North West has joined the “The Lion King” cast at the Hollywood Bowl.
Organizers announced that Kim Kardashian and Ye’s 10-year-old daughter had joined the cast of Disney’s upcoming concert event.
It was also announced that Broadway’s Heather Headley and Grammy winner Lebo M. have been added to the cast.
North West and the pair will join previously announced cast members Jennifer Hudson, Nathan Lane, Jeremy Irons, Billy Eichner, Jason Weaver, Bradley Gibson and Ernie Sabella in the show.
The two-night event will take place at the Hollywood Bowl on May 24 and 25 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of “The Lion King.”
The live shows, featuring a live orchestra performing Hans Zimmer’s Oscar-winning score from the original 1994 film and the 2019 remake, will be filmed and later released as a special on Disney+.
The star-studded cast will perform songs and numbers using costumes, puppetry and sets from the Broadway show.
This is the second time North has tried her hand at acting.
She landed a role in the 2023 animated film “Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie,” in which she voices a dog named Mini alongside Hollywood stars Taraji P. Henson, Kristen Bell, Chris Rock, and James Marsden.
North’s role in the musical concert has yet to be revealed.
There’s way too much stuff coming out, but this is breaking news as far as I’m concerned. The rumor is that J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar have already talked, this is according to one of Dot’s presumed close friends. There aren’t many new developments, but the source said that J. Cole and Kendrick did, in fact, talk.
Apparently, that means they’re cool, but there’s a twist. Apparently, Kendrick Lamar was upset that J. Cole apologized. I’m not sure if he was angry because he wanted to get it on lyrically with J. Cole, or if he didn’t think an apology was necessary at all.
What we thought was true ended up being true. Those 17 days or so that Kendrick Lamar wasn’t responding to Drake, he was recording an arsenal of songs aimed at his adversary. Furthermore, he was making adjustments, as we saw, and then releasing the content, just in case Drake decided to return to the beef. Kendrick is apparently fully ready with at least five new songs to blast off.
Last but not least, it seems like Kendrick Lamar and his lady, Whitney, are in New York City with the kids. Meanwhile, she hasn’t said a word. Also, Kendrick has never directly addressed the allegations or rumors that Drake brought up. Iit seems like whatever is going on, all is well and blessed with Kendrick Lamar.
Again, these are all rumors.
Now look at what is being said on the internet below.
T.I. has released “LLOGCLAY,” a new single featuring NBA YoungBoy, from his upcoming final album, Kill The King. The song is a tribute to his late brother, manager, mentor and friend Clay Evans, who died last year and had a significant influence on T.I.’s decades-long career.
In memory of Clay, a mural was installed at T.I.’s Trap City Cafe in Bankhead, Atlanta last month. T.I. recently expressed on social media, “What we built as a crew, will never be erased.”
It’s been an eventful week for the multifaceted artist as he balances roles as a rapper, comedian and entrepreneur. His week began with a performance at Netflix’s “Netflix Is A Joke Comedy Fest,” and on Wednesday (May 8), he received an ASCAP Pop Award for his contribution to Drake and 21 Savage’s “Rich Flex,” which samples T.I.’s “24s.” He wrapped up the week with a performance at the LA County Fair and will soon head to Kazakhstan for an arena show next week.
Expect more music, movies and entertainment from T.I., the King of the South, throughout the year. As Tip puts it, “U DIGGG.”
The Game continues to antagonize Rick Ross following the release of his “Freeway’s Revenge” diss track. On Saturday (May 11), the West Coast rap veteran jumped on Instagram to address the fact that Rozay has yet to respond.
The Game alleged Ross, who clout shamed him in a series of social media posts, had gotten cold feet about releasing a diss he recorded.
“The cereal killer [duck’n] this real smoke,” The Game wrote in the caption of the post. “Scared to drop that nursery rhyme you recorded the other night I see lol… F### it, a quick W for the home team & some real rap for the fans playlist. Posting very attainable cereal bowls, bottled up dog p### & crouching by cars like that’s gone get you outta this ass whoopin’. IT AINT !!!”
The Game continued, seemingly addressing the “Champagne Moments” diss Ross released aimed at Drake.
