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Drake continues to dominate the Rap genre with ease. This week BET announced the 2023 Awards and he leads the nominations with seven.
As spotted on Vulture the Her Loss MC has had quite a run within the last 12 months and his efforts are reflected the television network’s upcoming ceremony. Drake’s nominations include “Best Male Hip Hop Artist”, “Best Male R&B/Pop Artist”, “Best Group” with 21 Savage, “Best Collaboration” with Future and Tems, “Album of the Year” for Her Loss with 21 Savage, and “Viewer’s Choice Award” and “Best Collaboration”.
Right behind Champagne Papi Is GloRilla with six nominations. Her nods include “Best Female Hip Hop Artist”, “Best New Artist”, “Album of the Year”, “Video Of The Year”. Additionally, she has two chances to take home “Best Collaboration” thanks to her features with HItkidd and Cardi B. Glo took to social media with the big news saying “I’m second behind DRAKE with da most BET nominations this year thank you lord & thank y’all”.
You can read the full list of nominations below.
Best Group
City Girls
Drake and 21 Savage
Dvsn
FLO
Maverick City Music & Kirk Franklin
Quavo & Takeoff
Wanmor
Best Collaboration
“Big Energy (Remix),” Latto and Mariah Carey feat. DJ Khaled
“Boy’s a Liar Pt. 2,” PinkPantheress and Ice Spice
“Call Me Every Day,” Chris Brown feat. Wizkid
“Can’t Stop Won’t Stop,” King Combs feat. Kodak Black
“Creepin’,” Metro Boomin, The Weeknd, and 21 Savage
“F.N.F. (Let’s Go),” Hitkidd and GloRilla
“Tomorrow 2,” GloRilla and Cardi B
“Wait For U,” Future feat. Drake & Tems
Best Female Hip Hop Artist
Cardi B
Coi Leray
GloRilla
Ice Spice
Latto
Megan Thee Stallion
Nicki Minaj
Best Male Hip Hop Artist
21 Savage
Drake
Future
J. Cole
Jack Harlow
Kendrick Lamar
Lil Baby
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Drake was being a Certified Lover Boy on Thursday (June 8) when he took to his Instagram Stories to wish Lilah Pi a happy birthday. “More life to the gyal that’s impossible to duplicate,” he wrote alongside a stunning photo of Lilah. “My inspo, my confidant, my best mate, my heart @lilahpi happy birthday.” The […]
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Listen—it’s awkward and embarrassing for anyone the moment their debit or credit card gets declined. Those of us who it has happened to are lucky if it’s only a failed transaction witnessed between the cashier and customer, as opposed to an audience of onlookers waiting behind us in line. At least they’re all strangers who won’t even remember your face five minutes later though, right?
But what if you’re a world-famous person whose credit card got declined during a livestream watched by your millions of followers and it turns into a viral moment across social media?
Well, then you’d be Drake.
From HuffPost:
Over the weekend, the Grammy-winning artist appeared on a special Kick livestream alongside rapper Lil Yachty, whom he tapped to help promote the online casino company Stake.
“Yo, listen, I don’t know who owns Kick, but I know the chat wants to see Yachty go live,” he said during the video before he began donating money to fans. “I’ve been telling him I feel like he can take over Kick. That’s just a little business idea for whoever owns Kick; they need to cut the check for my brother.”
Then the Canadian rapper tried to gift $500 to a fan during the live video, only for his credit card to decline.
“Embarrassing,” Drake, whose real name is Aubrey Drake Graham, said in a high-pitched voice as he tried to brush off the blunder.
“Yeah, what just happened?! Yeah, we’re just not even…” the star added.
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Now, obviously, Drake can’t have people out here thinking he’s a secret broke boy masquerading as one of the top-selling and most recognizable Hip Hop artists in the world, so he was quick to let his followers know that the rejected card he used for the transaction wasn’t his personal card. But that really doesn’t matter once Twitter gets ahold of a thing.
