Over the past two years, Nicki Minaj‘s career has been filled with rather questionable moves. Her ongoing feud with Cardi B remains a hot topic but what was even more peculiar was her decision to align herself with Tekashi 6ix9ine. “FEFE” became a massive hit for both artists and a definitive track of summer 2018, months before 6ix9ine would face racketeering and firearm charges.

Even then, Nicki Minaj’s rep was at risk by associating herself with someone who’s on probation for child molestation charges. Maybe it was the best move to seem like she wasn’t contradicting herself since her brother was convicted of child rape charges months before “FEFE” hit airwaves. 

Associating with a snitch, in hip-hop specifically, is a risky move, but again, Nicki’s loyalty to 6ix9ine clearly runs deeper. She’s now the first artist to openly collaborate with 6ix9ine following his testimony against members of Tr3y Way. The two are getting ready to release their song, “TROLLZ” this week. Proceeds from the song and merch will be donated Bail Project Inc. which many have found ironic since 6ix9ine literally put several Black men behind bars.

Nicki faced criticism, of course, with the Barbz coming to her defense. However, Nicki made it clear that she doesn’t care what anyone else thinks because she has a mind of her own.

“You don’t have to defend me. I’m not afraid of internet trolls, blogs, artists. I don’t jump on band wagons. Many will never know what it feels like to have a mind of their own,” she said. Honestly, it makes sense. Who would be afraid of blogs or internet trolls when you got the feds by your side?

SAINt JHN has been celebrating a legion of new fans after his four-year-old song "Roses" was revived on social media after a remix by an underground Kazakhstan-based producer went viral, helping him get the record to Billboard Hot 100's Top 10.

For the first time in his career, SAINt JHN has gotten a single in the Top 10 of the chart as a lead artist. The Brooklyn artist has written songs for Rihanna, Usher, Jidenna, Beyoncé, and more but, as a solo artist, he has not seen the same success as the musicians he's helped out with his pen game. Now, he surprisingly can celebrate a new achievement with a song he had likely never expected to take off like this.

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Fresh off the official remix with Future, SAINt JHN is cradling his head in his hands after "Roses" marked #10 on this week's edition of the Billboard Hot 100. 

The track's popularity has been bolstered through a remix by Imanbek, who released the remix after attempting to reach JHN on Instagram. He did not receive a reply and, shortly after the song's release, it blew up on Tik Tok.

While many are donating to bail funds across the nation to help protestors who've been arrested while fighting for justice, others are taking the time to list off all these celebrities who donated just to call them out for supposedly doing something wrong. Fox News' Tucker Carlson hopped on the airwaves with this sort of compiled list of celebrities in an attempt to seemingly "out" them for helping "rioters and looters."

After naming off companies that have donated to Black Lives Matter, he indicates that “it isn’t just major corporations that are fuelling all of this—celebrities are too, by paying to get violent rioters out of jail.” He then begins naming some of the famous folks who have given money to help bail out protesters, convincing himself that this is a bad thing.

Drew Brees has become a topic of conversation since his tone-deaf remarks went viral the other day. The NFL player was asked about players potentially kneeling as the NFL season resumes, given all that’s happening right now with the protests of George Floyd, and of course, Colin Kaepernick initially taking a knee as a form of protest against exactly this type of thing. Yet Brees stated, “I will never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag of the United States of America or our country,” missing the point entirely.

Following heavy backlash online, Drew Brees issued an extensive apology. “I would like to apologize to my friends, teammates, the City of New Orleans, the black community, NFL community and anyone I hurt with my comments. In speaking with some of you, it breaks my heart to know the pain I have caused. In an attempt to talk about respect, unity, and solidarity centered around the American flag and the national anthem, I made comments that were insensitive and completely missed the mark on the issues we are facing right now as a country,” he wrote in an IG post.

However it’s doing little to fix the damage he’s incurred. Among those calling him out for his remarks, there has been Lebron James and Shannon Sharpe. Now Boosie Badazz joins the chorus of naysayers, vowing not to support the Saints any more. 

