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DJ Khaled and 50 Cent have a rocky history dating back to around 2005 when G-Unit was in the midst of a beef with Fat Joe and they can thank baseball legend Reggie Jackson for bringing them together all these years later.
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The two former foes dapped it up at Reggie Jackson’s annual “Mr. October Foundation Celebrity Golf Classic” in Port St. Lucie, Florida earlier this week and the footage was captured by 50, whose Sire Spirits liquor brand helped sponsor the event.
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Tony Yayo once told a story on Drink Champs about the time the Miami DJ told him to “get the f—k outta here” when he went down to South Florida to promote a song for the radio. “I had ‘[So] Seductive’ dropping. I didn’t know nothing about the music business,” he told hosts N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN. “We beefing with [Fat Joe]. You f—k with Fat Joe, Khaled ain’t f—king with you. I got my record I’m trying to promote, so they like, ‘Yo, you gotta got to Miami … You gotta go to DJ Khaled.’”
Adding, “So we go up there. I told these n—as, ‘Yo, don’t take me to DJ Khaled. Fat Joe, that’s his man. He damn near Terror Squad,’” before revealing Khaled pretended to shake his hand while yelling his tagline. “Go to Khaled to shake his hand — ‘DJ Khaled, get the fuck outta here! I respect Khaled for that ’cause [Fat Joe] is his man … But I did go ’cause this is radio. I don’t understand this sh—t, I’m getting out of jail … So I’m like, ‘Yo, f—k you Khaled!’ I swear to God. You can ask him.”
Khaled confirmed Yayo’s story during an appearance on Club Shay Shay. “At that time, I work at a radio station,” he told Shannon Sharpe. “Everybody’s welcome at a radio station so you could never involve them type of situations and I understood that. And I’ve always been somebody that showed love, but when they told me [Yayo] was coming up I was like, ‘Wow.’”
Adding, “You know, him and my man don’t get along. [Fat Joe] is my brother, for real. I was just saying to myself, ‘This is gonna be hard for me’ because if I would have completely embraced him, I probably wouldn’t have been able to sleep at night. And if I did, I would have called [Fat Joe] immediately like, ‘This is what happened.’ That’s how much I care.”
He then said that’s “it’s all love now” which is try judging by 50 including their greeting in his recap of the charity event and Khaled telling the Queens rapper and filmmaker, “Nothing but love and respect.”
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. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Rocking a hot pink wig and a Coogie sweater from The […]
R&B singer-songwriter SZA has opened up about her complicated relationship with fame.
In a candid conversation during One of Them Days alongside Issa Rae and Keke Palmer, SZA (real name Solana Imani Rowe) admitted that even after over a decade in the spotlight, she still finds being in the public eye “weird.”
“Some people are very well acclimated in being perceived and also have a different mechanism to approach that,” she explained. “Keke has this crazy network of a mechanism where it’s like, everything just kind of like flows, even when the cameras are on.”
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For SZA, who last month dropped SOS Deluxe: LANA, fame is a foreign concept. “I don’t really know what is happening. I don’t know what the hell going on,” she continued.
“I didn’t grow up famous, I grew up in the ‘burbs, I went to regular school, went to regular college, did regular odd jobs until everything popped off.”
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The four-time Grammy winner elaborated, “I’ve never been examined in this way. … I get just a comfortability with letting my shoulders down and knowing that I’m not in danger just because I’m being perceived by people that I don’t know.” She echoed Keke Palmer’s sentiment, describing fame as “weird” and admitting that people often assume she’s more at ease with it than she truly is.
SZA also reflected on her unexpected rise to superstardom: “They be like, ‘That’s what you signed up for,’ and then I’m like, ‘I didn’t even know what I was signing up for, actually.’ I just made a couple songs and I was grateful that they were liked, and then I kept going.”
In a recent social media post in January, SZA shared her intention to create two children’s albums, describing the move as a way to channel her creativity while contemplating a future outside of mainstream music.
“Every day I grapple with, ‘Am I done with music?’ Maybe I’m just not meant to be famous – I’m crashing and burning and behaving erratically,” the singer told British Vogue last year.