“& for rap fans worldwide,” he wrote. “Thing about most these rap n##### y’all idolize is…. they pick & choose who they diss very carefully. End of the day, ALL the n##### in this s### know what I’m capable of especially when it’s time to go bar for bar. The real “Rick Ross” @freewayricky this one was for you big homie [100 emoji].”
The Game then effectively mocked Ross for his attempts to flex on him by attacking his physical appearance and more.
“& as for chicken legs: you can’t whoop my ass or out rap me so… post all the cars, n fake watches you want to,” he added. “the real fans see through you & that Widebach Music s### !!! You can’t run from this s###. S###, you can’t run period… human capri sun pouch body shaped n#### you. – Chuck Taylor.”
Before this most recent social media post, Ross had claimed the Born 2 Rap MC was “starving for beef” and downplayed the diss.
On the record itself, The Game accuses the MMG honcho of stealing his name. He also mocks Ross’s health issues, claiming, “You 12 lemon pepper wings from a heart attack,” before referencing the K. Dot and Drizzy feud.
“This ain’t the Kendrick beef, my Drake sing songs,” he raps. “My K. Dot s###, I don’t have to turn the beam on.”
He also addresses Ross’s past as a correctional officer before turning up the heat after a beat switch.
“Congratulations, what an imagination/From CO to drug kingpin now this n#### acting Haitian/The stories these n#### tell/He gone’ tell us he got a key for every n#### he locked in a cell,” The Game continued. “He gone tell us he just bought another crib, he living well/But he won’t tell us about his health condition, he sick as hell/He popping pills, they starting to f### with his brain/Seizures off the lean, Balenciaga shorts got s### stains.”
Game closed out the track by warning that he’s the “Compton Grim Reaper,” before advising Ross to “let it go.”
Like Drake, Gillie Da King is being tormented for things he said about Kendrick Lamar amid the West Coast rapper’s beef with the Toronto rapper.
In case you were unaware, the Million Dollaz Worth Of Game podcast host prematurely declared Drake the winner of the rap beef with Kendrick. Following the release of Drake’s “The Heart Pt 6,” his response to Kendrick’s “Not Like Us,” Gillie gloated on social media, saying Drizzy was the winner of the bout.
“It’s over with!” Gillie said. “Light-skinned n###as won. They took that s##t, man. That s##t over with, man. Kendrick can’t come back.”
But Gillie’s declaration of victory didn’t age well, as Kendrick is trending toward debuting at the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart with “Not Like Us,” in addition to taking over the top spot on multiple streaming charts in Canada as well. As expected, Gillie has been bombarded by messages from Kendrick fans demanding that he concede defeat. However, in an even more predictable move, Gillie is refusing to retreat and is standing his ground on the matter.
“Say this all you f##king Kendrick Lamar fans, get the f##k out my dm,” Gillie said in another video shared on Instagram.
Gillie claimed he was fair in his analysis of the battle and even went on to say that he even gave credit to Kendrick where credit was due.
“I kept it the f### real,” he said. “The first two diss records was f###ing f##k ehhh. He came with that f###ing mustard joint. I was like ‘Oh yeah, Mustard on the beat,’ that m###########. I gave him all the credit, ‘I said, n####, this one right here,’ f##k wrong with y’all.'”
Gillie later expressed his opinion that the Kendrick records that utilized soul samples just weren’t authentic diss records, by his definition.
“I keep it real, f##k wrong with you,” he said. “You can’t. The first f###ing two, this one of the f###ing diss records was off of f###ing Al Green. ‘I’m so in love with you.’ How the f###k you want this? A n###a off of Al Green? I don’t know what to do. It’s all right. Man the f##k is y’all talking about you can’t diss no f###### n###a off of Al Green a f###ing love song.”
Gillie concluded, “Now that f###ing ‘Mustard on the beat,’ that s##t had me ready to motherf###ing Crip walking. I ain’t going to lie. F##k. Get the f##k up out my DM though. I’m a n###a that keep it real. You n####s don’t keep it f###ing real.”
Robert De Niro will get his own mini-convention at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, with an offshoot of the event named “De Niro Con” featuring Nas.
The Tribeca Film Festival co-founder wanted to honor the Oscar-winning actor.
“I can’t think of a better way to celebrate 80 years of Robert De Niro, my dear friend and co-conspirator for the past 35 years, than by throwing a big bash for his fellow New Yorkers,” Jane Rosenthal, the festival’s CEO, said in a statement.
