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.
Ice Spice continued her feud with Latto on the new single “Gimme a Light,” which dropped on Friday (May 10). The Bronx native subliminally dissed her foe on the Sean Paul-sampling track.
“And no, I don’t got any opps/Like why would I beef with a flop?” she rapped.
Ice Spice took shots at Latto on the song “Think U the S### (Fart)” in January. The Capitol Records artist confirmed the track was a Latto diss in February.
“The thing is for me is why am I seeing that I’m in the back of your weak ass snippet?” Ice Spice said on Twitter Spaces. “So, I was like, ‘Wait a second, that’s me?’ So I’m like, ‘Okay, since we’re talking about me, let’s talk about me.’ And I dropped that. It was really just a snippet … I was like, ‘This has to be fake. This is AI.’ But b###### be bold, so I was like, ‘Oh, we’re being bold today.’”
The snippet was a preview of Latto’s song “Sunday Service.” Latto posted a TikTok clip featuring an Ice Spice video playing in the background at the same time as the lyrics “I just want a one-on-one, don’t know why she so nervous.”
Ice Spice assumed it was a diss directed at her. Latto denied putting the video in the background on purpose. She didn’t know “Think U the S### (Fart)” was about her until the Twitter Spaces reveal but said she wasn’t “running from no smoke.”
Latto responded to “Think U the S### (Fart)” by clearly dissing Ice Spice on the full version of “Sunday Service.”
“Think I’m the s###? B####, I know it, hoe/Jesus walked on water, I got Ice boiling though,” Latto rapped.
Ice Spice’s “Gimme a Light” is the first official single from her debut album Y2K. She hasn’t announced a release date for the project.
Rick Ross responded to The Game’s diss track “Freeway’s Revenge” on Friday (May 10). Rozay laughed at Game, downplaying the West Coast rapper’s instigation in an Instagram Stories video.
“You n##### don’t wanna eat?” Ross said. “Must not. You n##### starving. You n##### starving!”
Game released “Freeway’s Revenge” after trolling Ross on social media. The opening verse targeted Rozay’s weight and referenced Kendrick Lamar’s battle with Drake.
“Cut open his stomach and stuff bricks in it/Put his body on a scale like there’s fish in it/I can see a b#### in him/$20 million home renovation, just to slit your wrists in it/Suicide, it’s a suicide, rip apart the Maybach, I know the truth’s inside/You 12 lemon pepper wings from a heart attack/Akademiks, get this n#### Ozempic starter pack/Kai Cenat, hit the room, turn that stream on/Ask Buddens ’bout his brief encounter with King Kong/This ain’t the Kendrick beef, my Drac’ sing songs/Shots rings out, the neighbor better have his ring on,” Game rapped.
Game claimed Ross enjoyed getting urinated on before bringing up Rozay’s past as a corrections officer. Game bashed Ross for fabricating the “boss” rap persona.
“’I just a bought a 100-foot yacht, and it was captivating’/Congratulations, what an imagination/From C.O. to drug kingpin now this n#### acting Haitian/The stories these n##### tell/He gon’ tell us he got a key for every n#### he got locked in a cell/He gon’ 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 the s### stains/He not a mastermind, he Gotti, line after line/Lay back in the Maybach, making up s### just to pass the time/He think he Big Meech, free Larry Hoover/Miami a big beach, now watch how I maneuver,” Game rapped.
Freddie Gibbs is more facing domestic violence allegations. The Alfredo rapper became a trending Twitter (X) topic on Friday (May 10) after his ex-girlfriend Jasmine Grenway shared graphic photos of injuries she allegedly sustained during a fight with Gibbs.
“Why are y’all acting so confused?” she tweeted. “I said Freddie Gibbs put his hands on me, which left scars and bruises, then I found out I was pregnant and he won’t help me get an abortion bc he knows the risks due to my medical history of having cervical/ovarian tumors and a laparotomy. Like stop being as dumb as me. Fr.”
She then shared the photos along with the caption, “Now that that’s out of the way, here’s to the more serious part.” When someone asked, “Freddie Gibbs did that?” she responded, “Yes.”
