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Justin Laboy says Kanye West debuted his new unreleased album for himself and Kevin Durant in Las Vegas, Saturday night. Laboy didn’t get overly specific regarding details from the project, but did declare it “album of the year.”

“Kanye played his new album for me & @KDTrey5 last night in Vegas,” he announced on Twitter, Sunday. “Man listen! The production is light years ahead of it’s time, and the bars sound like he’s broke & hungry trying to get signed again. Any artist who plan on dropping soon should just push it back #Respectfully.”

“ALBUM OF THE YEAR. DONT @ ME,” he added in a follow-up post.

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As for the scene when West played the new project, in addition to posting a picture from the meet-up, Laboy says that “Kanye had Kevin Durant at 7 feet tall dancing while the album was playing,” and that “Shit was crazy.”

Earlier in the day, West was spotted with Laboy hanging out at Ice Cube’s Big3 tournament.

Responding to a follower, Laboy added that “ITS about to be a #YeezyEra A season only lasts a couple months. The man changed the sound of music on this project.”

Check out Laboy’s tweets below.

Wack 100 says he wants a face-to-face with Tekashi 6ix9ine and that “he has yet to be held accountable.” Wack asked DJ Akademics to help with him get in contact with the controversial rapper on Instagram, this weekend.

“YO @akademiks I have some real questions for @6ix9ine,” he wrote in an Instagram story. “I need dude to look me in my eyes when I ask these questions. He has yet to be held accountable. Let me be the judge and the culture will be the jury.”

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Wack also posted a video threatening to fight an unidentified man he referred to as “some neighborhood crip dude” who was harassing him online.

Wack previously spoke on 6ix9ine last week, saying that he wants him to fight Blueface after Tekashi dissed the “Thotiana” rapper.

“@6ix9ine @bluefasebleedem was one of the #Violators whole lotta #smashing going on just ask Sarah,” wrote Wack 100 on Instagram.

He included a video where 6ix9ine speaks about beating up his ex-girlfriend. “Now come take it out on him I got the bag bet you go to bed the 1st round — it’ll be good for the culture you owe the world redemption anyways.”

Check out Wack’s post below.

Athletes participating in the Tokyo Olympics will be subjected to sleeping on cardboard beds, which are allegedly designed to discourage sexual activities in the Tokyo Olympic Village. The cardboard will collapse under the weight of two people.

American distance runner Paul Chelimo tweeted out pictures of the bed frames, Friday.

“Beds to be installed in Tokyo Olympic Village will be made of cardboard, this is aimed at avoiding intimacy among athletes Beds will be able to withstand the weight of a single person to avoid situations beyond sports,” he explained, before joking, “I see no problem for distance runners, even 4 of us can do.”

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“At this point I will have to start practicing how to sleep on the floor; cause If my bed collapses and I have no training on sleeping on the floor i’m done,” he added.

The Tokyo Olympics Organizing Committee released a statement to Japan Today explaining that they are also handing out condoms to the atheletes, as has been a norm at the Olympics since 1988, but say they are not to be used during the event.

“Our intent and goal is not for athletes to use the condoms at the Olympic Village, but to help with awareness by taking them back to their own countries,” the committee said.

The Tokyo Olympics are set to kick off on Jul 23th and run through Aug 8th.

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Mark Wahlberg stopped by The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Thursday, and revealed his intense weight gain transformation for his upcoming film, Stu. Wahlberg says he ate 11,000 calories a day while filming the upcoming movie.

“Unfortunately, I had to consume, for two weeks, 7,000 calories, and then for another two weeks, 11,000 calories. And it was fun for about an hour,” Wahlberg told Fallon. “It’s such a hard, physical thing to do. Losing weight, you just kind of tough it out, you just don’t eat, and exercise. And this, even when you’re full, I would wake up after a meal and have another meal. I was eating every three hours. It was not fun.”

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He added that, despite trying to get the movie done for years now, they only had a month to film it: “Once the metabolism starts to slow down, it gets really difficult. I was trying to get this movie made for six years — we only had 30 days to shoot it — and so, I wanted to really make it happen.”

Stu follows the story of Long, a failed boxer who moves to Los Angeles to try a career in acting. A release date for the movie has yet to be announced.

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Idris Elba wants all social media users to be forced to get verified and use their real names and information, a solution he poses to fix a problem of “cowards” who “spout racial rhetoric,” behind vague usernames. Elba explained his proposal in a statement uploaded to his Instagram, Sunday.

“People in the public eye get verified on social media, (symbolised by a blue tick), the process of verification requires them to prove their IDENTITY, so everyone knows WHO is speaking,” he prefaced his take.

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“SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES SHOULD MAKE THIS MANDATORY FOR ALL USERS,” he added in all caps.

