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Latto Takes Heat From Ice Spice Fans Amid Disappointing Sales Projections

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Latto’s new album Sugar Honey Iced Tea got a lot of love from her fanbase and from the wider hip-hop sphere… But comparison is the thief of joy. Moreover, some of her rival fanbases online, including that of Nicki Minaj and her big beef opponent Ice Spice, clowned the project’s first week sales projections, which point to a number 17 debut on the Billboard 200 chart with around 27,000 in album-equivalent units sold. Of course, this isn’t the worst chart debut of all time for an artist of the Atlanta femcee’s visibility, but it certainly isn’t making the big commercial splash that she and many others likely hoped for.

Numbers aren’t everything, but the fact that Latto has these feuds with other female rappers makes her (and them) an easy target for ridicule and clowning when things don’t go perfectly. But everyone would benefit from remembering that, beyond the very tip-top of the game which is still seeing diminishing returns compared to years past, pretty much every artist in the mainstream is finding it more and more difficult to get their sales numbers up without a massive and calculated backing campaign from the industry. For example, Ice Spice’s Y2K! debuted with 28,000 in first-week sales at number 18 on the Billboard chart, and despite it being about half the runtime of Sugar Honey Iced Tea, it still puts both LPs at pretty much the same level of commercial success for now.

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Latto Haters Clown Her (And Fans Defend Her) Over First Week Sales Projections For Sugar Honey Iced Tea

Instead, what will really differentiate a lot of these albums and narratives is longevity and how these femcees and other artists across the industry will maintain their momentum or squander it. In Latto’s case, she’s got a tour coming up very soon that could help in this regard. Find more reactions to Sugar Honey Iced Tea‘s sales projections down below.

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Meanwhile, this is what Ice Spice had to say about her and Latto’s beef. “I feel like if we ever spoke and I asked her ‘What’s the issue?’ it’d be like a blank stare,” she expressed during a recent interview. “It’d really be no issue whatsoever. Especially from me. I can understand a friendly competition, but I just feel like at this point it’s a joke that she’s just dragged out, and it’s just not even funny. Like, bro, ‘Think U The S**t’ is from January. You’re going to post a piece of s**t cake to announce something that’s good news for you? But it is kind of a compliment because you’re talking about something that’s supposed to be a fun moment for you and you’re making it about me… again.”

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ScHoolboy Q Takes Aim At Michael Rubin Over Controversial “Breakfast Club” Remarks

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ScHoolboy Q is not happy with the approach Michael Rubin recently took to defend Meek Mill and Lil Baby. During his recent appearance on The Breakfast Club, the Fanatics CEO spoke about the infamous photo of him hugging Lil Baby, banning Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” from his Fourth of July party that Drake attended, and his friendship with Meek Mill. While addressing the recent social media critiques Meek has faced following allegations made about him in a legal filing related to Diddy’s numerous recent troubles, Rubin directed his focus to what he categorizes as self-hate in the Black community.

“Look, I’m just being blunt. It’s me, It’s the one thing I’ve learned about Black culture that I don’t like is that Black hate on hate.” Michael Rubin said before Charlamagne Tha God asked him to expound on his thoughts. “I think there’s a little bit of Black culture where it’s Black hate on hate. It’s like that Black judge that Meek had, that hated on him and want to go extra hard on him. Okay. I, it’s what people always say to me. It’s like black hate on hate, so I think it’s terrible. It’s something that I think it’s culturally wrong and I’ll probably get killed for saying this.”

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ScHoolboy Q Criticizes Michael Rubin’s Comments

The clip quickly went viral. Meek Mill reposted it to his Instagram story. Rubin caught heat for speaking about a community he has no ties to. When it reached ScHoolboy Q’s X (formerly Twitter) timeline, Q was very upset about it. He paraphrased what he interpreted Rubin’s statement as with some choice words.“YOU KNOW WAT I DONT LIKE ABOUT U N***ERS? I HATE WHEN U N***ERS BE ACTING LIKE N***ERS…basically,” he wrote in that tweet, which he quickly deleted. In another tweet he added, “NO SUCH THING AS BLACK ON BLACK ANYTHING,” he added, pushing back on Rubin’s other criticism.

ScHoolboy Q deleted the tweets, accepting that they look “crazy” with no context. Of course, he is not the only one who reacted strongly to Rubin’s commentary. Many critics of Rubin’s work questioned why he felt so comfortable speaking on Black issues, despite not being Black himself. Regardless of the message itself, Rubin is not an appropriate messenger, which many Twitter users agreed on.