Grenway then tagged a woman who goes by “Destini Creams,” an adult film actress Gibbs previously dated and allegedly impregnated. She wrote, “And to @destinicreams I want my apology to be as loud as my disrespect. I honestly did not know. I judged you bc of your occupation and that was wrong on my behalf. I pray you get your justice as well.”
The woman replied, “Freddie Gibbs can’t beat up men so I see he’s resorted to beating up women. P#### a######.”
Freddie Gibbs can’t beat up men so i see he’s resorted to beating up women. p#### ass hoe.
Most of Grenaway’s tweets appear to have been deleted, but she did leave one up that reads, “I am not a slave to public opinion. Truth is truth. Nobody is more disappointed in me than myself. So y’all can defend my abuser if that’s what you want to do. I truly don’t want sympathy. I just had to share my story. The info is yours now and y’all should do as you please with it. We’ve all been dumb before, I just chose to share. I’m not ashamed. I’m human.”
I am not a slave to public opinion. Truth is truth. Nobody is more disappointed in me than myself. So y’all can defend my abuser if that’s what you want to do. I truly don’t want sympathy. I just had to share my story. The info is yours now and y’all should do as you please with…
At one point, Grenaway claims she even texted Gibbs’ mother and told her about the alleged pregnancy.
“I just want you to know I’m pregnant and I’m trying to get an abortion, but your son is not being logical about it,” the text reads. “He’s yelling at me as if this is something I wanted. I just want to take care of the situation amicably as adults.”
Gibbs, meanwhile, is posting tweets like, “The devil is a lie my n####,” seemingly unbothered as usual.
Some of the best music collaborations are built on friendships. “Paradise,” a smooth and spirited song about love, is one recent example of how a friendship can lead to musical success.
Released on April 26 by Apollo Liberace and Tyla Yaweh, “Paradise” replicates the bond the duo has in real life to provide a unique melody just in time for summer.
“Everything we do is organic,” Apollo Liberace said in an interview with All Hip-Hop. “We knew each other for years before we even did a song together.”
Tyla added, “We ended up doing “Paradise” on some organic s###. I had a studio session and asked him to pop up. I’m tired of everybody giving the same message. It’s no real message to give our next generation of people that look up to us. We’re at a point: ‘Yo, you gotta put that s### in the music.’ ‘Paradise’ feels sad, but it feels happy at the same time.”
Paradise is a love song. Apollo and Tyla, who are both in loving relationships with their female partners, were able to channel those experiences into the overall vibe of the song and visuals.
“The song is about when you have somebody, you could be at the most beautiful place in the world or the best place, but it don’t feel the same unless you’re with that special person,” Apollo said. “That’s what ‘Paradise’ is about. Even if I’m in paradise, it don’t feel the same unless I’m with you.”
AllHipHop caught up with Apollo Liberace and Tyla Yaweh in Los Angeles, where they discussed how they met, how “Paradise” came to be, what their ladies mean to them and more.
AllHipHop: How did you guys meet initially?
Tyla Yaweh: It’s an insane story. I met this guy on Worldstar. He was the top box on Worldstar, it was in a group called BDS Monstaz.
Apollo Liberace: Facts.
Tyla Yaweh: This is when you get on the top box, you gon’ blow up. And that’s what happened to them. This is that primetime WorldStarHipHop and they had that video up there for a cool three months. They bought that slot, it was crazy. It was a few weeks…
Apollo Liberace: Yeah, it was a few weeks. It felt like three months [laughs].
So y’all were kicking it before you made music?
Apollo Liberace: We knew each other for years before we even did a song together.
Tyla Yaweh: We ended up doing a song on some organic s###. Had a studio session, I told him to pop up.
Apollo Liberace: We recorded “Paradise” over here [Tyla’s crib], right at that desk right here.
Because I know you made the song a few years ago, right?
Apollo Liberace: Yeah, I started a few years ago, but I only had a little idea. I finished it here.
What were the vibes? I know it’s more alternative.
Apollo Liberace: Everything we do is organic.
Tyla Yaweh: Hey, I just tell people to live. Figure out that energy you want to create. I really been staying away from a lot of outside things. I be home, I be with my family. I’m growing up so much as a person, every single day it’s dope. I’m learning myself who I want to be and what type of sound.
