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GELO looks to continue the momentum he kicked off this year with “Can You Please?” The hooper-turned-rapper returned with his “Memphis twin” GloRilla to release the raunchy visual on Tuesday (March 18). The Ball brother hops out of the butterfly doors of his exotic orange sports car with his “Tweaker” smash playing on the radio […]
We caught up with DDG at Rolling Loud. and he shares how he feels about “Pink Dreads” having a viral moment, how he gets inspired to create music and more! What do you think of DDG’s “Pink Dreads”? Let us know in the comments! Tetris Kelly:Hanging out at Rolling Loud with DDG. Man, how does […]
Justin Bieber put his stamp of approval on Playboi Carti‘s JB-name-dropping track “Like Weezy” from the rapper’s latest album, Music. Bieber posted a since-expired Instagram Story of himself with “Like Weezy” playing over it. In the chorus, Carti raps, “I told her I’m big like Bieber, she ain’t believe me.” And the Atlanta rapper put […]
Lil Durk delayed his Deep Thoughts albumsince being arrested by U.S. Marshals in Florida on conspiracy, murder-for-hire and firearms charges in October, but the project finally has a release date.
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Durk released a trailer on Monday (March 17), announcing that his Deep Thoughts LP will arrive on March 28 as he remains behind bars without bond. The clip gives fans a look into his creative process as members of the OTF crew communicate with him on calls and run through songs making the tracklist’s cut.
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“I like the energy [of] what y’all are putting together,” Durk said. “Even the list of songs you sent me is good so I know y’all putting better changes on that s–t. I know it gon’ be bigger and better.”
Prior to being arrested, Durk heated up in the second half of 2024 with singles such as “Monitoring Me” and “Turn Up a Notch,” as well as “Opportunist” and “Late Checkout” with Hunxho. He even appeared on Central Cee’s Can’t Rush Greatness standout “Truth in the Lies” to kick off 2025.
Durk — born Durk Banks — was booked into Broward County jail following his arrest on Oct. 26. Los Angeles federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment accusing OTF crew members — allegedly at Durk’s discretion — of a 2022 shooting in Los Angeles targeting Quando Rondo, which led to Rondo’s distant cousin Lul Pab (Saviay’a Robinson) being killed.
Police believe targeting Quando Rondo came in retaliation to Durk’s childhood friend King Von’s murder in 2020 following an altercation between Von (Dayvon Bennett) and Rondo’s crews outside an Atlanta hookah lounge.
“After the [2020] murder, Co-Conspirator 1 made clear, in coded language, that Co-Conspirator 1 would pay a bounty or monetary reward, and/or make payment to anyone who took part in killing T.B. for his role in D.B.’s murder,” prosecutors wrote while using Rondo and Von’s initials.
Prosecutors continued: “Banks put a monetary bounty out for an individual with whom Banks was feuding named T.B. Banks ordered T.B.’s murder and the hitmen used Banks and OTF-related finances to carry out the murder.”
Durk has denied the allegations and pleaded not guilty to all of the charges. He’s remained behind bars without bond and will head to trial on Oct. 14.
The Chicago native’s last studio album, Almost Healed, arrived in 2023. The project debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and included hits such as the multiplatinum “All My Life” featuring J. Cole, which reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Machine Gun Kelly pays rocking tribute to one of his best friends, late Australian snowboarder Luke “The Dingo” Trembath in the new video for “Your Name Forever.” The Sam Cahill-directed clip features MGK performing the high-adrenaline rap-rock tune on a rooftop overlooking the Hollywood Hills interspersed with footage of Trembath’s many friends in the music and extreme sports world gathered in front of a massive portrait of the beloved powder rider painted by muralist Royyal Dog.
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“I never thought the last time I’d seen you would be the last time I’d seen you/ I hopped on the bike that you gave me the day I rode to nowhere, hoping that I’d reach you/ The last argument that we had, I said things I shouldn’t have/ I hurt you and I didn’t mean to/ Your coat’s on the chair in my house right now,” MGK sings urgently on the high-octane tune that features background vocals from Avenged Sevenfold’s M. Shadows, Bring Me the Horizon’s Oli Sykes, Mod Sun and lead guitar from A7X Synyster Gates, who were all friends of Dingo’s as well.
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“i’ma miss you brother. 😞💔🕊️ i hope this song honors your epic legacy. none of this will be the same without you,” MGK wrote on Instagram on Tuesday (March 18). In an earlier reel last week featuring pictures of the old friends from over the years, Kelly wrote, “crazy…i didn’t even cry this hard when my dad died. 💔😞🕊️ i’ve lost a lot of friends, but i’ve never lost a brother. we’ll never get another Dingo on this planet. a true rockstar without ever needing to make a song, the most loyal, loud, charismatic, funny, and annoying human i’ve ever had the honor of knowing.”
