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Tekashi 6ix9ine may be one of the most hated men in the United States, but the rapper-turned-snitch still has a very healthy fanbase overseas and is looking to cash in on his popularity by releasing branded cryptocurrency.
According to HipHopDX, the “Fefe” rapper traveled to Romania to take the stage at the annual Beach Please! music festival. While visiting the European country Tekashi 6ix9ine took to Instagram to announce he was releasing a new “Dummy Coin” for his fans to invest in.
In the now-deleted post (that disappeared quickly), Tekashi explained that there were some open slots for investors, and for those who were willing to buy into his new venture, there would be a chance to link up with the rapper-turned states evidence.
Per HipHopDX:
“We just got to Romania,” he began. “I’m super grateful for the ability to travel. Romania, we’re live tomorrow at Beach, Please! I want to apologize to all my fans for being very disconnected with you guys, but I got some great news — I just released a Dummy Coin.
“For the first 2,000 holders who buy into the Dummy Coin, you will be selected to do a meet and greet here in Romania […] Also, we’ll pick three select few to join us on stage for the last song, which is ‘GUMMO.’”
Sounds like Tekashi might be in dire need of money if he’s resorting to such tactics to drum up some cash. As to whether anyone invested in his “Dummy Coin” and met and chilled with him, that’s anyone’s guess.
Tekashi’s latest “business venture” comes months after the IRS raided his home and relieved him of some very expensive automobiles to satisfy his debt to Uncle Sam. If Tekashi is out here making bank on cryptocurrency, don’t be surprised if the IRS finds a way to come for those dollars too. They can be ruthless when they want to.
What do you think about Tekashi 6ix9ine’s “Dummy Coin”? Is he out here swindling his fans? Check out his performance clip in Romania, and sound off in the comments section below.
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Some heartwarming news coming out of Harlem for all the dog lovers out there as A$AP Ferg has been reunited with his K-9 comrade, Krash, four years after his furry little homie ran away while being looked after by a dog sitter.
On Thursday (July 12), the “Plain Jane” rapper took to Instagram to announce the great news and explained how the entire incident unfolded beginning in 2020. “So basically, my dog Krash was lost for four years. We left him with dog watchers and he ran away from them. I guess somebody picked him up. They might have took him to Connecticut because that’s where the cops found him,” Ferg said.
“But I don’t know how long he was in the wilderness or on the streets before he got to Connecticut. Someone must have picked him up because it was a cute dog to take home, ‘Ah, he’s cute.’ They took him home, he ran away from them. I guess he was trying to make his way back home. The cops called, ‘We have a dog, [an] Australian Shepherd. Is this your dog, Krash?’ We went to go get him, and he’s back.”
Giving him a proper welcome home party, Ferg and his peoples set up a cute little soiree in honor of Krash complete with balloons and other furry little friends to join in on the festivities. They even let him get behind the wheel of one of Ferg’s expensive cars! That dog gonna be living the good life from here on out.
We’re glad to see Ferg celebrating the return of his long-lost dog who miraculously survived out in the wilderness and even made it through the COVID pandemic in one piece.
Congrats, homie!
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Azealia Banks is showing her support for Donald Trump once again with footage of herself at a recent rally of his, drawing criticism.
Rap fans are once again talking about Azealia Banks — this time, due to her reaffirming her support for former President Donald Trump by attending one of his campaign rallies. The “212” rapper was present for Trump’s rally on Tuesday (July 9) in Doral, Florida. In the video that Banks posted on social media, she’s spotted talking, but it’s hard to make out what she’s saying due to Trump’s speech. “Trump invited the gang,” she wrote on her Instagram Story.
The backlash was swift online to the artist’s posting. “I mean after she boiled that dead cat during Covid. Are we really surprised?” one commenter said while someone else added: “All she do is criticize Black folks anyway. Why would anyone be surprised?” Others also jabbed her after word got out about her receiving an eviction notice recently, which she denied.
