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Lil Nas X returns with five new tracks, and fresh music videos for each single. Keep watching to see what his new songs are! What’s your favorite track from Lil Nas X’s drops? Let us know in the comments! Lil Nas X: I’m scared, but I’m excited. Next chapter is not gonna open until you […]
When offensive lineman James Hudson III signed with the New York Giants on Thursday (March 13), he probably didn’t expect to hear from T-Pain hours later.
The Giants posted a photo of Hudson III inking his two-year $11 million agreement to X and fans began saying he looked like T-Pain and made references to the Nappy Boy Entertainment CEO.
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“I’m finna turn this franchise around,” T-Pain hilariously promised when quote-tweeting the photo of Hudson on X.
Aye chill out 😂— James Hudson III ™ (@Cinco_Cinco3) March 14, 2025
Hudson had a sense of humor about the exchange as he replied to T-Pain with a laughing emoji: “Aye chill out.”
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T-Pain’s original response has over 278,000 likes and counting since Thursday night. Football fans chimed in looking to see what skillset the Florida native had to offer. “Mr. Pain, Jokes aside, we need a quarterback. Talk soon,” one Giants fan asked.
Another joked: “New song coming soon — I’m In Love With A Kicker!”
T-Pain’s Nappy Boy Entertainment leaned into the joke further when crafting a fake quote from ESPN analyst Stephen A. Smith. “The fact other teams in the National Football League did not sign him sooner… is criminal,” they wrote.
Hudson spent the first four seasons of his career playing offensive tackle for the Cleveland Browns before signing with Big Blue.
Although he didn’t sign with the Green Bay Packers, T-Pain is returning to his second home of Wiscansin in June for his fourth annual Wiscansin Fest.
The “Buy U A Drank” singer will be hitting The Rave stage alongside Pusha T, Wale, Keyshia Cole, Feid, NLE Choppa, DJ Diesel (Shaquille O’Neal), Jermaine Dupri, Kash Doll, Armani White, and more to be announced at a later date.
Tickets for the two-day festival going down on June 13 and June 14 are now available.
It’s always a blessing when two legends link up. After announcing their upcoming EP and releasing the single last month, Roc Marciano and DJ Premier just dropped the video for “Armani Section.” Directed by POE, Roc and Preemo hangout and do some shopping in L.A. and they brought along a couple luxury vehicles to lamp […]
Sometimes the past meets the present. Will Smith took it back to 1990 — The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air‘s pilot episode to be exact — when recreating the famed dance scene with Tatyana Ali (Ashley Banks) and a surprise appearance from Doechii.
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Smith posted the fun clip to Instagram on Friday (March 14) featuring him barging in on Ali jamming out and listening to Doechii’s “Anxiety” on her Walkman headphones, and then the Swamp Princess joins the fun to complete her “Anxiety” dance trend, which has taken over TikTok.
“Waited 35 years for this dance to trend,” Will Smith captioned the video. Fans were loving the nostalgic blast from the past as well.
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“Loool! Love it! And love y’all,” actress Meagan Good wrote. DJ Jazzy Jeff chimed in: “Amazing!”
ESPN/MSG Networks basketball analyst Monica McNutt said she’s firing up Hulu and “fitna go watch this episode!”
Will’s son, Jaden, was just looking for a heads up when things are popping off at home. “Dad you gotta tell me what’s happening in the crib so I can fly home bro,” he jokingly wrote.
Smith’s brain seemingly got churning last week when he reposted the original Fresh Prince scene to social media and thanked fans for the love as “Anxiety” began to take TikTok by storm. “I’ve been watching y’all and every video has been better than the last!! Love that track @Doechii. @Tatyana Ali remember this?” he wrote.
The Grammy-winning rapper linked up earlier this week when Smith posted a trippy clip mouthing the words to “Anxiety” in a mirror, but when the chair turns around, Doechii is the one actually sitting down.
Doechii released the solo version of “Anxiety” to streaming services on March 5. The track samples Gotye‘s 2012 Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit “Somebody That I Used to Know” featuring Kimbra.
It was originally part of her Coven Music Sessions, which were released on YouTube in 2019. Sleepy Hallow ended up sampling it on his own “Anxiety” track in 2023. Thanks to the TikTok trend setting social media ablaze, Hallow’s version debuted at No. 45 on this week’s Hot 100.
Will Smith is in for a busy month as he announced on Friday that his Based on a True Story album will be released on March 28. It’s Smith’s first full-length LP in over 20 years. The project will feature Big Sean, Joyner Lucas, Teyana Taylor, Russ, Fridayy, his longtime running mate DJ Jazzy Jeff and more.
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Mariah Carey is certified within rap circles and Cam’ron can attest to that.
The songstress frequently hung out and partied with rap stars during the ’90s and 2000s and never shied away from aligning herself with the genre as she rose to pop superstardom, having one of the more memorable pop rap hits in “Fantasy (Remix)” featuring the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard.
Cam’ron was one rapper who used to chill with Mimi back in the day and they’ve been rumored to be linked romantically throughout the years, but it has always been innuendo. In 2002, Carey was such a big fan of Cam’ron hit single “Oh Boy” featuring fellow Dipset member Juelz Santana, that she reworked the song for her record “Boy (I Need You)” and made sure to have Cam featured on it. They even performed the song on BET’s 106 & Park with Cam’ron donning his iconic pink fur outfit.
