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Coi Leray is clearing the air after Cardi B name-dropped her on Am I the Drama?‘s “Pretty & Petty.”
Coi joined the Bootleg Kev Podcast on Tuesday (Oct. 28), where she explained her reaction to Cardi referencing her in a bar on the bristling track. “They only hit you when they can’t afford Coi,” Cardi seemingly snipes at BIA on the song.
The “Players” rapper showed plenty of love to Cardi, calling the Bronx native “amazing” and saying that she respects Cardi “all the time.”
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“I don’t think it was a diss,” she said, which Bootleg Kev agreed with. “I mean, I don’t got nothing to do with anything else, but as far as me, you know, I don’t think it was a diss at all.”
Coi continued: “I f—k with Cardi. Me and Cardi, we got each other real information. Like we speak offline, we real people before we industry.”
Leray detailed how she has an open line of communication with Cardi, as she’ll text her randomly to show love or get advice about things such as real estate. “I hit her all the time. I’ll hit her and be like, ‘Love you,’” she said. “Or sometimes, like, when I’m moving to Jersey, I’m like, ‘Yo, I need a realtor. You got a realtor for me?’”
The 28-year-old previously debunked rumors that she was upset or annoyed at Cardi name-dropping her on “Pretty & Petty.” “I never said anything about anything. They literally made this s—t up. Get a life,” she wrote on Instagram. “Cardi whole album fire.”
It’s been a busy year for Coi Leray as well, as she became a mom earlier in 2025. On the music side, she teamed up with Shoreline Mafia for her “Act Like You Know” single in October.
Watch the interview with Coi below. Talk about Cardi B’s “Pretty & Petty” takes place just shy of the 24-minute mark.
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Julia Wolf went from a relatively unknown artist to notching a Drake collaboration seemingly overnight. The emerging singer joined the Zach Kang Show on Monday (Oct. 27), where she detailed how a Drake Instagram follow and DM led to them eventually collaborating on “Dog House” in September.
“We were freaking out, it was like 6 in the morning… It’s 6 a.m. and Tanner’s waking me up [at] 6 in the morning — ‘Champagnepapi followed you!’” she recalled. “Then it’s freaking Drake, and he DMs me lyrics of ‘In My Room.’ How do you have a regular day?”
Wolf explained that it was actually someone else who put him on and requested a Julia Wolf song when he was DJing for friends at a club.
“Drake was DJing with a group of five or six people at the back of a club,” she said. “He was playing all sorts of music and then this one girl, who was a friend of a friend, went up to him and was like, ‘Can you play ‘In My Room’ by Julia Wolf?’ He said he played it and stopped everything and reached out to me then and there. It was so cool. He’s a super open-minded guy.”
Wolf immediately got to writing after Drake asked her about any unreleased demos she had lying around that he could possibly use.
“That first day he was like, ‘Send me some demos.’ I had no demos to give him, so I went to my room. Literally just writing anything I can over [sic] loops,” she said. “I’m like, ‘What can I possibly say that Drake can resonate with?’ He’s resonating with ‘In My Room,’ he’s loving the album, he’s saying, ‘This is so me.’”
Wolf continued: “Out of the four or five things was ‘Dog House.’ It’s actually part of a larger song. The part in ‘Dog House’ was the chorus I had at the end. I sent it and it was immediate. He was like, ‘This is the one, this is my life. This is our song.’”
Plenty of time went by and Wolf was left in the dark as she had no idea what she sent would be turned into. Eventually, that changed on Sept. 9 when Drake’s “Dog House” arrived featuring YEAT with a photo of Wolf as the cover art.
The BYNX-produced track debuted at No. 54 on the Billboard Hot 100 and cracked the top 10 of the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.
Watch the full interview below. Talk about Drake starts just shy of the 39-minute mark.
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Juvenile says he’s responsible for 50 Cent‘s legendary Shady Records deal — and he says 50 can attest to it.
In an interview with Nyla Symone, Juvenile explained how after 50’s near-fatal shooting, he became a pariah of the music industry and that no one wanted to work with him.
“I got 50 Cent his record deal with Eminem,” Juvenile explained. “Ask 50, he’ll tell you, yeah, Juve was the one. 50 couldn’t really go to the studio at the time, and I was one of the first cats with a studio bus, so I let him record on my bus, him, [Tony] Yayo, and [Lloyd] Banks.”
Juve said that Eminem invited him to a music video set while filming for D12 in New York City, and that he brought along former G-Unit president Sha Money XL.