Azealia Banks has expressed her support for Trump in the past. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, she wrote: Ok so, I think I’m ready to admit that I’m going to vote for Donald Trump,” she wrote on X (then Twitter) at the time. “I think Trump is the only one who truly has the balls to bust up big business.”
The Harlem, New York, native would go on to chastise the other presidential candidates: “Just because Hilary Clinton and Bernie Sanders say nice things about minorities doesn’t mean they actually mean them. Politicians have been saying ‘nice’ things about colored folks and we’ve still been getting f**ked.” She doubled down on that support in an interview with the Standard in 2023: “He’s just f**king funny,” she said at the time. “He’s been through how many bankruptcies? How many wives? How many television shows? Seriously, nothing can take him down.”
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Last year, Brooklyn rapper Desiigner was arrested and charged for indecent exposure after he gratified himself on a flight for all to see.
Now that his actions have led to him being a registered sex offender, the “Panda” rapper opens up about the disturbing incident and tried to explain that though he did in fact commit the crime, he wasn’t exactly there at the time, so to say. In a recent interview with Adam22 on the No Jumper podcast, Desiigner explained that he was having what he called an “out of body” experience when he publicly choked his chicken (do the kids still say that?) due to, wait for it, his vegan diet?!
Well, not just his vegan diet but also because he was on meds at the time and that led to him needing to satisfy the most savage of urges regardless of where he was.
“I didn’t know what I was doing. I was fully tweaked out of my mind. This is when I was vegan, I didn’t have enough sugars and stuff like that. I was kinda out of my body. It was a OB experience. It really wasn’t who my character was… I was on medication. I took medication on the plane and just went to sleep.”
While many assumed he was on something at the time of the incident, we would’ve never guessed it was veganism and meds.
Still, Desiigner hopes his fans don’t think he’s a pervert or anything like that and says that he’s been working on bettering himself since the incident including working out, meditating and apparently eating animals again.
Luckily, the incident didn’t bar him from continuing to board flights, but best believe when they see his name on that passenger manifest the flight attendants probably think “OMG, he’s coming.” Just sayin’.
What do y’all think about Desiigner’s explanation for his 2023 incident? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Weeks ago it was reported that a grand jury had been empaneled in connection with the feds’ investigation into Diddy. Now, it seems like an indictment is all about inevitable as the music icon continues to keep a low profile.
According to TMZ, an attorney for one of Diddy’s alleged sex trafficking victims says that an indictment for the embattled music mogul should be coming down any day now as authorities seem to have enough evidence to lay down the hammer on “Brother Love” in a court of law.
Per TMZ:
Adria English’s attorney Ariel Mitchell-Kidd joined us on “TMZ Live” Wednesday and told us a possible criminal indictment against the Bad Boy founder is coming sooner than later, and perhaps even “very shortly.”
Mitchell-Kidd is definitely in the know here … her client is the former porn star who recently filed a bombshell lawsuit accusing Diddy of sexual assault and sex trafficking.
Adria’s lawsuit is among several accusing Diddy of sexual assault, human trafficking and other serious offenses … including the one he settled with Cassie, which mentioned the now-infamous video of him brutally beating her in a hotel hallway.
At this point, the only way Diddy can avoid prison is by running for President and winning. Unfortunately, he’s already alienated the Hip-Hop community with his atrocious actions, and y’all already know he’s not getting any support from the MAGA faithful. In other words, he’s a**ed out on these streets.
While Diddy has been seen enjoying his life more as of late, such as white water rafting with friends, it could be that the man is enjoying some carefree freedom before he has to deal with the harsh consequences that he’s carved out for himself. Just sayin’.
What do y’all think will happen? Will Diddy be indicted and ultimately sent to prison? Will he buy his way out? Let us know in the comments section below.
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While Tupac was known for making music in which he rapped about bedding multiple women and getting his player on, the man was actually in a committed relationship with the daughter of music legend Quincy Jones, Kidada.
