The collection marks the second time these two brands have teamed up. It continues a partnership built around blending combat sports with Toronto’s biggest star’s brand.

Canadian welterweight Mike Malott fronted the campaign, giving the release a real connection to the Octagon. That was a deliberate choice, keeping the collection tied to actual fight culture instead of leaning purely on celebrity pull.

The designs pulled from UFC’s deep roster of recognizable names. Pieces feature Islam Makhachev, Georges St-Pierre, Nick Diaz, Khabib Nurmagomedov, and Conor McGregor throughout the lineup. Hasbulla also got his own graphic treatment, tapping into his massive internet following outside the sport itself.

There were nods to UFC legends also. Chuck Liddell showed up across custom details, alongside references pulled from Drake’s ICEMAN album era. That mix of fight history and OVO’s own catalog gave the drop more depth than a standard two-logo collab.

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UFC x OVO Collab

This wasn’t UFC and OVO’s first run together. Their debut collection released in 2025, leaning heavily into UFC’s origins from 1993, early fight posters, and retro training gear.

That first drop worked because it respected where UFC’s imagery came from before OVO started reshaping it. This new capsule built on that foundation, expanding into current champions and internet-famous personalities instead of just archival references.

OVO’s owl logo has always been flexible enough to sit across music, luxury, and now combat sports without needing a redesign. Paired with UFC’s aggressive, fight-first visual language, the two brands ended up sharpening each other rather than just sharing shelf space.

With Drake’s continued involvement and a fighter actually fronting the campaign, this collection reads as more than typical merch. It’s shaping into a real recurring meeting point between streetwear and the sport itself.

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“They keep giving out my address. They broke in my house, vandalized my house, vandalized my wife’s car, you know what I’m saying? Because they keep giving out my address,” Davis told the court. He then claimed the problem had expanded beyond his own home. “Now, they done gave out my sister’s address. This stuff is wrong. They are wrong!”

Davis did not provide evidence during the exchange establishing who was responsible for the alleged break-in or vandalism. His complaint concerned the prosecution’s handling of his personal information and what he believes has resulted. The moment briefly shifted attention away from testimony in a trial that has placed Davis’ past statements and personal history before an unusually large public audience. Proceedings have been streamed from Clark County District Court as the state presents its case nearly 30 years after Shakur was killed.

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Keefe D Continues To Air Out Grievances

His frustration extended to his treatment while incarcerated. “I get beat up by the cops, a guy attacked me in here, sent me to prison. It’s just wrong,” Davis told the judge. A prosecutor responded by suggesting the anger was rooted elsewhere, telling the court, “I think he’s upset because I’m prosecuting him for murder.” Davis immediately rejected that explanation. “You’re endangering my family’s life,” he replied.

The exchange comes as prosecutors continue trying to establish that Davis helped organize the September 7, 1996 attack that killed Shakur. The state alleges the shooting was retaliation for the MGM Grand beating of Davis’ nephew Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson hours earlier. Davis is not accused of firing the fatal shots. Prosecutors instead contend that he obtained the weapon and helped facilitate the attack from the white Cadillac that pulled alongside Shakur and Suge Knight on the Las Vegas Strip. Davis has pleaded not guilty.

Much of the prosecution’s case relies on statements Davis made about the killing years later, including accounts given in interviews and his 2019 memoir. His defense argues those stories were embellished and cannot be treated as reliable admissions. The trial remains underway in Las Vegas, where Davis faces life in prison if convicted of murder with a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further or assist a criminal gang.

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The Hollywood Reporter states that Bullock Be joins the project after appearing in Peacock’s Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist, where he played Willie Black. That casting also reunites him with director Craig Brewer, who worked on the limited series. His other credits include White Men Can’t Jump, BMF, and Marvel’s Runaways. He is also a series regular in Hulu’s upcoming Prison Break: Black Creek.

