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Legendary hip-hop group De La Soul is planning to dig in the crates.

De La Soul took to Instagram to announce the release of Clear Lake Audiotorium, a six-track EP originally distributed as a promo release to DJs back in in 1994.

“Originally pressed in 1994 as an exclusive promotional release for select DJs, Clear Lake Audiotorium has achieved near-mythical status among collectors,” the group wrote in a caption. The album includes four tracks from the Buhloone Mindstate era, with two rare collaborations: “sh.Fe.Mc’s” featuring A Tribe Called Quest and “Stix & Stonz” with contributions from Tito of The Fearless Four, Grandmaster Caz, LA Sunshine of the Treacherous Three and Prince Whipper Whip.”

According to sites like Vinyl, Me Please, only 500 copies were originally pressed. Four of the songs — “In the Woods,” “I Am I Be,” “Patti Dooke” and “I Be Blowin’” — also made appearances on the their 1993 album Buhloone Mindstate, while their track “sh.Fe.Mc’s” with Tribe eventually found a home on the 30th-anniversary edition as a bonus song.

The group representing Strong Island, fought long and hard to gain control of their catalog as they negotiated with their former label Tommy Boy for a way to get their music available on streaming services. They were finally able to make their back catalog available for fans in March 2023 thanks to Reservoir Media purchasing Tommy Boy. De La Soul chronicled the process of formatting their music for the digital age in the documentary Chapter 3.

Clear Lake Audiotorium will be made available on March 7, 2025. Fans can pre-order the digital version and limited-edition CD & vinyl now here.

Kodak Black is worried rap fans will turn on him eventually.

During a recent Instagram Live session, the Florida rapper revealed that he feels a “Hate Kodak campaign” is in his future. “One day these n—s gon’ try to do me like Drake,” he said referring to the blowback the Toronto rapper has suffered since losing his battle with Kendrick Lamar. “Whole little hate Kodak campaign. Everybody who hate Kodak to the left. You see these n—s campaigning and sh—t.”

While Kodak was somewhat incoherent soon after, we were able to make out him saying, “I’m a great friend, but I ain’t friendly.” We’re not exactly sure what he was referring to, but Kodak has a history with both Lamar and Drake. Kodak was featured on the Compton MC’s 2022’s Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers as a narrator of sorts, something Kendrick was criticized for given Kodak’s long legal history, which includes a first-degree assault charge after an incident with a teenage girl in a hotel room in 2016.

Drake, on the other hand, has referred to Kodak as his favorite rapper, at least according to Kodak himself. This past December, during another IG Live, he said, “I’m Drake’s favorite rapper. He always says that. Even his people always say that,” as he paced around a living room. “It don’t make no sense how Kendrick Lamar beat you to it, you know what I mean,” he then said in reference to his appearance on Mr. Morale. Kodak then mentioned the $600,000 in Bitcoin Drake allegedly sent him. “I get why he sent all that money now. That’s why he sent that out of nowhere like that.”

The “No Flockin’” rapper was also upset with Drake over 2022’s Her Loss because he decided to do the project with 21 Savage instead of him. “I had told Drake I ain’t wanna do no collab actually,” he revealed during yet another Instagram Live. “No songs or no album, ’cause we supposed to been did a whole album together before him and lil buddy did that sh—t.” Adding, “I had told him I wanted to wait, like 2023, after February.”

Sexyy Red is feeling like herself again. Big Sexyy kicked off 2025 going under the knife for a successful breast augmentation that has her “back double D’d up.”

The St. Louis rapper took to her Instagram Story while at the doctor’s office showing her before and after results with a series of selfies on Thursday (Jan. 9).

“Didn’t want small no more I’m going back big,” she wrote in her hospital gown. TMZ reported this is her third breast surgery and that she decided to have another after suffering through back pain, among other ailments, in recent years.

Sexyy showed love to her doctor on her IG Story as well. “My chest looks soooo much better thank you sooooo much @drghesi you literally dat [ninja emoji],” she wrote.

He returned the favor: “You’re so welcome! Appreciate the love.”

She’s continued to show off the cosmetic work with additional selfies ahead of her appearance at the Mr. Jones nightclub in Miami on Friday night (Jan. 10), where Sexy will debut her new look.

2024 was another major year for Sexyy Red with the arrival of her In Sexyy We Trust project. Her hit “Get It Sexyy” reached the Billboard Hot 100’s top 20 and she notched guest appearances on Tyler, The Creator and GloRilla’s albums, too.

The 26-year-old has a few shows on tap for January where she’ll head to Detroit on Jan. 19 for The Big Show and then to Charlotte, N.C., on Jan. 22 for a DaBaby & Friends concert.

Find some photos of Sexyy Red below.