While not much detail is known about their relationship, as the two dated way before social media was a thing, Kidada’s sister, Rashida Jones, opened up about a heated exchange which took place between herself and Tupac before he went on to date her older sister. According to Huffpost, the animosity between herself and Pac began when the iconic rapper was interviewed in an 1993 issue of The Source magazine and criticized her father, Qunicy Jones, for having children with white women and “make[ing] fucked up kids.”
A then 17-year-old Rashida Jones wrote a response to Tupac in a follow-up issue and apparently it resonated with the rapper in such a way he felt the need to apologize to the Jones family.
In a recent interview with the New Yorker, Jones recalls how Shakur approached her sister, Kidada, in New York City thinking it was her and asked for forgiveness for his harsh words about her father and his children.
From the New Yorker:
“And then my sister was out somewhere in New York, and Tupac came up to apologize to her, because he thought it was me,” Rashida Jones said. “It resolved itself really nicely, because when I met him, he immediately apologized to me, immediately apologized to my dad. We sat down and had a really good conversation about it, and then he was family.”
Tupac and Kidada went on to date and even live together for a while before the rapper was murdered in 1996. In Q: The Autobiography Of Qunicy Jones, Kidada recalled the moment that Tupac approached her about the situation and admitted she knew it was much more than an apology at the moment.
“I met Tupac at a club after that and he said, ‘I want to apologize to you. I didn’t mean that about your dad or you. I didn’t see you as real human beings. Now that I see you…,’” she said. “He was all game. He was trying to get a play, let’s face it, but I liked him.”
Yeah, that sounds about right. Ladies might’ve loved Cool James in the early 90s, but they loved them some Tupac as well.
Helluva era.
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Is Eminem strapped for cash?? We truly doubt it as the man has moved millions of records throughout his illustrious career. But when we heard he was collaborating with White Castle to move some new merchandise we were shocked and couldn’t help but wonder if this was a quick money grab endorsement for the GOAT white rapper.
The truth is Eminem has a brand new album titled The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) releasing this Friday (July 12). And to hype up his 11th studio album (12 if you count his very first project, Infinite), Eminem and White Castle have teamed up to release some exclusive tees and trucker hats that are sure to be a hit amongst his day-one fans.
Featuring the White Castle logo and colorway, the tees and hats are branded with the terms “White Rapper” (LOL) and the tagline “Buy ‘em by the ‘Sack.’”
Adding another nod to the iconic rapper, the back of the tee reads, “Established In 1972,” which happens to be the year that Marshall Bruce Mathers III (Eminem) was born. White Castle itself was established in 1921.
>While we’re not hating on the Eminem x White Castle collaboration, we’re low-key surprised Em didn’t take the opportunity to do such a collaboration with his restaurant, Mom’s Spaghetti. Sure, some people say the food is atrocious and the restaurant itself should probably be shut down, but Lord knows it could use the kind of promotion and marketing that only Slim Shady himself can provide. Just sayin’.
Check out the Eminem x White Castle collection, and let us know if you’ll be checking your local White Castle joint for the pieces in the comments section below.
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Serena Williams shared a funny anecdote about trying to deposit a very large check at a drive-thru during her career.
Tennis great Serena Williams was beloved and respected for her drive, but in a recent interview, she shared a story about how her focus led her to have a mishap at a bank’s drive-thru window.
Williams was the guest on a recent episode of the highly popular Hot Ones series from First We Feast. During the interview, as Williams got to dig in on some spicy wings, at the 11-minute mark host Sean Evans asked: “Is it true that you rarely collected your winnings your first year on tour and then once tried unsuccessfully to cash your first million-dollar check in a drive-thru ATM?”
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“Yeah, those are all true,” the 23-time Grand Slam champion confirmed. “I never played for money, I played ’cause I loved the sport. I wanted to be the best. I wanted to win.” She continued, saying: “So my tax guy, he would be like, ‘You didn’t get your money?’ and I’d be like, ‘Oh, I didn’t get that one in Zurich,’ ‘Oh, I forgot that one in Moscow,’…I was just playing to win, and if I didn’t win, I wasn’t thinking. I was just so angry, that I wanted to find a way to get better and win the next time.”
