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Lauryn Hill Calls Out Pras For “Baseless Attacks” In Fugees Lawsuit

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The Fugees may have always had musical harmony, but the group has rarely been harmonious offstage. They are one of the most troubled acts in hip hop, and this reputation continued to gain traction on the first of October. Pras decided to file a lawsuit against band member Lauryn Hill after Fugees tour dates were canceled. According to Variety, Pras is suing Hill over fraud and breach of contract due to the fact that the singer keeps delaying shows. Hill responded hours later, and made it clear that she is going to tolerate these accusations.

Lauryn Hill issued a lengthy response on her Instagram. The singer claimed that Pras has been under duress as of late, and she felt that said duress may be affecting his judgement. From there, Hill goes on a detailed breakdown of the accusations leveled at her. She dismisses Pras’ lawsuit for being filled with “false claims” and “baseless attacks.” She also claims that she gave Pras a sizable advance ahead of their 2023 tour dates, which he has yet to pay back. Lauryn Hill noted that the strength of her name is what led to the tour in the first place. Without her involvement, she posits, a Fugees reunion would not have garnered nearly as many ticket sales.

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“[Pras’] failure to show appreciation,” the statement read. “For the financial help Ms. Hill has afforded him in his time of need is disappointing.” Lauryn Hill also noted that the tour dates listed in the lawsuit were being planned regardless. They would have occurred with or without Pras’ involvement. To make Hill’s claims even more damning, she revealed that she and fellow member Wyclef Jean deferred their advances to ensure Pras would have financial compensation. Hill made additional allusions to the bad decisions Pras has made since the group originally split.

“I was not in Pras’ life,” Lauryn Hill concluded. “When he decided to make the unfortunate decisions that led to his current legal troubles.” The singer claimed she initially wanted to stay quiet in an effort to avoid drama. Now that a lawsuit has been filed, however, the gloves are off. “[I] am in no way responsible for his decision,” the singer noted. “And its consequences.” Hopefully the Fugees members comes to a peaceful resolution.

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Megan Thee Stallion’s Former BFF Models Shoe Line For Nicki Minaj

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Megan Thee Stallion and Nicki Minaj are never going to get along. These two truly despise each other, and they have the records to prove it. Megan Thee Stallion got a solo number one single thanks to her Minaj diss, “HISS,” at the top of the year. Anything these two engage in that is connected to the other is not likely to be accidental. Which is what makes the rollout for Nicki Minaj’s new shoe line so interesting. It looks like the former Young Money rapper decided to link up with Megan Thee Stallion’s former friend, Kelsey Nicole, in the process.

Kelsey Nicole is a musical artist and model. Consequently, she appeared in a new photoshoot to promote the Minaj line Loci. Multiple photos were released online, in which Nicole is modeling the new in different settings. Kelsey Nicole’s friendship, and subsequent falling out, with Megan Thee Stallion, has been well detailed over the years. If we’re to go by Occam’s razor, which states that the simplest solution is often the right one, then Minaj chose her model very carefully. She’s promoting her business while taking a dig at her enemy.

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Nicole Fell Out With Megan Thee Stallion In 2020

 
 
 
 
 
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Kelsey Nicole may not be as famous as Megan or Tory Lanez. But she was allegedly present during the infamous incident in which Megan was shot. Lanez is currently serving prison time for shooting Megan. That said, the rapper’s defense attorney actually suggested that Nicole handled the firearm instead. It was actually posited that Lanez physically struck Kelsey Nicole after the shooting took place, in an effort to disarm her. The jury obviously didn’t buy it, and found Lanez guilty.

Kelsey Nicole denies shooting Megan Thee Stallion, but does admit she was present when the shooting took place. She also told iHeartRadio that she was “betrayed” by Megan that night. “It was challenging for me to come forward,” Nicole admitted. “I wanted to ensure that my words were not fueled by anger.” She admits that she had a falling out with someone she previously considered her best friend. The two artists have not been close since. It’ll be interesting see if Kelsey Nicole and Nicki Minaj have even more collabs planned for the future.