Boosie shared an image that is currently going viral on social media, of Brees sitting with Trump and his wife Melania. In the caption, he not only admonishes him for his comments, stating how the Black community has been an important part of his career, but equally trolls him, saying that Trump may be in his wife’s DMs. He ends the caption with a simple demand: “TRADE HIM.”

“DAM @drewbrees U SHOWED YO TRUE COLORS U LET ME DOWN BRO THE BLACK COMMUNITY IS A BIG PART OF YOUR CAREER MF. LOOK LIKE IM GOING FOR THE FALCONS WHEN THEY PLAY SAINTS I STILL AINT PUT GUCCI BACK ON YET SO AS LONG AS YOU QUARTERBACK IM NOT SUPPORTING THE SAINTS ‼️u were so happy on this pic. I know trump was giving your wife that EYE ‼️check her dm he’s probably n it. TRADE HIM TRADE HIM TRADE HIM TRADE HIM TRADE HIM,” Boosie wrote.

Check out the post below. Young Scooter hopped in the comments to concur: “Drew tripping.”

Tyron Woodley was favored to defeat Gilbert Burns last night at UFC Fight Night although it didn't exactly work out that way. Woodley was dominated by Burns for five rounds and eventually lost unanimous decision. The scorecards weren't very close and this loss marks a second-straight defeat for the former Welterweight champ. 

Following the fight, Woodley took to social media where he addressed his fans and seemed to be in good spirits. As he explained, the fight left him out of sync from the start and that he just couldn't get any consistency.

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Per Woodley:

"He kicked me in my damn leg and then ever since then that thing was just not right. I could not get a rhythm going. So injury wise I think I am fine. I’ve got a nice little cut that you can’t see because I’ve got the best plastic surgeon dude on earth Dr. Greg, who hooked me up with some stitches. So I got like 3,000 stitches in my eye. Because that thing was split wide open. But yea my leg, that motherf—r look like I got a watermelon inside my skin. So I just wanted to come and face you guys. I don’t understand all of this, but I just know that I have to trust God."

It remains to be seen what's next for the UFC star although when it comes to Burns, it seems as though he is on a big hot streak and could be the next big contender.

50 Cent, like many others, is outraged that a black CNN reporter, Omar Jimenez, was arrested along with his crew while they were covering the protests in Minneapolis, while his white colleague, Josh Campbell, was not. Early Friday morning (May 29th), CNN reported that one of their correspondents had been taken into police custody along with two members of his reporting crew.

The arrest was captured on live television, the footage from which shows Omar, along with producer Bill Kirkos and photojournalist Leonel Mendez, clearly identifying themselves as journalists. However, they were held in police custody for over an hour before being released. Gov. Tim Walz later apologized for the senseless arrest, insisting that it should never have happened.

The arrest of Omar and his crew was upsetting enough, but it was brought to the public's attention that another CNN reporter, Josh Campbell, had also been covering the protests in Minneapolis at the same time. Josh, who is a white man, indicated that police had in fact approached him as well, but allowed him to continue reporting. "I identified myself," Josh recalled. "They said, 'OK, you're permitted to be in the area.' I was treated much differently than (Jimenez) was." This difference in treatment lead many to believe Omar's arrest was racially charged, including Fif.

"One they let walk away, one they took to jail," 50 wrote on his post, which shows a photo of Josh and a photo of Omar side-by-side. "This sh*t is sad." Following the arrest, CNN political analyst Bakari Sellers commented on the significant role that race played in the situation. "We have a white reporter on the ground, and we have a brown reporter on the ground," Bakari noted. "They are a block apart. The brown reporter is arrested and the white reporter is telling us what's happening. We saw a reporter who is educated, who is brown, who is doing his job better than anybody ... (who) was in harm's way, letting the American people see what's going on, on the ground. He complied. He said he would move...You almost have to laugh not to just be furious."

A few hours after they were released from police custody, Omar and his crew returned to the streets to continue covering the riots. "And we’re back," he tweeted.