De Niro Con will take place between June 14 and 16. De Niro will attend screenings and converse with many of his co-stars and directors, including Billy Crystal following a screening of Analyze This and Quentin Tarantino after a screening of Jackie Brown.
There will also be a conversation with Silver Linings Playbook director David O. Russell and an interview with De Niro and famed director Martin Scorsese to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Mean Streets, moderated by Nas.
Fans will also be able to get real or temporary tattoos from the makeshift prison tattoo parlor from Cape Fear, view Travis Bickle’s bedroom from Taxi Driver and take Jack Byrnes’ infamous polygraph test from Meet The Parents.
Drake’s Toronto home has once again been hit by another intruder. According to TMZ, security for the OVO Sound boss was forced to take down a man who tried to infiltrate the expansive property.
An eyewitness said he was riding his bike by Drake’s home on Saturday (May 11), when he saw two of rapper’s security guards tackle a guy to the ground and placing a knee in the center of his back to prevent him from getting up. One of the security members reportedly jumped on the radio while the other helped wrestle him to the ground, although there wasn’t much of a fight.
Meanwhile, Drake is clearly growing tired of all the chaos taking place at his house. Taking to his Instagram Stories, he asked a local news affiliate to stop sending helicopters to surveil his property. As he wrote, “@cp24breakingnews can we discuss the chopper flight times over the house cause I won’t lie I’m trying to sleep. anytime after 3pm works great for me.”
The latest intrusion marks the third in a week. It started on Tuesday (May 7), when one of Drake’s security guards was shot in the chest and rushed to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Police are staying quiet about the possible connection to the ongoing Kendrick Lamar feud. Other conspiracy theories link the incident to The Weeknd.
Police returned to Drake’s Toronto home a day later after another intruder attempted to break into the Canadian star’s house. The unidentified trespasser allegedly got into an altercation with security at the gates of Drake’s home. Security subdued the man and held him until police arrived. Cops took the man into custody under the Mental Health Act. The intruder allegedly said he was “here to see Drake.”
It’s difficult not to connect all of the unsettling activity to the Kendrick Lamar feud, especially when OVO stores are being vandalized with K. Dot lyrics and all of this ramped up following the contentious back-and-forth. But so far, police haven’t confirmed that to be the case.
Nicki Minaj has escalated her legal battle against blogger Marley Green, also known as Nosey Heaux.
The lawsuit, filed by Nicki Minaj, stems from a tweet made by Green regarding Minaj’s newborn baby And allegations the rapper was using cocaine.
The lawsuit alleges that Green made a defamatory statement in a video posted on Twitter, falsely claiming that Nicki Minaj is a “cokehead” who is “shoving all this cocaine up her nose.”
The ongoing feud between the two has taken a more aggressive turn, with Nicki Minaj seeking legal action to protect her privacy and reputation.
In a letter addressed to Judge Buchwald, Minaj’s attorney, Judd Burstein, provided an update on the case and proposed a schedule for the future.
According to the document, Minaj’s legal team had previously sent a letter to the court on March 25, 2024, providing a status update and a proposal for the case.
In response, counsel for Green requested an extension to respond to the letter until April 23, 2024.
However, as of May 8, 2024, Green failed to respond to Minaj’s letter, leading Minaj to argue that she had waived any objections to the relief sought.
Nicki Minaj’s request to the court includes various actions against Green for her alleged failure to comply with discovery requests and respond to certain communications.
These requests include precluding the defendants from seeking any further discovery, preventing them from offering any evidence in opposition to Nicki Minaj’s anticipated motion for summary judgment or at any hearing or trial, and banning them from interposing any objections to the discovery requests.
Additionally, the rapper requests that the court direct Green to provide complete answers to Minaj’s amended set of interrogatories.
Failure to comply with these requests could result in the court striking the Green’s answer to the lawsuit.
Nicki Minaj is also trying to get her hands on various documents and communications related to Green’s statements about Nicki Minaj’s alleged drug use and the number of views and comments on a video posted on the Nosey Heaux’s’ social media platforms in an attempt to quantify the actual damages to the rap star’s reputation.
Nicki Minaj is seeking damages of at least $75,000 from Green and her company for the defamatory statements.