Playing Dre places Bullock Be inside the period when Snoop’s career moved almost impossibly fast. Dre heard Snoop’s early demos and brought him into the sessions surrounding 1992’s The Chronic, where his appearances on records including “Nuthin’ But a ‘G’ Thang” helped make his voice recognizable before he had even released an album of his own. Dre then produced Snoop’s 1993 debut, Doggystyle, which debuted at No. 1 and became one of the defining releases of West Coast Rap’s rise.

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Snoop Is Ready To Share His Story

Daviss, best known for playing Pope on Netflix’s Outer Banks, was announced as Snoop in 2025. Brewer is directing from a screenplay initially written by Black Panther co-writer Joe Robert Cole, with Brewer handling the latest draft. The film will incorporate music from Snoop’s catalog, though Universal has not yet revealed how much of his life the story will cover.

Moreover, Snoop is producing alongside Brian Grazer, Death Row Pictures president Sara Ramaker, and Imagine Entertainment’s Allan Mandelbaum. The film is also the first feature to emerge from Death Row Pictures’ overall deal with NBCUniversal, giving Snoop a producing role in the Hollywood version of his own history rather than leaving the interpretation entirely to a studio.

Universal has set Snoop for an August 2027 theatrical release. With Daviss and Bullock Be now attached as Snoop and Dre, two of the central figures in the rapper’s emergence have been cast while the rest of the ensemble continues to take shape.

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CBS News reports that the charge grew out of a January 2025 stop in Sterling Heights. Police initially encountered the rapper, whose legal name is Casada Sorrell, while checking a Dodge Ram near Mound Road and 18 Mile Road. Officers learned he had an outstanding warrant connected to an earlier driving-while-unlicensed case and took him into custody. Police said an officer then noticed suspected contraband inside the vehicle.

That discovery eventually became a separate criminal case. Prosecutors alleged that a bag found in the driver’s-side door contained pills with oxycodone hydrochloride and acetaminophen. They said Sorrell did not have a valid prescription for the medication. Authorities sought another arrest warrant in connection with the drug charge, and he was taken into custody again in April 2025.

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Avoiding Jail Time

Sorrell entered his no-contest plea in Macomb County Circuit Court in March. Court records at the time showed that he had requested to resolve the case through the county’s drug court program. His sentencing ultimately resulted in the six-month probation term announced this week.

The case unfolded as Sada Baby continued to maintain the career he built in Detroit’s Rap scene. He broke through nationally with records including “Bloxk Party” and later “Whole Lotta Choppas,” the latter becoming his first entry on the Billboard Hot 100 after its 2020 remix with Nicki Minaj.

With sentencing complete, Sorrell will serve six months under probation supervision in Macomb County. Prosecutors did not announce any additional jail sentence beyond the three days for which he received credit.

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“The weird thing is how Rap’s fallen off the charts. It’s because USAID got defunded,” Rogan said. He claimed the agency had funded “radical, anti-government rappers overseas” as part of efforts aimed at political change. His comments arrive during a genuine shift in the charts, where country music has enjoyed an unusually strong crossover run and Hip Hop has not occupied the same space it did at its commercial peak.

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More About USAID

The agency Rogan referenced was dramatically reduced under President Donald Trump. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced in March 2025 that more than 80 percent of USAID programs had been canceled after an administration review. The government later moved to fold much of the agency’s remaining work into the State Department. Those cuts affected foreign-assistance programs around the world, but no evidence has emerged linking them to Hip Hop’s performance on the Billboard charts.

However, Rap’s commercial position has been changing for reasons the industry has been tracking for several years. In October 2025, the Billboard Hot 100 went without a Rap song in its Top 40 for the first time since 1990. That milestone was partly affected by Billboard’s recurrent chart rules, but it also reflected a broader decline in the genre’s market share relative to its late-2010s and early-2020s dominance.

Country’s current Hot 100 strength has made that shift especially visible. Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” has spent much of 2026 at No. 1, while country and Western-influenced records have occupied an unusually large portion of the chart’s upper ranks. That success gives Rogan a real trend to point toward. What remains unsupported is his explanation for it—USAID’s documented involvement with foreign artists does not show that the agency was propping up American Hip Hop, much less that its dismantling caused Rap records to lose ground.

