For a quick refresher, the Virginia duo’s fourth studio album went on to debut inside the top five on the Hot 200. It came in at the number four spot, selling a highly respectable 118,000 copies.

Additionally, it won an award at this year’s Grammys, taking home Best Rap Performance with “Chains & Whips.” It was also nominated four other times for Best Music Video, Rap Album, and Album of the Year.

It’s wild to think that the project will now be a year old this summer on July 11. But even though that’s the reality, Pusha T is making sure that his fans and haters aren’t forgetting about it.

During their Coachella set yesterday, King Push declared to the crowd that LGSEO is still the cream of the crop, and that goes for any genre.

He said, “‘Let God Sort Em Out’ is still the album of the motherf*ckin year. Whole new year, still album of the year,” per Kurrco. “Album of the motherf*cking year until we drop again. We don’t care who dropping. It don’t matter.”

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Pusha T Ghostwriting Allegations

That’s quite the bold claim for obvious reasons but it feels that way because of the recent allegations against Push in particular.

Over this same weekend, hip-hop social media erupted after a handful of alleged reference tracks from Quentin Miller for Push surfaced. Three of them came to light, to be more specific. But one that was really highlighted was an alleged track called “Real Gon’ Come.” Allegedly, it’s from the DAYTONA sessions, which were roughly between 2017-2018.

This went viral because if you remember, before Drake went toe-to-toe with Kendrick Lamar, him and Pusha went at it. During their battle, the latter levied ghostwriting allegations on songs like “Infrared,” which ironically is on DAYTONA. There, Pusha T raps, “The bigger question is how the Russians did it /
It was written like Nas, but it came from Quentin.”

Folks were split on how to feel, with some arguing that it doesn’t look that bad because Miller’s alleged writing was for hooks. Additionally, these songs didn’t release, so no harm, no foul. On the other side, people feel this is blatant hypocrisy on Pusha’s part, the take that DJ Akademiks agrees with.

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At one point during the interview, Kimora explained that she didn’t own a fair portion of the business, noting that her ex-husband and his friends controlled stakes as well. “You live and you learn, I probably made — I think we ended up selling … it for 100-and-something million dollars. I probably got $20 million of that, or less. And the entire sale was based on Baby Phat,” Simmons said. She added that she also “missed all of the preliminary conversations” about the sale. “I wasn’t privy to the fact that these [conversations] took place,” she claimed.

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Commenting on the clip on Instagram, Simmons later countered her claims. “I gave her the brand, which already existed, I put her in baby phat leather shorts the day we met. I found designers / made her famous and marketed the brand with her face. Eventually she learned and blossomed. She did a good job BUT NOTE ..Very generous of me,” he wrote.

The Kellwood Company acquired Baby Phat back in 2004, with The New York Times reporting that the sale went for $140 million. In 2019, Kimora announced that she reacquired the company.

Kimora Lee’s Name Change

Russell and Kimora’s back-and-forth on social media comes as their relationship has been in a fractured state in the public eye. They were married from 1998 to 2009. Last month, Kimora decided to officially drop Simmons from her name. “Kimora’s decision to change her name legally—back to Kimora Lee—is rooted in a commitment to clarity and ownership,” a statement reads. “… While some areas of her business and brand portfolio will reflect this evolution, she welcomes the transition as an opportunity to move forward with greater intention and cohesion.”

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Read More: Afrika Bambaataa Dead At 68

That is the difficulty of writing about Bambaataa now. Hip Hop knows how to honor its architects. Yet, it has always been less comfortable to interrogate them, especially when the accusations are serious enough to stain the mythology. Still, there is no clean version of this legacy left to recover. Bambaataa helped create something foundational. He also spent the last decade with his reputation revamped by allegations he denied in 2016, and by a 2025 civil case he lost by default after failing to appear. His death does not make those realities easier to hold.

The Pioneer Hip-Hop Cannot Erase

Bambaataa became a part of Hip Hop’s origin story in The Bronx, where his parties and organizing helped give the culture an early public identity. He came out of the generation that made park jams and block parties feel like the center of something new. The DJ emerged from the shadows and was now the draw. AP noted that his events were presented as an alternative to gang violence, and that community-minded vision became part of how the Universal Zulu Nation defined itself in Hip Hop’s early years.