He has that same exact frequency of staying away from all those outside resources that’s going to make you try to — we’re not here to fight for a spot. We’re here to make good music, have a good time and spread love. That’s something that we really came to a point with each other like “Yo, let’s make music people gon ’love.”
Apollo Liberace: Because neither of us really give a f### about the fame aspect of it, or any of that stuff. That’s why the only people we really around, and I know that about him too, are people that genuinely love doing this. Because anything outside of that, we’ve been around all that already. The blue checks. We never even started doing this for a lot of reasons. People do this whether it’s girls, money, fame — none of that. It’s for the love of the craft.
Tyla Yaweh: One thing I’ve been saying is I’m tired of everybody giving the same message. It’s no real message to give our next generation of people that look up to us. We’re at a point, “Yo, you gotta put that s### in the music.” “Paradise” feels sad, but it feels happy at the same time.
Apollo Liberace: Straight love. We spread love.
Tyla Yaweh: The message that’s going on right now. It’s unauthentic. I refuse to go that far in life to get a click or a view on some music. I’m not losing my dignity for that, for no one.
Apollo Liberace: For a check or nothing!
What is “Paradise” to you?
Tyla Yaweh: It’s this m########### right here, look where we’re at [points to view].
Apollo Liberace: The song is about when you have somebody, you could be at the most beautiful place in the world or the best place, but it don’t feel the same unless you’re with that special person. That’s what “Paradise” is about. Even if I’m in paradise, it don’t feel the same unless I’m with you. I’d rather be at home with you than be at the Taj Mahal or whatever the case may be.
It’s about spreading love. It’s a challenge going around on TikTok naturally with couples and love. Instead of some gimmick doing dances like ass shaking and pop locking, it’s real love. You got people with their kids, people they really care about that they will want to spend those moments with. That’s what the song is about. Naturally, that feedback is coming back to us when we put that out there, which is beautiful.
Tyla Yaweh: That was amazing, bro.
Apollo Liberace: It’s real, come on.
Y’all are both in relationships, how much do your ladies inspire your music?
Apollo Liberace: My girl [Ericka Wolfe] is my partner in everything. I don’t really need a full team, even though I have a team I’m building right now, but my home team is just me and her. We do everything together. Creatively, everything. She thinks she’s smarter than me.
Tyla Yaweh: She has a Ph.D, bro.
Apollo Liberace: She does. She is smarter than me, but I got street smarts [laughs]. She does a lot of things.
Tyla Yaweh: She’s a girl that rides and dies for you. That’s there, supportive. That’s down to be there through the thick and thin of everything.
Apollo Liberace: I don’t want to speak for her, but I am anyway. It’s cool for me knowing him for a while and seeing his relationship with Natasha. Seeing when they got together, both their hustles just maximized. They turning each other up even more. It’s crazy, from my point of view at least.
Tyla Yaweh: I love my girl [Natastha Graziano] a lot because she’s a motivational speaker. She’s always making sure she’s putting those affirmations [out there]. I just went to one of her conferences in Tampa, it was Risecon. Hella different, like David Grutman.
Apollo Liberace: Deion Sanders was there.
Tyla Yaweh: Mad people you see on Instagram. It’s a whole different world for me, too. Because I’m in music, this is what I do all day. But I support my girl no matter what. Seeing her side of the world, she’s making people cry. She’s making people really believe in themselves. She has this thing called Scripting, it got me into scripting. Ever since I started journaling my life and foretelling it, it taught me how to manifest so much more in my life.
Man, that girl motivates the hell out of me every single day when I wake up. And she’s having my baby girl, so that’s pretty cool. You treat your woman right. I say all my homies need to have a relationship with a woman that’s going to motivate them. That’s what I’ve been on.
What was the moment you found out that she was pregnant?
Tyla Yaweh: I just remember coming home. They rushed to the door, I’m like, “Why y’all rushing to the door so much. Yo, what’s going on?’ In my head, I knew s###. I started seeing symptoms. You just know when a woman’s pregnant. You feel the energy. As a man, you start getting tired. You felt it. She showed me like “here look.” She’s pregnant. F### yeah, let’s go.