“When I went over there with Sha Money, my first thing was telling him the type of music Em doing and the type of music 50 doing with the diss thing…that’s going to work if he go with him. And it worked,” Juvenile explained, adding that 50 even wrote about Juve’s role in his book, though didn’t specify which one.
Billboard has reached out to 50 Cent’s team for comment.
50 Cent actually recently joked that he’s finally leaving G-Unit, claiming its because Tony Yayo took too long to diss Jim Jones and Memphis Bleek. In a video posted to 50 Cent’s Instagram, the mogul is seen making some jokes while aboard a private jet with Tony Yayo about leaving G-Unit.
I’ve been doing some soul searching, and I think I want out the group, OK?” Fif told Yayo.
“If anything, you just kicking us out the group,” Yayo responded.
“Took too long to respond to Jimmy and Memphis Bleek,” 50 Cent continued. “I’m saying, n—as is talking mad sh–, though. You not even like that.”
Check out a clip from Juvenile’s interview below.
Trending on Billboard Cam’ron has filed a lawsuit against J. Cole over the duo’s “Ready ’24” collaboration, which landed on Cole’s 2024 Might Delete Later mixtape. According to court documents viewed by Billboard on Tuesday (Oct. 28), Cam’ron (Cameron Giles) sued his fellow rapper (Jermaine Cole) over allegedly violating the terms of an agreement pertaining […]
Trending on Billboard Busta Rhymes paid homage to his longtime friend D’Angelo with a new song called “Magic,” which finds Busta rapping over the R&B singer’s 2000 track “One Mo’Gin.” In an interview with OkayPlayer, Busta Rhymes spoke lovingly about his longtime friend, and said they originally met through Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad while […]
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Halle Bailey and DDG have temporarily agreed to share custody of their son and drop domestic violence claims against each other, putting a halt to the musicians’ messy legal battle after months of back and forth.
Bailey and DDG (Darryl Dwayne Granberry Jr.) had been fighting in family court since this summer over custody of their nearly two-year-old child, Halo. The proceedings got ugly, with Bailey accusing the 28-year-old streamer and rapper of physical abuse and DDG claiming the 25-year-old singer and actress is mentally unstable.
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But the two artists have put their differences behind them, at least for now. A settlement docketed on Monday (Oct. 27) sets forth a temporary custody arrangement lasting for the next four months, and Bailey and DDG agree to mediate in “good faith” to reach a more permanent plan afterwards.
The settlement also sees both Halle and DDG dropping their competing requests for domestic violence restraining orders (DVROs) against each other. However, both sides reserve their rights to revive these allegations “upon a further incident of abuse.”
“Each party further agrees that should a future incident of abuse occur that postdates the dismissal of the instant DVRO requests, the fact that the parties dismissed her/his DVRO request shall not be prejudicial to the party seeking new orders,” reads the agreement. “The dismissal is for settlement purposes only and may not be used as evidence against the party(s) seeking new orders.”
Reps for Bailey and DDG did not immediately return requests for comment on Tuesday (Oct. 28). This is not surprising, as the settlement mandates that “the parties shall not publicly discuss the terms of this stipulation or the litigation between them.”
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Bailey and DDG dated between 2022 and 2024, and Halo was born at the end of 2023. Their court dispute began this past May, when Bailey filed a petition claiming DDG had physically attacked her multiple times in Halo’s presence. In one such instance, Bailey alleged that DDG pulled her hair, slammed her face on a car steering wheel and chipped her tooth.
DDG denied these claims and brought a counter-petition of his own in June, alleging that Bailey was actually the abusive one and had repeatedly threatened self-harm as a means of emotional manipulation. Bailey responded that she struggled with her mental health in the past but now has these issues under control.
Bailey was given court-ordered custody of Halo while the litigation played out. She’s retaining primary custody under Monday’s settlement agreement, while DDG gets the child twice a week and two weekends a month. They will split holidays.
The former couple agrees in the settlement not to post any photos or videos of Halo online. There are also a number of guardrails to govern their relationship; neither one is allowed to disparage the other in the child’s presence, they can only communicate via a special co-parenting app, and Halo should always be dropped off with the other parent at a public park.
“All exchanges shall be peaceful and polite, with the custodial parent handing the child to the non-custodial parent. (A polite hello and goodbye is acceptable),” reads the settlement.