Macklemore has been relatively quiet in 2024 but decided to drop a pro-Palestine anthem called “Hinds Hall” in the middle of the Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef.
While many saw the song as opportunistic, others found it to be brave and exactly what people needed to hear in the midst of such a meritless topic—at least when it comes to global issues.
But veteran Jewish rapper Matisyahu, who’s been proudly waving the Israeli flag throughout his career, thinks the song causes more trouble.
Paparazzi caught up with Matisyahu in Los Angeles, where he gave his opinion on the entire situation. He says, “Hinds Hall” isn’t what it appears to be on the surface. He also reminded people Macklemore is the same person who had to issue an apology for perpetuating Jewish stereotypes by wearing a big prosthetic nose.
“It’s not about freeing Palestine, it’s actually the opposite,” he said. “It’s going to keep people not at peace with each other. It’s going to keep people fighting, because it’s riddled with antisemitic tropes. Again, it’s not about freeing Palestine. Let’s not forget for a second this is a guy who wore a prosthetic nose and had to make a public apology for putting on ‘Jew face.’ He’s obviously not about necessarily freeing Palestine but again, he has this concept that he perpetrates, which is like Jews run the world.
“This is an antisemitic idea that’s been going on for thousands of years, that we’re somehow this super human race, these puppet masters that you can blame all the world’s problems on. And if you go through that song, you’ll see time after time, where he literally makes references to us being puppet masters and controlling the world.
He goes on, “He continues this idea of antisemitism. When you continue this idea of antisemitism in the world, you don’t get peace, you don’t get rights. What you get is alienation of Jews, more aggression, more anger, more violence. If you really care about peace and coming together, then stop with all the antisemitism because that’s what it is.”
Matisyahu proceeded to bring up Kanye West, who has faced an intense amount of backlash and scrutiny for his loud, antisemitic views.
“It’s interesting that a year ago Kanye was basically canceled for this, saying the same exact things,” he added. “What Macklemore is saying are white supremacists, the KKK and Nazi ideas, but he’s masking it up in this way and in the climate of today’s culture, it’s somehow accepted.”
Matisyahu concluded Macklemore needs to do more research, but he’d be willing to have a conversation with him.
The Seattle-bred rapper, who infamously bested Kendrick Lamar in the Best Rap Album category at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards in 2014, announced the track via social media on Monday (May 6). He promised to donate all proceeds to UNRWA, an independent 501c3 nonprofit organization that provides support for the humanitarian work of the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees.
The lyrics and accompanying video highlight the ongoing Israel-Hamas War, which erupted in October 2023. It was apparently inspired by the work of student protesters at Columbia University, who occupied the campus’s Hamilton Hall last week and renamed it “Hind’s Hall.” Throughout the track, Macklemore reiterates there are much more important issues to discuss than the lyrical warfare between two of rap’s most famous names.
“What happened to the artist?” he raps. “What do you got to say?If I was on a label, you could drop me today/I’d be fine with it ’cause the heart fed my page/I want a ceasefire, f### a response from Drake (Woo)/What you willin’ to risk? What you willin’ to give?/What if you were in Gaza? What if those were your kids?/If the West was pretendin’ that you didn’t exist.”
Kim Kardashian needed to don custom-made underwear for the Met Gala.
The reality star explained that her elaborate dress required a particular pair of underpants to prevent wardrobe mishaps.
The base layer of Kim’s tightly cinched John Galliano for Maison Margiela gown was made of metal like a suit of armor – but from certain angles, it left the possibility of peekaboo gaps.
“The one thing about John is he’ll think of every last detail,” Kim Kardashian, 43, told Vogue.
“So, if you’re standing at the top of the stairs, but the photographers are at the bottom of the stairs, and they’re getting a glimpse up, and the skirt’s made out of metal and there’s little peekaboo holes within that, he wanted to make sure that I’m fully covered in the appropriate places.”
To head off the chance of a bad photo op, Kim wore a specially made pair of Margiela thong underpants featuring a print of the same floral design that appeared on her gown.
Kim Kardashian also explained that she had to walk on the tips of her toes, like a ballerina, for the entire red carpet.
“We really need the height on this look, so we gotta do what we gotta do,” she said.