Travis Scott was one lucky man back in 2015 while he was dating Rihanna on the down low, but when their secret romance was eventually made public, he was less than pleased about it. On an episode of Lawrence Schlossman and James Harris’ podcast, Throwing Fits, the co-hosts swapped stories with journalist Jonah Weiner about celebrities who hated something they wrote about them. Lawrence, a former editor for Complex, divulged the time he “exposed” Travis Scott’s then-lowkey relationship with Rihanna in 2015, which made the rapper pretty pissed.

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“I broke the news about him and Rihanna, which they told me not to do,” Lawrence explained during the episode, which aired on Tuesday (May 26th). “Apparently, what [Complex editor Joe] LaPuma…told me was that it hurt Complex’s relationship with Travis. This was in 2015/2016, I wrote this. But apparently, for the next couple of years, he would complain about that.”

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“It’s not because he’s like, ‘Don’t tell anyone I’m smashing Rihanna,'” he continued. “It’s because Rihanna’s like, ‘Don’t tell anyone that I’m smashing Travis Scott, please.’ [It’s] obviously embarrassing as f*ck.” Lawrence broke the news about Travis and Rihanna’s romance in the rapper’s cover story for the December 2015/January 2016 issue of Complex. He’d conducted an interview with Travis, during which they’d discussed “all the controversy, criticism and rumours surrounding his every move.” At one point, they touched on his association with Rihanna, whom he referred to as his “muse.” According to Lawrence, Travis, who also called RiRi “inspiring” and “creative,” had asked him not to “do [me] like that, man,” but alas, he did. Listen to the full episode of Throwing Fits below:

Real really does recognize real. On Wednesday (May 27th), Eminem had some very kind words to say about his longtime friend and former Shady Records artist, KXNG Crooked. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Marshall Mathers LP, Em conducted a listening party of the hip hop masterpiece as well as a live stream chat with fans, where he answered questions and talked music. At one point, he was asked which rapper he thought was the most underrated, to which he responded, “KXNG Crooked.”

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Crooked, who was formerly signed to Em’s label for a period of time as a member of Slaughterhouse, was thrilled to hear about Em’s gracious co-sign. “That means a lot coming from a Jedi man,” he told HipHopDX. “I’m grateful for his willingness to speak positive things about me in public because he doesn’t have to. I guess sometimes it takes a master to recognize another one. Thanks for showing me because I know to thank him now.”

Crooked went on to post screenshots of the articles on Instagram, writing “Thanks Marshall” in the caption.

Most recently, Em and Crooked collaborated on the track, “I Will,” off the former’s latest album, Music To Be Murdered By. The track also included verses from Crooked’s former fellow Slaughterhouse members, Joell Ortiz and Royce Da 5’9.

Tory Lanez was this close to throwing in the towel after he found out that 6ix9ine had beat his previously set record for most Instagram live viewers by a landslide. On Friday (May 8th), 6ix9ine made his return to the music scene by dropping his first post-prison single, “GOOBA,” along with some accompanying visuals. While the music video itself beat a Youtube record previously set by Eminem in 2018, 6ix9ine also conducted a record-breaking Instagram live session that same day. The controversial artist’s live racked up an impressive (albeit frustrating) 2 million viewers at one point, absolutely destroying the record Tory set last month with 300K during Drake’s appearance on an episode of Quarantine Radio.

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Of course, Tory caught wind of his defeat, and unsurprisingly, he’s being a good sport about it. However, he did slip in a joke about ending Quarantine Radio for good after getting annihilated by a notorious snitch.

“I was looking at that 2 mil like …. WELP …. Ima head out,” Tory wrote on Instagram. However, he quickly followed up his comment by clarifying that he was only kidding. “Lolol we not actually stopping quarantine radio !” he promised. “But it was great holding the record when we had it …” If you ask us, Tory deserves that title, so make sure you tune into the next episode of QR and go for that 3 mil.

The stan really jumped out with this one. On Friday, while Drake was celebrating the release of his new mixtape, Dark Lane Demo Tapes, over Instagram live, he gave a certain someone a special shout out, and that certain someone proceeded to lose their shit. Akademiks was streaming Drizzy's live session on Twitch, and it's safe to say he was pretty stoked when he heard Drake mention his name.