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Drake Unfollows LeBron James And Kendrick Lamar On Instagram

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Drake decided to clean house on October 1. The OVO co-founder was following lots of notable rappers and celebrities on Instagram, despite their seeming willingness to clown him. LeBron James was at the Kendrick Lamar “Pop Out” show on Juneteenth. He was also caught on camera talking about how much he liked Lamar’s “Not Like Us” diss. It seemed like Drake finally pulled the trigger on axing King James from his circle. He unfollowed the NBA superstar on Tuesday, along with a host of other big names.

Eagle-eyed fans noticed that Drake was unfollowing people left and right. He unfollowed Kendrick Lamar, which makes sense to an extent. If anything, it was strange that the 6 God was still following K. Dot after their battle. Drake also unfollowed Metro Boomin, Joe Budden, DeMar DeRozan and Playboi Carti. These all line up with the events of the battle. Metro Boomin started the whole thing with “Like That.” DeRozan danced on stage at the “Pop Out” and made a cameo in the “Not Like Us” video. Joe Budden has always been a vocal critic of the 6 God. The only real head scratcher in the bunch is Playboi Carti. The cult icon has worked with Drake on multiple occasions, including the recent song “No Face.”

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Drake Is Still Following Future On Instagram

Drake and Carti appeared to have a solid relationship. The latter was, however, removed from the “No Face” version that landed on streaming. The 6 God’s decision may also stem from the people that Carti is affiliated with. Playboi Carti recently clowned streamer Adin Ross, who appears to have a good bond with Drizzy. He also dropped a massive collab single with The Weeknd, who has been one of Drake’s enemies for over a decade. DJ Akademiks documented these unfollowings on his own Instagram.

Interestingly, one artist involved in the battle was exempt. Despite being on the song that started the beef, “Like That,” Future is still being followed by Drake. Those who have been keeping up with the saga between these two artists know that Drake was particularly hurt by the falling out he had with Pluto. He said as much in the song “Family Matters.” “Pluto sh*t make me sick to my stomach, we ain’t never really been through it,” he raps. “Leland Wayne, he a f*ckin’ lame, so I know he had to be an influence.” Maybe there’s hope for a reconciliation down the line.

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Wack 100 Clarifies He Never Accused Drake Of Sending Kendrick Lamar A Cease And Desist

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Wack 100 says he never intended to accuse Drake of sending Kendrick Lamar a cease and desist over his Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show. Speaking with DJ Akademiks about the viral clip appearing to show him doing as such, he explained that he was only reading a post off of social media and the moment was taken out of context.

“I read a f*cking clip,” Wack argued. “I wouldn’t know if Drake sent a cease and desist. Why? Because I don’t represent Kendrick in business or Drake in business so I wouldn’t know if a cease and desist happened. I wouldn’t know. All I did was read a f*cking clip.” The viral clip stems from a livestream Wack did recently on Clubhouse.

Read More: Wack 100 Accuses Drake Of Sending Kendrick Lamar Cease And Desist Over Super Bowl Performance

Kendrick Lamar Films “Not Like Us” Music Video In L.A.

Watts, CA – June 22: Kendrick Lamar dances during the music video shoot for “Not Like Us” at Nickerson Gardens on Saturday, June 22, 2024, in Watts, CA. (Michael Blackshire / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Wack isn’t the first person to theorize Drake may have sent a cease and desist letter over the situation. After the NFL first announced the news, Charlamagne Tha God said on The Breakfast Club: “If he does ‘Not Like Us’ at the Super Bowl, I want the opening cords and then just the hook. If you think that the NFL and Roc Nation and a bunch of other people didn’t get a whole bunch of legal letters yesterday from people with owls as their stamp. I promise you, you’re not calling me a pedophile at the Super Bowl. I guarantee you, the OVO people sent so many legal letters yesterday.”