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“I know the Tupac trial may be entertaining to some, but for the people who actually lived through it, it brings back a lot of trauma,” Knight Jr. wrote. “It changed a lot of families’ lives, and we all had things we had to overcome because of it.” He did not offer an opinion about Davis’ guilt or the prosecution’s case. Instead, he added, “I just pray for justice for everyone involved. God bless. Keep going.”

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Suge Knight Was The Only Person In The Vehicle With Tupac

His family’s connection to the case is direct. Suge Knight was driving the BMW when gunfire struck the vehicle near Flamingo Road and Koval Lane in Las Vegas on September 7, 1996. Knight survived, while Shakur died six days later. He remains one of the most important living witnesses to the attack, though he has repeatedly indicated that he has no interest in helping prosecutors secure a conviction against Davis. Knight has also publicly questioned parts of the state’s case as the trial has unfolded.

That history has taken on new weight as testimony revisits events that have been debated outside a courtroom for years. Jurors have heard accounts concerning the MGM Grand fight that preceded the shooting and the gang conflict prosecutors say followed. Witnesses have also been questioned about Death Row Records, Shakur’s final hours, and statements Davis made about the killing over the years. Davis has pleaded not guilty and maintains that stories he told publicly about the murder were exaggerated rather than truthful admissions.

The trial against Davis remains underway in Clark County District Court. Prosecutors accuse him of helping organize the retaliatory attack that killed Shakur, while the defense is challenging the reliability of statements he made about the shooting years later.

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According to alleged court documents reportedly obtained by RadarOnline, the Shakur family accused Keefe of ordering his crew to keep quiet after the murder and arranging the fallout from the Las Vegas attack in 1996. The allegations reportedly appear in the lawsuit, which comes from Mopreme as the administrator of Mutulu Shakur’s estate, ‘Pac’s late stepfather.

Per the report, the complaint cites grand jury testimony claiming Keefe D warned his nephew Orlando Anderson to refrain from telling anyone what happened that night. Also, it claims Keefe directed his crew regarding how to deal with a ten-day conflict between the Mob Piru Bloods and the South Side Compton Crips.

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Keefe D’s Tupac Allegations

In addition, the lawsuit reportedly claims Keefe D’s retellings of the Tupac murder over the past decades has also obfuscated the truth of what happened. It reportedly alleged he gave inconsistent versions of the shooting to shift blame and obscure the alleged roles of the alleged perpetrators. Also, it claims Keefe’s 2008 proffer with the Los Angeles Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation wasn’t available to the Shakur family and the public due to confidentiality.

The filing reportedly says he walked back his admissions after his arrest. Now, the Shakur family believes this alleged cover-up and silence is a big part of why no one has solved the murder in court.

We will see if any of this is relevant regarding Keefe D’s active Tupac case. The wrongful death lawsuit emerged earlier this year.

Tupac’s family is not confident in justice, and a huge reason why is how this became a myth in hip-hop and beyond. But this case has opened up a lot more that the court will not be able to address. As such, things could still be very complicated even after a verdict comes down.

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DJ Akademiks shared a video from Trap Lore Ross on Instagram, who is on the ground at Los Angeles covering the Durk trial. He claimed Judge Fitzgerald scolded fans for passing out “Free Durk” postcards in the courtroom.

Ross said the judge was “furious” over this, speculating someone must have told the judge about the fans in the courtroom. He showed the postcards in question, and he himself recalled how he received them from Durk supporters in the courtroom. They also reportedly showed a “Free Durk” magazine around about the case, saying there would be more copies soon.

Judge Fitzgerald blasted these folks for disseminating public opinion inside the courtroom, which is not supposed to happen. He reportedly called this “grossly improper” regarding the jury selection process, warning supporters about potential prosecution for contempt of court.

