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Just as his career was beginning to catapult to new heights, YMW Melly shocked listeners by being arrested and charged with two counts of the first-degree murders of his two friends YNW Sakchaser and YNW Juvy in 2018. He remains behind bars as he awaits his trial, but his co-defendant in the case YNW Bortlen was released on $90,000 bail in 2020 and placed on house arrest.

According to documents obtained by XXL on Monday (April 12), Bortlen, née Cortlen Henry, was arrested and booked in Miami on April 8th after violating the terms of his pre-trial release. An out-of-county Affidavit for Failure to Comply had been issued for Bortlen’s arrest on April 5th and he was deemed a fugitive and wanted in Broward County, Florida. The terms of his bail allow him to leave his home for work, but he was later tracked to a private residence and then to the King of Diamonds strip club in Miami.   

The next day, the 21-year-old rapper was once again permitted to leave for work, but he was tracked to Playhouse Gentleman’s Club and G5 Gentleman’s Club, which are both strip club venues in the Miami area. These prompted the warrant for his arrest to be issued and his bond to also be revoked. 

While YNW Bortlen was granted a bond release last summer, his co-defendant YNW Melly did not receive the same fortune even after testing positive for coronavirus in April of last year. 

As for Melly, despite being behind bars, he’s been pretty consistent with musical releases. He and the recently released Kodak Black dropped a collaboration together last month, although the Pompano Beach rapper has expressed dissatisfaction with it. 

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No one particularly enjoys being involved in a case of mistaken identity. One thing that could make it even more irritating is when the mixup is intentional. Flavor Flav and Lil Boosie have been exchanging words with each other via their respective social media channels after the latter claimed someone confused him with the former reality TV star, offended by the comparison.       

Flav responded to Boosie in a subsequent video letting him know he, “can’t f*ck with Flav.” It seems like since the video, folks have been going out of their way to purposely misidentify Flav as Boosie, which is not sitting well with the 62-year-old Public Enemy rapper.

 
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“Ayo, check 1, 2, this Flavor Flav on Las Vegas boulevard live, baby. Ayo, this sh*t is getting out of hand right now, you know, what I’m saying. Motherf*ckers coming up to me calling me Lil Boosie on purpose,” he started in his rant, appearing visibly annoyed.  

“‘Hey Lil Boosie how you doing? Oh Flavor Flav,'” said the former Flavor of Love star in a mocking tone. He continued, “Ayo, I don’t look like no Lil f*cking Boosie, aiight. Boosie, look what the f*ck you done started, son, you got everybody calling me you now.

“I don’t look like Lil Boosie,” he reiterates before finishing, “I look like Flavor motherf*cking Flav, so y’all get it right, aiight. Word up, g. Boosie ain’t got stats that I got. Boosie only got the stats that he got, so y’all remember that shit. I’m Flavor motherf*cking Flav not Lil Boosie.”

He’s previously ranted about the comparisons in response to Boosie. “I like Lil Boosie though, that’s my dude, going around smacking the sh*t out of people, oh he’s a real G. But he still can’t f*ck with Flav. I got the stats, alright. Word to the bird,” he said. Check out Boosie’s video that started it all below if you haven’t seen it already. 

If you checked social media trends on Monday, you likely noticed Usher’s latest controversy, in which he was accused of throwing fake money with his face on the bills at a strip club in Las Vegas. One of the dancers called out the iconic singer before taking a step back, saying that he also spent thousands on bottles and dances. Before it was alleged that Usher didn’t completely rip off the dancers, Aubrey O’Day took it upon herself to crack a joke at Usher’s expense, calling back to the singer’s troubling alleged history with sexually transmitted infections.

Having a laugh with her followers about the situation that Usher found himself in, Aubrey O’Day joked about all of the women (and men) that accused the superstar of giving them herpes in recent years.

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“So first Usher handed out herpes, now it’s fake money?” she laughed in a since-deleted post on Twitter. “I’m not amused.”

Aubrey O’Day has made a career off of sharing her opinion on social media. The artist and reality television star has spent the last few days commenting on multiple time-sensitive topics, including the police killing of Daunte Wright, the pause on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, and more. What do you think about her take on the Usher scandal?

Read the latest in the developing story here.

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Following the passing of music legend DMX last week, fans of the late 50-year-old rapper have been streaming their favorite songs and projects of his, marking a tremendous uptick in his streaming numbers. According to initial reports by MRC Data, DMX has experienced a 928% surge in his streaming numbers since his family announced his passing.

According to the numbers, DMX’s music received 75.7 million on-demand streams on April 9 and 10. The rapper died following a weeklong battle in the hospital after suffering a drug overdose and a heart attack. Billboard called out his five most popular streaming songs over the weekend, including “Ruff Ryders Anthem” at 9.59 million streams, “X Gon’ Give It To Ya” at 5.79 million streams, “Slippin'” at 5.52 million streams, “Party Up” with 5.20 million plays, and “How It’s Goin’ Down” with 3.52 million streams.

DMX’s music streams had already surged during the week of his hospitalization, but these latest numbers show a major spike following the announcement of his passing. According to Billboard, the album The Best Of officially re-entered the Billboard 200 album chart based on the streaming stats, hitting #73 this week.

The hip-hop world continues to send love and positivity to DMX’s family and loved ones. One of X’s daughters shared a message over the weekend, writing a heartfelt tweet about her dad. Read more about that here.

Have you been listening to DMX’s classics in the last few days? 

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