That public role mattered because early Hip Hop was never only about music. At the time, community building, influence, style, and the ability to turn a neighborhood gathering into something people felt they belonged to were at the core. Bambaataa understood that instinctively. He was playing records and moving the culture around a crusade that was still being named in real time. The Zulu Nation became part of that image, presenting itself as a unified cultural force tied to peace and creative expression, even as its founder’s name would later become inseparable from far darker allegations.

Then came “Planet Rock” in 1982 with Soulsonic Force. That record helped push Hip Hop toward electro, giving the culture a more futuristic sound at a time when its possibilities were still being invented.

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The Allegations Changed The Story

History became far harder to separate from the man in 2016, when multiple men came forward accusing him of sexual abuse. Ronald Savage was one of the first to speak publicly, and others followed with allegations of their own. Bambaataa denied the claims that year, telling Fox 5 News, “I never abused nobody. You know, it just sounds crazy to people to say that, hear ‘you abused me.'”

Still, the accusations did not move through the culture like a passing scandal. They stayed and attached themselves to his name in a way that permanently altered how people heard his music and discussed his legacy, while also doing something Hip Hop often resists. They forced institutions around him to respond.

In June 2016, the Universal Zulu Nation issued a public apology to alleged victims of sexual abuse by its founder, a remarkable statement for an organization so closely tied to his image and philosophy. However, that apology did not bring clarity for long. Billboard later reported that the group switched gears and sided with Bambaataa against the accusers, which only made the larger response feel more fractured. When the person being accused assisted in crafting the culture’s mythology, accountability has a way of turning hesitant or evasive.

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Then in 2025, Afrika Bambaataa lost a child sexual abuse civil case by default after failing to appear in court. The anonymous plaintiff alleged that the abuse and trafficking began in 1991, when he was 12, and continued for four years. This verdict forced the conversation to acknowledge that there was no honest way to discuss Bambaataa’s legacy, as though the accusations were some vague cloud hanging at the edges of his story. They had become part of the story itself.

But this wasn’t the end of the line, as in 2024, Savage sat down with AllHipHop to clarify his previous claims. Savage stated that he lied about his age, leaving Bambaataa to believe he was an adult.

“Bambaataa is not a pedophile and, in my eyes, he was doing something that was consensual with someone that he thought was of age. I wish, back in 2016, I remembered about the fake ID.” Savage added, “I wasn’t thinking about that, I had forgot about that I was in deep depression and still dealing with the trauma as an adult. I want to apologize for the little kid that didn’t know anybody and just wanted to be down with this thing called Hip Hop. So, I pretended to be older.”

“This is something that took place 35 to over 40 years ago. This man has never been convicted of anything. Let it go. I needed to set the record straight [and get] my closure.”

Hip Hop Never Fully Knew What To Do With Him

This may be the part of this story that the culture finds hardest to admit. Hip Hop has always known how to honor its pioneers and protect legacies. It knows how to speak in reverent language about the people who helped build something lasting. What it has struggled with, again and again, is what happens when one of those icons is accused of serious harm. The instinct is often to stall or go quiet, or even reduce everything to “complicated” and hope time does the rest. Time did not clean this up. It just made the silence more obvious.

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That is why Bambaataa’s death feels less like closure than a return to an old discomfort. There is no clean tribute to write without leaving something out, and no serious history of Hip Hop can pretend his influence was small. Both facts remain. For some people, that means Bambaataa’s contributions can never be mentioned without naming the allegations alongside them. Others wrestle with the reality that Hip Hop’s foundation, like so many other institutions, was built by talented men whose reputations often carried more protection than scrutiny.

That pressure doesn’t belong only to Bambaataa. It’s held by the culture that made him legendary, defended him for years, and now must decide what honesty looks like as one of its founding figures dies, and that legacy is still split open. It is easy to celebrate origin stories, but harder to tell the truth about them once they stop sounding heroic.

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Afrika Bambaataa remains part of Hip Hop’s foundation, but there is no honest way to talk about it as though it came without alleged harm. The music still matters, as do the accusations. If the culture wants to call itself mature, then it has to be able to speak plainly about both.