Apollo Liberace: We were in Dallas for New Years when he told me.
Tyla Yaweh: I said, “She’s pregnant. Crazy! I’m having a kid.” I’m happy. I’m super excited. I’m just gearing up. That’s why we’ve been working on so much music. I’m working in the crib instead of being in the studio, late nights. I bring it at home. I don’t need to be out, I don’t need to be around certain energies. I want to make sure I protect my family.
What are your other records like?
Apollo Liberace: Tyla’s working on a project right now. We putting together an EP also.
Tyla Yaweh: You’re on that project too, though.
Apollo Liberace: I know, we’re working everything? Think of what “Paradise” sounds like, just “Paradise” variants. If “Paradise” had kids and all them m############ were different. One was bad, one was shy, one was angry. That’s what all the music sounds like [laughs]. “Paradise” babies. “Paradise” Bebe’s Kids.
Y’all both have vibrant personalities, so what would the EP be called?
Tyla Yaweh: [Laughs] Dum & Dummer.
Apollo Liberace: [Laughs] That’s already Key Glock and my dawg, rest in peace Dolph.
Tyla Yaweh: Beavis and Butt-Head.
Apollo Liberace: Beavis and Butt-Head would be fire. We talked about different ideas, but something big.
Tyla Yaweh: He named my project that’s coming out, it’s called Everyone’s A Critic.
Apollo Liberace: Facts. When he showed me the picture, for some reason I thought of Sherlock Holmes. He said “Bro, what does this make you think of? I was like: everyone’s a critic.That’s where we are in society. People with no background or anything they talk about, they feel like they have the answers.
Apollo Liberace: This music that he’s working on right now, it’s legendary. It’s my favorite project from him, but got some joints.
Ice Spice was born on January 1, 2000. The Bronx native came into the world on the same day the Y2K bug was supposed to end the world.
Later this year, Ice Spice will drop her debut studio album, Y2K. The 24-year-old rapper spoke to Zane Lowe for Apple Music’s New Music Daily. She talked about the inspiration for her upcoming project.
“Thankfully, I had my mom, so growing up I’d see her really embody the Y2K aesthetic in its truest form,” Spice stated. “It’s duck nails, it’s a tramp stamp. It’s brown lip liner no matter where you go. So thankfully I had her as my inspo growing up.”
“I have a book full of pages of album names and different ideas, and I just really find the beauty and simplicity,” Spice explained. “I was just like, ‘You know what? I want it to be short. I don’t want it to be this super long phrase.'”
Ice Spice released Like..? in January 2023. That Capitol Records release contained the singles “Munch (Feelin’ U),” “In Ha Mood” and “Princess Diana” with Nicki Minaj. As a taste of the forthcoming album, Ice Spice dropped “Gimmie A Light” on Friday (May 10).
The Kendrick Lamar and Drake battle became a globally-watched event as two of the biggest rappers of their generation faced off on wax. Drake represented Toronto and the nation of Canada, while Lamar stood tall for Los Angeles and the entire West Coast.
After dominating several streaming charts in America, Kendrick Lamar has also taken over streaming charts in Drake’s home country. The Mustard-produced “Not Like Us” leads Canada-specific daily rankings for Spotify and Apple Music.
“Not Like Us” currently sits at No. 1 on Apple Music’s Top 100: Canada chart. In addition, “Not Like Us” leads Spotify’s Daily Top Songs Canada chart. Lamar’s other Drake-directed diss track “euphoria” sits at No. 5 on Apple Music and No. 5 on Spotify in the Great White North.
When it comes to Spotify’s daily chart for the city of Toronto, “euphoria” holds the No. 2 spot behind “Expresso” by Sabrina Carpenter. “Not Like Us” is presently the third-most streamed song on Spotify in Toronto.
Industry forecasters project Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. If the single does reach the pinnacle of the Hot 100, Lamar will earn his fourth No. 1. He just scored his third chart-topper as a feature on Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That” single.
“Like That” ignited the all-out war between Kendrick Lamar and Drake. The two sides had been throwing subliminal shots at each other for years. The subs ended when Lamar took direct aim at the OVO frontman on “Like That” in March.
