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“Conductor, we have a problem!” Wiz Khalifa, who went from the rap blogs to mainstream superstardom, has gone back to the basics these past few weeks as he’s been randomly releasing freestyles and linking back up with old friends like Curren$y and now fellow Taylor Gang member Ty Dolla $ign. Produced by current underground darling […]
A$AP Rocky has once again addressed his long-awaited project Don’t Be Dumb. This time, he was stopped by Instagram fashion account The People Gallery and asked directly when he was planning to finally drop the album. “Don’t do me like that,” he replied with a smirk on his face. “A$AP. Listen, don’t make me do […]
Ice Spice has been eating her oats, and now she’s teasing her first single of 2025 with a snippet of a track touting her curves that appears to be titled “Thick Again.”
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The Bronx native, who was in the City of Lights for Paris Fashion Week, carved out some time to dance to her upcoming hard-hitting track in front of the Eiffel Tower on Tuesday (March 11). “She got thin but she went and got thick again/ Shorty eating her oats/ He stay on my body, it’s hard to get rid of him/ You know that I like him the most,” she raps.
The viral clip sees Ice twerking in a short camouflage dress while giving fans and tourists walking around the Eiffel Tower a glimpse of her bare behind. Her X post currently boasts over 200,000 likes.
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Fans were hyped to see Ice regain her voluptuous figure and showed her love in the replies. “Everyone that switched up betta stay in that side,” one person wrote, while another Munchkin added: “Ice Spice finally returned!”
Diplo chimed in on Instagram, hilariously pleading with Ice to “start an oats company.”
Over the summer, Ice Spice pushed back against rumors she was taking Ozempic and sniped at those talking about her weight. “I actually came on here to talk about that real quick. I wish y’all never learned the word Ozempic,” she said in an August Twitter Spaces. “That’s one thing I wish. Oh my God! Like, what even is Ozempic? What the f–k is that? Genuinely, what is that?”
Ice continued: “You lazy-a– b—–s never heard of a gym? It’s called the gym, it’s called eating healthy, it’s called being on tour,” she added. “Like, what the hell? Maybe if I was sitting at home all f–king day, it’d be easier to stay big.”
The “Thick Again” teaser wasn’t the only time fans saw Ice’s backside in the last week as she showed off a wardrobe malfunction featuring a tight Black dress split down the middle. “It was cute too,” Ice Spice wrote to her Instagram Story in disappointment.
Jermaine Dupri found himself in some hot water with fans on social media last week.
The So So Def founder went viral for asking why some artists choose to stay independent while trying to “chase” the same benefits and resources that major label artists have at their disposal. “I’m a little lost,” he wrote. “Can somebody tell me what the goal of being an independent artist is today because all of the things that people are chasing is sh—t major artist do, what’s the thing that indie artist do that make it special?”
Due to his experience in the music business, some felt as if he was downplaying independent artistry and disregarding how much the game has changed over the past decade. However, Dupri felt like his tweet was misconstrued and decided to address it a week later on the New Rory and Mal podcast.
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“As more and more people call me and the pods talk about it,” Dupri wrote in a caption over a clip from his appearance on the podcast. “I can see how people would think I was taking a shot at the independent community, I decided to address it with information I’m sure most y’all don’t have about me in that space, so you can clearly see that wasn’t my intent.”
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On the show, Dupri pointed out that his first foray in the independent market was in 2010 when he discovered singer Dondria on YouTube and paid for her music videos, got her to tour with Trey Songz, and wrote and produced songs on her debut album Dondria vs. Phatfffat. He also brought up the For Motivational Use Only, Vol. 1 EP he produced with Curren$y in 2023, which they released independently, and addressed allegations that he “fumbled Latto” after she won the first season of the reality show The Rap Game.
“The deal with Latto and The Rap Game was that if you win on the show, what you win is a So So Def chain and a contract with So So Def for Jermaine to produce one song for you and put it out on So So Def,” he explained. “I did that independently. So, a lot of people was like if they didn’t feel that push that they felt on a lot of my other records is because it was independent and it was all funded by me.”
He continued by breaking down what an independent artist can expect when they venture down that road. “These are the things that come in the Happy Meal independent box: owning your masters, getting your publishing, doing the royalties and you having to pay the royalties to people that you worked with, and the freedom,” he said. “These are things that are standard to me in an independent deal.”
He continued, admitting that even with his experience in the industry, he still might be missing something. “You never know everything. People believe that you do because you become successful, but I know in my heart of hearts that I don’t know everything,” he said. “If I ask a question, I know that’s what y’all jump to like, ‘Jermaine, he should know better than this.’ That’s what Joe Budden said, but I’m just asking a question.”
Dupri recently made headlines courtesy of Nelly, who declared that the record executive would beat Diddy in a Verzuz fairly easily.