Wack 100 Clarifies His Drake Comments

Check out Wack’s full clarification of his comments below. Be on the lookout for further updates on Wack 100 as well as Drake and Kendrick Lamar on HotNewHipHop.

 
 
 
 
 
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Ralo Puts Boosie Badazz On Blast For Linking Up With Yo Gotti

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Ralo and Boosie Badazz do not get along these days. Both rappers have been around for decades, and both have served prison time, but they do not see eye to eye. Especially when it comes to who they like to associate with. Boosie Badazz recently linked up with Yo Gotti, and went as far as to praise the rapper on social media. There was even footage of Boosie and Gotti dapping each other up in a parking lot. This did not sit right with Ralo. The rapper decided to hop on Twitter and make his issues with the situation known.

First, context for the Boosie Badazz and Yo Gotti hangout. The rappers reunited for the first time in years, and Boosie even thanked Gotti for looking after his mother when he was locked up. “Congratulations,” he wrote on Instagram. “Seen yo come up. Me n dis n**ga go way back early 2000s n looked out for moms when I was gone.” The bond between these two definitely seems strong, but Ralo wasn’t trying to hear any of it. As far as he was concerned, Boosie Badazz was being disrespectful to the memory of Young Dolph.

Ralo Felt Boosie Badazz Was Being Disrespectful

“Boosie should’ve at least let Dolph family grieve from the trail,” the rapper tweeted. “Before he did this lame a*s sh*t and idc what nobody say.” Ralo’s comments alluded to the fact that Yo Gotti’s family was believed to be involved in Young Dolph’s death. It was recently stated in court that Yo Gott’s brother, the late Big Jook, was the one who ordered a hit on Young Dolph. Big Jook also worked with Yo Gotti on the label Collective Music Group, or CMG. From Ralo’s perspective, Boosie Badazz is aligning himself with people who are responsible for another rapper’s death.

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DJ Akademiks Claims Drake Denied Sending Cease And Desist To Kendrick Lamar

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Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar is a battle that is technically over. The two rappers went at it, and Lamar was crowned the winner. It was an all time battle, and both rappers came to play. The thing is, things have yet to completely blow over. Both camps have alluded to there being more disses around the corner, and Dot may very well close out his Super Bowl Halftime Show by playing his number one diss, “Not Like Us.” It’s been theorized that Drake send a cease and desist to keep the Compton rapper from doing. But Drake’s biggest fan, DJ Akademiks, is calling cap.

The hip hop personality claimed to have exclusive Drake information during his Monday night stream. He told his followers that the 6 God reached out to him personally regarding the rumor. “According to Drake himself, it’s not true,” Akademiks claimed. The DJ could sense that some followers would call him out for taking Drizzy’s side, but he made it very clear that he got this info on good authority. “Drake himself told me… A cease and desist means you have to send it to the person.” He then goes on to note that Drizzy got a cease and desist from Tupac’s estate for the song “Taylor Made Freestyle,” and can prove that he received it.

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Drake Allegedly Challenged K. Dot’s Team To Show Proof

What Drake and DJ Akademiks posit is that if the former sent a cease and desist to Kendrick Lamar, then Lamar’s team can prove it by making the cease and desist public. The accusations leveled at Drake don’t make any difference without prove that’s very easy to produce. Or at least, should be if the rumor is true. “He tells me, ‘If I sent a cease and desist, tell them people to put it out’,” Akademiks added. As of right now, there’s no evidence to suggest that the Toronto rapper has tried to block the performance of “Not Like Us” at the Halftime Show. It hasn’t even been confirmed that Lamar will perform the song.

Despite being months away, the Halftime Show has already generated tons of industry rumors. Fivio Foreign hopped on social media and claimed that Kendrick Lamar was actually going to use the Super Bowl to squash the Drake beef. He claimed that the Compton rapper would bring out hometown hero Lil Wayne, who would then bring out Drizzy. Foreign didn’t provide any evidence or sources. Given that both rappers still appear to be at each other’s throats, we think the chances of seeing this happen are slim to none.

