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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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After years of teasing a collaborative album, Metro Boomin and Future are finally going to be going into the lab to cook up an LP to keep heads nodding, booties shaking and necks snapping.
On Tuesday (April 18), the super producer from St. Louis shared an image of his Coachella set. He shared it with the Toxic King and in the caption dropped the bomb that their fans have been waiting to hear for years when he wrote, “After a 10+ year journey it was surreal to perform @coachella in front of 20k+ with my brother @future 🦅🦅🦅 Metro Pluto album otw🔥🔥🔥🔥”
That Metro Pluto album is bound to do big numbers, b.
The announcement comes a month after Metro Boomin told Flaunt magazine that he “would definitely bet” on a duet album with Future dropping sometime this year. Though that wasn’t exactly a confirmation so much as it was a confident prediction, it now seems like the project will indeed be happening and their fans can’t wait to see what they serve up once they get out the kitchen.
Real talk it seemed like it was only a matter of time before these two churned out an entire project together after Future let the world know that “If young Metro don’t trust you, I’m gon’ shoot you.” You don’t ride for someone like that and not break bread together. Just sayin.’
How many cuts into the album is in the can or whether or not the project is even officially underway is anyone’s guess, but best believe heads will be streaming the sh*t out that joint once it hits platforms later this year.
Are you excited about the Metro Pluto project? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Drake and Future have previously teamed up to make some hit records in the past, but can the duo use their talents to make a hit TV series? We’re about to find out.
A few days ago, we got our first trailer for Hulu’s new whodunit series, Saint X, for which both Drake and Future serve as executive producers. Starring Alycia Debnam-Carey, the Saint X centers around Carey’s pursuit of the truth of who murdered her sister when they took a family vacation to the Caribbean when she was a child. Now that she’s a grown woman, Carey decides to take it upon herself to look into her big sister’s disappearance, her subsequent death and why it was ruled an “accident” by authorities on the island.
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Naturally many will assume that the island natives working the resort were the ones who committed the crime even though said big sister was being romanticized by a white dude who gave off Mark Wahlberg in Fear vibes. Was it a cover-up? Was it an accident? Who knows what, and why are they hiding the truth? Our money’s on wannabe Wahlberg.
Though Drake and Future are executive producers we don’t know if either of the two will be making any cameos in the eight-part miniseries. With a tropical island setting, which they could use to shoot a music video at the same time, you’d think they would. But we’ll have to wait and see.
Check out the trailer to Saint X below, and let us know if you’ll be checking it out when it hits Hulu April 26.
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Earlier this week, superstar rappers Future, A$AP Rocky, 21 Savage and Playboi Carti were victims of a massive music leak, which included over 200 unreleased songs.
Future, Rocky, and Savage had two songs leaked, while Playboi Carti had three. The YSL duo of Young Thug and Gunna each experienced losses on a bigger scale, losing 20 records, respectively. SahBabii had 41 tracks leaked, while Yung Nudy suffered the most brutal blow with 172.
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Nudy responded to the leaks in a video posted online saying, “I’m a say this sh– one time, bro. I don’t know if y’all know, I’m not like other rappers, bro. I’m 100 percent finna take my time out to find out 100 percent who exactly is leaking my music. And I’m 100 percent gonna pull up at whatever studio it is, and I’m 100 percent gon’ beat your ass, on my mama.”
The unreleased records featured some promising collaborations. For Gunna, he has a potential song with Lil Baby titled “Sunfall” and another one called “On Sight” with Roddy Ricch. On the list, A$AP Rocky has two records with Playboi Carti, one named “Go.”
Two weeks ago, Latto underwent a similar issue when she reportedly had 130 songs leak online, including unreleased collaborations and reference tracks for several prominent songs such as Bia’s “Whole Lotta Money” and Coi Leray’s “Blick Blick.” Bia quashed claims of any possible ghostwriting help, tweeting: “No London jae wrote the hook, I wrote the pre and verse it’s not rocket science.”
Billboard reached out to the reps of Young Thug, Gunna, Playboi Carti, A$AP Rocky and Future for comment.
Future’s prolific output continues Tuesday (Nov. 29) with the release of his new video “712PM.”
Directed by Travis Scott, the video finds Future arriving on the scene inside a luxe Maybach with a bodacious model alongside him. And when Future isn’t flashing his gaudy jewels inside the club, he’s draped in fur, rapping in front of a torrid ball of fire.
This isn’t the first time Scott has lent his imaginative touch to the “WAIT FOR U” rapper: In September, Scott served as the creative director for Future’s “LOVE YOU BETTER” performance on Jimmy Fallon Live!
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This year has proven to be a banner year for Future, who recently covered Billboard’s R&B / Hip-Hop Power Players issue. The cover story explored Future’s wins, most notably his eighth No. 1 album, I NEVER LIKED YOU. Despite his accolades, Future is still looking for more leverage to empower those close to him. “When you have more power, that means you can put other people in positions [of power]. If you have a little power, then the people around you, what kind of power do they have?” he said during the interview. “So you want people around you that are super powerful. You are your company. Progressing and elevating is the key.
He also touched on one day being able to balance a thriving career and successful marriage, saying: “I feel like I can have both. When the time’s right, it’ll happen. It ain’t nothing that I’m really chasing. But I do dream of it, and I do want it.”
Watch “712PM” below.