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A few years back, the Harlem rapper got into a trolling war Carey’s ex Nick Cannon where Killa posted photos of himself and the Long Island singer with captions insinuating that they once had a thing for each other. However, he was only joking around and in 2023, he reposted one of the pics along with the caption, “I’m the friend you shouldn’t worry about.”
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He addressed these old rumors on a recent episode of his YouTube show Talk With Flee. When asked by co-host Sen City about the nature of their relationship, Cam denied them and emphasized that their relationship has always been platonic. “She’s a friend,” he answered. “She’s a good friend. It’s nothing more, nothing less than that. She’s a super-duper good friend.”
He then commended her hip-hop knowledge and said she deserves more credit for bridging the gap between rap and the mainstream early on in her career. “We gotta realize,” he began. “When it comes to Mariah Carey — because she’s such a pop figure and so popular around the world and a mega superstar — people don’t give Mariah Carey a lot of credit for putting Hip Hop in her music and videos.”
Adding, “Mariah Carey worked with Da Brat, Mariah Carey worked with The LOX, Mariah Carey with Ma$e, Mariah Carey worked with me. Mariah Carey worked with Ol’ Dirty Bastard… I think she’s very underrated — that’s the word I would prefer to use — on how much she indulges in hip-hop and how much light she brings to hip-hop artists.”
Their friendship started when she heard “Oh Boy” and reached out. “She liked a song of mine and then we did ‘Boy’ and we hung out,” Cam explained. “She invited me [to Aspen]. Honestly, Mariah’s the first person who made me realize that it was festive in the Aspens about 20-something years ago. I drunk some wine, she had a pool house, we chilled out for a couple days… She took me to Capri, to Italy. She took me a lot of different places, but she’s just a friend.”
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King Vamp season has returned.
1,540 days after his influential sophomore Whole Lotta Red album landed on Christmas Day in 2020, Playboi Carti finally released his much-delayed and highly anticipated I Am Music album on Friday (March 14).
I Am Music hit streaming services in the morning with the Atlanta rapper sending out a tweet around 7:30 am ET with Spotify link attached after yet another postponement, which fans speculated to be tied to the blood moon eclipse. However, Carti didn’t seem too worried as he posted a clip on FaceTime with Justin Bieber to social media as he ate pasta on his Spotify billion-stream plaque for “FE!N”.
The LP is loaded with star-studded features from the likes of Young Thug, Travis Scott, Future, Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd, Lil Uzi Vert, Skepta and Ty Dolla $ign. While employing an impressive list of producers that included Cardo, Metro Boomin, Soutside, F1lthy, Ye, Cash Cobain, and production duo Ojivolta, among many others.
“[This album] is very important to me because I feel like I have something to prove,” he told Numéro Berlin in 2023. “This is my moment, this is the one for me. You know, this album right here is – I say this for everything, but – I think it’s going to be my best album because I’m just popping it. It starts with music. That’s it. As long as I got that, it’s up.”
He also told Billboard, “I want to make the people feel like they don’t know what is about to happen,” during a cover story profile and that’s exactly the feeling you’re going to get the first time you hit play.
And with that being said, check out our rankings of every song on I Am Music below.
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Grammy-winning MC Jay Rock was arrested in Watts, Los Angeles on Thursday night (March 13) for felony firearm possession and trespassing. According to NBC 4, the rapper born Johnny Reed McKinzie, 39, was taken into custody around 6 p.m. in Nickerson Gardens on charges of trespassing and drinking in public.
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At press time a spokesperson for the LAPD had not returned Billboard‘s request for comment on the arrest and it did not appear that Rock had commented on the arrest on his socials; a spokesperson for the rapper had not returned a request for comment at press time.
ABC 7 reported that after police stopped Rock for trespassing in Nickerson Gardens — the largest public housing complex in Los Angeles and the place where Rock grew up — he reportedly tried to flee his vehicle when the arresting officers would not tell him why he was being detained. Police then reportedly found a firearm in the car, which led to a booking on suspicion of felony weapons violation.
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Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department records confirm that Rock was arrested on Thursday, with no information available at press time about whether he had posted bond and was released from custody or when he is due in court on the charge.
Rock is longtime member of the Top Dawg Entertainment family and was a member of the now-defunct Black Hippy crew, which included Kendrick Lamar, ScHoolboy Q and Ab-Soul. He released his debut album, Follow Me Home, in 2011, followed by 90059 in 2015 and Redemption in 2018. One of the tracks from the latter, “King’s Dead,” featuring Lamar, Future and James Blake, was included on the Black Panther: The Album soundtrack collection and won a best rap performance award at the 2019 Grammys; the song peaked at No. 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
The rapper appeared alongside fellow TDE family members SZA, ScHoolboy Q, Doechii, Isaiah Rashad, SiR, Ab-Soul and Ray Vaughn at December’s 11th annual Christmas concert, toy drive and community giveback.
The wait is finally over: Playboi Carti has released his long-awaited third studio album, I Am Music on Friday (March 14) via AWGE and Interscope Records. Spotify has been assisting with the album rollout over the last month by putting up billboards around major cities such as Los Angeles, New York City and Miami that […]