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He’ll also dabble in pop culture/gossip news as well. While Gabrielle “Gigi” Alayah and Kai Cenat haven’t been making major waves lately, Tekashi 6ix9ine still decided to send some shots.

He’s sights were completely set on Gigi, who broke up with the streamer/fashion designer in late December 2025. In the clip below, caught by Akademiks TV, the rapper, who appears to be conversing with DJ Vlad, gets on the subject of Gigi and her looks.

6ix9ine asks to see a picture of Gigi and a Cuban girl side by side. He then asks DJ Vlad to rate both of them on a scale from 1-10, which is kind of weird considering the latter is 52 and she’s 22.

Anyway, the interviewer says Gigi is “a nickel” whereas the “normal-looking” Cuban woman is around a seven or eight.

This completely send 6ix9ine as he bursts into laughter for a good while.

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6ix9ine’s Trolling History

If this harsh critique feels random, it’s actually not. Days after Cenat revealed he was single, the “GUMMO” artist came to the streamer’s support by talking down on Gigi. “I would speak to him if that was my boy. That b*tch is hit. That b*tch is ugly as f*ck. You being at your level, you shouldn’t even be with that b*tch,” he said.

He then told Kai he would bring him to Miami and find another girl to replace Gigi with.

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As we said earlier though, 6ix9ine has been back to his trolling ways as soon as he reentered society. For example, he taunted Offset and Lil Tjay following the news of the former being shot and the latter being arrested in connection to that shooting.

Moreover, he ripped into Gucci Mane and those trying to defend his song “CRASH DUMMY.” That song has widely been regarded as the 1017 CEO’s statement to the feds and his way of snitching on Pooh Shiesty.

He put Guwop on blast writing, “WHY YOU ALWAYS GOT TO SAY SOMETHING??? IM THE ONLYYYYYYY PERSON THAT CAN SPEAK ON THIS EVERYYYYYTIMMMMMME. YALL BLACKBALLED ME AND TRY TO TAKE FOOD FROM MY FAMILYS MOUTH WHEN YALL KNEW ALL THE FACTSSS!!! FOR 5 YEARS I EXPOSED THE RAP GAME BUT BECAUSE IM NOT BLACK I GET A DIFFERENT TREATMENT (that itself hurts some of you because THE TRUTH hurts) SUCK MY D**K.”

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“Stall them out. That’s my advice,” Akademiks says in one clip from the stream. “I think every day Drake don’t drop, it makes another f*cking hater realize he was a f*cking fan all along. Every day Drake doesn’t drop, another b*tch ass n***a that started hating in the last year realizes he’s a f*cking fan. You know why? Because he doesn’t have anything to talk about, nothing to listen to, and all he keeps talking about is what he thinks Drake’s gonna do or not do. F*cking fan, be a fan.”

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Drake’s “Iceman” Album

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Drake has been teasing the release of his album, Iceman, for nearly a year. He shared the first single from the project, “What Did I Miss?,” in July 2025. In the following months, he dropped “Which One” featuring Central Cee, and “Dog House” featuring Yeat and Julia Wolf.

Over the weekend, Drake’s courtside seats at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto were covered in icicles as the Raptors played against the Brooklyn Nets. He didn’t comment on the move, but it was an obvious nod that Iceman is imminent.

Before that, Drake hinted that Iceman is”coming soon” at the Juno Awards. In doing so, he recorded a video message for Nelly Furtado that played at the event. “To the Junos, because you are honouring one of my dearest friends tonight, I will spare you, even though I know you’re still thinking about those six awards that you gave to Shad in 2011 when you snubbed ‘Take Care’ as I hosted the 40th anniversary of your award show,” he joked. “But listen, that’s neither here nor there. Tonight we’ll let it go. This is about Nelly. And one thing Nelly knows, you know my love is real. You know my love is true. I love you. Have a great night. Enjoy your hall of fame status. It’s long overdue. Kill the performance. We love you dog. Iceman coming soon.”

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According to court documents obtained by Page Six, the Instagram model alleges that Edwards has “deliberately concealed and misrepresented his California connections under oath.” To clarify this, Howard claims he’s been “intentionally” hiding assets to avoid child support obligations.