NLE Choppa and former NFL star-turned-rapper LeVeon Bell may have a healthy, high-stakes competition brewing between them.
On Friday (May 10), the Memphis rapper both delivered his new single “Stickin And Movin” in and released his collaborative Duck Boot shoe with Fctry Labs, which he remarked on selling out in a post on Instagram. However, it appears as though not everyone was as excited as Choppa’s fans were about the release of the shoes, considering Bell straight up dissed them in a quoted reply of the $250 kicks on Twitter (X.)
“& ppl boutta buy them ugly ass boots too [Face-palm emoji],” Bell wrote in the tweet.
Choppa immediately took offense and snapped back at Bell in a reply he wrote, “Imma sale more boots then you sold jersey how much u wanna bet ?”
Bell seemingly took Choppa’s tweet seriously and effectively replied by recording a TikTok video formally challenging the “S### Me Out 2” rapper to a sales battle, while also clowning his shoes.
“All right y’all, we have a fried one,” Bell said while laughing. “NLE Choppa is fried. Have y’all seen his boots? Hold on. These are the boots. These are the boots.”
As Bell continued, he appeared to belittle Choppa by throwing his NFL career in his face.
“NLE Choppa, I don’t think you understand, bro. I’ve been doing this for a long time,” he said in part.
“Literally from 2014 to 2017, I was in top five jersey sales at the NFL for like three to four years straight. Then I had free agency and went to a new team with the Jets, and then my Jersey sales went even crazier with a new team. And then after that I went from the Jets to the Kansas City Chiefs.”
Bell continued, concluding that he was like something from the Marvel Universe while Choppa was just some “Freaky” guy.
“Bro, I was the last infinity ring for the gauntlet bro,” he said before adding, “So someone told this freaky guy, this freaky little rapper, whatever you want to put up for the bet we can do. I like me.”
Tina Knowles has spoken about her twin grandchildren, Rumi and Sir, before their seventh birthday. Beyoncé mother, 70, has opened up about the pair for the first time.
“Rumi is amazing, an amazing artist, painter and creator,” Tina Knowles told E! News. “How could they be anything else growing up in that environment? All we talk about is creativity and fashion. Sir is very quiet,” explaining he “does all of the numbers stuff, so he’s not into fashion as much.”
Rumi recently appeared on Beyoncé’s COWBOY CARTER country-leaning album on the track “Protector,” which charted at No. 42 on the Billboard Hot 100.
However, the children are rarely seen in public. Beyoncé and Jay-Z are also parents to daughter Blue Ivy, 12. She appeared on Beyoncé’s RENAISSANCE Tour and was featured on “Brown Skin Girl” in 2019, when she was seven years old.
The Kendrick Lamar and Drake feud is still ongoing and will carry on for a long time. Top Dawg of TDE said the beef is over, but the internet said, “No way, Jose.”
There’s been all this controversy, where Drake said that he fed Kendrick and his crew all this false information, resulting in a diss track full of lies. It sounded slick, but it didn’t seem to make sense because Drake was never able to produce the receipts one would expect to have. He just said it, and people were supposed to take it as fact.
In a recent turn of events, somebody on the internet has produced materials identical to the items used for “6:16 in LA” and “meet the grahams.” And the person seems aggravated because Drake called him a liar, which seems to have upset him. He’s even threatening legal action, which seems weird. At the end of the day, this will probably boil down to money. But extortion is illegal, so how will this play out?
#1. King @kendricklamar is not a liar, and I am not a thief!
#2. Mr. Aubrey Graham (@Drake) & Mr. Livingston Allen (@Akademiks) have until noon Monday 5/13/24 to retract your claims of theft, or my attorney Ms. Adrienne Edward and I will exhaust every legal option available. pic.twitter.com/Mm6TBjMiXc
My understanding is that Kendrick Lamar is completely clean in this case. The alleged shakedown seems to be coming from this unnamed individual who’s upset he’s being considered a liar.
The question is: who is this person? Based on what I can see, and that’s not a whole lot, it’s probably a security guard or someone who was able to get discarded items and save them. Another thing: my sources say it was not “stolen” from Drake, Drake’s father or anyone like that. (The dude says that as well.) How do they know that? I don’t know. That is just what was told to me.