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Jacquees Shuts Down Rumor That He Got Beaten Up By Trey Songz

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Jacquees and Trey Songz haven’t always had the best relationship. Despite working in the same genre, and catering to the same fan base, the two men have often had disagreements. Jacquees boldly called Trey Songz a “rapist” during a heated IG video February. The video came on the heels of an alleged fight between Jacquees and Songz at a night club. The former decided to expand on what happened during a recent appearance on the Off the Record podcast. He was less heated, but he maintained that he did not lose the fight in question.

Jacquees told DJ Akademiks that he actually has love for Trey Songz, and does not hold any grudges towards the R&B singer despite their past issues. “Trey Songz is my brother I love him to life,” he stated. “I don’t say I love you to death because that means you love them until they die.” The R&B singer added that he was frustrated by the physical confrontation they had, and simply vented his frustrations online without thinking. “We got into a fight, I went online bro because I was hurt,” he asserted. “That was our first fight and I was really hurt because I’ve been around Trey since I was 15-16 and I never expected us to fight physically.”

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Jacquees Claims That He Won The Trey Songz Fight

DJ Akademiks decided to take the conversation into a slightly more sensationalized direction. He asked whether Trey Songz won the fight, or if Jacquees got the best of him. Jacquees was initially hesitant to provide details, noting that he did not want to fight to begin with. “Verbally is different than a physical fight,” he noted. Akademiks pushed for a direct answer, and Jacquees eventually gave it to him. “I won,” he said. “I won the fight.” To add insult to injury, Jacquees claimed that Trey Songz tried to pull his hair during their fight. “He pulled my hair,” the singer asserted. “[But] he didn’t beat the dreads out of sh*t.”

In an effort to downplay the fight, however, Jacquees claimed that the virality of the situation was his own doing. “That was a family fight,” he noted. “It should’ve never got public…. I put the family on blast. You never put the family on blast.” DJ Akademiks tried to push once more, and ask whether the decision to fight Songz stemmed from a Napoleon complex, but Jacquees refused to take the bait. He remained steadfast in the fact that he handled himself and apologized for what he felt he did wrong.

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Cardi B Reveals She Was Fighting With Offset When She Found Out About Pregnancy

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Cardi B and Offset are currently in the middle of a pretty nasty breakup, a circumstance that longtime fans are quite familiar with at this point. However, things have never been as contentious and outwardly hostile before, and they both clearly still have a lot they want to get off their chest. In the Bronx femcee’s case, she recently hosted an Instagram Live session from the comfort of her Paris hotel room to speak on the situation and on their third child together, which was born mere weeks ago. She even revealed that the couple was fighting a lot when she found out she was pregnant, and that this was an unplanned pregnancy.

“This is around the time that I’m promoting, promoting, promoting the f**k out of ‘Enough,’” Cardi B shared on her social media platform. “So I’m like, damn, I’m pregnant. But I’m not really thinking much of it. Me and my baby dad, we were on very bad terms. I still called him and we kind of laughed about it because it was like, ‘What the f**k? That s**t is so random.’

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Cardi B Speaks On Offset & Pregnancy

“We literally went to Colombia [early in the year because he went with me when I got my surgery,” Cardi B continued. “[…] In 2024 I knew I only had sex on Valentine’s Day and before I got my surgery.” Also, she opened up on how she found out she was pregnant in the first place. “It was around March 20 or March 16… It was around those days, right?” Bardi expressed. “I woke up one morning and my mouth tasted like copper. It literally tasted like copper. So I was like, ‘Oh my gosh. This only happened to me when I’m pregnant.’

“So I was like, damn. I automatically knew that I was pregnant,” Cardi B continued. “When I found out it was a girl, I started crying even more because y’all know that I love raising girls.” She also broke down the timeline a little bit more, revealing that she was shocked to be 17 weeks pregnant when she thought she was just six or seven weeks along.