She filed a request for order in child support in the Los Angeles Superior Court Thursday, April 9. Howard claims she “discovered evidence” that reveals Edwards has a “substantial and ongoing business and financial presence in the State of California.”

Howard listed what those assets were, highlighting a business LLC and trademarks registered in California. Next is business infrastructure principled addressed and operational activities within the state. Additionally, she alleges he has a bank account located in Beverly Hills and past and present sports agency contracts connected to California-based sports representatives.

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Ayesha Howard & Anthony Edwards Court Case

Her documents also state that the Minnesota Timberwolves shooting guard has “maintained a business, financial, contractual, and economic presence in California for approximately six years.”

This, per her filing, fulfills the “minimum contact and purposeful availment doctrine for an out-of-state parent and nexus to support obligation in a child support proceeding.”

This is all very interesting as previously, Edwards claimed that the state of California “lacked personal jurisdiction over him” and that he had no ties of any variety there.

Because of these allegedly accurate findings, Howard wants her child support order updated. That means she’s seeking more money from Edwards.

Throughout this lengthy legal war, the 24-year-old All-Star has shown no interest in raising their child together. Howard slammed him for this, right after he accused her of turning their custody case into “public entertainment” in addition to allegedly using their kid as a “revenue-generating asset.”

She clapped back online writing in part, “Whole time it’s two pictures of my daughter on my page but claiming that I post our baby in distress. As if you actually know her moods when you’ve never met or seen her outside of Instagram pictures is sick!”

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“We love you. I think you’re one of the greatest artists that has ever come out of Atlanta. This is not based on hate, but right now, n***a, you must be Stevie Wonder because you can’t hit a motherf*cking thing. You seem blind. That ain’t it,” he said. “He dropped a snippet. This sh*t was garbage. I know Charleston White can’t see in one eye. Young Thug can’t hear in one ear.”

Further details on the new song remain unclear. Thug dropped his latest album, UY Scuti, back in September 2025. It marked his first full-length release since getting out of jail in the YSL RICO case.

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Young Thug’s Coachella Performance

The snippet arrives after Young Thug appeared at Coachella over the weekend. For his show, he performed a bevy of his most popular tracks, including “Mamacita,” “Check,” “Digits,” “Havana,” “Pick Up the Phone,” and “Hot,” among others.

While on stage, he also took the time to shout out North West and Teyana Taylor. “What’s up, North? How you doing? Where [are] your parents?” he asked. “I want y’all to make some noise for North. She in this motherf*cker. Like, you just casually out, just casually having fun. Like, what are you doing?” As for Taylor, he added that he’s been trying to “get in touch with her” for the last month. “I wanted her to style me, man. She just too big. [She] wasn’t calling back,” he said.

Thug’s performance was part of the first weekend of Coachella 2026. The festival began on Friday with tons of other high-profile artists performing throughout the weekend as well. Sexyy Red, Swae Lee, Ethel Cain, Fakemink, Justin Bieber, BIA, Addison Rae, Oklou, Clipse, Geese, and more artists took the stage. The festival will continue with even more sets, next weekend.

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At the same time, the Louisville, Kentucky rapper and singer sparked backlash. For example, it really confused and irritated TDE’s CEO, Punch. “Got Blacker is wild. How exactly does one get ‘Blacker?'” he said on Twitter.

Overall, it was probably not the outcome Harlow wanted for this project, especially with his previous work, Jackman., dropping three years prior.

But it’s the reality that he created for himself. It seems though that the 28-year-old has been a good sport about it or he’s just ignoring the jokes and harsh criticisms.

However, it just got a whole lot more inescapable as Saturday Night Live decided to pile on this past weekend. During the fan-favorite “Weekend Update” segment with Colin Jost and Michael Che, “Jack Harlow” came on to discuss Monica and the conversations around it.

It’s actually SNL cast member Ben Marshall. But even for those who have seen Harlow recently via interviews, his impersonation is eerily (but hilariously) spot on. It almost makes you do a double take.