“It’s not for me because I have so much anxiety. But why would God put me in this position if I wasn’t supposed to be doing this? So I just keep trying to rise to the occasion. But I’m also just like, ‘Please, the occasion is beating my ass.’”
SZA’s recent accomplishments suggest otherwise. Her latest album, SOS Deluxe: LANA, released on December 20, 2024, builds upon the monumental success of SOS,” which spent multiple weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. SOS returned to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in December after 22 months, thanks largely to activity generated by the album’s deluxe reissue.
In addition to her solo work, SZA’s collaboration with Kendrick Lamar on “30 for 30” from the SOS Deluxe: LANA album debuted at No. 1 on Hot R&B Songs Chart, with the two artists set to embark on a joint tour in 2025.
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. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts […]
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 […]
There have already been rumors about real estate developers offering up money to homeowners impacted by the recent fires in the Los Angeles area, and Vince Staples may be one of those people. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The Long Beach rapper took to X and […]
From “Big One” to “Come Here,” Florida rapper Bossman Dlow kept the hits coming throughout 2024. After scoring a string of viral bangers from his mixtapes, Dlow dropped his debut studio album, Dlow Curry, on Dec. 13. For one of his first interviews of the new year, the fast-rising star caught up with Billboard News to break down Dlow Curry and his upcoming tour.
Last year, Dlow earned his first two Billboard Hot 100 entries with “Get In With Me” (No. 49) and “Mr. Pot Scraper” (No. 93), both from his RIAA Gold-certified Mr Beat the Road mixtape. Those two tracks kicked off a run of hit singles — all of which reached the top 50 of Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs — including “SportsCenter” (No. 34), the Glorilla-assisted “Finesse” (No. 37), “Shake Dat Ass” (No. 12), “Talk My Shit” (No. 50), “2 Slippery” (No. 29, with Luh Tyler) and the Lil Baby-featuring “PJ” (No. 28).
For Dlow, his breakout hit, “Get In With Me,” remains his “most shocking” success. “I put that one to the side,” he explains to Billboard staff writer Kyle Denis. “I was shooting a video to ‘Finesse’ [at the time], so when I seen the numbers going up on Instagram, I was like ‘Oh!’ But [I was] shooting a video, so I [couldn’t] really watch it, but every time I checked, [the song] was going crazier and crazier.”
“Get In With Me” ultimately finished at No. 38 on the 2024 Year-End Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs ranking, his highest of four entries.
Dlow announced his debut LP through a SportsCenter appearance, playing on his love for sports. In addition to Steph Curry — whose name inspired the album’s title — Dlow’s top five basketball players include Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Anthony Edwards. Dlow Curry spun off more hits for Big Za, and that’s because the Tallahassee MC finally perfected his formula. “You gotta really think about what everybody else wanna hear,” he reveals. “It’s what you wanna hear at the same time, but it’s 90% what they wanna hear. Nowadays, it’s about [being] catchy. You wanna say something that they can repeat and remember.”
Dlow has used this formula not just to make “get that motion” music, but also to collaborate with rising stars like Loe Shimmy, who he says is his favorite artist to work with in the studio. In the years ahead, Dlow hopes to collaborate with Future, Usher and The Weeknd; hopefully, his forthcoming Wiz Khalifa collaboration sets the stage for those link-ups.
With goals of going No. 1 and getting Diamond-certified guiding him into the 2025, Bossman Dlow is ready to put on a yet-to-be-announced tour that will also involve the kids.
“I know all the kids like my music,” he says. “So they gon get a chance to win money, prizes, all that. I’m putting on a show everytime.”
Former Fox Sports host Skip Bayless and Lil Wayne have a friendship that runs deep. Less than a month out from Super Bowl LIX, Bayless went to bat for Weezy and his belief that the New Orleans icon should be headlining the Super Bowl Halftime Show in his hometown.
“Sorry, Lil Wayne should obviously be the Super Bowl halftime show in New Orleans,” he wrote to X on Sunday (Jan. 12).