He added, “i’ll miss your epic toasts, i’ll miss dapping you up and my hand hurting everytime because you had some odd amount of Australian strength goin on, i’ll miss your bellyflops, i’ll miss watching you walk through the door and lifting the energy of every pivotal event in my adult life, i’ll miss you pissing me off, but most of all i’ll miss your laugh. you were the glue between all of us,” before alluding to the difficulty of thinking about a world without his pal as the singer awaits the birth of his first child with ex-Megan Fox. “i feel like your up there with my new child, dressed up in a hilarious costume making them laugh, getting ready to send them down. i couldn’t ask for a more bittersweet birth blessing,” MGK wrote.
The video features years of footage of loud and brash party-bringer Dingo hanging backstage and goofing around with MGK, as well as a party of black-clad mourners releasing doves in his honor at the mural dedicdation; sponsor Monster Energy confirmed on Feb. 28 that Trembath died at age 38, with no cause of death revealed so far.
“Tell me, did you know it was time to say goodbye?/ Tell me, did the heavens align where angels fly?” MGK sings on the chorus. “What happens, what happens when you kiss the sky?/ Tell me, did you know it was time to say goodbye?”
The clip ends with an extended cut Dingo hanging with MGK over the years, sharing laughs and silly moments backstage, including one in which the rapper/rocker bursts into tears and wonders, “I literally feel like we had the same conversation last year. In this same spot. Are we going to grow up and be doing this when we’re 50?”
Watch the “Your Name Forever” video below.
Ja Rule’s decades-long feud with 50 Cent will seemingly never die, but Ja believes there could’ve been a different outcome had the internet and social media been more prevalent in the early 2000s.
The Murder Inc. rapper pulled up to Hot 97 on Monday (March 17) to discuss myriad topics, including Irv Gotti’s death and the Drake–Kendrick Lamar feud, which led to him recalling beef of his own, such as clashing with 50.
“I kind of wish I had the internet when I had my beef going on,” Ja said. “They would’ve seen things in real time, you know what I’m saying? They would’ve seen who this guy is in real time and then then it would have been a different outlook on what this is. You would’ve been like, ‘Oh, now I get it. This guy’s a f—ing fraud.’ You don’t get a chance to see that, feel that.”
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He continued: “Nowadays, with the internet, sometimes you get to feel too much. With the Drake and the Kendrick beef, you got these guys that break down the whole f—ing battle lyric for lyric for lyric. I don’t know if this is good or battle … We just live in a different time right now.”
Billboard has reached out to 50 Cent for comment.
Ja Rule went on to say that “people didn’t want to see Drake win” anymore after being on top for so long. He related it to sports, with NFL fans being tired of Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs winning three Super Bowls in five years. “Kendrick makes a hot record and everybody jumps on it,” he said.
“Drake’s in a position right now, and I know this position well. He’s in a position where two plus two is adding up to seven, and he just doesn’t understand it,” Rule added. “He’s like, ‘How can I be the hottest motherf—er for 10 years and now everybody wants me to lose?’ He’s not understanding the dynamic of that.”
He went on to claim: “Drake could go and make a thousand f—ing dope records right now. People are rejecting his deposit. So that’s what he’s going through right now. But if he was an athlete, and you go put up f–king 55 — you gonna put up 60 points in the night, I can’t deny that, man.”
Ja Rule’s overarching advice to rappers? “Stay out of beef,” he said, before going back to his 50 feud. “I don’t give a f–k what happened. I’m a real one, you know what I’m saying? I don’t think about that s–t, it don’t bother me.”
Watch the full interview below. Ja speaks on his feud with 50 as well as Drake and Kendrick shortly after the 43-minute mark.
There was once a time when Playboi Carti made Ye’s (formerly Kanye West) list of rappers who never crossed him, but that doesn’t appear to be the case any longer.
The embattled rapper went on an extended X tirade targeting Carti and many of his collaborators and superstar peers throughout hip-hop early Tuesday (March 18).
He initially voiced his issue with Carti (born Jordan Carter) allegedly taking him off his Music album, and felt the “All Red” artist crossed the line when requesting vocals from West’s daughter North after Kim Kardashian posted the project to her Instagram Story.
“I DECIDED NORTH WONT BE DOING ANY SONGS WITH CARTI HOW IT LOOK FOR ME TO GET LEFT OFF THE ALBUM AND THEN HE ASK KIM TO HAVE VOCALS FROM MY DAUGHTER,” Ye wrote. “I DONT A F–K ABOUT NONE OF THIS INDUSTRY SHIT AND HOW ITS A SKIMS LINE IN THE FIRST PLACE AND I DONT GIVE A F–K WHAT NO COMMENTS THE MAN HAS THE FIRST AND FINAL SAY OVER HIS KIDS.”
Ye flipped the script on Carti while using the Atlanta rapper’s ex Iggy Azalea and brought the “Magnolia” musician’s son, Onyx, into the mix.
“HEY IGGG AZALEA I NEED TO GET ONYX VOCALS ON MY SONG THATS MY NEPHEW OH AND IMA RAP ABOUT ONE OF YOUR BUSINESSES THE F–k,” he added. “I HELD MY TONGUE ABOUT MOT BEING ON CARTI ALBUM HIM GOING TO MY EX TO ASK MY DAUGHTER TO BE ON A SONG 2 DAYS LATER WAS TOO FAR NOBODY FINNA PLAY WITH ME.”