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Playboi Carti Trolls Adin Ross By Including Their Phone Call In A New Leaked Track

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Playboi Carti still hasn’t dropped a new album, and apart from his “officially shared” material over the past few months, plenty of unofficial leaks also surfaced. A recent unreleased track appeared online and raised many fans’ eyebrows for how it seemingly disses Adin Ross by using an alleged phone call recording of the streamer in the intro. As for the quality of the song itself, it’s basically a more low-key version of what you’d expect from this Carti era, but there’s not enough context to really tell whether this is a troll or a genuine diss. Either way, he’s definitely leaning into the bit, and we can’t imagine that Adin is too happy about this considering the money that the rapper finessed from him after their failed livestream.

Furthermore, this isn’t the first time that an alleged Playboi Carti leak has seemingly dissed Adin Ross and the higher-ups at the Kick streaming platform in the past. “I scammed a billionaire, woah,” he raps on an unreleased leaked version of “Type S**t” with Future, Metro Boomin, and Travis Scott. It’s a bit of a weird flex, but a notable line regardless.

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Playboi Carti Includes Adin Ross Call In New Leak

Meanwhile, Adin Ross is not happy with Playboi Carti at all (for understandable reasons), and is even campaigning against his new music. He said that the Whole Lotta Red creative’s last “single” on social media, “KETAMINE,” is “trash” and “damage control” for all the new security footage that Adin released of their livestream moment. Of course, fans on either side have their reasons to clown their fav’s enemy, and most of them probably are just enjoying the antics and find the whole thing funny. But we doubt that things will ever get super serious between a content creator and an antisocial artist.

“Don’t think Carti 2 is happening anymore,” Adin Ross expressed concerning his failed efforts to link up with Playboi Carti again. “I have a theory that Carti was just texting me to kind of just keep me in the position where I’m not gonna be on his bad side, where I’m on the internet talking crazy, if that makes sense. To get the heat off his name type s**t. I think I got played, but hey bro, it is what it is. Because I was texting his phone and he stopped answering out of nowhere. I have the warehouse footage. I’m about to just release it. Once I get the confirmation that we’re not doing part two. Is that blackmail? I mean dude, I kind of got scammed, so I’m blackmailing a f***ing scam so you can’t blame me.”

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Cesar Pina Is Allegedly Driving For Uber & Lyft Amid Fraud Case

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Cesar Pina came to prominence thanks to his association with DJ Envy. Overall, the two were business partners in a real estate endeavor. Envy touted Pina’s business acumen on numerous occasions and even introduced Pina to his famous friends. However, Envy was scrutinized following the revelation that Pina was running an alleged scheme on his investors. Eventually, Pina was arrested and charged with fraud. Meanwhile, Envy has been seen as a victim in all of this, and is not facing charges.

According to AllHipHop, Pina’s legal woes have continued and it has left him in a bit of a bind. Overall, he isn’t exactly employable right now. Furthermore, with legal fees piling up, he needs to find a way to make money. Consequently, the real estate investor has decided to start driving for Uber and Lyft in the meantime. It is honest work, however, considering what he was doing before, many would see this as a downgrade.

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Cesar Pina Takes Up New Line Of Work

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – OCTOBER 04: DJ Envy, Brandon Medford, and Cesar Piña on October 04, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Johnny Nunez/Getty Images for Brandon Medford Enterprises)

Pina has a long road ahead of him, and only time will tell whether or not he can overcome this legal issue. Having said that, there is no doubt that this whole situation has brought forth scrutiny to some of the people Pina was associated with. Only time will tell how this all shakes out.

Let us know what you think about all of this, in the comments section down below. Do you believe that Cesar Pina can get himself out of this jam? Do you think that DJ Envy will be looking to get some sort of judiciary revenge on his former business partner? Additionally, stay tuned to HNHH for the latest news and updates from around the music world. We will continue to keep you informed on all of your favorite artists and their upcoming projects.

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Foxy Brown’s Lawyer Passes Away Amid Alleged Fraud Cases

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Foxy Brown’s former lawyer Salvatore Strazzullo has reportedly passed away, and there is no official cause of death attributed to the NYC attorney at press time. Authorities found Strazzullo, also known as the “Night-Life Lawyer” due to many of his cases’ subject matter, dead in his car in front of his parents’ Brooklyn home. He faced multiple alleged fraud cases that accused him of stealing millions of dollars from elderly clients. The 52-year-old represented the “Candy” rapper in a 2011 case that involved her allegedly mooning a neighbor, but a Brooklyn court dismissed these charges. That year, a paralegal and former employee sued him over claims of sexual harassment.

Furthermore, a more recent issue was Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez’s claims that Strazzullo used his escrow account as a Ponzi scheme for many years, allegedly using client funds to pay off other clients and indulge in expensive vices at restaurants and hotels. In total, he faced accusations of stealing over $3.8 million and spent them on luxury items like cars and apartments, but he still pleaded not guilty to a first-degree grand larceny charge, four counts of second-degree grand larceny, and a first-degree scheme to defraud charge. Foxy Brown’s former lawyer also pleaded not guilty in a December 2023 case in another Brooklyn criminal case on accusations of stealing $1.5 million from three other clients, and both cases remained pending at the time of his death. In other Foxy news, she recently caused some drama with Lil Kim by messaging her baby daddy.