The “Dinner With Jay-Z Or $500k” meme took over the internet for years. Social media users debated the two options like dueling sports teams. Apparently, G-Eazy had the chance to take part in option A.
G-Eazy recently appeared on Wave Sports + Entertainment Original’s 7PM in Brooklyn hosted by Carmelo Anthony and The Kid Mero. The Bay Area-bred rapper reflected on dining with Jay-Z in New York while recording his second studio LP.
“I’m so locked in because I can taste it, I can feel it. I’m on the cusp of… I know what I’m sitting on and I’m locked in,” he said. “I’m in New York and I’m at Quad [Studios] working and you can’t bother me with anything.
“Nothing matters besides tunnel vision of this. And I’m in the last week of recording, finishing it and one of my managers, who’s a Jedi master, a legend in this industry, Gee Roberson goes like, ‘I’m pulling up. We’re going to dinner.’”
G-Eazy says his initial reaction was to stay focused on completing his album. Eventually, he agreed to join Gee Roberson for the mystery meeting.
“I still don’t know where we’re going or why the dinner,” he said. “I’m not in New York to have dinner. I’m here to finish this. We’re going and the whole drive there, I’m like, ‘Brother, how are you going to tell me what?’
“We get to the spot and the hostess says, ‘Can I help you?” And [Roberson] goes, ‘Yeah, we’re at Shawn Carter’s table.’ I’m like, ‘Dog, the f###?’
“I sit down and it’s like [Jay-Z’s] in the corner and he just looks up at me and he’s like, ‘How’d you get here? What’s your story?’ I started panicking. But then we just got into the convo and it was a life-changing kind of evening.”
Digga D is clapping back after Central Cee sent some subliminal shots in his direction on a new freestyle.
On Thursday evening (May 9), Digga shared a message via his Instagram broadcast channel from behind bars, where he’s awaiting trial on drugs charges. He referenced the beef taking over Hip-Hop, distancing himself from K. Dot and Central Cee collaborator Drake.
“I ain’t Drake,” he said before adding, “or Kendrick.” Echoing Rick Ross’ “white boy” jab at Drake and the sentiment in K. Dot’s “Not Like Us,” he also questioned Cench’s Blackness.
“N##### like sneak dissing in the UK,” he added. “I shouldn’t even say n#####.”
The West London drill artists have a long history of bad blood, which includes alleged gang affiliations, turf wars and violent altercations, including the rumored stabbing of Central Cee’s brother by Digga D’s crew, which Digga D alluded to in a 2021 freestyle.
While Central Cee left Digga D’s name out of his new “CC Freestyle,” he appeared to send some shots his way.
“Surrender your flag ’cause you’re not no Crip,” he raps, alluding to Digga’s drill group wearing blue. “I trapped and it changed my life/You trapped and all that you got was blues.”
He also appears to separate himself from Digga D, asking, “I’m a millionaire, bro, what about you?” Cench also boasts that he’s known worldwide, unlike his unnamed foe. “They book me in L.A., they book you in Leicester,’ he adds.
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Digga D References Central Cee’s Brother’s Stabbing
This isn’t the first time the pair took their beef to the booth.
“Don’t compare me to Central Cee/He just stood there and watched when we chinged his brother,” Digga D said on an unreleased 2021 freestyle. ”I went to jail for that little f#####/I still came home to the nicest supper.
Central Cee dropped “Cold Shoulder” shortly after but refused to be drawn out. “They made a diss track, that s### was too whack to get a response,” he rapped.
The singer clapped back at the fans, claiming it was an old interview, and posted a photo of him holding up a much bigger stack of cash. She also threatened to block people over Hunxho shade.
“That man don’t hold up no lil money like that no more. Leave me alone wit all this old s###. I’m blocking yall FR,” she replied.
However, another person noted that Keyshia Cole failed to address Hunxho’s remarks about his many women or never settling down.
“So that’s what you took from the tweet,” they wrote. “So you decided to post him holding up ALOT of money??? Yall really set the standards high for each other. As long as he got money huh.”
