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DaBaby addressed the response to his homophobic rant at Rolling Loud, during his performance at Summer Jam, Sunday. After thanking Hot 97 and apologizing in a pre-taped video, the rapper called his haters “cry babies.”

“[Hot 97] allowed me to share my gift, share my blessing with y’all out here live on this stage amongst all the chaos and all the backlash,” DaBaby said in the video. “So hats off to y’all for that… They accepted my sincerity and all my apologies when I said I never, ever meant to offend anybody or say anything to make anybody feel any type of way live on that stage a few weeks ago. And Hot 97 was also willing to stick they neck out on the line, willing to go against all odds with everything going on out here in the world, and still allow me to come out here on this stage and utilize they platform to help the world move forward.”

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Afterward, he performed “Cry Baby,” which features Megan Thee Stallion. 

“Check this out,” he said. “Other than the people that, you know, was truly offended, I feel like the rest of y’all motherfuckers being cry babies.”

DaBaby is also expected to perform at Lil Boosie’s “Boosie Bash” on August 28th.

Check out footage of DaBaby’s performance below.

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Nas mourned the death of Joseph “Taheim” Bryan on social media, Saturday, after the film producer was fatally gunned down in New York, this week. Bryan was a writer and producer on Ice-T’s recent film, Equal Standard.

“Speechless. Rest In Peace Taheim (in red) Most high is the best knower. One Of The Bridge Finest,” Nas wrote in his post, referencing Queensbridge, a public housing development in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, New York. “My condolences to the family. Love.”

Police discovered Bryan’s body outside of an apartment on Jackson Avenue with multiple gunshot wounds to the arm and torso. He was pronounced dead at the nearby Mount Sinai hospital.

No arrests have been made.

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Ice-T posted his own emotional tribute on social media on Friday.

“MFs Killed my friend last night,” he said on Twitter. “I’m not in a good place behind this. Taheim was a GOOD dude making Positive moves. He wrote & we made the film EqualStandard together. He leaves a Wife&Daughter. Dirty MFs followed him home and Murdered him.”

He added in a subsequent tweet: “People ask what makes you Cold… Murder makes you cold, losing friends and family to the streets makes you Cold.. You can’t tell me sh*t about PTSD. How many of your friends have been Murdered? It changes you.”

Check out Nas’ tribute below.

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Barry Keoghan has been hospitalized with facial injuries after being assaulted in Galway, Ireland, Saturday night, according to the Irish newspaper Sunday World.

After the assault, he was treated at a hospital at Galway University and has since been released.

A spokesperson for the local police says that officers “did attend an incident at a hotel in the Wellpark area of Galway City on Sunday August 15, 2021 after 3.30am. An ambulance was also called and a man in his 20s was treated for non life-threatening injuries. Enquiries are ongoing. No arrests have been made.”

In addition to no arrests having been made, Keoghan is not expected to press charges.

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“He was spotted around town a bit. He said he was down to see a few people he had become friends with when he was abroad,” one local told Sunday World.

Keoghan is set to star in Marvel’s Eternals and DC’s The Batman. He is best known for his work on The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Dunkirk, American Animals, and most recently, The Green Knight. He was born in northern Dublin.

Keoghan, nor any representative for the actor, have commented on his condition.

Eternals will be released on November 6, 2020. The film will also star  Kit Harington, Salma Hayek, Angelina Jolie, Brian Tyree Henry, and more. 

The Batman is expected to be released on March 4, 2022.

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Louisiana rapper Webbie had to be carried out of a club in Roanoke, VA, Friday night, after appearing to suffer an undisclosed medical emergency on stage. TMZ reports that a representative for Webbie says he has since been cleared to leave the hospital.

The rep. did confirm that it was not a seizure as was rumored. The performance took place at 213 Lux Lounge.

Webbie has been silent on social media since the incident went down, but he is reportedly doing much better.

Earlier this year, another Webbie concert took a dark turn when a shooting in the parking lot left one dead and one injured. An argument reportedly erupted between two groups outside and escalated into an exchange of gunfire.

“There were several parties shooting at each other across the parking lot,” spokesperson Trooper Thomas Gossen said at the time. “There was an active shooting going on before the officer basically engaged them. The whole parking lot is a crime scene.”

Webbie’s last project, Savage Life 6, was released back in October 2020. 

Fans can catch Webbie at Boosie’s Boosie Bash 3, next weekend, along with several other popular rappers, including DaBaby. The Blame It on Baby rapper was not kicked off the setlist despite his recent controversial comments.

