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Rudy Gobert and Shaq have had an ongoing feud over the last few years. Shaq doesn’t seem to like Gobert very much as he continuously calls into question the big man’s skill set. Whenever a big player is having a solid season defensively, Shaq begins to take it personally, and he never stops slandering people, even if the beef is well past its expiration date. That was certainly the case with Dwight Howard, and it is the case again with Rudy Gobert.

During an episode of his Big Podcast With Shaq, the former Lakers legend straight up said that Gobert could never guard him and that he would score about 12 points in just three minutes.

“12 points? Yeah, in the first three minutes,” Shaq said. “Let me tell you something, man. It’s against my religion for somebody to hold me one-on-one. I take that personally. I do. […] First play of the game I always used to look and see what the defense is going to do. Like ‘Okay, he’s doubling from Spice [Adams]. Spice is going to be wide open for the jumper. Like, I always look at the first play. But if I get it and nobody’s coming, I take that as a sign of disrespect. You know what I’m going to do to him? He’s a shot blocker. You can’t shoot a shot. You’ve got to back his little skinny ass up under the rim. Show him the ‘bow so he gets scared and just go up.”

A clip from this podcast made its way to Instagram, and as you can imagine, Gobert saw it. The Jazz star was not just going to sit there and take any slander, so he decided to clap back saying ““I would lock his ass up.”

Most NBA fans probably rolled their eyes at Gobert here especially since he’s struggled a bit when the lights shine the brightest. Either way, it’s clear that he and Shaq will continue to go back and forth for years to come.

NBA Youngboy continues to amass great success following the release of albums, Colors, and The Last Slimeto Sampler, while remaining an outlier. As we reported back in March, he accumulated over 10 billion views on YouTube in the first quarter of the year and reigned as the #1 artist on Youtube up until last week, when Future dropped. Nonetheless, the Baton Rouge native reportedly makes $17 million yearly from his channel. While much of YB’s success has been relegated to YouTube, he shared a disapproving message to his fellow YouTubers via the Never Broke Again LLC account on Sunday night.   

The IG story read: “Atlantic ban my music from all Youtubers – get a real job.” Due to his popularity on YouTube, it makes sense that creators would opt to use his music in their videos.  

The post concluded with a somewhat cryptic message, as Youngboy added: “ha ha ha ion like you neither wait on my funeral.”

After the IG story was shared and speculation began to run rampant, DJ Akademiks shared a voice recording of Youngboy saying that Atlantic Records tries to make all his posts about them in order to sue him– possibly alluding to the “ha ha ha” bit from his IG story. He goes on to say,  “Tell them people suck my d**k, leave me alone b***h, ain’t nobody talking about yall, I hate yall, b***h. I hate y’all more than y’all hate me.” 

In 2016, Youngboy signed a 5-album deal with the record label that was worth $2 million. YB’s deal quickly became notorious for just how bad it was. Youngboy soon realized how lopsided the deal was and tried to gain compensation by acquiring his masters. Atlantic declined. Thus, it’s perhaps unsurprising that Youngboy frequently voices his disapproval of the label.  

Earlier this year, he spoke out on Atlantic Records by comparing his time with them to slavery and advising other artists to avoid signing with the label. He also called out the label for “blackballing” him, claiming that they took his album, Colors, off the chart after it charted at #1 for 2 weeks.

Youngboy is set to release his new album The Last Slimeto, on August 5.

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During one of the final interviews with former Death Row Records artist Jewell before her death on May 6, she revealed that a doctor had recently given her only six months to live. While she didn’t clarify why she was given the prognosis, she admitted to suffering from a “lung injury illness.”

“The doctor gave me six months to live,” she explained interview with The Art of Dialogue’s Mighty Bolton that was recorded in October 2021. “[…] That’s why I hurried up my album. I wanted to do something more positive than all the dick-sucking records, pretty much what was popular back in those days, so my grandkids can have something that they’re proud of, of their nana Jewell.”

She added that the footage would be “iconic” because she knew “it’s not gonna be long” before she passed.

Jewell ended up passing away on May 6 at the age of 54. She was best-known for her work on tracks such as “Gonna Give It to Ya,” “Woman to Woman,” and “It’s Not Deep Enough.”

Elsewhere in the interview, she discussed being medically dead at Walmart and needing to be resuscitated. 

“I beat the odds ’cause 2019 was my first diagnosis and I have all the paperwork to substantiate the longevity of my life,” she said. “I died at Walmart and they brought me back to life. The guy that saved my life used to be an EMT in Puerto Rico and his name was Javier. He was the one that actually pumped me until the ambulance got there when I stopped breathing at the register and saved my life. I held this from most of my family because I always tried to be the strong one […] I just didn’t want them to know.”

Despite the interview being filmed back in 2021, for the release of her final album, Love + Pain = Musik, it was released only now because Jewell told Bolton to hold off on publishing it until her death.

“Jewell told me to hold on to footage and release it if she passed away,” he revealed to HipHopDX. “She wanted people to know about her contribution to Hip Hop and realize all the legendary songs she contributed to and sang vocals on. I hope in her passing, people go back and look at her interviews and learn how big of a contribution she made to Hip Hop, especially West Coast Hip Hop.”

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