As more and more people call me and the pods talk about it, I can see how people would think I was taking a shot at the independent community, I decided to address it with information I’m sure most y’all don’t have about me in that space, so you can clearly see that wasn’t my… pic.twitter.com/CMPNaxujBZ— Jermaine Dupri (@jermainedupri) March 11, 2025
Drake has always been one to keep his eye on the pulse of music, and now, he’s showing love to an emerging pop star. The 6 God shouted out Gracie Abrams on his Instagram Story on Tuesday (March 11), which had social media buzzing.
Drizzy spotlighted Abrams’ “I Knew It, I Know You” from the singer’s sophomore album, The Secret of Us, and more specifically, the beat switch that he was feeling.
“[GOAT]’d beat switch on this,” he wrote. “Second half is [sad emoji, brain exploding emoji, blue heart emoji].”
Fans had plenty to say about the idea of Drake and Gracie aligning after seeing him praise the guitar-driven 2024 tune produced by Aaron Dessner.
“Well, at least he has good taste in music,” one person wrote to X. Another chimed in, “We live in the timeline where DRAKE posts about GRACIE ABRAMS!”
The OVO faithful have also found their way to the “I Knew It, I Know You” music video and flooded the comments section.
Drake has been showing love to the pop stars in recent weeks, as he shouted out fellow Canadian Tate McRae as well as Charli XCX on $ome $exy $ongs 4 U track “Small Town Fame.”
“B—h, I feel like Tate McRae/ Puttin’ Charli up her nose, X on her tongue, she been geekin’ hard/ She done had a Brat summer,” he raps.
Abrams released her The Secret of Us album last June. The 25-year-old’s sophomore LP peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and was Billboard‘s No. 16 album on our 50 Best Albums of 2024 list.
See Drake’s Instagram Story below.
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Another day, another single from Lil Nas X. At this rate we could have the whole album by next week. After surprise dropping the songs “Big Dummy” and “Dreamboy” earlier this week, LNX was at it again on Wednesday morning (March 12) when he served up the latest taste of his upcoming Dreamboy album. This […]
SZA stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday night (March 12) and spilled details about her upcoming Grand National Tour with Kendrick Lamar, her excitement for Sesame Street, and dodged a cheeky question about Drake.
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When Kimmel asked if the Grand National Tour would resemble their Super Bowl LVIII halftime performance, the “Saturn” singer teased that fans can expect something entirely new.
“Oh, we’re doing a new thing,” she said. “We’re both just kind of throwing all the paint at the wall… This is our first stadium show for both of us, so we pretty much have to go insane.”
While SZA and Lamar might be co-headlining, she hinted that the Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers rapper is very much in his own lane.
“Well, he’s a wizard, so that’s different,” she quipped when asked if they hang out behind the scenes. “Wizards tend to be solitary beings, from my observation… I think he’s doing the Merlin thing backstage, getting us ready to take off.”
The “Kill Bill” singer also fielded a not-so-subtle question from Kimmel about the tour’s upcoming Toronto stop—where one particular rapper famously resides.
“But what if you-know-who shows up?” Kimmel asked, clearly alluding to Canadian rapper, Drake.
SZA simply shrugged: “Who knows? Who knows?” before Kimmel joked that Kendrick would “wave his wand, and he will disappear.”
“That’s what he’s the man behind the curtain,” she replied.
Beyond the tour, SZA also gushed to Kimmel about a lifelong dream coming true—appearing on Sesame Street.
“That was actually the most intense room of celebrities I’ve ever been in,” she joked. “Elmo, Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch… I got to talk to Cookie Monster.”
When Kimmel asked about the blue monster’s conversational skills, she laughed: “Terrible diction and alliteration. Very poor vocabulary, but tons of enthusiasm, I was so inspired!”
“It was like a true indicator that I’ve made it,” SZA added of her appearance on the show. “Shout out to the Super Bowl but Sesame Street..”
The Grand National Tour kicks off April 19 in Minneapolis, with stops across North America before heading overseas.
Ne-Yo has been in the news lately and it’s not for his music. Apparently, the R&B star is in a polyamorous relationship with four other women which he recently introduced to the world on his Instagram — and they each have a cute little nickname. “Since the world is so intrigued,” he wrote in a […]
Nelly thinks Diddy wouldn’t stand a chance against Jermaine Dupri in a Verzuz. The St. Louis rapper visited Drink Champs recently, where he was asked to choose between Timbaland and Dupri, and the convo veered into a Verzuz that — for whatever reason — never came to fruition. “Respectfully, and outside of current situations,” he […]
Ian has seemingly responded to Tyler, The Creator after the Grammy-winning rapper subliminally dissed him during an interview with Maverick Carter last year. Ian pulled up to the Lyrical Lemonade studios on Monday to deliver his fiery “Lunch Break Freestyle,” which saw him reference his love for Odd Future while growing up and address some […]