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Hitmaka Explains Why Drake And Kendrick Lamar’s Feud “F*cked The Game Up”

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Hitmaka says that Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s viral feud from earlier this year has ruined the game of hip-hop. He explained his reasoning for the controversial take in a pair of statements from his Instagram Story, over the weekend. As caught by 2Cool2Blog, he wrote: “Drake & Kendrick sh*t really f*cked the game up cause now there’s no BAR/STANDARD. Don’t nobody got nothing to aim at or copy off of. Now the hottest rappers in the game are women besides Future & ain’t no n***a running home to make a beat or song in competition with a woman.”

When the outlet shared the posts on Instagram, hip-hop fans in the comments section weren’t moved by the argument. “I have no clue what any of this means or if it even makes sense. Just make good music. The f*ck does Kendrick and Drake gotta do with it?” one user wrote. Another remarked: “The women was on top the rap game before the beef lol.” Others complained about the wording of his post.

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Hitmaka Attends The BET Hip Hop Awards

ATLANTA, GEORGIA – SEPTEMBER 30: (L-R) Armani White and Hitmaka onstage during the BET Hip Hop Awards 2022 at The Cobb Theater on September 30, 2022, in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Johnny Nunez/Getty Images for BET)

Drake and Kendrick Lamar traded several diss tracks, earlier this year, but haven’t taken aim at one another musically for several months. However, while announcing his headlining set at the Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show, Lamar did troll Drake. The Toronto rapper had teased preparing for a “Game 2,” to which Lamar remarked, “You know it’s only one opportunity to win a championship. No round two’s.”

Hitmaka Speaks On Drake & Kendrick Lamar

Check out Hitmaka’s full posts about the beef on Instagram below. Be on the lookout for further updates on Hitmaka as well as Drake and Kendrick Lamar on HotNewHipHop.

 
 
 
 
 
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Wack 100 Claims Lil Wayne Won’t Perform At Super Bowl But Will Pop Out With Drake Instead

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We can’t remember the last time that a Super Bowl halftime show was so anticipated by the public for so many different reasons. Many are just excited to see Kendrick Lamar headline the performance, whereas some will still have Lil Wayne and Drake in the back of their heads. Amid the controversy over Weezy’s omission from the New Orleans stage, many fans and media figures have different takes on whether or not they think Kendrick will bring him out. Wack 100 recently offered his two cents on the matter on No Jumper, and while his words are a bit vague, he claimed that fans shouldn’t get their hopes up for that exact reunion.

“There’s no Wayne tripping when Kendrick comes to Drake,” Wack 100 began. “No, they all cool anyway. I’ma just keep it happy right now. Hopefully, Wayne will come out behind Drake in New Orleans with this situation. I don’t think he will do it. No, [Lil Wayne is not coming out]. I know what’s going on. He coming out, but not on that stage. He coming out halftime, but not on that, still. I know what’s going on.”

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Wack 100’s Latest Claim About Kendrick Lamar, Drake & Lil Wayne

Of course, the biggest argument against Kendrick Lamar inviting Lil Wayne as a special guest is the Drake beef. But there are even some people who think that the “Not Like Us” and “Family Matters” MCs will bury the hatchet at the Super Bowl. Fivio Foreign is one of the proponents of this theory that, if true, would probably make for one of the oddest and most divisive hip-hop moments of the contemporary era. Still, it doesn’t change the fact that a lot of people want Tunechi to receive his due flowers in his home city come February 9, 2025.

Meanwhile, here’s what NOLA native Big Freedia told TMZ when they asked about the Kendrick Lamar and Lil Wayne situation. “New Orleans is definitely sad that Lil Wayne is not the headliner,” he expressed. “I think that they should have had some Southern artists for sure on the ticket. You know, I think the Cash Money and No Limit family should’ve definitely been involved. But who knows what’s going to happen with the days ahead? I think [Kendrick inviting Wayne] would be a great gesture. And I think it would be a nice thing for Kendrick Lamar to do. I think he would definitely, you know, get his love from Louisiana and from down South if he was to make that happen.

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