practically naked. Some made the allegation that Ye was controlling her and downright getting off on humiliating her. Various harassment lawsuits came in from old employees that gave credence to the Censori situation. It was very dark and a far cry from the artist fans once knew.

Eventually, Ye got back into the music world with his Ty Dolla $ign-assisted Vultures series. Vultures 1 & Vultures 2 were released in 2024 to a poor critical reception. While the first Vultures was seen as the better album, it still wasn’t particularly good. There were unfinished songs, horrible verses, and the production was not Ye’s best. However, Vultures 2 is where things truly went off the deep end. It is by far the artist’s worst album, and to this day, even the most staunch Ye Stans can’t defend it.

Unfortunately, things continued to get worse following the release of Vultures 2. In 2025, Ye decided to continue his Nazi obsession with songs like Heil Hitler, written and originally performed by Dave Blunts. Blunts also wrote “Cousins,” which will likely go down as the worst Kanye West song of all time. Interestingly, this was all part of the rollout for an album called Bully, which, in true Ye fashion, has yet to be released. There have been multiple delays for this project, although Ye’s latest moves have fans feeling as though the album’s release is coming sooner rather than later.

With that being said, one has to wonder, can Kanye even make a real comeback at this point? His reputation is the worst it has ever been. He hasn’t made a good album in over four years, and for the better part of three years, he has been a self-proclaimed Nazi. At a time when fascism is becoming a real threat to the United States, someone like Ye is completely toxic to the culture. Even without the threat of fascism, there is simply no room in society for Nazis. While some think Ye is trolling with the Hitler fetish, his rhetoric has gone far beyond just being a provocateur. It goes beyond getting out of an Adidas deal. If he were really just trolling to get out of deals, he would have dropped the Nazi act ages ago.

Yet, something changed just a few weeks ago, and it has many wondering if a Kanye comeback is actually feasible now. Of course, something drastic would have had to happen for Ye’s fortunes to change so quickly. As it turns out, that drastic event did, in fact, take place. The famed artist met with Rabbi Yoshiyaru Yosef Pinto, the very same Rabbi that LeBron James sat down with almost a decade ago. During their meeting, which was caught on video, Ye could be seen apologizing for his past Anti-Semitism. It was also here where Ye admitted to having bi-polar, and not getting the proper treatment for it.

This video came as a shock and a positive surprise to many. It was an apology that never seemed possible. It was subsequently followed by a report indicating that Ye was apologizing to all of his past collaborators. This included Jewish producers, engineers, and even writers. The extent of those apologes were not reported on, although it is easy to see what is happening here.

Over the past three years, Ye has burnt a lot of bridges. Some of his closest friends and collaborators have completely abandoned him, and this has forced him to work with people like Dave Blunts. Now, with Bully on the horizon, it appears as though Ye wants to be taken seriously again. The only way he can do that, is if he sheds his Nazi past and gets the old crew back together. For instance, it has been years since Mike Dean has worked with West. However, if Ye’s apologies are sincere enough, then perhaps the artist will get his superproducer back.

Unfortunately, for Ye, he has already done a ton of damage to his brand and his image. While those he’s wronged may accept his apologies, there is no guarantee that they will work with him again. Not to mention, who is to say that these apologies are sincere? Given they are coming in the midst of a flubbed album rollout, one could argue that these are just a cynical ploy to gain favor with the general public. Has Ye really changed? Or is he just trying to pull one over on all of us?

At this point in time, it is truly impossible to say. For the most part, Ye has been completely out of the spotlight. He never speaks out on social media anymore, and beyond a few paparazzi sightings here and there, he is mostly persona non grata. No one actually knows what he is thinking or feeling. There is no Keeping Up With The Kardashians crew to pull him into the diary room and confess whatever is on his mind.

So while Ye is clearly interested in making a comeback and appearing as though he wants to make amends, there is no telling whether or not this actually sticks. In the end, it’s going to be up to the listeners. They are the ones who have the power. While Ye will always have his diehards who believe he can do no wrong, there are others who will never listen to him again. Meanwhile, there are others who will listen, but only if the music is good. If Ye makes another Vultures-caliber record, then it might just be time to throw in the towel.

Sure, a comeback is possible, but it’s not likely. It’s not something you should get your hopes up about. If it works out, we will be happy to be wrong. But at this point, too much damage has been done. The politics have seeped into the music, and until Ye actually makes his intentions clear, we’ll never know whether or not his apologies are truly sincere. Some may say this assessment is unfair, but Ye hasn’t done nearly enough to make us think otherwise.

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