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Lil Tjay delivered his highly-anticipated sophomore project Destined 2 Win at the top of the month. Complete with features from the likes of Polo G, Fivio Foreign, Saweetie, Tyga, and more, the Bronx star earned his most successful project to date upon its release. The album’s lead single “Calling My Phone” featuring Atlanta singer 6LACK set the tone for success, debuting at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and also becoming a global hit.  

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Continuing to prove to be a smash hit, the single, released in February of this year, has gone to move 1 million certified units as of April 9th. With the crossing of the million-units sold threshold, the duo has earned a Platinum plaque from the Recording Industry Association of America.  

“Calling My Phone” was streamed over 60 million times globally in its first week, with nearly 29 million of them coming from the United States alone. It also gave both Lil Tjay and 6LACK each their highest charting debut and highest-peeking single on the chart. The song also reached the top spot on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs chart and the Billboard Hot Rap Songs chart. 

This is a massive achievement for the Bronx star, especially considering the short amount of time it has taken the song to sell 1 million copies. 

“Calling My Phone” still remains in the Top 20 of the Hot 100 chart, so it’s possible subsequent certifications for the track could be arriving very soon. Congratulations to 6LACK and Lil Tjay for earning their biggest hit to date!

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From the jump, it’s been clear that Funk Flex isn’t the biggest fan of Cardi B. Despite their shared New York connection, the famed radio host has taken issue with a few of Cardi’s practices over the years, accusing her of using payola to earn radio play. Over the last three years, Flex has called out Cardi B on numerous occasions, including when her drugging and robbing scandal resurfaced in 2019. 

The legendary radio personality may not love Cardi B but he knows that she’s got a pretty special delivery and flow. Unfortunately, he just can’t quite respect the 28-year-old “Up” rapper, calling her a “terrible rapper” during a recent episode of the Cigar Talk podcast.

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“I do think Cardi B is a terrible rapper, my n***a, I just do, man,” he told host Najichill during the show. “She’s an amazing entertainer, I love her on social media, I love the way she talks about a subject, I like her whole swag, I like everything. She’s a terrible rapper, man. I don’t know. Even if somebody [else] wrote [her songs], those aren’t good bars. So somebody sold you bad bars! Is nobody gonna f*cking say it?”

Funk Flex is probably one of the only people with a platform that will say something of this nature. He has long been critical of Cardi B as one of the top women in the rap game, so it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that he thinks she’s a bad rapper.

Considering all the negative comments about Cardi B from HNHH commenters, I’m sure a lot of you will agree with Funk Flex on this. What do you think about his comments?

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.