Alicia Keys, a 16-time GRAMMY-winning artist and cultural icon, will be honored with the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award at the 2025 Recording Academy Honors Presented by the Black Music Collective. The event, part of GRAMMY Week 2025, takes place on Jan. 30 at the Fairmont Century Plaza, ahead of the 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards on Feb. 2.
Established in 2023, the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award celebrates artists whose influence transcends music, recognizing their entrepreneurial and philanthropic achievements alongside cultural contributions. GRAMMY Week culminates with the 67th GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, broadcasting live on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.
Tony Buzbee, the lawyer filing multiple claims against Diddy and one against JAY-Z, is being accused of giving an STI to a woman he dated.
A new lawsuit filed in the New York Supreme Court cites a Jane Doe who stated she met Buzbee in an online conversation in 2018, which followed up with the lawyer taking advantage of her.
The woman states she was charmed into a date in Houston and seduced in a five-star hotel. The two allegedly had sex, but Buzbee did not reveal he had a venereal disease. The woman states she began to “feel uncomfortable sensations around her groin” the next day, leading to a doctor’s visit. Testing revealed the infection, and Buzbee acted surprised once he got a phone call.
Buzbee allegedly asked not to disclose the infection in exchange for free legal advice. The woman accompanied Buzbee on trips and said she was manipulated to hide the secret.
The woman also stated in a separate complaint that Buzbee pushed a champagne flute in her face during a trip to New York City. The woman has shared medical and dental records.
In response, Buzbee told TMZ that the legal actions were an attempt to discredit and push him away from Diddy’s claims. Buzbee states the case is “false, frivolous, laughable and ridiculous.”
Al B. Sure! says he will give answers to his mysterious coma in 50 Cent’s documentary about Diddy. While on stage, Al B. Sure teased the story.
“This time, a little while ago, I was deep in a coma,” he said. “I guess we’re going to have to watch 50’s movie to find out what happened. It’s going to be beautiful.”
Al B. Sure reveals 50 Cent’s upcoming movie will detail how he ended up in a deep coma. pic.twitter.com/6e5usVdm4H
In September, Al B. Sure!, the former partner of the late model Kim Porter, demanded an investigation into her sudden and tragic death, particularly in light of the recent arrest of Sean “Diddy” Combs, who also had a relationship with Porter. Porter, who passed away in 2018, was reportedly working on a book that, according to Al B. Sure!, may have exposed troubling individuals in her life.
Here’s what went down.
On Monday, September 23, Al B. Sure! took to Instagram to express his suspicions, posting three detailed messages.
Sure suggested that Porter’s death may have involved foul play, due to her intent to reveal sensitive information in her planned memoir.
Get this: He also alleged that her original book notes were stolen by “publicists and conspirators,” who acted on the orders of an unnamed individual. Al B. Sure! He further claims that he has faced threats to his own life for attempting to uncover the truth. This comes after he insinuated earlier this year that Diddy could have been involved in his coma in 2022.
“For over a decade and a half, I’ve been posting about and tagging random law enforcement agencies in hopes to protect loved ones, avoid deaths & tragedies that could have all been avoided. Despite this, I have been ignored, ridiculed and medically silenced to cover up these crimes you’re all now aware of by a very aggressive #PR Team and costly campaign to silence and physically harm me from exposing,”
Al B. Sure! went on to write “It only aimed to prevent me from further sharing publicly the ifacts and insights @LadyKP shared with me during our frequent and intimate conversations in her selfless attempts to save my life by sharing frequent plans to do harm, and possibly by ending my life.”
In his sincere plea, Al B. Sure! Formally called for investigating the individuals who worked in or around Porter’s home. He claimed that these individuals, including publicists, were responsible for stealing her computer and mobile devices, which contained the “original book notes.”
He also addressed a controversial tell-all book about Kim Porter that was circulated on Amazon, which he said contained false and offensive information.
This is wild.
Al B. Sure! is now urging authorities to take a deeper look into Kim Porter’s death and the individuals involved as he continues to push for what he believes to be the truth behind her untimely passing.
Leave Lil Baby out of the rap beef. As Kendrick Lamar ran down Drake’s Hip-Hop mold at the end of “Not Like Us,” he mentioned Lil Baby helping the 6 God “get his lingo up.”
While in conversation with Charlamagne Tha God, Lil Baby revealed he wasn’t fan of being mentioned.