It turned out that her focus led her to collect a very substantial amount of earnings. “I got my check and it was a million dollars,” Williams said. “Like, okay, I’m gonna go deposit it. I’d never really spent a lot of money. I was so serious. I don’t know what happened to me, I used to be serious. So I just went through the drive-thru … and the guy was like, ‘Uh, I think you need to come inside for this.’” Evans and Williams laughed as she said, “lessons to learn.”
The story was one of a few notable anecdotes that Williams shared, including a look at the stylish outfits she wore during her career including a denim suit she said was inspired by one that another tennis champion, Andre Agassi, wore on the court. Her Hot Ones appearance comes as her ESPN+ documentary series, In The Arena: Serena Williams makes its debut on Wednesday (July 10).
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Pharrell’s highly anticipated Louis Vuitton collaboration is upon us, and if you have a few thousand dollars to spare in that shoe box, you might want to get in on this.
After creating much buzz with his Timberland x Louis Vuitton boots earlier this year, Pharrell’s Louis Vuitton workwear capsule collection will be hitting the shelves next week. According to Highsnobiety, the pieces will be available for prelaunch for the ballers who have money to burn. That’s not us. Just sayin’.
Per Highsnobiety:
Louis Vuitton’s workwear capsule will be available for prelaunch on Louis Vuitton’s website and app come July 18 before officially releasing to select flagship stores on August 8. Expect prices to sit in typical LV range: that is to say, around $3,000 for the Timbs.
It’s meaty, comprising all that aforementioned apparel: hardy chore coats, dusters, double-knee pants, and Western shirts, embroidered, embellished, studded and sumptuously cut from overdyed earth-toned LV monogram jacquard.
While the attire in the collection is pretty dope, many will be looking to snag a pair of those Timberland boots as they are indeed the star of the show. But at $3,000 a pair, don’t be surprised if you only see rappers and entertainers stunting in those buttery suede worker boots as that’s basically two months worth of rent for the average Joe.
There is Louis Vuitton’s riff on timeless Timberland 6″ boot, fabricated in LV’s Fiesso d’Artico footwear atelier of Italian nubuck, dappled with gilded eyelets, and stamped with the LV monogram. This is the one with which Pharrell secured his place in the history books.
It’s joined by the Louis Vuitton by Timberland LV Boot, which blows up the original 6″ boot’s silhouette by 15 percent and thus reaches similar XXXL scale to Pharrell’s favored puffy trainers.
One has to wonder what resale would be on a pair of those Timberlands.
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Will you be trying to cop anything from Pharrell’s Louis Vuitton collection? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Louis Vuitton continues to add their all-star roster. They have announced Pusha T as their newest brand ambassador.
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As spotted on High Snobiety, the Virginia Beach, Virginia, native is taking his talents back to the fashion industry. This week, the luxury apparel brand named Pusha T as a Louis Vuitton House Ambassador. LV expressed their enthusiasm regarding the partnership in a formal statement. “His ambassadorial nomination at Louis Vuitton is a testament to his commitment to artistry and a strong personal style, both echoing the Maison’s own dedication to unique expression across fashion and culture,” read a press release. “Pusha T’s role as House Ambassador underscores Louis Vuitton’s vision of bringing together diverse cultural influences to build powerful storytelling within its storied menswear universe. The Maison looks forward to this exciting collaborative journey ahead.”
This is not the first time the “Numbers On The Board” MC has worked with the label. Back in January, he walked the runway for Louis Vuitton’s Paris Fashion Week show. Last month, he and his brother No Malice attended LV Spring Summer 2025 show and premiered their new song “The Birds Don’t Sing.” Featuring John Legend on the hook, the duo addressed the loss of their parents and the bereavement that followed.
Current Louis Vuitton House brand ambassadors include Rihanna, LeBron James, Victor Wembanyama and Gong Yoo.