Trending on Billboard Doechii says her continuous slide malfunctions on her tour are not deliberate, and that it just keeps happening. Doechii hopped on Instagram on Sunday (Oct. 26) to clear up the drama surrounding her slide. 50 Cent was among users online who trolled the rapper for getting stuck halfway down the slide during […]
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Don’t expect a seven-year drought in between albums for Cardi B. The Grammy-winning rapper is promising to drop another project in 2026.
Cardi hopped on X Spaces on Monday (Oct. 27) and explained how she doesn’t plan to drop a deluxe or remix album for Am I the Drama?, but instead she’s looking to release another project within the next year.
“I see you guys asking for a deluxe or asking to do a remix album like Charli [XCX] or something,” she said. “Unfortunately, I am not doing none of that… What I gave y’all is what y’all getting.”
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Cardi continued to tease her next era: “However, I want to put out a project another album in less than a year, so I’m really planning on that. I want a new era. I kinda know what I want it to look like. It’s gonna be different from Am I the Drama?”
Now, plenty of Cardi promises came and went in the seven years between Invasion of Privacy and Am I the Drama?. The Bronx native’s sophomore album finally arrived in September and debuted atop the Billboard 200 with 200,000 total album-equivalent units earned.
After giving birth to baby No. 4, Cardi will hit the road for her first headlining tour in February. The Little Miss Drama Tour kicks off on Feb. 11 in Palm Desert, Calif. She’ll then head through major cities including Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Seattle, Houston, Detroit, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C, before finishing up on April 17 in Atlanta.
Later in the Spaces, Cardi explained how she’s ready to get back to her pre-pregnancy self after giving birth.
“You see how I was in a strict schedule while I was doing the rollout? Well, that is the same way that I’m going to be when I give birth,” she said. “I want to be a bad b—h. I feel really beautiful being pregnant, but I want to go back to bad b—ing. So I need to tighten up my body.”
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Tyler, The Creator has added “Mother,” which he described as the first song he made for his eighth album, Chromakopia, but took off last minute, to the LP’s deluxe edition on its first anniversary.
In an Tuesday (Oct. 28) Instagram post, the rapper reflected on riding his bike through his old neighborhoods — Inglewood, Hawthorne and South Bay in California — in 2020, and questioning what home really meant. “Is it a feeling i carry or a place? convos with my mother i found out things that was opposite of what i’ve built a narrative around,” he wrote underneath a childhood photo of him and his mother.
The IG carousel also included a photo of his RIAA platinum plaque for Chromakopia, snapshots from his recently concluded world tour with openers Lil Yachty and Paris Texas, and a video of him recording with Thundercat in the studio.
While Tyler said “Mother” is “pretty much the grounding piece of the album,” he also opened up about approaching Chromakopia as his diary. “things ive touched on before, things i havent. the pressure of monogamy, the fear of fatherhood, how i felt about my hair, the judging of sexual freedom, my paranoia, etc. nothing too ‘deep’ or crazy, just thoughts that stay on loop,” he continued. He also said Chromakopia “ended up taking me places the others didnt. 15 years in; biggest its ever been. im in awe of the success…. its been a year since release, time is moving. to those who love this body of work, tell me about it. i hope it holds weight in your life.”
Tyler released Chromakopia one year ago on Oct. 28, 2024, via Columbia Records. The 14-track project spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and notched three top 10 hits: “Noid” (No. 10), “St. Chroma” featuring Daniel Caesar (No. 7) and “Sticky,” featuring GloRilla, Sexyy Red and Lil Wayne (No. 10). It earned 299,500 equivalent album units in its first week, marking Tyler’s biggest album to date even after arriving on an off-cycle Monday and therefore only having four days of activity in its first tracking week. He wrote on his IG post that he planned on Chromakopia “being my last album for a VERY long time. release it. do the big tour. go disappear and only pop out for movies roles. see what a life is like without work being top of mind. its hard tho, i love making things.”
But in July, he released his ninth studio album, Don’t Tap the Glass, which also debuted atop the Billboard 200 and earned the rapper his fourth No. 1 LP. He’s also making his feature film debut alongside Timothée Chalamet in the Josh Safdie-directed Marty Supreme.
See his post and listen to “Mother” below:
Trending on Billboard Queen Latifah loves her some Megan Thee Stallion. The “U.N.I.T.Y.” rapper joined The Jennifer Hudson Show on Tuesday (Oct. 28), where she gushed about what Megan’s been able to accomplish and how Latifah ended up on stage alongside the Houston Hottie at Coachella earlier this year. “She’s so cool, she’s so fun, […]