Cole replied, “No not at all. But people need to stop sending me all this old s###. People grow and learn .. life ain’t stagnant.”
When another person told the singer, “You gone remember when ya heart broke again,” Cole stood firm. “My heart been broke before, “ she replied. “Yall gotta chill . Relax.”
Earlier this week, rumors circulated that Hunxho was dating his “Come Here” collaborator Gloss Up.
In the video, Hunxho suggests all his women are aware of each other.
“All of them is my main female, all my bi####s straight,” Hunxho said in part. “I love all of them equally, we all one. We all family. They all love me and I love all them, they all love each other. And they all respect each other. It ain’t no, they better not f##k up.”
Chief Keef has finally dropped the long-awaited Almighty So 2.
After more than a year of delays, Sosa returned with the sequel to one of his most iconic projects, Almighty So, released more than a decade ago in 2013. He teased the project earlier this week with a dramatic trailer before dropping off the lead single, “Drifting Away.”
Almighty So 2 arrived at midnight on Friday (May 10). The 16-track project clocks in at just over an hour and was almost entirely self-produced. Features include G Herbo, Quavo, Sexyy Red, Lil Gnar and Tierra Whack. Stream it at the end of the page.
Shortly before releasing Almighty So 2, Chief Keef sat down with Apple Music’s Zane Low for a rare interview.
When asked about rapping on beats he produced himself, Keef said it comes naturally. “When you put it together and you got creativity, it just flows, it just comes out,” he said. “Especially if it’s a dope beat or something dope, you just want to get it all off.”
He also explained that he released “Drifting Away,’ as the lead single because “The vibe of it is different from what you always hear from Chief Keef.”
Elsewhere during the interview, Chief Keef reflected on his legacy and personal growth since entering the industry.
“I’m about to be 29 years old, man I came in at 16 years old,” he said. “I was just young, The street life, and everything that came with that had me in a hold, especially in Chicago. So when I moved to L.A., I started getting better as a person. So, it took for me to come to L.A. to grow out of what I was and who I was and how I was.”
He added, “Now I’m even talking. You couldn’t get me to f###### talk in an interview.”
The Game has officially entered the diss track war, unleashing on Rick Ross in a new song titled “Freeway’s Revenge.”
The Compton native dropped around midnight on Friday (May 10), after poking at Rozay for days, attempting to draw him into the lyrical warfare that has consumed Hip-Hop for weeks amid the battle between Drake and Kendrick Lamar.
Titled after former drug kingpin Freeway Rick Ross, The Game accuses the MMG honcho of stealing his name. He also mocks Ross’ 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’ 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.”
He closed out the track by warning that he’s the “Compton Grim Reaper,” before advising Ross “let it go.”
The Game – Freeway’s Revenge (Rick Ross Diss)
https://youtu.be/qY2-A9QCxRA?feature=shared
The Game released his Rick Ross diss just over a week after the battle-tested MC said his peers are scared to call him out.
“My level of disrespect has no limit & I can actually rap rap,” he said. “Fans gone choose up with whatever artist is currently safe for the culture to love as a whole but every real rap n#### in this s### KNOW who to play with & who not to.”
He also said rap beef has become “watered down,” and that J. Cole’s apology to Kendrick Lamar made it even weaker.
“Hip hop/Rap or whatever yall calling it these days was already watered down,” he added. “Then Cole apologized and turned this s### into Kool-Aid wit no sugar.”
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Drake’s Toronto mansion has apparently become a hotbed of police activity amid his beef with Kendrick Lamar, after his address was exposed on the cover for “Not Like Us.”
On Thursday (May 9), TMZ confirmed the Toronto Police Service was called to Drake’s Bridle Path home around 3:30 p.m. ET. According to police, the call was reportedly about an unknown individual trespassing on the property, the second in two days. The assailant was allegedly involved in an altercation with security in the moments before authorities arrived. As a result, the man was taken to the hospital ambulance.
News of the trespasser follows reports of a shooting at Drake’s Toronto residence spreading across the internet just a day ago. The Toronto Police Operations account on Twitter (X) confirmed a shooting incident did take place on the morning of May 7 at 2:09 a.m. ET.
