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The DaBaby backlash continues after the rapper took to Twitter earlier to further explain his controversial Rolling Loud Miami moment. By now, you may have read an article or 10 about DaBaby telling the live audience to put their cellphone lights in the air if they don’t have HIV/AIDS or “any of them deadly sexually transmitted diseases that’ll make you die in two to three weeks,” as well as men who aren’t “sucking d*ck in the parking lot.”

The comments were a bit bizarre, but once the video went viral, DaBaby faced a slew of accusations including homophobia and perpetuating archaic ideas associated with HIV/AIDS stigmas. Prior to apologizing to people affected by the viruses, Dua Lipa, who collaborated with DaBaby on the remix to her single “Levitating” last year, spoke out against his remarks.

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The singer said she was “horrified” by the North Carolina rapper’s comments and soon, people were calling for Dua Lipa to take DaBaby off of the song. Many fans called for DaBaby to be replaced by an LGBTQIA+ artist, and Victoria Monét chimed in that she’s ready to lend her talents if needed.

“If she would like to replace DaBaby’s verse on levitating I’m totally available,” the singer wrote. Soon, social media was flooded with people wanting Dua Lipa to ditch the rapper for Monét or even Megan Thee Stallion. However, there doesn’t seem to be any plans to make drastic changes due to the controversy. Check out a few posts below.

The latest season of Love & Hip Hop Atlanta has found new blood now that artists like Omeretta, Cuban Doll, and Yung Baby Tate have joined the cast. Fans were surprised to see Guapdad 4000 also make an appearance as Tate’s love interest, but there was a bit of backlash after he was seen setting the record straight on their relationship. 

In a clip that went viral, Guapdad tells Yung Baby Tate that he thinks she’s a great person, loves talking to her, and enjoys having sex with her, but he believes that should be the extent of things. Online, people were condemning Guap for gaslighting Tate, but he retweeted a fan who said they saw his perspective and accused Tate of trying to intensify the romance “when the cameras came around.”

Yung Baby Tate didn’t appreciate the retweet and called him out. “Lmfaooooo this n*gga had the nerve to just call me to say he don’t want no negativity… sweetheart all the negativity could have been squashed MONTHS ago & u chose to keep it there. So we gone keep it there B*TCH… You wanted the negativity to be gone you could have responded to these messages.” Tate posted several screenshots of lengthy messages she previously sent to Guapdad. In them, she apologized for putting him in the situation and told him that she knows he isn’t a bad person.

“You chose to ignore them, continue acting like an asshole TO THIS DAY, then call me on your birthday like this sh*t is sweet. Boy, f*ck you!” She added, “I literally had a conversation with I before we shot that last scene where I said I was happy with the place we were finally getting to & you agreed. Then got on camera & played me to the left. Don’t do this. Cuz I’m not tryna argue with you. Happy 30th.”

Before signing off, she called Guapdad a “f*cking clown.” Swipe below to check it all out.

Following the revelation that Simone Biles had withdrawn from the Olympics, the champion gymnast spoke candidly about her decision. Biles is poised as America’s top-tier athlete who was a leading candidate to help bring home the gold for the United States, but on Tuesday (July 27), it was revealed that Biles decided to bow out gracefully. 

“Official statement: ‘Simone Biles has withdrawn from the team final competition due to a medical issue. She will be assessed daily to determine medical clearance for future competitions,'” the U.S. Gymnast team tweeted. “Thinking of you, Simone!”

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There was much speculation as to why Biles would opt to leave the Olympics and rumors about a physical injury grew. However, Biles returned to say that she was taking a break due to her mental health. “Whenever you get in a high-stress situation you kind of freak out and don’t really know how to handle all of those emotions, especially at the Olympic Games,” she told reporters. “I have to focus on my mental health and not jeopardize my health and wellbeing.”

Just yesterday, the gymnast shared a post on Instagram where she revealed she felt “like I have the weight of the world on my shoulders at times… I know I brush it off and make it seem like pressure doesn’t affect me but damn sometimes it’s hard.” This is a similar take as fellow athlete Naomi Osaka who decided not to participate in the French Open or Wimbledon before the Olympics.

Watch Simon Biles explain herself below and look through a few reactions.

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As Hip-Hop becomes increasingly democratized, the lines become more and more blurred with what sits at the mainstream. As it pertains to the newest era of emcees, perhaps no label has flirted with that gray area as best as J. Cole’s Dreamville has.

In a recent sit down with No Jumper, Bas revealed that this is the case by design as he dived into the differences between more conscious lyricists and street rappers and how the Revenge Of The Dreamers sessions were a purposeful bridge between the two.

“I think that was the whole point of Revenge Of The Dreamers III,” Bas said. “It’s like you know Dreamville has always been kind of you know on its own off to the left you know left of industry in a sense. And we were like let’s go to Atlanta let’s link with a bunch of People. Let’s bring them to our world, you know, let’s collaborate. We all got a really open collaborative process when it comes to creating music. So we were down there and Nudy pulled up. I think he did a couple joints when he came to the sessions you know and ‘Down Bad’ was just like was the one.”

Bas would go on to reveal that he believes more traditionally trap and street artists like DaBaby, Young Nudy, NBA Youngboy and Kodak Black to be conscious rappers. 

