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Saweetie’s collaboration with Doja Cat, “Best Friend”, took radio and TikTok by storm, and now, the hard work is coming back to her tenfold. The track, which currently has over 200 million streams on Spotify, was certified platinum this past week, five months after its release. This victory adds momentum to the rollout of her debut album Pretty Bitch Music, which is said to be on the horizon after a June 25th release date was postponed, per HipHopDX.  

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“Best Friend” marks Saweetie’s fourth career platinum certification. The first of which came with 2019’s “ICY GRL”, quickly followed by “My Type” and then, “Tap In.” Both “Best Friend” and “Tap In” benefitted from a handful of successful remixes with other prominent rappers. UK’s Stefflon Don was later added to “Best Friend” while the remix for “Tap In” boasted some heavyweight names including DaBaby, Post Malone, and Jack Harlow. The tracks are set to be included in Pretty Bitch Music, which will be released under Warner Records. 

Pretty Bitch Music will follow Saweetie’s Pretty Summer Playlist: Season 1 which released in mid-April. The EP was meant to hold fans over until the release of her official debut album.

Saweetie’s latest W comes after a tumultuous year that included her and Quavo’s highly-publicized breakup. Once considered the rap game’s most beloved couple, the couple announced their split in March. Shortly after, Saweetie explained in a series of tweets that she had endured “too much betrayal” and accused Quavo of being intimate with other women.

Saweetie just recently hosted a masterclass on content creation through Complexland this past week.

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At this point, anyone who keeps up with Drake knows of his affinity for basketball. The OVO head honcho is a frequent guest on NBA game sidelines, often showing out to support his home team the Toronto Raptors. As a global ambassador for the team, he works closely alongside the crew. 

The Toronto native has been chilling in Los Angeles for the past few weeks, hanging out with the likes of Michael B. Jordan, Future, Gunna, and others. He recently linked up with Jordan again courtside at a Sierra Canyon High school basketball game, and fans coming up with theories to try and put the pieces together as to why he’s been closely mentoring a member of the team. 

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The high school has received a boost in press coverage after LeBron James’ son Bronny joined the roster in 2019, attracting all sorts of nationwide coverage and celebrities to their basketball events. Drake has made appearances to show support for his friend’s son, of course, but he’s also taken another one of Bronny’s teammates under his wing. 

Giving him advice and taking him out to arcades, there seems to be no previously established relationship between him and Amari Bailey, unlike the one he has with James’ family. Fans have theorized the outpouring of support from Drizzy is because he’s attempting to shoot his shot at Bailey’s mother Johanna Edelburg. 

Footage shared on Thursday (June 17) by Bleacher Report shows Johanna walking in front of Drake and Jordan on the sidelines. “I ain’t notice them boys until 7 seconds into the video,” commented one person. 

Another person wrote, “Lol Drake think he slick sittin next to young bull mama [crying face emoji].” Of course, Drake’s motive could just be from the kindness of his heart. 

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Donovan Mitchell and the Utah Jazz were favored over the Los Angeles Clippers in the Western Conference Semi-Finals, especially when you consider how the Jazz jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the series. Unfortunately for the Jazz, they let the Clippers crawl back into the series, and despite an injury to Kawhi Leonard, the Clippers ended up finishing off the series last night in Los Angeles. Now, the Clippers are off to the franchise’s first-ever Western Conference Finals.

Terance Mann was the hero for the Clippers as he scored 39 points and did all while being guarded by Rudy Gobert. In fact, Mann only missed six shots throughout the game, and it was one of the best individual performances of the playoffs. Mann was so impressive, that Mitchell appeared stunned while reading the score sheet during his media availabilities after the game.

This was an especially tough loss for the Jazz as they were up 25 points early in the match. In the end, however, their defense allowed 81 points in the second half, which let the Clippers make a comeback that should have never happened in the first place.

Heading into next year, Mitchell and the Jazz will be motivated to right their wrongs from this season, although it’s going to be tough in an otherwise stacked Western Conference.