And thus, viral comedy ensued.
Of course, there were also plenty of Drake stans who, for whatever reason, felt compelled to rush to the “Hotline Bling” rapper’s defense.
Calm down, guys nobody actually thinks Drake is broke. The moment was just funny because a notably rich guy had his card declined for the world to see and he sounded like he sucked up a full helium balloon before yelping, “Emmmmbbbbarrrasing!”
It was quite embarrassing—and hilarious.
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Drake is no stranger to having his unfinished tracks and demo recordings hitting the online streets and over the weekend, it happened once again. A number of demo tracks, including a Dr. Dre reference track, were leaked featuring songs from different stages of the Canadian superstar’s career.
Earlier this month, Drake had some collaborative songs get leaked to the public, including joints with Metro Boomin and Travis Scott, PartyNextDoor, and others.
According to the Twitter account @DrakeTracker, the recent leak includes the following:
1. Tell Me (Detox Reference for Dr. Dre)
2. Concentrate
3. Overdrive (OG)
4. Jaded (OG)
5. Childs Play (OG)
As most know, Dr. Dre’s long-rumored Detox album never materialized despite massive hype around its creation over the past few years and change, and the track “Tell Me” was a reference track for the Compton producer.
The track “Concentrate” features lyrics that Drake later used on a remix for Fetty Wap’s “My Way” track. On “Overdrive,” which appears on 2022’s Honestly, Nevermind, is largely the same but has some noticeable differences.
The demo version of “Child’s Play” is a song from 2016’s Views and the lyrics and vocal style was changed in its final recording. There is also a different version of the track “Jaded” from Drake’s 2018 album, Scorpion.
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As of late, Kim Kardashian has been more open to talking about her feelings and experiences during her marriage to Kanye West, and now she’s revealing that it was Kanye West who actually started the rumor that she had an affair with Drake.
According to BuzzFeed, Kim Kardashian exposed the source behind the whole “Kim and Drake” rumor, and it came from non other than her own husband at the time. After Drake dropped the “Kiki do you love me?” line in his hit song “In My Feelings,” social media went crazy with conspiracy theories that he was referring to Kim Kardashian, who at the time was married to his rival, Kanye West. Naturally, this led to Kanye calling out Drake for being “disrespectful” even though Kim denied having ever hooked up with the King of The North.
Heck, Drake even sampled Kim K’s voice in a new song just last month. Was he trolling Kanye? No one knows but Kanye hasn’t responded to the cut thus far.
Now, all these years later, Kim is looking back on the situation and pulled Kanye’s card for the role he played in the embarrassing situation. In this week’s episode of The Kardashians, she dropped a bombshell that no one saw coming… though, we probably should’ve.
BuzzFeed reports:
“The one that was supposed to protect me, and still does interviews saying they will be my forever protector, is the one that is hurting me the most,” Kim tells Kris. “He was the one that started a rumor that said I was hooking up with Drake, having an affair — our whole marriage he accused me of that publicly.”
She continued: “The person that’s supposed to protect me the most publicly would accuse me of having an affair throughout our whole marriage,” adding, “I really can’t wrap my head around how he thinks he is a protector.”
Honestly, we shouldn’t be surprised. Kanye West was and still is on some other sh*t.
Ever since Kanye got married to Bianca Censori he’s left Kim alone (for the most part) so we doubt he’ll respond to herallegation, but we wouldn’t be surprised if he mentions it at some point on a social media post. Sometimes it seems like the man just can’t help himself.
What do y’all think of Kim Kardashian revealing it was Kanye West who started the Drake affair rumor? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Drake loves sports, especially his good friend, Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James. So it should come as no surprise that the Canadian Hip-Hop star is searching for a rare Bron Bron collectible.
Drizzy’s search for an extremely rare LeBron James “Triple Logoman” card takes center stage in the first episode of the new Netflix series King Of Collectibles: The Goldin Touch.