“I mean Kodak to me is a conscious rapper. He’s a street rapper but he got songs where you like, ‘Damn like I feel exactly where he’s coming from.’ I feel his struggles a lot of NBA Youngboy. They’re considered street rappers. Those dudes are conscious as hell if you’re listening to some of the like the pain and then they’re putting in their records like I never been through what they’ve been through right you know what I mean so I’m getting it through them I’m learning that through them.”

In that same spirit, Bas continues to be a conduit, revealing his forthcoming collaborative track with Gunna. Watch the interview in full up top.

Several artists are mourning the death of Florida rapper Money Mitch today (July 27), including Lil Baby. Although reports about Money Mitch, whose real name has been identified as both Marcus Pettis and Mitchell Holmes in conflicting articles, have surfaced this week, it is reported by several sources that the 23-year-old rapper was found dead back on July 23. Mitch was reportedly riding in an Uber in West Palm Beach, Florida when the car was pulled over for a traffic violation. It is stated that he jumped out of the vehicle and began shooting at the officers who, in turn, returned fire.

It is also reported that police claimed that Mitch wasn’t injured in the shootout with cops but was able to flee the scene. 

In their search for the rapper, authorities reportedly located blood about a block away before finding Money Mitch with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Frank DeMario from the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office seemed to absolve officers of responsibility. “We followed him to a building and on the second floor, we noticed some blood droppings on the first floor. We thought he was wounded,” said DeMario. “We didn’t have any involvement in the shooting.”

Two officers involved in the shooting were immediately placed on administrative leave and following the news of his death, it was revealed that he was hoping to sign a record deal with Lil Baby. “Bra I’m sorry I couldn’t save you,” the Atlanta superstar reportedly wrote on his Instagram Story over the weekend. “Dam Mitch you was on me everyday.”

No one else was harmed in the shooting. We send our condolences to Money Mitch’s loved ones.

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She’s a rising artist hoping to solidify her mark in the Rap game, but Omeretta faces criticisms that many women in the industry are confronted with. Several ladies in Rap have previously spoken out about being told that they need to have BBLs or cosmetic surgery in order to make it big while also facing off with the public. Recently, Omeretta shared a few selfies and after an Instagram user reposted her photos with a note about her body, she issued a response. 

“If she had a ass she would b the baddest chocolate thang alive on god!” the person wrote. “She jus need a lil more ass man.” The Love & Hip Hop star called the comment “weird af” and argued that remarks such as this are why “so many girls walking around looking like ants now.”

Omeretta added that there isn’t anything wrong with her shape and she doesn’t take comments such as these as a compliment. “Ima just leave this here… I’m so happy I’m confident in the skin I was born in cuz this internet sh!t got folks tripping,” the rapper penned in her caption. “It’s nothing wrong with having a normal body I wish people stop letting comments like this drive them to change stuff about they selves that’s already Perfect.”

“Don’t nobody gotta like the way you look expect the person u go home to every night and if they don’t like it u need a new person!!! Period.” Check out the post below along with a few more stunning shots of Omeretta.

Most recently, the Internet caught wind of an old diss track from Nas, directed at Tupac and crafted a the height of the two emcee’s beef prior to the resolution that arrived before Pac’s death. 

But in the spirit of unearthing old artifacts, another piece of history attached to Nas has resurfaced via an old interview with FELON Magazine from 2001.

For the historians out there, quotes from the conversation found Nas speaking on Jay-Z at what was the height of the two emcee’s beef and at the peak of a post-Biggie mad grab for Hip-Hop’s throne in New York. Just ahead of the release of Stillmatic, Nas spoke with the cult publication, initially declining to comment on Jay-Z before backtracking to spill the beans on private conversations that affected the arc of Hip-Hop thereafter.

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“You know what? I want to talk about this shit with Jay-Z—FELON is a street magazine, and I fucks with the street magazines,” Esco would state. “It’s only right that I keep it real with the streets.”

He revealed that it was while attending a party thrown by Steve Stoute that Jay opened up to him, allegedly stating that he felt he was better than Biggie at that stage in his career and that Tupac and DMX were not lyricists. 

“We were kickin’ it and he told me that he’s better than Biggie now,” Nas told FELON. “I looked at him like he was crazy. Then, he started telling me Memphis Bleek was a fan and that I shouldn’t go at him. He predicted that Beanie Sigel would never sell more than 600,000 copies. He said that Sauce Money was to him what Nature was to me. Then, he really got crazy. He said that Tupac and DMX were not lyricists—they just had the hungry, starving street niggas coppin’ their shit—but me and him had all the money niggas buying ours. I told him that I disagreed with him—that Tupac was the greatest ever—period, and that DMX really brought that street shit back into the game.”

At the time, he would also state that he was unaware of what really sat at the root of the beef between himself and Hov. 

 “I don’t know if it’s over a bitch, I don’t know if it’s over the joint I didn’t do with him, I don’t know if he’s trying to show me ‘I told you so’—meaning that he would be as successful or more successful as me—and if it’s that, it shouldn’t be because I never told him that he wouldn’t or that he couldn’t. All I know is that something is really bothering him and he needs to address it, release it, and get over it.”

While the interview sparked a rift between Jay-Z and DMX, time reveals that the two men (and former labelmates) would eventually hash things out. Memorably, Jay helped DMX clear a $12 million tab at Def Jam so that he could make his exit from the label.