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Jack Harlow Monica First Week Sales

From the way he talks, to his mannerisms, and to the neo-soul-inspired outfit that Harlow dons for album cover, it’s all done really well. During the “interview,” Marshall acknowledges all of the nicknames, listing out some of his favorites. He also tries to freestyle, which goes hysterically wrong as all he can muster is “Boop, boop-di-boop.”

But to really hammer the joke home, Marshall plays up how he thinks Harlow would act around Black people. For example, he goes in for a dap but tries to kiss Che’s hand in the process. “Can never get that part right,” Marshall says.

He also explains he thinks R&B stands for. “Rhymin’-N’-Boppin’. Rural-N’-Blessed. Real-Nice-Boy. Raised Near (but not with) Black people.”

Then, to put a bow on it all, Che drops the N-word after he tries to get Marhsall to recognize how Monica sounds like that derogatory word when you say it slowly.

While Harlow is still getting attention during this new album cycle, it mostly hasn’t been positive, of course. That’s also sadly applied to the first week sales, which saw the project fail to reach 20,000 units (19,217) and debut at 36 on the Hot 200.

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Many fans have been loving the style change. “That’s not a bad look. Coachella is living up to its billing with the great acts and performances and appearances of guests,” one user wrote on X (formerly Twitter) in response to Kurrco. Another added: “Sh*t dope asf, I still miss when 5 had the pink and purple dreads.”

Others weren’t loving the look. “I don’t fuk wit this braids tho but I fuk with thug,” one fan admitted, while another replied, “looks a f*cking mess thank god his music is godly.”

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Young Thug’s Coachella Set

As for the rest of Young Thug’s set at Coachella, he performed several of his most iconic songs. They included “Mamacita,” “Check,” “Digits,” “Havana,” “Pick Up the Phone,” and “Hot,” among others.

At one point, Thug stopped his show to shout out Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s daughter, North West, who was in attendance. “What’s up, North? How you doing? Where [are] your parents?” he asked.

“I want y’all to make some noise for North,” Thug continued. “She in this motherf*cker. Like, you just casually out, just casually having fun. Like, what are you doing?”

Thug also turned the spotlight to Teyana Taylor, revealing that he’s been trying to “get in touch with her” for the last month. “I wanted her to style me, man. She just too big. [She] wasn’t calling back,” he said.

Thug’s performance was part of the first weekend of Coachella 2026, which kicked off on Friday. Tons of other high-profile artists performed at the event as well. Sexyy Red, Swae Lee, Ethel Cain, Fakemink, Justin Bieber, BIA, Addison Rae, Oklou, Clipse, Geese, and more artists took the stage. The festival will continue with even more sets, next weekend.

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“Do I identify as an Incel? I mean, how could you ask me that question as a follow-up after you asked me about my relationships to women? I mean, that’s quite literally the worst sequence of questions I think I’ve ever heard,” Clavicular responded to the question.

From there, Hegarty clarified that “Looksmaxxing” is “a term created by the Incel community.” Clavicular countered: “I’m not linked to that group in any way. Looksmaxxing is self-improvement, right? So it’s about potentially even ascending out of that category. So that would be kind of one of the goals is to disassociate from being an incel and overcome that. That doesn’t make sense.”

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Clavicular’s Relationship With Andrew Tate

Hegarty then brought up Andrew Tate and other controversial figures that Clavicular has associated with in recent years. “I see you want to make this political,” Clavicular responded. “I guess you watched the Piers Interview. Too bad I didn’t have time to look into, you know, anything about potentially, you know, who your wife cheated with.”

When Hegarty noted that he isn’t married, Clavicular ended the interview after remarking: “So I could teach you about looksmaxxing, and then maybe you could switch that up. Thanks for the time, appreciate the interview.”

Last year, Clavicular made headlines when a video of him listening to Kanye West’s song “Heil Hitler” alongside Sneako, Andrew Tate, and Myron Gaines at a club in Miami went viral online. Several local club owners banned the group from their venues in response to the antics.

Clavicular has dealt with multiple legal issues in 2026, having been arrested for allegedly using a fake ID and being under suspicion of drug possession in February. Within a week, authorities dropped those charges. Police arrested him again, last month, on battery charges for an alleged altercation with his girlfriend and another woman.

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