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In the “Hail the King” episode, the “God’s Plan” crafter links up with Goldin Auctions founder Ken Goldin. The show highlights Goldin’s search for rare collectibles and the insane prices they fetch. The card Drake wants so badly features James and every team he has won an NBA championship with. What makes this card so unique is that only one exists.
Drake hopes for a win when he opens a box of sealed cards, which sees him land an Anfernee “Penny” Hardaway Logoman card reportedly worth $50,000, plus Larry Bird and Isaiah Thomas cards. Drake also pulls out a very rare Michael Jordan card he can add to his collection.
Sadly he doesn’t find the card he is looking for in the episode, but that doesn’t mean his search will end there.
Drake Loves Betting On Sports
As of late, Drake has become a gambling man, constantly showing off his betting tickets for big fights, NBA games, and other huge sporting events.
His propensity to bet on specific teams has also become sort of a bad omen leading some to believe that if Drake’s some serious change on you, more than likely, you’re going to lose, dubbing it the Drake Curse.
The 6 God lost $2 million after betting on Israel Adesanya to beat Alex Pereira at UFC 281 in November 2022. The exact opposite happened, and Drake got the blame for Adesanya’s defeat.
Adesanya did get his revenge on his rival, finally getting himself a win against Pereira at UFC 287.
You can watch a trailer for King Of Collectibles: The Goldin Touch, where it also seems we will see Logan Paul opening boxes of Pokemon cards, yup, the same Logan Paul who paid $3.5 million in fake Pokemon cards.
You can watch the trailer for King Of Collectibles: The Goldin Touch below.
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French Montana’s story will finally be told. Drake and Diddy are serving as the executive producers to his forthcoming documentary.
As spotted on Variety Magazine the South Bronx, New York talent is set to premiere For Khadija, a film detailing his life story, this summer at the Tribeca Film Festival. To hear the Coke Boy tell it, he has been working on this since 2017. The press releases bills the project as a narrative that will follow “the unlikely rise of Moroccan-born, multi-platinum recording artist French Montana, as his single mother she sacrifices everything to raise her three young sons in the Bronx, after being abandoned by their father and left destitute”.
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It is also set to explore how his hopes to make it in the United States directly correlated to his Rap career. “The film spans the globe as it depicts the family’s unique immigrant journey, a son’s perseverance in the face of insurmountable obstacles, and a mother’s unwavering faith — all in pursuit of the American dream.” Along with having Drake and Diddy as executive producers the project was directed by Mandon Lovett of RapCaviar Presents fame. Additionally, at the June 16 premiere French will perform live along with Ugandan group Triplets Ghetto Kids.
You can see the official trailer for French Montana’s project below.
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One thing Gen Z is gonna do…is tell more than they should. LSA women’s basketball star Angel Reese is sharing who slid in her social media DM’s after her historic NCAA Championship win earlier this month.
Reese and teammate Flau’jae Johnson stopped by the Breakfast Club to talk about their win as well as other ways their lives have changed since the win.
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According to Complex, Reese revealed that Drake and Future have slid into her DMs. “You said two that you need to stay far away from,” Charlamagne tha God joked.
The 20-year-old forward clarified that the multi-platinum rappers just offered congratulations. “They just congratulated me. It’s all congratulations,” she said with smile.
Still, the idea earned a few more jokes from The Breakfast Club hosts. “Then Drake gonna say, ‘Yo, you know I got a basketball court at the crib?’ Did he say that yet?” Envy asked. Reese and Johnson exchanged a knowing glance and broke out in laughter, while declining to answer the question.
Reese became a national sensation after leading her team to the NCAA championship beating Iowa. However, questions about her sportsmanship by mimicking the “You Can’t See Me,” dance led to vicious and racist attacks on social media. Rapper Tony Yayo, who first popularized the gesture, took to her defense.
“Any kind of sports, talking trash is a part of the game,” Yayo told TMZ Sports. “I mean, it was for the championship game. It’s competition. Even when I’m playing 2k — if you playin’ in the game, with video games, we get excited. You know?”
