R&B/Hip-Hop

Meek Mill took to X to address claims made by recently incarcerated Rollin’ 60s Neighborhood Crip rapper Luce Cannon in a resurfaced clip.

After Cannon was swept up in the Eugene ‘Big U’ Henley Jr. RICO case, Akademiks TV posted a three-minute video of the rapper making the claim on DJ Akademiks’ podcast Off the Record, saying he and others ran up on Meek Mill over “talking real reckless on Twitter” during a club performance, took him outside, and made him call Rick Ross to pay $50,000 for his release.

Meek then posted a screenshot from a HipHopDX article and claimed that he never met Luce Cannon and doesn’t know who he is. “This guy must be using a story to confuse his indictment because I never seen him B4,” he tweeted. “I woulda put him to ‘gods test’ on the spot! I never even met buddy but I don’t ‘negotiate’ with fake thugs ask him what chain because all my chains some sh– lol watches all 300k up vibes.”

He then added that he’s respected out West after a fan said they hadn’t heard Cannon’s story up and until recently when responding to another claiming the only reason Meek addressed this at all is because Luce is currently locked up.

“It’s a real world,” he said. “Real LA n—as that respect the sh—t out me how I carry myself in an open arms wya to build my people up ion care where you from… that’s why you seen my around NIPSEY and others … men of respect and honor!”

Adding, “Me, Nipsey, YG, Mustard and few others made sure we didn’t follow the East Coast West Coast narrative! I changed my life by blessings …. but i always been down to meet up with ‘fake street bullies’ in abandon areas where it’s no civilians and take they heart!”

Big U and Luce Cannon are accused of racketeering, extortion, human trafficking, fraud and the murder of a 21-year-old aspiring rapper who signed to Big U’s Uneek Music label, among other charges.

Who knew Playboi Carti did his own stunts?

After releasing a deluxe version of his No. 1 album Music — which included four new songs in “Different Day,” “2024,” “Backr00ms” and “FOMDJ” — Carti dropped the video for the latter and channeled Tom Cruise by not needing a stuntman.

After the video went up on YouTube, the Atlanta rapper posted a screenshot on his Opium Instagram page of himself standing on top of a pickup truck with a caption that reads, “I went Tom Cruise. No edit dis s–t real movin car all dat.” He also hung out the truck’s window like the Joker and got a new face tat in the video.

Music marks his second album to reach the top of the albums chart — after 2020’s Whole Lotta Red — with 298,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending March 20, according to Luminate.

He’s also the third artist in history — and first rapper — to chart more than 30 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 in a single week, with “Evil J0rdan” sitting at No. 2 and “Rather Lie” featuring The Weeknd at No. 4. The rest are peppered throughout, with “Walk” ranking the lowest at No. 96.

And while Kendrick and SZA‘s song “Luther” still dominates the Hot 100, the Compton rapper’s three Carti features “Good Credit,” “Backd00r” with Jhené Aiko and “Mojo Jojo” sit at No. 17, No. 25, and No. 17, respectively.

This is the second video to drop from the album in recent weeks, with “Like Weezy” being the first. The videos for “2024,” “Backr00ms,” and “Evil J0rdan” were released over the last year on Instagram and YouTube.

Check out the “FOMDJ” below.

GloRilla is currently trekking across North America while headlining her Glorious Tour, but ended up having to cut a St. Louis show short earlier this week after several fights broke out among the audience.

Per local affiliate FOX 2 Now, brawls led GloRilla to end her The Factory show in St. Louis early on Monday night (March 24). Footage emerged online appearing to show women involved in physical altercations in the general admission area as security attempted to intervene.

“Come on man, y’all better than that,” GloRilla said mid-show, attempting to defuse the melees. “They still fighting, what the f–k. Come on, y’all ain’t that mad.”

She continued: “Ain’t nobody did nothing that bad for y’all to be out there fighting. We here to have a good time. Ya’ll supposed to be feeling glorious at the Glorious Tour.”

The 25-year-old eventually had enough as more fights continued to take place, and Glo ended the show and headed backstage.

Billboard has reached out to GloRilla’s reps for comment.

“It was real fun … Up until the fighting,” a fan named Andy Johnston, who attended the show at The Factory, told FOX 2. “It was actually like a WWE fight. It was really fun. We’re up there peeking over — I had front row in the balcony, and it’s like a sea of people. Then you see a little scramble for a second, and people would start running to it.”

He added: “It could be something that makes the artists not want to come here to our city because of all the fighting.”

GloRilla gets back on the road Wednesday night (March 26) with a hopefully more peaceful show slated for Milwaukee’s The Rave-Eagle Club, and then she’ll head to Minneapolis on Thursday (March 27).

Drake has set the release date for his anticipated “Nokia” video, which will arrive on March 31. The 6 God posted a teaser for the clip on Tuesday (March 25), revealing that the Theo Skudra-directed visual was shot for IMAX.

“NOKIA March 31st Directed by Theo $$$kudra Filmed for IMAX,” he captioned the cinematic trailer, which welcomes viewers into the OVO IMAX universe and changes the “A” into the brand’s signature owl logo.

Shooting in IMAX is an expensive proposition, but there’s seemingly no cost outside of Drake’s budget. “Shooting this in imax is insane. Its 2k per minute to develop the film,” producer BNYX wrote in the IG comments.

A fan hilariously chimed in: “Bro really said Anita Max Resolution!”

Produced by Elkan, “Nokia” dropped from No. 8 just outside of the top 10 to No. 11 on this week’s Billboard Hot 100. The track was on Drake and PARTYNEXTDOOR’s $ome $exy $ongs 4 U joint album, which debuted atop the Billboard 200 in February. Drizzy and Party have three other songs from their project collectively on the Hot 100, with “Die Trying” (No. 76), “Gimme a Hug” (No. 78) and “Somebody Loves Me” (No. 83).

It’s anybody’s guess regarding Drake’s next move, but he’s teased his solo LP being up next on his to-do list. The 6 God is also set to headline all three nights of Wireless Festival in London, from July 11 to July 13.

Watch the “Nokia” video trailer below.