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Foxy Brown Performing At Los Angeles In 2017

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LOS ANGELES, CA – SEPTEMBER 30: Rapper Foxy Brown performs onstage during the Pain is Love tour at Microsoft Theater on September 30, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Scott Dudelson/Getty Images)

Elsewhere, an insider claimed that Foxy Brown could take the stand in Keefe D’s case for his alleged murder of Tupac Shakur. “There are secret and delicate conversations going on about Foxy being a witness at the trial. he could prove vital in taking the stand or even making a statement about her recollection of being around the men, who claim they were in her company for a short while before they set off to murder Tupac.”

Meanwhile, Foxy Brown wasn’t too happy with Keith Murray’s claims that they romantically engaged, and he responded in kind. “Everything I said about Foxy Brown was true,” he explained. “If I offended her, I apologize for bringing out my truth. I’m not apologizing for my truth, but it’s the truth. What happened between me and her happened.”

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Stephen A Smith Calls Out Kamala Harris

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Stephen A Smith is someone who has been very clear about his political views. Overall, he has some liberal takes, and some conservative ones. He fancies himself as a centrist independent who has voted for Democrats and has also voted for Republicans. However, when it comes to the most recent election, it remains to be seen where he will lean. Although he hates Donald Trump, he does have some criticisms of Kamala Harris.

On his show, Stephen A spoke about how Harris is only doing rallies and has yet to do an interview. He believes she is hiding and that she needs to tell the American People what her platform is. “We’ve had one week, two weeks, three weeks and one day since Joe Biden stepped aside,” Smith began. “The only damn place we’ve seen Kamala Harris is at pep rallies. What’s up? Somebody gotta say something and it can’t just be the conservatives. Right is right.”

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Stephen A Smith Speaks Out

“I’m talking to my sister here. Come on now. You’re running for the presidency of The United States of America. You got my vote. You’re running for the presidency of the United States of America. What you hiding for? And I mean hiding in plain sight. Somebody gotta say it. Somebody gotta say it,” he continued. “Now, you can’t be running for the presidency of the United States. Not one single press conference. Not one single one-on-one sit-down interview where somebody gets to question you about the questions that we ask. That’s not fair. That’s not fair.”

Let us know what you think of these comments from Stephen A Smith, down below. Do you agree that Kamala Harris needs to start doing more interviews? Do you believe she has enough momentum to win the election in November? Additionally, stay tuned to HNHH for the latest news and updates from around the world. We will always be sure to keep you informed on world events.

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Kanye West Allegedly Obsessed With Getting Bianca Censori Pregnant

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Kanye West and Bianca Censori’s relationship continues to captivate celebrity culture, especially as their lewd tendencies and bond become more present in West-Kardashian family dynamics. However, it seems like the former also wants to continue to grow his family and get Censori pregnant, although they reportedly haven’t been successful since their December 2022 nuptials. This is according to a new report from In Touch that speaks to an alleged source supposedly close to the couple. Moreover, this individual claims that the couple currently mulls over IVF or insemination processes to have a kid, and Ye allegedly thinks that this will become a blessed and miraculous birth.

“[Kanye’s] been trying to have it done the natural way, but the word is he’s been a little unsuccessful. So apparently now he’s planning the insemination or IVF route,” the alleged source told the outlet. This is an odd development amid Kanye West’s many other headlines these days, including more drama surrounding his former colleague Milo Yiannopoulos and his bizarre claims about Ye. But this alleged source made things even weirder to look at, as they claimed that the Chicago artist obsessively seeks the creation of biological perfection.

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Kanye West’s Alleged Quest To Father A Child With Bianca Censori

 
 
 
 
 
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“One of the main reasons he picked and groomed Bianca is because he’s convinced that her DNA will be a perfect blend with his to make the most genetically blessed offspring,” the alleged source said of Kanye West. “He’s always obsessed [over] achieving the perfect human specimen. So he’s very excited to have Bianca consulting with doctors to figure out the best option.” He is 47 and Bianca is 29. This is one of many of Ye’s extracurricular endeavors and obsessions as of late, and one of his previous ones recently lost its charity status thanks to the Sunday Service’s tax issues.

Meanwhile, Kanye West’s new collaborative album with Ty Dolla $ign, VULTURES 2, reportedly fell down the charts fast this week. While this didn’t surprise many out there, as plenty of albums go through this steep decline, it feels slightly more impactful when talking about one of the biggest rappers of all time. It goes to show that there’s a lot of Ye engagement these days that doesn’t translate to the music, for better or worse.

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