Yayo continued, “It’s just a dance. I don’t take nothin’ personal. It was a dance I created because I was trying to hide from the police. But shout out to all them people — John Cena, Angel Reese, Caitlin Clark — and definitely Flavor Flav. But Angel Reese? You know, she took the ‘U Can’t C Me’ dance to a whole ‘nother level.”
The gesture first popped up in the series when Iowa’s Caitlin Clark used it against players from South Carolina. She was praised as “passionate.”
Reese, also known as Bayou Barbie, is one of the NCAA’s highest-grossing NIL players with a value of over $1.5 million.
She also talked about getting praise from fellow LSU baller, Shaquille O’Neal saying that his support sometimes put “pressure” on her, an idea that the NBA legend brushed off.
On his podcast, O’Neal said of Reese:”She’s probably the greatest athlete to ever come out of LSU sports. You heard it here first. Man and female,” O’Neal said on the latest episode of “The Big Podcast with Shaq.”
“Because, guess what? She delivered. She delivered that package. See, a lot of us got the package, and we still got the package in our truck. She delivered that package. So, you know, there’s a lot of names you could throw around — men and women — but she’s probably the greatest athlete.
“Some people are going to exclude it to women athletes. I’m not doing that. She’s the greatest athlete to ever come out of LSU.
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Drake’s highly-anticipating new It’s All A Blur tour due this summer just got bigger. On Monday, April 24, Live Nation announced that the 6 God added 12 new dates to his tour with 21 Savage.
Citing high demand, the It’s All A Blur tour, which is presented by Cash App, Visa and Sprite, will kick off a couple of weeks later than originally planned. The Toronto rapper has added fourth shows in both Inglewood and Brooklyn while Glendale and Nashville will be getting second shows. Columbus, Memphis, Denver, Austin, and Charlotte have all been added as new dates.
The original New Orleans, Nashville, Houston, Dallas, Miami and Atlanta dates have all been pushed to the tail end of tour and are now between between September 14, 2023 and October 2, 2023. The tour will now start on Thursday, June 29 at the FedExForum in Memphis. The tour will run for for several months before concluding with a couple of dates at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto in early October.
If you’re looking for tickets, which already had fans feeling a way…:
TICKETS: Tickets for the new dates will be available starting with Cash App Card and Sprite presales (details below) beginning Wednesday, April 26. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general onsale beginning Friday, April 28 starting at 12pm local time at drakerelated.com. Onsale start times vary by market, check your local listings for more information.
CASH APP CARD PRESALE: Tickets for the new U.S. dates are available for Cash App Card customers via an exclusive ticket presale presented by Cash App and Visa.
Beginning Wednesday, April 26 starting at 12pm local time through Thursday, April 27 at 10pm local time, Cash App Card holders can unlock the earliest access to ‘It’s All A Blur’ tickets by using the first 9 digits of their Cash App Card to access the presale and then completing the purchase using their Cash App Card.
Presale start times vary by market, check your local listings at drakerelated.com for more information. For more information on the Cash App Card presale, please visit cash.app/drake-presale.
SPRITE PRESALE: Sprite is the official beverage sponsor for the ‘It’s All A Blur Tour,’ his first in North America since 2018. This marks a natural progression of their partnership since Sprite executed his first worldwide brand deal in 2010.
The Sprite presale will take place on Thursday, April 27 starting at 10am local time until 10pm local time at sprite.com. Presale start times vary by market, check your local listings at drakerelated.com for more information.
