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Over the past 24 hours, Bobby Shmurda has been getting clowned on Twitter for his alleged new boo. After several photos and videos that featured the Brooklyn artist and a mysterious woman surfaced, fans were quick to deem Bobby and the unnamed woman, now known simply as Lilly, Hip-Hop’s newest couple. Shortly after the news spread on social media, however, fans started making fun of the “Hot N*gga” rapper and criticizing his choice of women, with some bothered by his decision to date a white woman and others simply amused by her looks.

The rumor that Bobby Shmurda had found romance with Lilly following his release from prison earlier this year now appears to false, as the rapper himself has come forward to quickly dispel any notion that links him with the gentlemen’s club dancer.

In a brief video clip posted by DJ Akademiks, Bobby addresses the situation and denies that he is romantically involved with Lilly. The video is zoomed into the rapper’s chest and flashy “SHMURDA” chain, so viewers can’t fully get into Bobby’s facial expressions. However, the video does clearly feature the Brooklyn artist’s voice.

“On gang, bro! I did not f*ck her, bro. That is not me, bro. That is the homeboy’s joint, bro,” Bobby Shmurda immediately clarifies as the video starts. “But that sh*t y’all saying tho, yall gotta chill with that sh*t, that social media bashing sh*t.”

“And they bashing her like that’s your girl,” another voice says, “but sh*t, n*ggas don’t even know.”

Bobby replies to the person’s comment, saying, “Even if it was or it wasn’t bruh, that sh*t ain’t cool. Anyways, on gang, that’s not even me.”

Once it’s clarified once and for all that Bobby and Lilly are not an item, the video takes a rather comical turn as the recently freed rapper jokes about how fans are trying to bother him and get him to “wild the f*ck out” on the internet.

“I’m tryna be nice, and I’m tryna stay as a nice guy. I’m on parole, but y’all want me to wild the f*ck out!” Bobby says. “But I ain’t gonna wild the f*ck out yo. Y’all gotta be careful about what y’all say on this ‘gram.”

With Bobby’s statement on the matter, the Hip-Hop community can officially leave the Bobby Shmurda x Lilly romance talk in the past. Stay tuned for more Bobby-related news as the Brooklyn artist is finally dropping music this month.

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Rich The Kid has constantly preached about being a boss, even when he was signed under a major label. 2020 was a turning point, in that sense. He announced that he coughed up nearly $1M to buy himself out of his record contract following complaints about the “bloodsucking mothaf*ckas” in the music industry. 

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Per Billboard, the rapper’s taking his independent run to another level with his freshly signed deal with Rostrum Records, the label responsible for the careers of Mac Miller and Wiz Khalifa. The multi-million dollar deal is in partnership with Rostrum Records and BMG. “I’m excited to work with Rostrum in this next chapter of life and music,” Rich The Kid said in a statement. “This is a partnership that will be vital to showing artists that they can be independent and still win on a mainstream level. With the help of Benjy, Jae, and the Rostrum team, we will take over the summer and everything after.”

Benjy Grinberg, founder and president of Rostrum, said the partnership deal with BMG will help usher in a new era of his career and cement him as “a leader in hip-hop.” “Rich The Kid is a key voice of this generation, and we’re very excited that he chose Rostrum as his new home,” he said. “We look forward to amplifying his artistic vision and supporting his entrepreneurial ambitions. This is the beginning of a new chapter for us at Rostrum as we continue to break barriers in the independent label landscape. “

Check out Rich The Kid’s IG post below.  

New York City’s mayoral race is underway with a few questionable candidates and even fewer who are qualified for the job. As the devastating effects of COVID-19 still run rampant throughout the city, the candidate to get elected will have a major task at hand. Naturally, some of the most recognizable voices in NYC have connected with Ray McGuire for a glowing endorsement for Mayor.

Jay-Z, Nas, and Diddy were among the hip-hop legends sitting at a virtual round table to endorse Ray McGuire, a former chairman for Citigroup who stepped down to run for mayor. In a video shared to McGuire’s YouTube page, the trifecta of NYC’s most influential cultural figures were joined by the likes of Angie Martinez and Steve Stoute. McGuire revealed that he knew Jay-Z, Diddy, and Nas for nearly 30 years before the Bad Boy founder explained how the mayoral hopeful has always been accessible to them, and the community at large.

Though Diddy, Stoute, nor Hov appeared interested in ever running for office themselves, Jay-Z recounted the moment he found out McGuire was running for mayor. “Recently, I was thinking about starting a fund and I reached out to Ray, and I was like, ‘Man, I want to start this fund for Black and Brown people. I would love for you to come and run the whole thing. Then, he told me about his plans for running for mayor,” he recalled. Angie pressed Hov for his reaction to which he said, “I was, like, ‘Man, there goes that.”

“I understood where he was coming from. By the way, it’s New York. I love New York, as well. It was just about how many people can we reach, and what’s more urgent right now,” he said.

Check the video out below. 

The Fast & The Furious, the original film that went on to inspire a decade-spanning film series, was released in 2001, and twenty years later, the franchise behind the Fast saga and spinoff films like Hobbs & Shaw, is gearing up to release the ninth Fast & Furious film, aptly titled F9. Finally arriving this summer after a bevy of delays most related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the movie stars recurring cast members such as Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, and John Cena.

According to Complex, F9 has been teasing a sequence in space for a while, and the trailer further hints at that with a quick glimpse of a scene in which Ludacris and Tyrese drive a rocket-powered car at an unbelievably high altitude. The trailer also the return of Sung Kang’s beloved character Han Lue, who hasn’t appeared in a Fast movie since 2006’s Tokyo Drift.

F9, the ninth installment in the long-running Fast & Furious saga, hits theatres this summer on June 25. Check out the second trailer for the forthcoming film below.

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A new video of Bobby Shmurda has sparked tons of attention on social media as he appears to be getting close with one of the women who initially welcomed the rapper home from his six-year stay in prison. People have been sharing their reactions to the video, in which a woman intimately kisses Bobby on the cheek, speculating that she’s his new girlfriend.

The 26-year-old New York native has not confirmed that he’s dating the woman, but he’s been spotted with her on multiple occasions now. It didn’t take long for people to track down her identity, revealing that Bobby’s rumored love interest is a dancer named Lilly, who works at a gentlemen’s club in Virginia.

Not much is presently known about Lilly, who seems to have spent a lot of time with Bobby Shmurda in the weeks following his release from prison. In her Instagram bio, she describes herself as a dancer at a gentlemen’s club called Headlights Granby. She has posted pictures with Bobby, as well as lots of adult content on the platform. 

According to some sources, her TikTok account is private but you can sift through all of her pictures on Instagram to learn more about her.

As we wait for the next time that Lilly pops up with Bobby Shmurda, you can check out a gallery of pictures from her page below. Do you think they make a nice couple?