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Jake Paul has wanted to fight Conor McGregor for quite some time now and it feels like he really believes it is going to happen. In a recent interview, Paul claimed that the stars are aligning for a potential McGregor fight and that he would love nothing more than go toe-to-toe with the UFC legend. In the meantime, McGregor has expressed very little interest in a fight with Paul and even Dana White has noted that it would never happen.

Last night, McGregor was watching a wonderful UFC 261 event that was filled with great fights. One of those matches was between Jorge Masvidal and Kamaru Usman, with the latter winning via knockout. After the fight, McGregor weighed in on the quality of the match, while also taking a shot at Paul.

“UFC high level fighting > Blogger jackass boxing,” McGregor wrote. The tweet was followed up by Paul who tried to clap back with a diss about McGregor’s brand of alcohol, although it kind of fell flat.

Based on McGregor’s tweet, it seems pretty clear that he has no interest in going back to boxing, at least not against someone like Paul. Jake, however, probably sees this as a good marketing opportunity and we’re sure he will try to take advantage.

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Moneybagg Yo had a colossal year musically last year, dropping off his third studio album Time Served in addition to a collaborative mixtape with Black Youngsta titled Code Red. The former project featured memorable cuts from the Memphis-bred emcee like “All Dat” with former girlfriend Megan thee Stallion and “1 2 3” with Black Youngsta, while Code Red featured the smash hit “Said Sum.” 

He followed up by unleashing his fourth studio album A Gangsta’s Pain on Friday (April 23) via Interscope Records, complete with appearances from Kaash Paige, Big30, Future, Polo G, Lil Durk, Jhené Aiko and production credits from The Neptunes. Such a massive project deserves an equally massive celebration, which is exactly what the 29-year-old rapper served at the album’s Atlanta release party Friday.  

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As his name suggests, throwing out bags of cash–$50k to be exact, at an album release event seems to be in his nature. Footage captured by an attendee from the event displayed the scene outside the Atlanta venue the event was held in as hundreds of bills fell from the sky. 

According to sources close to Moneybagg’s party, the total amount of cash he made rain on partygoers totaled $50,000. While certainly a grand gesture, a few internet users expressed some doubts that the cash was actually American dollars.

Usher can be pinpointed as the source of the doubt after it was believed he paid strippers with fake “Usher Bucks worth no real value.” The very idea of the R&B legend producing fake bills in his likeness was enough to keep the internet jokes going despite the dancer who had accused him of paying in fake money backtracking her statements.

While there have been no reports that Moneybagg pulled a similar stunt, we’ll be on the lookout. Be sure to check out A Gangsta’s Pain if you haven’t already. 

There have been some amazing Air Jordans to come out so far this year and fans can fully expect even more throughout the last eight months of the year. Numerous teasers have been hitting the internet for a variety of new models and over the past few weeks, the Air Jordan 13 has gotten a significant amount of love. Soon, the “Red Flint” model will be dropping and in the Fall, we will be seeing a dope new “Court Purple” offering.

Thanks to the Instagram sneaker account @Sayitwityakickz, we now have the first in-hand photos of this brand new model. As you can see in these photos below, the shoe has a mostly black leather upper all while the overlays on the back heel and mudguard are purple. It has the exact same layout as the classic “Bred” model except for this time around, we are given purple where the red should be. Overall, it’s a solid model that will appeal to long-time AJ13 fans who also like some purple in their kicks.

Once again, these will be dropping in the Fall although an exact release date has yet to be announced. Let us know what you think of the model, and be sure to keep it locked to HNHH for all of the latest sneaker news.

Earlier in the month, Soulja Boy reflected on how the growing success of his viral hit “She Make It Clap” made him reflect on beginning his “biggest comeback” two years ago after completing his prison sentence. He told fans, “I got arrested April 11, 2019 while having the ‘biggest comeback’. I will never forget that day.”

He continued, “Today is April 11, 2021 and ‘the biggest comeback’ continues but on a way better path with focus and no negative energy around me. I’m completely bossed up to a whole new level. God had my back the whole time and I’m thankful. Today I relax and celebrate and look how far I came since I been home.” Based on new data from Billboard, Big Draco’s biggest comeback just got a lot more real.

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 Scoring another No.1 hit on a Billboard chart, “She Make It Clap” jumped from the 19th spot to the summit in its second week charting on Billboard’s Top Triller US chart. According to Triller, rankings on the chart developed in the streaming era are based on a formula combining the amount of views videos featuring certain songs garner, the level of engagements the videos receive, and the raw total of videos uploaded using the sound.    

“She Make It Clap” also debuts at No. 4 on the Top Triller Global chart. Released last month, the song’s organic attention and success followed after a dance challenge was created for the track. The rapper shared footage to his Instagram page of the very moments he discovered he had scored a No.1 hit on the chart. “That’s a Billboard chart n*gga, f*ck you mean? #1 n*gga independently signed I did this myself, Big CEO,” says the rapper with excitement in the footage. 

He added in the caption, “The moment I found out I went #1 on [Billboard].” The song reached the summit in its second week appearing on the chart, so its not telling how well it could go on to do in the Hot 100 chart.

Congrats to Soulja Boy on the W!

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The stars of R&B showed out this week and that’s certainly reflected on this week’s R&B Season playlist. For starters, The Weeknd made it clear that the After Hours era isn’t entirely over just yet. The Canadian crooner returned with a brand new remix of his single, “Save Your Tears” with special guest, Ariana Grande. This marks their third collaboration together following “off the table” and “Love Me Harder.” “Save Your Tears (Remix)” extends their winning streak together.

It’s been nearly three years since Jorja Smith’s debut album but, as the saying goes: Good things take hustle. Great things take time. The singer released her new single “Gone” this week to accompany the announcement of her upcoming project, Be Right Back — an eight-song effort serving as the follow-up to Lost & Found.

Our R&B Season playlist also includes the latest single from H.E.R. who is currently rolling out her forthcoming project. “Come Through” ft. Chris Brown is yet another strong single that follows “Held Us Together” with Tauren Wells.

In addition to the aforementioned singles, we also have new music from Q, JMSN, and Arlo Parks. Check out the latest R&B Season update below and subscribe to HNHH on Spotify!

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