R&B/Hip-Hop

Cardi B is totally bothered by what haters have to say about her figure … not. In a newly shared video, the rapper trolls body-shamers by eating a plateful of syrupy pancakes, seemingly making fun of the negative comments she’s been receiving about a recent performance between bites. 

In the clip, Cardi wears a bathrobe while cutting up a stack of flapjacks, sarcastically pretending to cry. “I’m getting body-shamed, I’m so sad,” she says through a mouthful of pancake.  

“Everybody’s saying I look fat, that my a– is so fat,” she continues, piling on some whipped cream. “Everybody hates me.”  

The “Up” musician’s comments appear to relate to her Memorial Day weekend performance at Drai’s Nightclub in Las Vegas (aka the site of her viral microphone-throwing incident last summer). Saturday night, Cardi fired up the crowd in a skin-tight leopard-print bodysuit. 

The concert came just a few days after the Bronx native stopped by Megan Thee Stallion’s show at Madison Square Garden, where the two women performed their 2021 Billboard Hot 100-topping smash “WAP” together. Later that night, GloRilla joined the pair onstage for “Tomorrow 2.” 

The triumphant reunion followed Cardi’s May 16 Rolling Stone cover story, in which she asserted her role in helping other women in hip-hop find success. “These labels was not believing in repping new rap artists,” she told the publication. “People from every single label have f–king told me this s–t in my face. They started signing new female rappers after I got signed.” 

Watch Cardi troll the haters below. 

21 Savage invaded Canada for his first headlining show north of the border when he took over Toronto’s Budweiser Stage as part of his American Dream Tour on Monday night (May 27).

The Slaughter Gang honcho made it a night to remember as he brought out the king of the 6 and his Her Loss partner, with Drake making a surprise guest appearance, which sent to the crowd into a frenzy.

Drizzy set things off as they performed the menacing Project Pat-assisted “Knife Talk” from his 2021 Certified Lover Boy album.

“One last time please, everybody in this city that we love so much, please make some noise for my motherf—-n’ brother 21 coming out here killing this s–t,” Drake said before letting Savage know Toronto was also his city. “You know I love y’all. I’ll see you soon. Give ’em one more. You home, right? It’s your city.”

The 6 God continued to hype up the crowd while he and 21 ran into Her Loss smash “Rich Flex,” which had the fans singing bar for bar. The Tay Keith-produced banger reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2022.

Drake and 21’s chemistry is still apparent after Savage joined Drizzy on the It’s All a Blur Tour last year throughout North America, including a show in Toronto.

It’s been a busy year for 21 Savage, who unleashed his Billboard 200-topping American Dream album in January, and the “Bank Account” rapper was also named to Time‘s TIME100 list of the world’s most influential people.

The 31-year-old is continuing to trek across North America for his American Dream Tour, which will make stops in Michigan, Ohio, NYC, Atlanta, Florida and more.

Watch Drake’s guest appearance at the show below.

Random link ups are everywhere in rap these days — and the latest one sees Lil Baby flying across the pond to connect with London’s Central Cee for the song “BAND4BAND.” The UK drill beat — produced by Ghana Beats and Geenaro — is a certified trunk rattler with both Cench and Baby, as the title suggests, going band for band.

Directed by Wowa, the video shows their respective teams riding through London in back-to-back Lamborghini Urus’ in different colors looking very presidential. Central Cee sets things off and quickly loses his mind spitting, “I’m not in the mood ’cause my flight delayed/ So I jumped on a private jet and I’m askin’ the pilot the ETA/ Lambo’ parked on the landin’ strip, everyone in my gang and my DJ paid/ Why’s my man talkin’ ’bout Insha’Allah? These times, he don’t even pray.”

Then, Lil Baby comes through to calm things down in his signature style of rapping like he’s never lied about anything a day in his life. “Bro’ll do it for some shoes and some clothes, you’ll see what he’ll do for a necklace/ ‘Rari truck, it look like a spider, it’s crawlin’ a dollar on just accessories (Damn)/She made me wanna go harder, I like her whole aura, I think I’m obsessed with her,” he spits like a character of an Iceberg Slim novel.

It’s always dope when unexpected collabs turn out to be bangers. Play this in the whip this Memorial Day weekend and make the trunk rattle on that reasonably priced sedan while going back and forth like Cench and the Hero.

While Baby has been relatively quiet this year, Central Cee has been active. He dropped the R&B-leaning “I Will” back in February and recently dissed old foe Digga D on “CC Freestyle.”

Maybe all this activity means he’s gearing up to drop the rumored Can’t Rush Greatness album this year. We sure hope so.