Drake tried to get out of this mess for good reason. He recently put his Beverly Hills mansion on the market. I think, after having a beef of this magnitude, it will be difficult for him to be in the same city as his opposition’s origins — it could be dangerous. On a whole other level, living in America could be potentially problematic at this point.
If any of this is true, it is a well-earned title. We are trying to figure this out as it’s unfolding, and the plot continues to thicken. Twitter is full of theories. The battle is over, but I suspect we are just witnessing the beginning of something far more complicated. And we know Kendrick Lamar has more surrounding all of this. I doubt it will be revealed lyrically, but I’m almost certain it’s somewhere in a vault or a chest full of stuff that can be revealed at any given moment.
Kendrick Lamar and Drake went head-to-head in one of the most publicized Hip-Hop battles in history. According to Top Dawg Entertainment CEO Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith, the lyrical fight has ended.
“This battle is over. A win for the culture, while keeping it all on wax. Especially when these publications try to make it something else,” Top Dawg tweeted on Friday (May 10).
The TDE founder continued, “We proved them wrong. That’s a victory within itself. On another note, it’s time to wrap up this TDE [20-year] anniversary compilation.”
Kendrick Lamar dropped all five of his studio LPs via Top Dawg Entertainment. The Compton, California native also released Untitled Unmastered and Black Panther: The Album on the label.
This battle is over. A win for the culture, while keeping it all on wax. Especially when these publications try to make it something else. We proved them wrong. That’s a victory within itself. On another note, it’s time to wrap up this TDE 20yr anniversary compilation.
Kendrick Lamar and Drake have been feuding since at least 2014. The battle went from subliminal shots to direct shots in March 2024 with Lamar’s verse on “Like That” by Future and Metro Boomin.
Drake responded to “Like That” with “Push Ups” and “Taylor Made Freestyle” in April 2024. Both rap superstars exchanged an additional six diss records over six days.
Sean “Diddy” Combs is currently battling to dismiss a disturbing lawsuit against him and his enterprises following allegations of sexual misconduct dating back to 2003.
The legal challenge, lodged by the obscure plaintiff identified only as Jane Doe, accuses Diddy, Bad Boy employee Harve Pierre and an unnamed associate of sex trafficking and gang-raping her when she was 17 years old at his Manhattan recording studio, Daddy’s House.
In her lawsuit, filed in December 2023, Doe alleges that during her traumatic encounter, she was coerced into oral sex by Diddy’s longtime producing partner, Harve Pierre, who also supposedly smoked crack during the incident.
The complaint details how Pierre allegedly transported her from Detroit to New York on a private jet and provided her with drugs and alcohol until she was inebriated and unable to consent.
The filing includes photos purportedly from the night in question, one depicting Doe seated on Combs’ lap, bolstering her claims.
Diddy’s legal team, spearheaded by attorney Jonathan Davis, has put forth multiple arguments for dismissing the accusations, primarily emphasizing that the lawsuit is time-barred.
The alleged incidents occurred in 2003, but the legal action was not initiated until 2023, significantly beyond the statute of limitations.
Davis highlighted in court documents that any assertion to revive the claim under the Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Law (VGM) should be disregarded as it conflicts with the provisions of the Child Victims Act (CVA) from 2019.
According to Diddy’s defense, the deadline to enact claims under this act expired in August 2021, making Doe’s accusations procedurally invalid.
Moreover, Diddy’s representation contended that the purported behaviors of his colleagues shouldn’t be attributed to him or his companies, asserting that such acts fall outside the realm of employment responsibilities.
Davis further criticized the lawsuit’s narrative technique.
“At the top of Plaintiff’s pleading is a bolded, legally irrelevant ‘trigger warning’ calculated to focus attention on its salacious and depraved allegations. This stunt is intended to prominently showcase a baseless and time-barred claim,” Davis explained.
On his part, Harve Pierre has refuted all the charges against him, describing them as wholly fabricated and motivated by financial interests.
Pierre declared, “This is a tale of fiction. I have never participated in, witnessed, nor heard of anything like this, ever. These disgusting allegations are false and a desperate attempt for financial gain.”
Toosii has accused Shaq of allegedly attempting to intrude on the relationship he has with the mother of his children, just as new photos of the former NBA Champion and his alleged girlfriend are circulating.
