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Lil Baby isn’t letting up.

The Atlanta rapper recently dropped off the deluxe version of his fourth solo album WHAM and is planning on releasing another project entitled Dominique some time in February. He’s also mentioned working on a tape with Future, but made sure to mention Young Thug may be involved in what they had planned.

Baby confirmed to Complex that he’s also been working on new music with the aforementioned Thugger. “We’ve been in the studio together [every day] almost since he came home. So we got tons of songs,” he said. “Me and Future were also going to drop a project, but it was Thug’s idea. The whole time while he’s locked up, I’m talking to him and trying to talk about the trial. He’s like, “You need to get with Pluto and drop the tape with Pluto.” I’m trying to talk about the trial. He ain’t even tripping. He’s like, “Bro, go to Miami. You need to lock in with Pluto, y’all need to drop an album. Do that for me.”

However, he revealed the album might feature all three rappers instead of two separate projects. “There probably won’t be a me and Future tape anymore because Thug is back. So, whatever it would be, it’ll be all three of us.” Adding, [And that’s] super exciting, because to me, those are two of the main people that I would say I look up to in the rap game. So to be able to spar with them, I feel like that’s sharpened me up a whole lot.”

WHAM is Lil Baby’s fourth No. 1 album, but what may be more impressive is that his album blocked Bad Bunny from taking the top spot.

Lil Yachty delivered one of the most memorable Hot Ones episodes in 2018 with his first hot sauce experience, and the album has returned to the table for another bout.

Rocking a hot pink wig and a Coogie sweater from The Notorious B.I.G.’s closet, Lil Boat appeared on Wednesday’s (Jan. 15) episode of Hot Ones and gave a much-improved performance dealing with the spicy wings as he crossed the finish line.

After trying out the mozzarella sticks dipped into the hot sauce, Yachty recalled his most awkward performance when he performed at a festival in Thailand.

The disaster began when he saw a few hundred at the stadium that could have fit 50,000 people. He hit the stage ahead of All Time Low. “Those fans were not there for me,” he said. “If there was a 100 people, maybe 10 of them were there for me and I had an hour set. It was so empty, you could see far and it was raining.

Yachty continued: “They don’t speak English and it’s nine people here in a capacity of f—ing 50,000. They don’t understand me in between the breaks when I’m speaking English, and they’re not there for me. It was tough.”

Hopefully, Boat won’t face any more crowds that sparse as he’s slated to open on Tyler, The Creator’s Chromakopia Tour, which starts on Feb. 4 and will run through North America.

On the music side, he teamed up with James Blake for their Bad Cameo joint project last June.

Watch the full episode below.

The calendar may have turned to 2025, but the Cardi B and Offset drama has spilled into the new year. Cardi took to X Spaces on Tuesday (Jan. 14) where she accused her estranged husband along with his mother, Latabia Woodward, of robbing her.

“I ain’t listen after you and your momma robbed me,” she claimed. “Yeah, you and your mom robbed me cold, wiped my nose. Told you stop f—ing playing with me.”

The Grammy-winning rapper didn’t allude to exactly what she meant when it came to the alleged robbery. Cardi went on to allege that Offset didn’t want any part in playing the role of Santa Claus this year.

She claimed that Set didn’t buy their three children a single gift for Christmas this holiday season even after an NYC shopping spree for his kids with other women.

“You just called your daughter for the first time this year, yesterday. Your newborn. You love your kids so much and you didn’t bought them s–t for Christmas,” she said. “But you came to New York to buy your other kids gifts. But you didn’t bought my kids s–t on purpose to spite me. Mind you, we was cool. We wasn’t f—ing, but we was cool. Stop f—ing playing with me.”

Cardi confessed that she “couldn’t even enjoy [her] own wins because [she] felt like he was going through something.”

She continued: “And this is the realest s–t somebody could ever do for you. I used to pray for this person before I prayed for myself. And then this motherf—-r had the nerve to say that I was being ‘competitive.’”

The Bronx native filed to divorce Offset — for the second time — after seven years of marriage over the summer. The very next day, Cardi announced that she was expecting her third baby, who arrived on Sept. 7. The former couple also shares 6-year-old daughter Kulture and 3-year-old son Wave. 

Listen to Cardi’s rant below. Billboard has reached out to Offset’s reps for comment.

Dipset fans and Harlem residents have been heartbroken over this recent spat between Cam’ron and Jim Jones.

In recent days, the two Diplomats and close friends have been going back and forth about things that happened in the past. Jim Jones ultimately took issue with Cam’ron’s December interview with former foe 50 Cent where the pair recalled Jones and Juelz Santana making an cameo at a G-Unit show in 2007, around the same time 50 and Cam weren’t getting along. While sitting down with social media personality Justin Laboy, Jones hit back, saying, “Them n—as be on my d—k. Them n—as ain’t got nothing else to think about but Capo,” among other things.

Cam then responded on his It What It Is sportstalk show with Ma$e, calling Jim “a fan,” said that he was really from The Bronx, and reminded him that he and Ma$e taught him how to rap, something Jones has already admitted in the past on numerous occasions.

Now, there might be a diss track aimed at Cam’ron on the horizon.

Jimmy posted a snippet in the wee hours of the morning earlier today where he starts the Statik Selektah-produced song off by saying, “When n—s play with your name, then you remind them who you are,” and ended the clip with the line, “So, what more you wanna ask him? You n—as taught me how to rap and now I’m platinum.”

Cam has yet to respond to the track and Jimmy hasn’t released the diss in full yet, so we’ll have to keep you updated on the latest quarrel between Killa and Capo.