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These days, 6ix9ine gets the most attention when he’s being remarkably disrespectful to other rappers, their families, and their loved ones. For the last year, music has not been his core focus as social media has taken up much of his attention span, responding to anything that has to do with Lil Durk, King Von, or other Chicago-based rappers that he has beef with. After a mural was painted for the late King Von in his beloved O Block neighborhood this weekend, Lil Durk visited the street art, which warranted a reply from none other than Tekashi.

After DJ Akademiks – one of 6ix9ine’s close friends in hip-hop media – posted about Durk visiting the mural, 6ix9ine made his way to the comments section to make more disturbing comments about King Von. 

“Lil Tim put that man on on a Damn Wall,” wrote the much-hated Brooklyn rapper, referencing the street name of Von’s suspected killer Timothy Leeks. “Smh… he’s been on several T-shirts .. hats… he’s just a Diamond chain now… he reall said ‘if I was to die my ni***** gon slide every day…..'”

Lil Durk has not responded to the comment.

Recently, 6ix9ine has been ranting about Jim Jones, who was also named in his infamous court case a few years ago as a member of the Nine Trey Gangster Bloods. He’s also been at odds with Blueface, among others. 

Lil Durk was trending last night for other reasons. The rapper threw out the first pitch at the Chicago Cubs baseball game over the weekend but fans weren’t impressed with his underwhelming arm. They’ve been roasting him online ever since. Check that story out here.

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Not even Jack Dorsey is safe from DONDA fever.

After the second listening event for the album and yet another false start for the fans at home, Kanye West’s long-awaited DONDA still hasn’t touched streaming platforms as of yet with a new slated release date of August 15th. While the delay is no surprise considering Ye’s track record, it doesn’t make the masses any less restless, including Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.

Dorsey recently took to Twitter to voice his opinion, even bringing along a suggestion to speed up the process.

“And…this is unlikely and maybe against the creative process…but it would be incredible if @kanyewest put out #DONDA as it is now and continued to update it until he feels it’s ‘finished’ …so we can all witness the work evolve in real-time,” he penned.

While many were quick to applaud the idea for its “innovation,” history will show that even that strategy won’t speed up any release from Kanye West. Case in point: The Life Of Pablo. Fans will recall that Kanye did, in fact, tweak the album several times after it was released on streaming platforms, although it wasn’t as strategically publicized as Dorsey suggests.

Still, that process didn’t arrive until after a number of delayed release dates and frustration from those of us on the outside looking in.

Yet, it’s likely that Kanye West is more concerned with a perfected finished product rather than his previously employed method. The perfectionist in him has popped out so much so that he even hopped on a phone call in the middle of the last DONDA listening event to immediately bring a mixing error to Mike Dean’s attention.

Onward to August 15th–maybe.

50 Cent as a hype man is a sight we’d like to see more often.

In a new clip, the OG could be seen supporting Bia onstage while the duo hosted a night at Miami’s E11EVEN as the ew England upstart ran through a performance of her “Whole Lotta Money” cut.

Initially, some assumed that it was a Lil Mama-esque situation with Fif hopping onstage unsolicited, but closer inspection simply shows the G-Unit boss was showing much-welcomed love

Naturally, the energy of the crowd in attendance was full-blown as Bia performed the track, which recently received a substantial boost from a Nicki Minaj-assisted remix of the selection.

Previously locking in success on social media, the song cracked the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 16 with the surprise remix.

“I have so much respect when bigger artists jump on smaller artists [sic] records bc so many people forget we all had to start somewhere,” Bia penned in a string of tweets following the release, indirectly saluting Minaj while adding commentary on more established artists who don’t tend to show love.

She added: “That’s the difference between who does it for the culture, and who does it for clout […] I’ve got taken off songs because I wasn’t ‘big’ enough even tho my verse was always LIKE THAT.”

NFL legend Peyton Manning, who played quarterback for the Colts and Broncos during his career, trolled his rival, Tom Brady, during his Pro Football Hall of Fame acceptance speech, Sunday night. Manning and Brady went head to head countless times throughout their storied careers.

“Speaking of rivals, my good friend Tom Brady is here tonight,” said Manning. “By the time Tom Brady is inducted in his first year of eligibility in the year 2035, he’ll only have time to post his acceptance speech on his Instagram account.”

Manning won two Super Bowls and was award five MVPs throughout his 18-year career.

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Brady got involved in the teasing as well, on Twitter, writing “I just need to make sure he’s really done. Can’t risk this guy coming back … .”

Manning also poked fun at Ravens legend Ray Lewis, who set the record for longest speech in 2018 by going for 38 minutes.

“Ray Lewis just finished giving his speech that he started in 2018,” Manning said.

Elsewhere in his speech, Manning spoke about his father, former NFL quarterback Archie Manning

“My favorite quarterback, my hero, my dad,” Peyton said while fighting off emotions. “Dad, there’s no one I would rather have or be more appropriate to welcome me to the stage than you.”

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Fans on Twitter debated whether Future or Lil Wayne would win in a hypothetical Verzuz matchup, Saturday, and things got fairly heated. While Wayne appeared to be the popular choice, Future had many dedicate fans sing his praises.

“Lol Wayne would kill this man with only features stop playin with Wayne top like this,” one fan argued.

Wayne is easily one of the most successful artists of his generation with over 120 million records sold worldwide throughout his career. He’s critically renown and often cited as one of the best rappers of all time.

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“Y’all saying it’s disrespectful but Future been consistently dropping hits….what’s the problem?” another fan wrote.

Future certainly deserves his credit as well with numerous massively popular singles such as “Move That Dope,” “Fuck Up Some Commas,” “Where Ya At,” and more.

“This is a joke right????” a seperate user tweeted. “Get the fCk out of herr future catalog isn’t long enough to battle Wayne plus he’s not as lyrical bye this is a trash idea scrap this immediately this is an insult to Wayne period.”

“We all know the only person that go toe -2-toe w/ Wayne is drake & 2 chainz ! I ain’t even gone say Nicki ass,” another said.

Check out more of the discussion below.