On Thursday (May 9), the “Love Cycle” crooner responded to the photos of Shaq Diesel and his alleged 21-year-old girlfriend in a short thread on Twitter (X.) In the first tweet, Toosii reposted the photos of Shaq and the younger woman while also calling out the 52-year-old for DMing his then-pregnant girlfriend.
“One time this n#### dm Samaria and said ‘let me have that baby’ talking about my son,” Toosii wrote in the tweet. “Weird ass old head.”
In a follow-up tweet, Toosii added, “Man idk if this how old n###as flirt or what,” along with a screenshot receipt of Shaq’s DM.
As if all of that weren’t enough of a public finger-wagging, Toosii went on to address Shaq’s DM in a video in which he further shut down any possibility that the former Lakers center could have a chance with his girl.
“So apparently I guess what [Shaq] was saying was he wanted my girl,” Toosii said in the video. “Which like if I would have read it like that, I never would have posted it…But n###a you don’t got no business trying to f##k my girl…fam like seven foot!
“My girl like 5’2 you not finna f##k my girl and be spinning her around your f###ing finger like a fidget spinner. What is you talkin’ bout? Man hell naw. But yeah tho if I would have knew that I never would have posted it, but I thought he was talking about my son.”
Toosii’s claims come just days after an excerpt from his ex-wife Shaunie Henderson’s new memoir, Undefeated: Changing the Rules and Winning On My Own Terms, began circulating online. In it, she confesses that she wasn’t necessarily in love with Shaq during their nine-year union. Instead, it appears as though Henderspm was drawn to the lifestyle and their family, rather than their commitment to each other as husband and wife.
“Looking back, I don’t know that I was ever really in love with the man, but I was in love with the idea of being married to the man I had a family with,” Henderson wrote in the memoir. “I was in love with the idea of building a life together. I truly did enjoy spending time with him. [NBA] road trips allowed me to be with my husband and experience the NBA life for a little while.”
I have purposely avoided the rumors surrounding Kendrick Lamar and Drake. As you can imagine, rumors are flying left and right.
I’m going to start off with the big one. There’s a rumor that Kendrick Lamar is about to drop a whole album in June, just in time for his Gemini birthday. That’s amazing, but it also flows into a rumor that I heard before Drake waved the white flag (in my opinion). And that rumor was that Kendrick Lamar and Pusha T were going to collaborate on a song, presumably dissing Drake.
As you likely already know, Drake and Pusha T have a storied history. And there are some parallels with Kendrick Lamar and King Push. So, for them to get together would be interesting.
But the more exciting part of this is that we may get a full-blown album from Kendrick Lamar. Right now, I would imagine his creative juices are flowing and he’s been in the studio, recording. So, the rumor comes as no surprise that he would ride this momentum.
Nevertheless, I guess I can say this as well: I am hearing that Drake has more diss material coming toward K–Dot. We already know Dot has stuff ready but opted not to put it out when the white flag came out. I think it would be ill advised for Drake to come back out. Take the summer off.
Diddy defiantly trolled his detractors despite facing multiple accusations of sexual assault and a federal investigation into allegations of sex trafficking. The embattled mogul posted a meme to question why he was the target of hate.
“LOVE,” he wrote in the caption of the video.
Diddy’s latest legal woes began when his ex-girlfriend Cassie sued him for rape and years of abuse in November 2023. Diddy and Cassie quickly settled the lawsuit out of court.
“I have decided to resolve this matter amicably on terms that I have some level of control,” Cassie said in a statement. “I want to thank my family, fans and lawyers for their unwavering support.”
Last year, three more women sued Diddy for sexual assault after his settlement with Cassie. He denied the allegations.
“Enough is enough,” he wrote. “For the last couple of weeks, I have sat silently and watched people try to assassinate my character, destroy my reputation and my legacy. Sickening allegations have been made against me by individuals looking for a quick payday. Let me be absolutely clear: I did not do any of the awful things being alleged. I will fight for my name, my family and for the truth.”
Two of Diddy’s accusers said they were minors when he sexually assaulted them. Former Bad Boy Records executive Harve Pierre and singer Aaron Hall were implicated in the lawsuits.
Producer Lil Rod sued Diddy for sexual assault in February. Lil Rod’s lawsuit included many shocking allegations, including claims of Diddy leading a “widespread and dangerous criminal sex trafficking organization.”