Azalea got wind of Ye’s remarks and fired back in her child’s defense. “Ye, I understand the point you want to make. I say this with kindness & as a mother: Please, leave my child out of this. At the end of the day, Jordan has other children (less famous… Does it matter?) but it seems only my son gets harassed in perpetuity about or on behalf of a man he has no relationship with,” she wrote on X. “Does he read it? No. Hes a child. But it creates a digital legacy & an odd (s—-y) situation for him to one day discover & endure in perpetuity from strangers online. Can I please have some peace?”
The embattled Chicago artist turned his focus elsewhere and claimed he actually “HAAAAAATED” Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” Drake diss.
He continued to go after Pusha T and Ty Dolla $ign. “NOBODY GET A PASS I WAS A PART OF SO MANY OF THESE NIGGAS SUCCESS AND A LOT OF N—-S,” he ranted, blaming to his antisemitic hate speech — for which he’s been roundly condemned — as the reason for his peers pulling away. “PUSHA TALKING ABOUT HE DONT AGREE WITH MY POLITICAL OPINIONS BRO I HATE ALL THESE N—-S THATBIVE SAT AND CHOPPED SOMGS FOR TY AINT HAVE TO USE THE TERM HATE SPEECH EVERY NIGGA IN THE INDUSTRY IS A SLAVE TO THIS F—-T A– JEWISH INDUSTRY EVERRRYYYYY ONE DO YOUR F–KING DISS SONGS OR PULL UP.”
West also posted photos hugging Kid Cudi, Playboi Carti, Travis Scott and Virgil Abloh while saying they turned their backs on him after his hate speech.
He went on to target Tyler, the Creator, saying he’s never made a “memorable song” and called out Future and Metro Boomin after they allegedly called him to hop on the “Like That” remix only to dead him afterward.
“THIS N—A HAS NEVER MADE A MEMORABLE SONG HES LIKE IF AN ARTIST CHECKED EVERY BOX OTHER THAN HAVING ANY GOOD VERSES OR SONGS AND HIS LAST ALBUM RIPPED OFF MY WHOLE LANGUAGE,” he wrote about his “Smuckers” collaborator.
Billboard has reached out to reps for Future, Pusha T, Ty Dolla $ign, Playboi Carti, Kendrick Lamar, Travis Scott and Tyler, the Creator for comment.
Over the weekend, Ye released a song titled “Lonely Roads Still Go to Sunshine,” which appears to feature Diddy and North. Kardashian had reportedly trademarked their daughter’s name in a legal tactic to block the track’s release.
Appearing on producer Zoomo’s album Absolution, released in October of 2024, the music video for “Good Orderly Direction” featuring Navy Blue is finally here.
Directed by Paul Merelle, the visuals are just as soulful as the beats and the bars as Zoomo and Navy find themselves taking in the sights and sounds of Central Park on what looks like a damp, autumn day.
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With the beat switch in the middle, “Good Orderly Direction” is essentially two songs with the West Coast rapper doing what he does best by getting introspective. He starts off the first verse telling the listener to chill out a bit, rapping, “Alone on a path tryna get the thoughts freed up/I’m goin’ in the game 4-3 up/If you movin’ through this life on the gas, better ease up/Jesus Christ on the cross, gotta bleed/River full of fish, be weary of the greed/Solve our problems with a spliff, every young brotha’ need love.”
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He then ends the with, “It only gets harder as you go/You alive, and that’s the sacred part of how you grow,” reminding us to keep on keeping on because life is a garden, dig it?
On the second verse, after the beat switches a bit, Navy Blue talks about the beauty in facing your anxieties as he stands in the middle of Central Park’s Naumburg Bandshell. “Even when I’m hurt, I’ma smile,” he raps. “I done learned just to love me a bit/Fear stacked, I was perched on a pile/Down bad, I can gladly admit/Imperfect, I’m searching aloud/Loose garment, I can’t wear a shroud/And this sack bring a brother closer to God.”
In case you’re not familiar with Zoomo, he’s a producer out of North Carolina who’s down with YL and Starker’s NYC collective RRR and has been bringing the feeling back with beat tapes — a medium in hip-hop that has become a rare occurrence these days — his most recent project Absolution features instrumentals and includes features from Navy, Da$H, AKTHESAVIOR, YL, Starker, Wiki, ANKHLEJOHN, Aasir, VIP Skylark, Goya Gumbani, and Papo2oo4.
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Playboi Carti showed some love to Kim Kardashian‘sSkims on his new Music album, and the shapewear brand shout-out made it onto the reality mogul’s radar. Kardashian returned the favor by reposting Carti’s “Fine Sh–” lyrics to her Instagram Story on Monday (March 17). “I bought that h- a lot of clothes, but she love her […]
Rolling Loud California day 2 was full of hot performances from Playboi Carti, The Weeknd and more! Keep watching to see everything you missed on day 2! What did you think of Rolling Loud day 2? Let us know in the comments below! Matt Zingler: I’ve heard some things, and there’s definitely a few really […]