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Of course, Kendrick Lamar has been tapped by the NFL to headline the Super Bowl Halftime Show in the Big Easy, which drew criticism from a range of Wayne’s rap peers, including Nicki Minaj, Master P and Cam’ron.
“Denying a young black man what he rightfully put into this game for no other reason but your ego,” Minaj said on X last year while seemingly targeting Jay-Z and Roc Nation, who has served as the league’s live music entertainment strategist since 2019.
Many Kendrick fans flooded Bayless’ replies, citing the recent lawsuit accusing the former host of sexual harassment. “Weird case???? Still around,” a TDE fan account responded while quoting Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us.”
According to the Associated Press, a hairstylist accused Bayless of repeatedly making unwanted sexual advances against her. She also claimed he offered her $1.5 million to have sex with him. Bayless has yet to address the lawsuit.
After Lil Wayne found out he’d been passed over for Kendrick, he admitted that the news was difficult for him to hear. “It hurt a whole lot,” he said at the time. “I blame myself for not being mentally prepared for a letdown, and for automatically mentally putting myself in that position like somebody told me that was my position. So I blame myself for that.”
However, in the time since, Weezy revealed he and Kendrick had been in contact. “I’ve spoken to him, and I wish him all the best and I told him he better kill it,” Wayne explained to Bayless in December.
“It just makes no sense to me. I don’t get it … their politics played … I don’t know,” Bayless said to Weezy, who replied: “That’s another part of it, there’s things I can’t control.”
Super Bowl LIX is slated for Feb. 9 in New Orleans where Lamar will hit the halftime show stage. Find Skip’s tweet above.
Ye — the artist formerly known as Kanye West — has certainly never lacked confidence in himself. West took to Instagram on Tuesday (Jan. 14) to tout himself as the GOAT while running through his decorated career résumé. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “YOUR FAVORITE GOATS […]
Cardi B might just be in her Reputation era. The rapper posted on X Tuesday (Jan. 14) that she’s had it with “acting nice,” using a hilarious Taylor Swift meme to get her point across.
Cardi told followers, “I was acting nice and nonchalant but today I’m going to violate and show the real me 🙂”
The “WAP” musician didn’t specify what grievance inspired her post, but to illustrate her point, she did attach a video of the Eras Tour headliner performing at the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge in 2019. Instead of the original audio, however, the clip of Swift is paired with what sounds like a snippet of Beyoncé absolutely going off while riffing during a live performance of “Crazy in Love.”
Cardi’s post comes less than a week after an update to her long-running legal battle with gossip blogger Tasha K, who claimed in a new response motion that the Grammy winner is trying to “sabotage” her career. Weeks prior, Cardi’s legal team had submitted a claim to a federal bankruptcy judge accusing Tasha of hiding money to avoid paying the rapper nearly $4 million in damages, which a federal jury awarded Cardi in 2022 after finding the blogger’s past claims about the star defamatory. In the new filing, Tasha’s attorneys countered by saying Cardi had failed to “identify a cent of undisclosed value.”
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The “Up” musician is also still at odds with Offset, from whom she split in July after seven years of marriage. The two stars — who share three children — were still very publicly hammering out their divorce as of mid-December, with Cardi at one point posting on X at her ex, “F–k off and sign the papers TODAY.”
“When u split the custody I will [sign the papers],” the Migos rapper countered at the time.
As for her thoughts on the subject of her meme of choice Tuesday, Cardi has only had positive things to say about Swift. In 2021, the hip-hop star praised the “Karma” singer’s “All Too Well” short film, and last year, Cardi gushed about the singer-songwriter’s relationship with Travis Kelce.
“I think it’s cute,” Cardi said of the couple last February. “She looks so happy. I feel like she’s really private with her relationships, so I really feel like she likes him a lot because she’s like, ‘I don’t give a f—. I’m going to kiss him. I’m going to touch him. I’m going to kiss him! Yeah, I’m here. Yeah, I’m taking a jet to see my man.’”
See Cardi’s tweet below.