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Some payment stories sound too good to be true. This one, Nelly swears, is exactly how it happened — fifty thousand dollars, handed over in a McDonald’s bag, courtesy of Taylor Swift. The St. Louis legend recently told the story during an appearance on The Breakfast Club alongside his wife, Ashanti, recalling how an unexpected […]
GloRilla understood the assignment this Halloween — and she brought her boyfriend along for the nostalgia trip. The Memphis rapper kicked off her Halloween celebrations by paying tribute to Ciara not once, but twice. First, she recreated the cover of Ciara’s 2004 debut album, Goodies, complete with the pink hoodie, long hair, and cross necklace […]
The internet did a double take this weekend, and honestly, so did we — because the idea of Nicki Minaj running White House press briefings just got a nod from the president himself. During a clip from his interview on “The Benny Show,” host Benny Johnson floated the idea of the Queen of Rap taking […]
The estate of Takeoff is asking a judge to throw out the civil sexual assault lawsuit filed against the late Migos rapper, arguing the accuser destroyed evidence that could have helped the defense. According to a report from MyNewsLA, lawyers for Takeoff’s mother, Titania Patrice Davenport, and his estate filed legal documents on Tuesday, October […]
Lil Baby has heard the “fell off” talk for years — and he’s officially done entertaining it. The Atlanta superstar sat down with The New York Times’ Popcast on Thursday, October 29, ahead of his upcoming album “Fresh,” and made his position crystal clear: in his mind, there was never a slump to come back […]
Rick Ross just caught a major break in his domestic violence case — but the case is far from over. Prosecutors have dropped the felony battery charge against the Maybach Music Group boss, according to court documents obtained by XXL on Friday. The felony count, battery by strangulation, was dismissed due to insufficient evidence, and […]
Day three of Yella Beezy’s murder-for-hire trial delivered the kind of courtroom drama no one saw coming — when the prosecution’s own witness refused to say almost anything at all. In a Dallas courtroom on Thursday (October 29), Theodore Thomas — known to rap fans as Jose Bodega, a childhood friend of Beezy — took […]
Buying a ticket to a Mary J. Blige show does not buy you the right to disrespect the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul — and one Las Vegas concertgoer learned that the hard way. Midway through her two-hour performance at Dolby Live inside Park MGM on Wednesday night (October 28), Blige was standing at a microphone […]
Maino understood the assignment this Halloween — and the assignment was rigatoni with heavy marinara. The Brooklyn rapper stepped out in a full Rick Ross costume, complete with a fake beard, facial tattoos, and oversized designer sunglasses, and recreated Rozay’s now-legendary speech outside a Miami jail earlier this month. In an Instagram video, Maino walked […]
Cardi B is at the top of her game — and she says that’s exactly what makes it hard to know who to trust. During an Instagram Live on Tuesday (Oct. 27), the Bronx rapper got candid about a side of fame fans don’t usually see: the suspicion that some of the people closest to […]
The bitter feud between 50 Cent and Tia Kemp has officially moved from Instagram into a courtroom — and this time, a judge has stepped in. A Miami-Dade County judge has granted 50 Cent a temporary restraining order against Kemp, Rick Ross’s ex, restricting her contact with the rapper’s 14-year-old son, Sire. Under the order, […]
J. Cole just put one of hip-hop’s longest-running questions to rest: no, he is not retiring. For years, fans have wondered whether “The Fall-Off” would be Cole’s final album. The Fayetteville rapper himself fed that speculation, saying more than once that he made the project with the mindset that it could be his last. But […]