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Drakeo the Ruler was arrested during an Uber ride, in which his driver was pulled over for having tinted windows, Sunday. He recorded the interaction on Instagram Live.

Jeff Weiss detailed the incident on Twitter, postulating that it was an ambush by police: “The LAPD pulled him over for riding in the back of an Uber with tinted windows. He was with his son. A set up if I’ve ever heard of one. Who ever heard of someone get pulled over on a Sunday morning at 11 a.m. with their toddler son, while riding in the back of an Uber, WHOSE ONLY VISIBLE CRIME WAS HAVING TINTED WINDOWS? It would be ridiculous if it wasn’t so glaringly sinister.”

He also theorized that police have been following Drakeo’s every move.

Back in 2020, the rapper took a plea deal that saw him finally released after serving three years in prison. He had been serving time for murder charges which were dropped; however, a judge refiled for charges of criminal gang conspiracy and shooting from a motor vehicle, meaning he would have to wait behind bars until his trial.

Saturday, Drakeo released his new diss track, “IngleWEIRD.”

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 T.I. showed his support for Lizzo in a recent Instagram story after the “Good as Hell” singer received hateful, body-shaming messages online.

“My message to Lizzo. I don’t know Lizzo personally. Listen, sweetheart, you are beautiful, you are talented, you are good enough for all the great things the world has to offer, don’t wait on nobody out there in the public to validate that,” Tip said, showing his support for her. “Their perception of you has more to do with them than it does with you. All these people who out here who have negative things to say it’s because they feel negatively about themselves.”

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Earlier this month, Lizzo released “Rumors” with Cardi B and the video was flooded with trolls posting racist messages and body shaming Lizzo.

“Them speaking negatively about you, or me or everybody else bruh, that has more to do with them than it does to do with you,” T.I. said. “Please don’t wait on them to give you the ok to be happy, please don’t wait on them to give you the OK to be satisfied about yourself, your accomplishments, your achievements.”

“Fuck them people. Fuck what people say,” he continued. “They should have no jurisdiction or no hold on your life.”

A number of other celebs have come to Lizzo’s defense as well, including Offset, Chris Evans, and more.

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Benny The Butcher previewed an upcoming collaboration with Drake during his set at The Summer Smash Festival in Chicago, Sunday, giving fans a glimpse at the two rappers’ long-awaited joint effort.

“Sent @Drake a record and I kno imma wanna drop it soon as he send it back,” Benny tweeted back in February 2020.

Benny only played Drake’s verse for a few seconds before cutting the audio saying, “you can’t play everything.” The Buffalo rapper did not go into any further detail as to when to expect the track.

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Drake has also been tight-lipped regarding his upcoming album, Certified Lover Boy, which is expected to drop before the end of summer. DJ Khaled recently teased that the release of the project is imminent, sounding the alarm in a post on Instagram, last week.

“LET JAH RISE and all his enemies scatter!” Khaled captioned a picture of the two. “SOUND THE ALARM OF LOVE. CERTIFIED SOON COME! PON YOUR [DOME] Spelling B time again. HOW DO YOU SPELL CLB SOON COMING PON YOUR HEAD TOP. D.R.A.K.E.”

It’s also been rumored that Drake and Kanye will drop their respective projects, CLB and Donda, at the same time and go head-to-head.

Check out Benny’s new snippet below.

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Nicki Minaj celebrated Jamaica’s female sprinters winning at the Prefontaine Classic, Saturday, while America’s Sha’Carri Richardson finished in last place. It was Richardson’s first performance since being disqualified from the Tokyo Olympics after testing positive for cannabis.

“Yasssss Goodie!!!!!,” Minaj wrote on her Instagram story, along with the broom emoji.

Elaine Thompson-Herah won the event with a remarkable time of 10.54 seconds.

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Afterward, Richardson told viewers to “talk all the shit” they want: “This is one race. I’m not done. You know what I’m capable of. Count me out if you want to. Talk all the shit you want. Because I’m here to stay. I’m not done. I’m the sixth fastest woman in this game ever. Can’t nobody ever take that from me.”

Minaj was not the only rapper to react to the race. Tory Lanez defended Richardson after her lackluster showing.

“Sha’carri ran a great race , not because she Won or lost … because through all the adversity she got up and RAN AGAIN , and GAVE IT HER ALL … she went through a lot of within that last month … n****s be on the app preaching all this ‘uplift’ our queens .. Then tear em down … It be cool to support n****s when they get a video with Kanye tho …” Lanez wrote on Twitter.

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