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.
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.
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.”