Check out the full tour schedule below:
DRAKE: ‘IT’S ALL A BLUR’ 2023 TOUR DATES:
Thu Jun 29 – Memphis, TN – FedExForum
Sat Jul 01 – Columbus, OH – Schottenstein Center
Wed Jul 05 – Chicago, IL – United Center
Thu Jul 06 – Chicago, IL – United Center
Sat Jul 08 – Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena
Sun Jul 09 – Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena
Tue Jul 11 – Boston, MA – TD Garden
Wed Jul 12 – Boston, MA – TD Garden
Fri Jul 14 – Montreal, QC – Bell Centre *
Sat Jul 15 – Montreal, QC – Bell Centre *
Mon Jul 17 – Brooklyn, NY – Barclays Center
Tue Jul 18 – Brooklyn, NY – Barclays Center
Thu Jul 20 – Brooklyn, NY – Barclays Center
Fri Jul 21 – Brooklyn, NY – Barclays Center
Sun Jul 23 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
Tue Jul 25 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
Wed Jul 26 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
Fri Jul 28 – Washington, DC – Capital One Arena
Sat Jul 29 – Washington, DC – Capital One Arena
Mon Jul 31 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center
Tue Aug 01 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center
Thu Aug 03 – Milwaukee, WI – Fiserv Forum
Sat Aug 12 – Inglewood, CA – Kia Forum
Sun Aug 13 – Inglewood, CA – Kia Forum
Tue Aug 15 – Inglewood, CA – Kia Forum
Wed Aug 16 – Inglewood, CA – Kia Forum
Fri Aug 18 – San Francisco, CA – Chase Center
Sat Aug 19 – San Francisco, CA – Chase Center
Mon Aug 21 – Los Angeles, CA – Crypto.com Arena
Tue Aug 22 – Los Angeles, CA – Crypto.com Arena
Fri Aug 25 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena
Sat Aug 26 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena
Mon Aug 28 – Vancouver, BC – Rogers Arena *
Tue Aug 29 – Vancouver, BC – Rogers Arena *
Fri Sep 01 – Las Vegas, NV – T-Mobile Arena
Sat Sep 02 – Las Vegas, NV – T-Mobile Arena
Tue Sep 05 – Glendale, AZ – Desert Diamond Arena
Wed Sep 06 – Glendale, AZ – Desert Diamond Arena
Fri Sep 08 – Denver, CO – Ball Arena
Mon Sep 11 – Austin, TX – Moody Center
Thu Sep 14 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center +
Fri Sep 15 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center +
Sun Sep 17 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center +
Mon Sep 18 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center +
Wed Sep 20 – New Orleans, LA – Smoothie King Center +
Fri Sep 22 – Charlotte, NC – Spectrum Center
Mon Sep 25 – Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena +
Tue Sep 26 – Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena +
Thu Sep 28 – Miami, FL – Kaseya Center +
Fri Sep 29 – Miami, FL – Kaseya Center +
Sun Oct 01 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena
Mon Oct 02 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena +
Thu Oct 05 – Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena *
Sun Oct 07 – Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena *
* 21 Savage not on this date.
+ Rescheduled dates.
New dates are bolded.
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Drake decided to bless his followers with a late-night thirst trap and instead reminded many that he might have cheated when getting his abs.
Spotted on TMZ Hip Hop, Drake shook things up on Instagram when he dropped a photo of himself wearing nothing but a towel after taking “a 5 min cold plunge for the soul.”
Immediately the reactions to the photo began pouring in. Of course, there was some thirst, but mainly people side-eyeing the rapper’s alleged fake abs.
“Just saw a photo of Drake in a towel & while many women may find that sexy.. all I noticed is he got abs but no chest. I know transmen with more chest than that & they cut the boobs off…. hit the gym you Canadian freak,” one Twitter user hilariously wrote.
Another Twitter user wrote, “Drake doesn’t do it for me. The abs aren’t real. I don’t see-“
“Can y’all please stop spreading that picture of drake? His lipo and sculpted abs are scary,” another Twitter user said.
Damn, no one is here for Drake’s abs.
Drizzy is gearing up to head on tour with 21 Savage and looks to be in the best shape of his life. Until his first tour date arrives, you can entertain yourself with more reactions to this “thirst trap” in the gallery below.
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2. Good question
3. Be great king.