“I ain’t really into that side of Hip-Hop,” Lil Baby said. “If you and him was arguing why the hell you gotta say my name, you know?
“Rap and shit is my work. I don’t want that type of shit at work.”
You can hear it from Lil Baby below.
Lil Baby didn’t appreciate Kendrick Lamar mentioning him on ‘Not Like Us’, says he has a great relationship with Drake
“I ain’t really into like that side of Hip-Hop. if you and [Drake] was arguing why the hell you gotta say me, you know?” pic.twitter.com/hLICTv8dYB
In the same interview with Charlamagne Tha God, Lil Baby revealed he “ain’t got no relationship” with Gunna.
Charla would push forward, stating the Internet believes Lil Baby doesn’t think he can make a hit without Gunna. To which he replied, “The Internet will say anything.”
He added, “You know how many hits I got? That don’t even make sense. I only see what I got to see. I try my best to keep going. I don’t feed into the comments and all of that.”
Also, Charlamagne asked if Young Thug requested a collaboration between the two would he be done. In short, the reply was, “I don’t see that happening.”
You can hear it all from Lil Baby below.
Lil Baby reveals he doesn’t have a relationship with Gunna and doesn’t envision himself working on music with him in the future.
Lil Baby is friends with Michael Rubin but isn’t a fan of the jokes made after an image of them sharing a hug went viral. Lil Baby appeared on Lil Yachty’s A Safe Place podcast and revealed it’s just two friends happy to see each other.
“Mike’s happy to see me and he runs up on me,” Lil Baby said. “I’m telling Mike, ‘I’ll break your neck in this bitch.’ But we play like that.”
He also highlighted some cultural differences, “They white so they don’t really understand. Even before the picture come out and went viral, I told Mike, ‘I can’t have pictures like that.’”
“Benzino caught on video, by his girlfriend Ashley Bell threatening to unalive him self with a knige because she called the cops for him allegedly beating her,” 50 wrote.
Benzino clarified: “First and foremost, I just want to let everybody know I’m okay. Second of all, I want to let everybody know that was a rehearsal for a Tubi movie. My girl was helping me out. We was doing a script reading and that was a rehearsal for a Tubi movie. That was the scene from the movie. I would never ever put my hands on any woman. I’ve never done that in my life. That’s for cowards and I surely wouldn’t do anything to hurt myself.”
Benzino also had some words for 50 Cent, who he affectionately called by his legal name: “Thanks Curtis for promoting me. Keep on posting me, that’s dope. I’m in the gym heavy, benching 315. What you doing, Curtis?””
Numbers this, numbers that. Everyone wants to talk figures these days. So let’s talk them. While on The Breakfast Club, Cordae was asked about his first week numbers, with Charlamagne Tha God asking did he flop. If you ask Cordae, he has not and that’s just Internet chatter.
“No. Because, probability of that, it’s some white boy in Indiana,” Cordae replied. “Not that it’s a race thing, but it’s the truth of the people that run those. If you look at channels like that, their whole channel subscribes to a bunch of negativity. That’s what they’re about. Every artist in music, you can find something negative and nitpick at where they lack in some department.”
He added, “I had other albums that didn’t have a strong first week but again, my tour ended up doing super well. And then later on it grows and becomes a larger thing. Why spend all this time focusing on one week? You’re focusing on one week when there’s 52 weeks out of the year? You’re gonna just gonna give up on an album because it didn’t have a super strong first week?”
You can hear his reasoning below.
Charlamagne asks Cordae if he feels like his album flopped after it sold 10k with the first week sales on The Breakfast Club pic.twitter.com/Rl57ue6G6z
Cordae is hitting the road in 2025 with The Crossroads Tour, a 23-city trek that begins on February 5 at Ace of Spades in Sacramento, CA. The tour will stop in major cities like Los Angeles, Houston, Atlanta, Toronto, and New York before concluding in Chicago at Concord Music Hall on March 16. Fans can secure their tickets through Cordae’s official website.
The tour celebrates the release of his critically acclaimed album, The Crossroads, available now via Atlantic Records. Executive produced by Smoko Ono, the 16-track album features collaborations with Joey Bada$$, Lil Wayne, Anderson .Paak, Juicy J, Ty Dolla $ign, Kanye West, and more, with standout singles like “Mad As Fuck,” “Syrup Sandwiches,” “Saturday Mornings,” and “Summer Drop.”
2025 will be the year of Lil Baby. Sitting down for a conversation with Lil Yachty, Baby revealed that he will go back to back at the top of the year, delivering two albums.
