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Chicago rapper KTS Dre was shot dead in a hail of bullets while exiting from a jail facility. Born Londre Sylvester, the 31-year-old rapper was just released from jail Saturday evening. A 60-year-old woman accompanied Sylvester at the time of exiting the facility. The woman got shot as well as …

Bow Wow took to Instagram on Tuesday to let the world know that being a rapper is too stressful for him. “I was soooo stressed putting this show together in 4 days for VERZUZ!!” he captioned the post. “What ya’ll don’t know is our hard drive CRASHED 6 mins before we went …

Atlanta Rapper Lil Jon and Anitra Macadon will star in “Lil Jon Wants To Do What?” on HGTV. The show will follow him as he “offers skeptical homeowners startingly unconventional renovation ideas that seem impossible to execute.” “His undaunted team can take Lil Jon’s creative vision – to maximize features …

Mariah Carey threw shade on Twitter Saturday at an up-and-coming rapper who remixed one of her songs by referring him to her attorneys. But, apparently, the singer was really just joking. On Friday, rapper YTK released his song “Let It Off,” which contained an uncleared sample of Carey’s hit “Shake It Off.” A …

Weedmaps is taking us all higher this year for their second virtual 4/20 event “Even Higher Together.” The event will be hosted by everyone’s favorite smoking buddy, Snoop Dogg. “Weedmaps virtual 4/20 event is going to be phenomenal,” Snoop Dogg. “Anything celebrating cannabis and the culture around it, you know I …

Alaya High, known as Lay Lay, has a new comedy series coming out on Nickelodeon. “That Girl Lay Lay” will consist of 13 episodes. “We’re so excited to have That Girl Lay Lay star in a series that just as fierce and funny as she is,” Zach Olin, senior vice …

Ludacris got his pilot license, apparently, and the internet is loving it.  What’s that? It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Well, it is a plane, and Ludacris is flying it. In a new video posted online, the 43-year-old is seen cruising through the skies steering his private jet. The rapper …

Viral dance craze rapper Silento, whose real name is Richard Hawk, who had the hit single”‘Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae),” has been arrested and charged for the murder of his cousin. The 23-year-old rapper is charged with killing his cousin, 34-year-old, Frederick Rooks in Atlanta’s suburbs. Rooks was pronounced dead at …

Baby CEO, A rapper who first made headlines at the age of 14, is officially dead at 20. Amid social media tributes, no official cause of death has been declared, and his death remains unconfirmed at this time, According to the Sun. News of the young rapper’s presumed death was first …

Rapper Rowdy Rebel, also known as Chad Marshall, was released from prison after spending nearly four years behind bars for weapon charges. In 2014, Marshall was arrested alongside Bobby Smurda and the GS9 crew members on murder, drugs, and weapons charges. According to Complex, Marshall and Bobby Smurda were sentenced to …

Twenty-six-year-old rapper Lil Uzi Vert could be hanging up his paper and pen after a few more albums. After releasing the joint project Pluto x Baby Pluto with rapper Future on Friday, Lil Uzi took to Twitter to reveal his plans to stop making music, reports stated. In a now-deleted …

Atlanta rapper 2 Chainz opens up about his feelings toward Kanye West and Lil Wayne’s support for Donald Trump. During an appearance with the Breakfast Club, 2 Chainz shared details about his upcoming project So Help Me God, and he also gave his opinion on his two “partners” Yeezy and …

Rising rapper and social media influencer, Braxton Baker, known as Brax, has died at 21. Letricia Loftin Russell, Brax’s mother, shared the news on social media. The cause of death is unknown. “At the time of her ascendance, she laid in sacred form. There were no scratches, there were no …

A month after reports revealed that rapper Bobby Shmurda was denied release during his parole hearing, court documents are now revealing why. In September, TMZ stated that the rapper’s release was denied by board members after mentioning that he’s had “multiple” offenses in jail, including possessing a shank, fighting, and …

In a New York Times open letter entitled “Megan Thee Stallion: Why I Speak Up for Black. Women,” Megan Thee Stallion shares details about her tragic night with Tory Lanez and how the negative reactions to her shooting perfectly display the long-standing dismissal of Black women’s pain. She raps, she …

On Friday, Migos’ #Offset was arrested and slapped with two felonies and two misdemeanors, after drugs and guns were discovered in his car during a traffic stop.  Initially, the rapper was pulled over for an illegal lane change, but upon completing the stop, officials found three handguns, $107,000 in cash …

She’s the 9-year-old Instagram wild child who’s “flexing on most rappers.” But where did #LilTay come from? Is she as rich as she says or is it just an act? According to an interview, the Insta-famous kid’s being is all a strategic plan to get her to stardom. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ …

From briefly independent to signed. Rapper #Wale has sealed a new music deal with Warner Bros. Records. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ On May 15, Warner Bros. co-chairman, COO Tom Corson and the D.C. rapper celebrated the big news during a dinner in Beverley Hills. In a press release, Corson wrote: “I am …

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ One year ago today, the world lost Atlanta native and rapper Shawty Lo. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Born Carlos Rico Walker, Shawty Lo got his start in music in 2003 as a founding member of the rap group D4L. Alongside other group members, Fabo, Mook-B and Stoney, the group had much success …