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Lil Nas X made a surprise appearance during Diplo’s set at the Electric Daisy Carnival music festival in Las Vegas, Saturday night. The Montero rapper performed several of his biggest hits including “Industry Baby,” “Montero (Call Me By Your Name),” and even his classic, “Old Town Road.”

“Thank you Diplo, thank you EDC,” Nas told the crowd. “I love you guys.”

Other performers at the festival included The Chainsmokers, Alesso, Oliver Heldens, Deadmau5, Eric Prydz, Duke Dumont, Snakehips, and more.

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The surprise set capped off a likely tiring weekend for Nas, which included being the target of a homophobic tirade from Boosie Badazz on Twitter, Saturday. The vitriolic comments included several slurs and references to suicide.

Boosie had been upset about Nas claiming to have made a song with him, during an Instagram live stream.

In response to the comments, Nas joked: “i am truly saddened. i have never been so mortified in my life. i can’t believe disney channel has yet to play halloween town this entire october.”

Nas’ latest album, Montero, was released in September and features Doja Cat, Megan Thee Stallion, and more.

Check out clips from Nas’ EDC performance below.

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Despite releasing simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune drew $40.1 million at the box office in its opening weekend, keeping hope for a sequel alive. The sci-fi epic is an adaptation of Frank Herbert’s legendary 1965 book of the same name.

“This was a tremendous result as we’re ramping out of the pandemic,” Jeff Goldstein, distribution chief for Warner Bros, told the Associated Press. “Once we get out of the pandemic, if we have a movie like this, clearly you’d want to go into theaters first. There’s no question of that.”

“Denis made an extraordinary movie and fans are enthusiastically appreciating it and spreading excellent word of mouth,” Goldstein told Deadline.

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Notably, Dune is simply part one of a broader story, as Villeneuve decided to gamble on the success of a first film in the hope that he’d be offered funding for a sequel, rather than cram the entire story into a single movie.

“It’s a very awkward position I’m in right now,” Villeneuve said in a Zoom call for the Venice Film Festival. “It’s true that I did just half of a movie. It’s a crazy way to do things … It’s like doing half of a painting or half of a symphony and saying, Wait, everybody, we’ll continue in two years … But those movies are very expensive to make, and I agreed with the deal to do the first part. It’s a gamble.”

Dune’s star-studded cast includes Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, and more.

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Snoop Dogg’s mother, Beverly Tate, has died, the rapper announced on Instagram, Sunday. While a cause of death has not been revealed, Snoop posted a photo on Instagram, back in July, sharing that Tate had been hospitalized. 

“Thank u god for giving me an angel for a mother TWMA,” Snoop captioned a picture of his late mother, Sunday afternoon.

“Mama thank u for having me,” he added in another.

Captioning a photo of himself, he wrote: “Walk by faith not by sight smile snoopy that’s what U would say when it was time to take a picture TWMA”

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Earlier this week, Snoop sent a video to Dr. Dre in an effort to spread positive energy after Dre lost a family member of his own.

He told Dre: “They say Snoop Dogg is an icon, he’s a God, he’s a king, but there’s one n***a to honor, and that’s you. So you get your shit right and focus on being great. Take all that negative energy, all that shit that you dealing with: the death, the fucking lawsuits, all that shit, put it all in your mind and your spirit and make something magical, n***a.”

Check out Snoop’s tributes to his mother below.

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Kanye West and J. Prince attended Shakur Stevenson’s latest boxing match, Saturday night, in Atlanta, Georgia. The two artists pulled up to State Farm Arena in notable style.

West rocked a black leather jacket over a matching hoodie with sunglasses and black jeans, while Prince pulled up in a matching black and red outfit.

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As for the fight, the 24-year-old Stevenson defeated Jamel Herring with a 10th-round TKO to secure the WBO 130-pound championship.

“I smelled blood,” Stevenson said after the fight, according to ESPN. “I saw he was bleeding and was like, ‘OK, I have to attack the cut.’ I was trying to touch the cut to make the doctor try and stop it.”

Besides attending boxing matches, West and Prince are also working together to help Larry Hoover, the co-founder of Gangster Disciples.

“IF YOU FAIL TO PLAN YOU PLAN TO FAIL,” Prince wrote on Instagram, earlier this month. “Good plans in the making to free our brother Larry Hoover with the support of @champagnepapi and @kanyewest #TheArtandScienceOfRespect.”

West featured Hoover’s son, Larry Hoover Jr., on his newest album, Donda.

Check out footage of Ye and Prince below.

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Young Thug’s Punk sold 90,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. during its first week following release, landing it at No.1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. The new release marks Thug’s third No. 1 album with So Much Fun and Young Stoner Life: Slime Language 2 also earning the honor.

Thug’s debut atop the chart wasn’t without its challenges. Even over one month after release, Drake’s Certified Lover Boy still put up a fight, bringing in 83,000 equivalent album units. Mac Miller’s Faces reissue finished at No. 3 with 67,000 equivalent album units.

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Punk was boosted by features from several of the biggest names in the rap game including A$AP Rocky, J. Cole, Doja Cat, Drake, Future, Gunna, Juice WRLD, Post Malone, Mac Miller, Nate Ruess, and Travis Scott.

Despite Thug’s impressive outing, DJ Akademiks recently said that finishing with less than 100,000 sales shows that he isn’t a “big dawg.”

“Btw I’m honest as I said .. any artist who don’t sell 100K ain’t a big dawg! Even thug,” Akademiks wrote on Twitter, last week. “I look at thug as an exec tryna push YSL than consider his solo efforts sort of where Rick Ross was at when he started pushing MMG more than his own music. Thug still a legend but #s don’t lie.”

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T.I.’s oldest son, Domani, appeared on the Big Facts Podcast with Big Bank and Baby Jade, over the weekend, and detailed a time when he had to step up and protect his sisters when someone trespassed on their property.

“The craziest story,” he recalled. “I think someone told this before but boom, we at the house, the lake house, this is the house that’s on TV. I was sleep. I was sleeping late, it was like 12, 1 p.m. 2 p.m. or something and Deyjah woke me up yelling, ‘Domani! Domani! Some dude’s outside trying to get in and Pops is beating him up! I was like, ‘Whoa!’

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He explained that he was unsure what to do at first because he couldn’t tell if his sister was being serious or trying to play a prank on him. Eventually, he went downstairs to investigate.

Domani continued: “I’m like, ‘What happened?’ Turns out, some dude came and jumped over the gate and he was throwin’ little pebbles and something at the window. Deyjah opened the window and was like, ‘What are you doing?’ He was tripped out! He threw his wallet at the window for whatever reason. His ID was in there … it’s a lot.”

“She went and told Pops and he woke up and went outside with his slippers on … it’s some video somewhere of this man kicking this man with these slippers on the ground!,” Domani said. “It was crazy, he said, ‘Jump back over the fence!’ And he did and I was sleep – and it was like [Friday After Next] when Santa come and Mike Epps sleep? That’s how it was like.”

Check out the full story from Domani below.

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