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Despite being one of the hottest acts in music right now after cementing his spot in the game with the critically and commercially successful debut album Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial, Roddy Ricch ultimately still prefers to stay relatively out of the public scope. He rarely posts on social media and for the most part, doesn’t interact with fans on the net either. Going to great lengths to ensure he remains as private as possible, it’s no wonder the Grammy winner blocked a fan for sharing a photo of him he clearly specified he didn’t want to be shared. 

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The fan in question took to TikTok recently to explain the situation. Participating in the popular trend on the app where people reply to the question, “If you’re blocked by a celebrity, who is it and why?” After explaining in the video how he met the Compton-bred rapper in a New York airport, he then shared the photo the two took together. He adds that Roddy specifically requested for him not to post the photo on social media. 

Days later, says the fan, he discovered he was blocked on Instagram when he could no longer access Roddy’s photos. 

Fans of the rapper quickly tried to deny that Roddy would ever block a fan. To prove that he was in fact telling the truth, he shared the now-deleted TikTok video of the two original shots in the airport to illustrate the point. 

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“PhOtOSHoP,” the fan captioned the TikTok mockingly. 

The rapper has been noticeably absent on social media recently but did appear at the 63rd Grammy Awards to premiere his first single since his debut album “Heartless (Live From LA).” 

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Charles Barkley has always been a staunch hater of anyone who can be considered as a “keyboard warrior.” Simply put, Barkley has no time for idiots on social media, and it’s ultimately why he has stayed off of all these platforms in the past. Recently, Ohio State star EJ Liddell was the subject of death threats and bullying on Instagram after his team lost to Oral Roberts in the first round of March Madness. Barkley saw this story, and went off on TNT, noting just how ridiculous social media is.

In the clip below, Barkley gets brutally honest about why he isn’t on Twitter, and how the social media mob has proven to be extremely toxic. Barkley stood up for Liddell throughout the segment and even maintained that the kid had a good game, and didn’t deserve all the crap he got.

Per Barkley:

“You guys give me a hard time because I refuse and will never do any type of social media, this is the reason why … I am never going to deal and dignify these losers and interact with them ever. I don’t care how much money somebody offers me, I am never going to do social media because of this. For a kid, No. 1, he had a great game. But for you to give the kid death threats and to hurl racial slurs at him because you’re safe in your own home like a coward behind a computer and nobody knows how you are, you need to take a hard look at yourself in the mirror … But why would you sit at your house and tweet or send something to a kid that’s No. 1 after he lost a stupid basketball game and give him death threats or hurl racial slurs, you need to take a good look in the mirror and realize you’re just a freaking loser.”

With all of this in mind, it’s clear that Chuck won’t be on Twitter anytime soon. If you’ve been looking to go off at him, well, you’re going to have to wait a whole lot longer.

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DaBaby is one of the biggest rappers in the world right now and as a result, he charges a hefty amount for a feature. As a result of this fame, DaBaby has a whole lot of money, and sometimes, he doesn’t mind wasting a bit of it just to show people that he’s got everything one would ever ask for.

The perfect example of this happened over the weekend as DaBaby and his crew were chilling at the club. In the video below, DaBaby can be seen wastefully burning some $100 bills which for many people, is an act of sacrilege. For DaBaby however, $100 is less than pocket change. Regardless, the best part of the clip was the man who is front and center in the video. As you can see, the man is staring on in horror, as he can’t believe the $100 bill is being wasted in such an irreverent fashion.

DaBaby seemed to have no shame or remorse throughout the whole ordeal, which made the man’s reaction that much funnier. At the end of the day, DaBaby really won’t be missing that $100 although it probably could have been put to much better use.

Perhaps in the future, DaBaby will rethink his money-burning ways. After all, that money could still go a long way.

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Quavo and Saweetie’s very public breakup has taken social media by storm. Saweetie’s two-liner in response to her ex’s claims that she disappointed him by seemingly exposing his infidelity has sparked memes all across Twitter comparing the Icy Girl to Drake. The breakup even turned into a family affair when Quavo’s sister called Saweetie a “self-centered b*tch” following their split, prompting Saweetie’s aunt to jump into her defense. The latest third-party to weigh in on the breakup is NBA YoungBoy, who didn’t seem as amused by Saweetie’s comeback.  

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During an Instagram live on Friday (March 19)– the same one he came clean about being “lost” on, the rapper and friend of the Migos’ member reacted to the news of the split. “These h*es ain’t sh*t boy. These h*es ain’t shit cuz,” said the rapper to an associate off-screen. 

“Shawty told slime ‘take careeee.’ Boy,” he continued while laughing. The remainder of what the “Kacey Talk” rapper says is hard to make out, but it sounds like something along the lines of, “n*gga tryna play-talk like he crazy boy…”

Quavo and Saweetie’s breakup has opened up conversations across social media, with fellow celebs even previously having weighed in. Cyn Santana came out in support of Saweetie and spoke of her experience with a cheating ex, while 50 Cent and Adrien Broner also weighed in.  

DJ Drama has been incredibly mum when it comes to the Drake vs. Meek Mill feud. Things have passed since with Drake and Meek reconnecting, squashing their beef, and even going on vacation with each other. All is well in the worlds of OVO x Dream Chaser but earlier this week, a new snippet from the latest episode of Drink Champs surfaced where N.O.R.E. got straight to business in asking DJ Drama about his role in the feud. It opened up with the host saying, “Drake smashed your girl,” but that doesn’t actually seem to be a factor in what went down.

Though there were a few perceived shots towards Drama, he doesn’t seem to be concerned about them entirely. He explained to N.O.R.E. that it was a misconception that Drake had sexual relations with his girlfriend while they were together but they did “share women,” apparently. “Me and Drake have shared women,” said Drama before N.O.R.E. chimed in with some animated commentary. “We have women in common,” Drama clarified. “The conversation was about a particular female at the time. She’s a great woman, honestly. He knew her years prior to me and her hooked up and everything. There was never any overlap… That situation had nothing to do with wound up happening with Meek, Quentin, Drake and myself,” he added.

N.O.R.E dived deeper into the root of the problem, asking if Meek first heard Quentin’s reference tracks at Means Streets Studios that Drama owns. Drama said that it became the narrative that he was maliciously trying to take down Drake because of the “women in common.” “I never had any ill intentions,” said Drama, explaining that everybody had a role in the incident going down the way it did. 

Drama said that Quentin actually took the biggest L in the incident, even if his role was minuscule. Drama explained that it was never Quentin Miller who played the records for Meek, adding that he doesn’t look at Drake differently because of the ghostwriting allegations. “I was trying to clarify something for Meek at the time and he thought something and I went against my better judgment by telling him something [that I shouldn’t have],” he said. “Explaining to him, ‘It’s not what you think it is.’ Meek went and handled it the way he chose to handle it but that wasn’t my handling.”

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Even though he insists that he wasn’t trying to have any role in taking Drake down, he said that the reason he remained quiet throughout the entire ordeal because he ended up catching heat. “I never wanted none of that to go down. In hindsight, it was an incredible battle for hip-hop and those guys have since become friends again. We can look at it as hip-hop history,” he concluded.

Check out the latest episode of Drink Champs below. DJ Drama talks Drake/Meek around the 16:15 mark.