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Drake and Kanye West are supposedly friends again, says media insider Karen Civil, but their friends are seemingly still at odds.

Following reports that Kanye and Drake were no longer feuding, two of their closest friends have clashed online. After Drake’s new Nocta sneakers from Nike hit Instagram, designer Don C appeared to shade the shoes and the man who brought them to life, commenting, “Plan B.” The petty comment earned a response from Drake’s right-hand man Chubbs, as well as The Boy himself.

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“See us outside,” wrote Chubbs, replying to the comment with a middle finger emoji. 

Drake proceeded to respond with a laughing emoji, as well as an emoji of a blind man, curiously.

This seems to be the most recent layer of the feud between Drake and Kanye West, despite the fact that Kanye is not directly involved. Don C and Kanye came up together and they’re close friends. However, they have not formally worked together in years. Still, some are dubbing this a “side character vs. side character” battle.

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This news comes as industry insiders have suggested that Kanye is trying to line up his release date with Drake’s upcoming album Certified Lover Boy, which he has said will drop before the end of the summer. Do you think Kanye is trying to battle Drake for first-week sales? What do you think of the shade between Chubbs and Don C?

On Monday afternoon, it was reported that Kanye West and his team of collaborators were moving to another stadium to finish the upcoming studio album DONDA. The information came from a deleted tweet from KayCyy, one of the artists working closely with ‘Ye during this chapter of his career. 

“We moving to another stadium,” he wrote online. However, according to KayCyy, his account was hacked and the reports about Kanye moving stadiums are false.

“You hackers gotta stop,” said the artist on Monday night. “4 of my tweets were hacks … I will not be on twitter anymore for the rest of the week.”

He proceeded to specify that the tweet about Kanye moving stadiums was not legitimate.

“‘We moving to another stadium’ is a cap,” clarified KayCyy.

As of now, the next DONDA listening session has not been announced. Kanye West previously held two events at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, selling out the arena and playing unfinished versions of his album. Apple Music presently has DONDA available for pre-order, suggesting that it may release on August 15. That much has not been confirmed by Kanye or his team.

We will continue to keep you posted on any DONDA-related news as it becomes available. For now, though, it may be wise to turn off tweet notifications for KayCyy since he’s been hacked.

If there is someone who knows about the consequences of making controversial comments, it’s Nick Cannon. The media mogul faced off with the public last year after making anti-Semitic remarks on his Cannon’s Class podcast, causing his future with longtime partner Viacom to be shaken. There were rumors that Wild n’ Out wouldn’t return and whispers of his talk show being axed, and after receiving an onslaught of criticism, Cannon resurfaced with an apology.

He stated that he had met with leaders within the Jewish community and had been educated about why his comments were offensive, and while visiting with The Breakfast Club recently, Cannon shared his views about DaBaby’s recent debacle.

The rapper’s controversy may not be the leading story in headlines or trending on social media at the moment, but DaBaby continues to endure punishments due to his homophobic remarks and apologies that followed. He has been removed from at least six festivals and the 100-piece collection he created with boohooMAN was canceled by the fashion brand just a month after its launch.

“First of all, I think not only in the Black community—and I’ve experienced it—but definitely just men a lot of times, we have that ego,” said Cannon. “We believe apologizing is weakness when it actually, takes great strength to step up to anyone and say, ‘I was wrong.’ I know Baby. And that’s a strong brother…. That man just lost his pops, his brother, all the things that he… and still to have that big smile that he has every day, knowing everything.”

Cannon called DaBaby a “fighter” who has had his back against the wall in the past. “To say ‘I’m sorry,’ that’s a self-proclamation. To apologize is an action,” Cannon added. “Let’s use this as an opportunity for education. Because that’s what happened in my scenario.” Cannon also criticized how the festivals decided to drop DaBaby, calling it “group-think” and “mob rule.”

“This is a moment where we should all gather around DaBaby and embrace him because if we can do that, watch how many mentalities will change in the Hip Hop community,” said Cannon. He also added that he knows DaBaby would sit down with Madonna or Elton John, two people who called out the rapper over his comments.

“Was he wrong, though? Yeah, he was. But there are certain things about it that we’ve been trained to think that. Let’s unpack that. Let’s figure this out.”

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