Also, Judge Fitzgerald reportedly said he would do the same if it was Lul Pab’s family and supporters engaging in similar behavior. Lul Pab is the deceased victim of a 2022 Los Angeles shooting that injured his cousin Quando Rondo, and prosecutors are accusing the Chicago rapper of being the one responsible for the attack.

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How Much Time Is Lil Durk Facing?

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If convicted, Lil Durk faces life in prison for the murder-for-hire of Lul Pab and the alleged attempted hit on Quando Rondo. He and his codefendants have pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.

As for the aforementioned jury selection delay, this is because a prospective juror said Durk and his codefendants looked guilty. The search for an impartial jury has been more complex and lengthy than folks expected.

Meanwhile, debates over evidence in the case, such as music and other artistic material, continue to emerge. All these matters over supporters in court, jurors, and media conflicts are just building up to the trial itself.

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According to Politico, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov was asked yesterday (Thursday, August 20) whether or not Putin will meet Kanye for this tour visit. “This isn’t our topic,” Peskov reportedly stated to reporters. “This isn’t Mosconcert, this is the presidential administration.”

For those unaware, the Chicago artist is reportedly facing pressure to support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ahead of his concerts in St. Petersburg. Politician Nikolay Novichkov warned the concerts could face cancelation if Ye doesn’t publicly show “moral support for Russia and the special military operation” in Ukraine.

Also, conservative lawmaker Vitaly Milonov asked for Kanye West to perform traditional Russian songs during his performances. Milonov posited Ye may refrain from his “disgusting antics” and become a “normal person” in the future if he does so.

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Kanye West’s Concerts

Previously, Kanye West’s concerts have faced similar controversy. Much like the backlash in Russia, authorities in the United Kingdom, Slovakia, France, Poland, Italy, and the Czech Republic canceled or prohibited Ye performances for various reasons. Much of it is his antisemitism and other forms of bigotry, although other cancelations have been for external factors apart from sociopolitical controversy.

Whether or not the Yeezy mogul meets with Vladimir Putin or the Kremlin, any association regarding the conflict with Ukraine will also cause debate in either direction. So things could get a lot more complicated for him.

Regardless, Kanye West is pressing on with new material and presumably hopes to treat as many fans worldwide as possible to performances. Now, all that’s left to see is whether any logistical or state-related issues hinder the path to the October shows’ execution.

If the shows go by as planned, Ye would become one of the biggest Western stars on the planet to perform in Russia since the Ukraine invasion began in 2022.

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According to an exclusive AllHipHop report from Grouchy Greg Watkins, a male prospective juror said Durk and his codefendants looked guilty, thus stating he could not view them fairly. This man, juror number 18, reportedly said just looking at the codefendants made him feel like they were guilty, despite not yet hearing either side’s arguments.

Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald reportedly removed juror number 18 from the pool, which includes roughly 80 prospective jurors. This jury selection process opened official court proceedings in this case yesterday (Thursday, August 20).

Reportedly, it’s been going slower than expected today, and only about 40 percent of prospective jurors have been evaluated by the court so far. As such, having opening statements today seems unlikely, unless things move much more rapidly as of writing this article.

In order for testimony and opening statements to begin, the federal court must seat 12 impartial jurors and four alternates. We will see when this process will end next week.

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Why Did Lil Durk Get Arrested?

For those unaware, Lil Durk faces several murder-for-hire-related charges, to which he and his codefendants have pleaded not guilty. Durk is at the center of prosecutors’ allegations, which are that he arranged for a hit on Quando Rondo’s life.

Rondo faced a shooting in Los Angeles in 2022 that took the life of his cousin, Lul Pab. Prosecutors also accused The Voice of another murder plot in Chicago, but the judge separated those allegations from this L.A. case.

Elsewhere, folks speaking out about the Lil Durk trial have brought up other criminal accusations tied to his name. For example, the mother of FBG Duck recently addressed the trial. She had accused him, OTF, and others of having something to do with the murder of her son.

But that has nothing to do with this federal case. For now, progress seems slow while the court finds its impartial jury.

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