Officers arrived at Bayview Ave and Lawrence Ave E. Toronto Police Service said a man was transported to a hospital with serious injuries. City News reports Drake wasn’t shot in the incident.
CBC revealed the details about the Jungle Lion security firm hired to guard the estate, including the fact that it was reportedly established only four months ago and is owned by Drake himself. Apparently, the white Nissan Rogue seen parked outside the front gates of Drake’s Toronto property following the shooting was registered to the rapper’s government name.
In 2019, he was granted special permission by the city to e#### higher gates for security reasons. However, security has always been a concern for Drake and there’ve been many efforts to strengthen it, especially as of late.
“Everyone knows where he sleeps, where he eats and that has really freaked him out, us out, and we need heavy security outside,” Brad Rafauli, vice-president of Ferris Rafauli Architectural Design Build Group, told Toronto’s North York Community Council in 2019.
Swae Lee has fans saying he stood on business despite being pressed by a posh European rich kid during a semi-tense confrontation.
The interaction occurred fairly recently, and though few details confirm where it went down, the friction manifested between Swae Lee and a gentleman from across the pond. Long story short, a dude in a powder blue, chambray fraternity suit initiated an altercation with the Rae Sremmurd rapper over apparently checking out his girl.
“She was bad, bruh I had to, she’s bad,” Swae said before trolling the poor guy with his lyrics from “No Type.” He continued, “She’s a bad bi##h that’s the only thing that I like,” while laughing.
It’s safe to say homie didn’t like that one bit. He Swae she was actual a “good girl” and instructed him not to refer to her in that manner. Bro proceeded to taunt Swae with the “do you know who I am” card, asking, “You know what kind of family I am related from?” He finally revealed he was a descendant of “one of the richest European families” and demanded “respect for [his] name.”
Swae Lee gets into an argument with a RICH European kid because he was looking at his girl. Money stops nonsense 😂pic.twitter.com/2IKHq7pt1H
It’s worth mentioning that the Renaissance man also told Swae, “I appreciate your music.”By then, the damage was already done and the vibes were effectively ruined. The dude really must’ve been hurt because he tried to clown Swae Lee for having security. He also took a shot at his choice of transportation.
“You pull up in a Cybertruck, I have a Maybach, do you have a Maybach?” the agitated man asked, to which Swae replied, “I have a Rolls-Royce.”
It appears as though Keyshia Cole may need to embrace polyamory if she hopes to continue her relationship with boyfriend Hunxho.
The Atlanta native recently chatted with a YouTube vlogger, who captured Hunxho riding around the city in a car service and kicking it at a local Top Golf. Throughout the lengthy video, the “By Tomorrow” rapper fails to admit to being in an exclusive relationship with Cole and doesn’t acknowledge being entangled with his former flame Gloss Up. Instead, the brotha claims he doesn’t differentiate between his numerous partners while suggesting they’ve all agreed to the nature of their relationship with him.
“All of them is my main female, all my bi####s straight,” Hunxho said in part. “I love all of them equally, we all one. We all family. They all love me and I love all them, they all love each other. And they all respect each other. It ain’t no, they better not f##k up.”
In another portion of the clip, when asked if he was planning to settle down soon, Hunxho simply replied, “No.” However, further pressure revealed his rationale was simply that he doesn’t “want to get [his] heart broke.” Or so he said, while engaging in a full-blown money spread.
Hunxho Replies “Hell No” To Settling Down Soon While Talking About His Roster: “I Don’t Be Having Female Problems…All Of Them Is My Main Female. I Love Them Equally. We All One. We All Family.” pic.twitter.com/tWMoAusv1v
Keep in mind, earlier this month, Keyshia Cole and Gloss Up went back and forth on Twitter (X) after several photos of herself and Hunxho looking quite acquainted and cozy resting in each other’s arms began circulation on social media. In one of the flicks, Hunxho is even gripping a firm handful of cake, if you know what I mean.
”You know what it is in real life. 4L stinkalink,” Gloss Up wrote in the tweet featuring the photos.
Cole went on to claim the entire situation was the result of clout chasing antics and denied any issues between her and Hunxho. I wonder if she’ll be able to deny this as easily?