Shawn Holley, one of Diddy’s lawyers, said Lil Rod was “nothing more than a con man shamelessly looking for an easy and wholly undeserved payday.” But Homeland Security raided Diddy’s homes to investigate allegations of sex trafficking in March. A man identified as Diddy’s alleged drug mule in Lil Rod’s lawsuit was also arrested on the same day as the raids.
Diddy, whose real name is Sean Combs, has not been charged with any crimes thus far.
Black Thought understood why the Dreamville rapper apologized for the Kendrick Lamar diss track “7 Minute Drill.” The Roots member recalled his past interactions with J. Cole when asked about the apology on the This Week in White Supremacy podcast.
“He’s been on a trajectory of … self-revelation, investing into his self,” Black Thought said. “I feel like his mind, spirit, body, soul, music, everything, is better for it … This is how I sort of understand J. Cole. I don’t know the brother well, but he and I had talked about doing music together at one point. And shortly after the beginning of 2018, he hit me like, ‘Yo, let’s do an album.’ I told him to send me some music.”
He continued, “I told him I was with it. It wasn’t like, ‘Send me some music to see if I want to do it.’ It was like, ‘Send me—let me see what you’re thinking.’ And he sent me a batch of beats and they all just felt so close to something I guess something Roots-centric. At the time, I was trying to sort of step outside of what I’d done with The Roots and I just didn’t feel like we were lining up. So, I think I asked him to do a different batch. I gave him like an explanation. And in my explanation, I think I scared him off. Maybe some of the trigger words that I was using, like, ‘I want something hard. This beat ain’t aggressive enough.’ He wasn’t on that. He was on a peaceful journey.”
J. Cole released “7 Minute Drill” in response to Kendrick’s lyrical jabs on Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That.” J. Cole publicly apologized for the diss, calling it the “lamest” thing he ever did in his life. Black Thought praised the apology.
“He’s not trying to engage with the b#######,” the respected lyricist said of J. Cole. “So, I feel like he acted on emotion probably. He did this record and immediately regretted it but already pulled the trigger and was like, ‘How can I now take the high road?’ And I think he set a beautiful example.”
J. Cole faced fan backlash for apologizing, but his decision seemed smart in retrospect. The mudslinging in Kendrick’s battle with Drake, the other target of “Like That,” made J. Cole look wise for bowing out when he did.
Shaquille O’Neal surprisingly added to the barrage of diss tracks dropping in 2024 on Friday (May 10). Shaq fired shots at fellow athlete-turned-talking head Shannon Sharpe on a new song amid their feud over a Nikola Jokić interview.
“Now i’m done with this,” Shaq declared in the Instagram caption of his diss track. “i’ll b at the bahamas crib if anyone needs me. wooooo what a week, first i found out they ain’t love me and now this … you can never break the UNBreakable. and to all the people that kno both of us don’t call me, it will never me a sit down.”
Shaq dropped the diss in response to Sharpe accusing the basketball great of being envious of Jokić, who won the NBA MVP Award for the third time. Shaq, a one-time MVP winner, admitted he thought Shai Gilgeous-Alexander should’ve won the award in an interview with Jokić.
Sharpe believed Shaq was bitter about not winning more MVPs and getting overlooked in “greatest of all time” discussions. Shaq defended himself and belittled Sharpe, one of the elite tight ends in NFL history.
“You took me sticking up for @shai as jealousy??” Shaq wrote on Instagram. “shows how smart you are and how you say anything to get clicks. so here’s some click bait for you. if you ain’t ranked in the top ten in your profession , then you can’t speak on Me. don’t forget i know what you did to get where you at. me jealous lol sounds like you jealous. i kno you tryna stay relevant by gossiping on your podcast. we don’t believe you. you need more people and in case you forgot. 4 rings three finals Mvp top 50 and top 75. google me. and to b quite frank all this new success you got, you still under me … #g14classification i have it, you don’t, not in my profession. and your goat debate , never wanted to be the goat i wanted to be who you should greet me as THE MOST DOMINANT EVER. #theapexpredator.”
Sharpe said he never professed to be as great as Shaq. Sharpe insisted had no beef with Shaq but questioned the former Lakers star’s work ethic.
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