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Friday (June 18) marked the third anniversary of XXXTentacion’s passing. The SoundCloud rap legend lost his life after sustaining multiple gunshot wounds in Florida, being pronounced dead shortly thereafter. The rap community has been mourning his passing ever since, dedicating a series of tributes to him in the time since then. 

Famous friends of the rapper like Lil Yachty and Kodak Black have been spending time honoring their late friend. Yachty shared a screenshot of the last messages between he and X, highlighting the positive relationship the two had. Kodak unleashed a new single to honor X titled “Falling Over (Tribute to XXXTentacion)” on Friday (June 18), later following up on Instagram with a post sharing the final conversation he had with X.

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“Just please, please be cautious. It be the animal in us that drives us to do the things that bear us consequences,” says X to Kodak in the phone call. “That ego sh*t,” added Kodak. “But you know what, n*ggas really getting heartless cus sometimes I would show love than we get back a lot of times.” 

“Cus we the ones with all the love. We are the one’s with the love fam. You know when you f*cked up really, the love is when you stared giving n*ggas money. When you start giving n*ggas money that’s when they f*ck up the relationship and I noticed that. It could be small shit, like a n*gga hungry, pull up to my crib and come eat,” said X as Kodak laughed.

He continued, “That’s what I’m saying when you start giving n*ggas money, your mind start being in a different lane, like I wanna do this for myself. It’s not funny fam, a n*gga want you to be safe.” 

The intimate phone call between the friends seemed to surround Kodak’s safety, with X giving a cautionary warning to Kodak numerous times throughout the call. 

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Check out the full conversation above, and stream Kodak’s new honorary single as well. 

LaMelo Ball is fresh off of winning the Rookie Of The Year award following a spectacular season with the Charlotte Hornets. While the Hornets were unable to make it to the playoffs, Ball was very solid as the team’s point guard and he had moments of brilliance that had fans believing he will be a superstar in short order. His highlights are already some of the nicest in the league, and there is no doubt he will be a fixture in the NBA for years to come.

Recently, Melo decided to celebrate this Rookie Of The Year title by hitting up tattoo artist Herchell L Carrasco, who gave him two flashy forearm sleeves. In the clip below, you can see that one tattoo has an angel that resembles Melo, while the other arm has a lion. “Fear God” is written across both arms, and it makes for quite the graphic aesthetic.

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Ball and his brothers are known for having lots of flashy tattoos, so it only makes sense that he would celebrate his recent accomplishment with some new ink. Of course, getting a stylized tattoo of yourself is a lot to live up to, although LaMelo seems well on his way to becoming one of the best point guards in the league.

Let us know what you think about these new tattoos, in the comments below.

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Zack Snyder has won over the hearts of DCEU fans following the releases of 2016’s Batman V. Superman and this year’s Justice League’s Snyder Cut. However, the director is now turning his attention to other entries in the DC extended universe by coming to the defense of HBO Max’s Harley Quinn animated series — a show that’s been under fire this week for attempting to include an oral sex scene between Batman and Catwoman. After DC forced the series creators to remove the segment, Snyder tweeted out a pretty descriptive image in response to the backlash.

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Snyder’s caption of “Canon,” attached to a tweet of Batman performing oral sex on Catwoman, hilariously clarifies the image of the two as part of DC’s main storyline and lore. Though DC has yet to respond, fans have been going back in forth in the comments of Snyder’s tweet with their own takes on the situation.

One fan wrote, “I get that this show might be for an older audience. But, kids will still watch it. Because it’s Batman. Kids will always watch something with Batman. There is enough sexualization in everything we see already. It doesn’t need to be in an animated Batman show. There is no need.”

“We sell consumer toys for heroes. It’s hard to sell a toy if Batman is also going down on someone,” DC apparently told the staff of Harley Quinn as its reasoning for removing the scene. Though it makes sense that DC would want to maintain the family and consumer-friendly images of their characters, Harley Quinn is a remarkably mature series made specifically for adults.

Though there weren’t any NSFW scenes in Snyder’s Batman v. Superman or Justice League, Snyder seems to be siding with the writers of the show. 

Do you think that the scene should have been cut? Let us now and check out the tweet below:

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