“At first, I was telling people I was going to drop a double album,” Baby said. “Now I’m dropping the Wham album and Domonique album.”
Lil Baby revealed they will be completely different projects. What is currently set for Jan. 3, he tabbed Dominique with a hopeful February release.
Lil Baby is letting it be known. Any relationship he had with Gunna is finished. In an interview with Charlamagne Tha God, Lil Baby revealed he “ain’t got no relationship” with Gunna.
Charla would push forward, stating the Internet believes Lil Baby doesn’t think he can make a hit without Gunna. To which he replied, “The Internet will say anything.”
He added, “You know how many hits I got? That don’t even make sense. I only see what I got to see. I try my best to keep going. I don’t feed into the comments and all of that.”
Also, Charlamagne asked if Young Thug requested a collaboration between the two would he be done. In short, the reply was, “I don’t see that happening.”
You can hear it all from Lil Baby below.
Lil Baby reveals he doesn’t have a relationship with Gunna and doesn’t envision himself working on music with him in the future.
Kendrick Lamar has respect for the legends, especially those from the West. On the opening track of his new album, GNX, “wacced out murals,” Lamar revealed his reaction to Snoop Dogg reposting Drake’s “Taylor Made Freestyle” diss toward him:
“Snoop posted ‘Taylor Made’, I prayed it was the edibles It was only right for me to let it go”
Snoop heard the bar and spoke about it with Bootleg Kev.
“That’s my nephew, he’s a rapper man he’s supposed to speak his mind and tell his truth,” said Snoop. “That’s the way he felt and he has the right to say that. I’m his big homeboy so I have to take what’s given to me from his perspective because he’s speaking truth. And the truth shouldn’t hurt you, it should make you better.”
You can hear the full explanation from Snoop Dogg below.
“I was fucked up, My Bad” – Snoop Dogg on Kendrick Lamar calling him out on ‘wacced out murals’ pic.twitter.com/L49xF1Eofj
Back in the beef days, Drake received a cease-and-desist and had to remove the “Taylor Made Freestyle” from online. Originally posted on Instagram, the single used an AI-generated Tupac voice to provoke Lamar.
According to Billboard, the estate threatened to sue and stated the voice was “a flagrant violation” and “blatant use” of Pac’s legacy.
The message was delivered via a cease-and-desist letter filed by Howard King, requesting Drake pull the song within 24 hours or face all of the estate’s “legal remedies.”
“The Estate is deeply dismayed and disappointed by your unauthorized use of Tupac’s voice and personality,” King wrote in the letter. “Not only is the record a flagrant violation of Tupac’s publicity and the estate’s legal rights, it is also a blatant abuse of the legacy of one of the greatest hip-hop artists of all time. The Estate would never have given its approval for this use.”
Additionally, the letter reads, “The unauthorized, equally dismaying use of Tupac’s voice against Kendrick Lamar, a good friend to the Estate who has given nothing but respect to Tupac and his legacy publicly and privately, compounds the insult.”
Last Friday (April 19) on Instagram, Drake dropped off the “Taylor Made Freestyle.”
Upon pressing play, you will hear something you wouldn’t expect: Tupac’s voice. The single opens with an AI Tupac verse requesting KDot stand up for the West Coast. It is followed by an AI Snoop Dogg asking for the same.
AI Tupac raps: Fuck this Canadian lightskin, Dot We need an undebated West Coast victory, man Call him a bitch for me Talk about him liking young girls, that’s a gift from me Heard it on the Budden Podcast, it’s gotta be true They told me the spirit of Makaveli is alive In the nigga under five-foot five, so it’s gotta be you
AI Snoop added: ‘Cause right now it’s looking like you writing out the game plan on how to lose How to bark up the wrong tree and then get your head popped in a crowded room World is watching this chess game, but are you out of moves?
After that, Drake pops in for his own slick talk: The first one really only took me an hour or two The next one is really ’bout to bring out the coward in you But now we gotta wait a fucking week ’cause Taylor Swift is your new Top And if you ’bout to drop, she gotta approve
Since “Like That,” your tone changed a little, you not as enthused How are you not in the booth? It feel like you kinda removed You tryna let this shit die down, nah, nah, nah Not this time, nigga, you followin’ through
He ends the song with a message, “I know you’re in that NY apartment, you struggling right now I know it.”
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‘WHAM’ — January 3rd, 2025