He continued: “Currently, social media is like boarding a plane and not having to show I.D. THAT would never happen. If cowards are being supported by a veil of privacy and secrecy, then social media is not a safe space. It is an aeroplane that allows travellers to wear balaclavas. If cowards want to spout racial rhetoric then say it with your name, not your username.”

As of now, Twitter says that their blue check feature exists to let “people know that an account of public interest is authentic.”

Elba will be starring in James Gunn’s highly anticipated film, The Suicide Squad, releasing later this summer.

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Idris Elba wants all social media users to be forced to get verified and use their real names and information, a solution he poses to fix a problem of “cowards” who “spout racial rhetoric,” behind vague usernames. Elba explained his proposal in a statement uploaded to his Instagram, Sunday.

“People in the public eye get verified on social media, (symbolised by a blue tick), the process of verification requires them to prove their IDENTITY, so everyone knows WHO is speaking,” he prefaced his take.

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“SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES SHOULD MAKE THIS MANDATORY FOR ALL USERS,” he added in all caps.

He continued: “Currently, social media is like boarding a plane and not having to show I.D. THAT would never happen. If cowards are being supported by a veil of privacy and secrecy, then social media is not a safe space. It is an aeroplane that allows travellers to wear balaclavas. If cowards want to spout racial rhetoric then say it with your name, not your username.”

As of now, Twitter says that their blue check feature exists to let “people know that an account of public interest is authentic.”

Elba will be starring in James Gunn’s highly anticipated film, The Suicide Squad, releasing later this summer.

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Isaiah Stokes, who plays the character Mozzy in Power, has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a man in Queens, New York, back in February. In addition to being charged with murder in the second degree, a grand jury is hitting Stokes with two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree.

The D.A.’s office alleges that Stokes killed 37-year-old Tyrone Jones on Feb. 7. Surveillance footage reportedly shows the actor approaching Jones’ car and firing 11 shots into the vehicle.

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“The defendant is accused of unloading nearly eleven shots during this brazen afternoon shooting,” D.A. Melinda Katz said in a statement. “Gun violence is all too prevalent in our neighborhoods. We will not allow it to become the norm.”

In addition to his performance on Power, Stokes has appeared in episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Boardwalk Empire, The Americans, Blue Bloods, and The Mysteries of Laura, and others. He also makes music on the side under the name I$AIAH.

Stokes faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted. 

Power Book III: Raising Kanan was recently renewed for a second season, ahead of its debut later this year.

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Wiz Khalifa says he is free of COVID-19, after testing positive for the virus, earlier this week. He also shared a video of himself back out of quarantine on his Instagram story following his negative test results.

“My most recent test came back negative so I’m free of COVID,” he announced on Twitter, Saturday.

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The negative test results arrived less than a week after the Pittsburgh rapper announced he had contracted the virus.

“Okay loved ones….sooo…..Ya boy got covid. No symptoms. Just stay away from me for a lil while,” he tweeted on July 14th. “While im in the house I’ll be givin y’all new content, planning raves, and readying this new project.”

Khalifa’s positive test comes as a new Delta variant of the coronavirus is traversing the globe. On Sunday, the former head of the FDA, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, explained on Face The Nation just how serious this new variant is.

“This virus is so contagious, this variant is so contagious that it’s going to infect the majority — that most people will either get vaccinated or have been previously infected or they will get this Delta variant,” Gottlieb said. “And for most people who get this Delta variant, it’s going to be the most serious virus that they get in their lifetime in terms of the risk of putting them in the hospital.”

Calboy joined in on the criticism of Pop Smoke’s new posthumous album, Faith, Saturday, complaining about being left off of the record. He explained this is not the first time that Smoke’s people have slighted him, after he was left off of 2020’s Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon.

“This the second time Brodie camp played with a verse of mine ..bro knew what it was n what it wasn’t,” he wrote in a tweet. “It’s all love for him 4L but I have zero respect for tht camp bro.”

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One fan asked Calboy, “Why Steven victor do you dirty on both of Pop’s albums, that shot ain’t right bro.”

“Fuck em ! LongLivePop tho,” Calboy replied.

The 22-year-old rapper was far from the only one to have complaints about the new project. In addition to Smoke’s close friend, Mike Dee, fellow New York rapper Rowdy Rebel voiced his frustrations about Faith on Twitter, earlier this week.

“SMH I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY MY BOY NOT ON THIS TRACC,” Rowdy wrote. “AYOO @ELIFROSS_ DONT TRIP BRO YU KNO HOW THESES INDUSTRY N***AS IS STRAIGHT SUCCERS.”

Check out Smoke’s new posthumous album for yourself here.