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Every other month, it feels like MoneyBagg Yo and Ari Fletcher get close to breaking up before one of them buys the other a lavish gift, resetting them back to square one. That appears to have happened again with Bagg and Ari both making cryptic posts online, causing fans to think there’s trouble in paradise.

Once again, pop culture fanatics are left wondering about the status of MoneyBagg Yo’s relationship with Ari. The two lovebirds are seemingly on a rocky road after sharing cryptic posts, which many believe could be about each other.

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“Never love someone so much that you ignore the truth about them,” wrote Ari on Instagram. “I always gotta pick up the pieces after somebody do me wrong,” she continued on Twitter. “That shit is not fair.”

“Da crazy part bout shit if mfs dat talk to u everyday will get on a app and express how they feel before they deal wit it in real life,” wrote MoneyBagg Yo on Twitter before deleting the post. Many believe that he was responding directly to Ari.

This couple has always been quick to take things to social media and while it hasn’t been confirmed that they’re having issues, their fans have reason to believe that their tweets are about one another. Hopefully, everything is okay and they can continue on being one of hip-hop’s favorite partnerships.

Detroit rapper Peezy allegedly fought off two gunmen, Friday, when the pair ambushed him while he was sleeping inside his car. 

The Detroit News reports that Peezy’s girlfriend heard shots fired outside of her home, after which, police were called. Upon arrival, they found two armed men fighting and heard someone yell “Who sent you?” 

After the altercation was broken up, Peezy told police his side of the story and that he had bit one of the assailants during the fight.

29-year-old Marquise Pope, who hails from Birmingham, Alabama, was arrested on the scene and charged with assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder as well as a firearms offense. He was also treated for minor injuries. Pope was held on a $250,000 bond. He is scheduled to appear in court on July 26 and faces 10 years in prison.

The second suspect who Peezy fought off during the altercation escaped and remains at large.

Peezy was released from prison back in February after serving 18-months for a racketeering conspiracy. 

The Detroit rapper recently released his first mixtape since being a free man again, Free Rio, which dropped earlier this month.

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Travis Scott is one of the biggest names in all of hip-hop and throughout the last few years of his career, he has made a massive impact on the sneaker world. While working with Nike and Jordan Brand, Scott has created some extremely impressive sneakers that have captured the imaginations of sneakerheads everywhere. His work on the Air Jordan 4, Air Jordan 6, and Air Jordan 1 have been praised, and in 2021, he has plans to deliver even more shoes to the market.

One of those sneakers is the Fragment x Travis Scott x Air Jordan 1 High collaboration which is meant to be a play on the infamous Fragment Jordan 1 which was released in 2014. In the images below, you can see that the sneaker has been officially unveiled to the masses and there are plenty of references to both Scott and Fragment. From the Fragment logo on the back heel to the backward swoosh on the sides, there is no denying that this is a dope merger of styles. Not to mention, the blue, black, and white aesthetics will most definitely have you wanting a pair upon release.

These are slated to come out on Thursday, July 29th and as you would expect, they are going to be extremely limited. The demand is high for these and when all is said and done, these could very well be the best shoe of the year.

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Mark Hoppus, frontman for Blink-182, updated fans on his battle with cancer, Monday, saying that the chemo is working. Hoppus provided a positive outlook in a statement on his social media pages.

“Scans indicate that the chemo is working! I still have months of treatment ahead, but it’s the best possible news,” the 49-year-old wrote. “I’m so grateful and confused and also sick from last week’s chemo. But the poison the doctors pump into me and the kind thoughts and wishes of people around me are destroying this cancer. Just gonna keep fighting…”

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Hoppus, who announced that he had been diagnosed with cancer back in June, revealed he’s fighting with DLBCL, an aggressive type of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, in an update, last week.

“My classification is diffuse large B-cell lymphoma stage IV-A, which means, as I understand it, it’s entered four parts of my body,” Hoppus explained. “I don’t know how exactly they determine the four-part of it, but it’s entered enough parts of my body that I’m stage IV, which I think is the highest that it goes. So, I’m stage IV-A.”

He added that his cancer is “not bone-related, it’s blood-related. My blood’s trying to kill me.”

Check out Hoppus’ update below.

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Cardi B never ceases to be entertaining. Whether it’s by dropping the hottest music or by posting her shenanigans to social media, Kulture’s mother knows how to capture our attention. This time, it happens to be both.

Monday night, Cardi B posted a clip of herself to the gram, although, it was no ordinary clip. In the video, Offset’s other half is dripped in a lime green two-piece bikini and a lime green mesh dress while lip syncing to her newest feature on Normani’s sexually-explicit anthem “Wild Side.”

The rapper then transitions from her vibrant attire to a stylish black two piece bikini and proceeds to rap her verse to Normani’s most recent drop, all while showing her hard-to-miss baby bump.

The soon-to-be two-time mother was also seen on the Gram celebrating her daughter Kulture’s third birthday last week. By the looks of Cardi B’s and Offset’s IG activity, Kulture’s third birthday party was an extravagant affair that featured lavish birthday gifts from her famous parents, including a $250k Richard Millie watch from Offset and a six figure iced out chain from the “WAP” rapper. 

Check out her latest NSFW posts below.

Anthony Joshua was supposed to fight Tyson Fury this year in a match that would have unified the Heavyweight division. After defeating Deontay Wilder back in 2020, everyone was waiting for this Joshua Vs. Fury fight although it was ultimately put on hold due to a stipulation in Wilder’s contract that allowed him to usher in a third fight against Fury. Now, Wilder and Fury are set to fight on October 9th all while Joshua has been waiting to find out who his next opponent would be.

Of course, this fight is extremely important for Joshua as a loss would mean relinquishing his belts for a second time, all while forgoing the unification match that everyone has been waiting for. Luckily for boxing fans everywhere, Joshua’s opponent was revealed today.

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According to reporter Dan Rafael, Joshua will now get to fight against Oleksander Usyk on September 25th. Usyk is currently 18-0 in his career and he has been having an impressive run as of late. While Joshua is the favorite in this fight, Usyk proves to be quite the challenger and it should be interesting to see how Joshua is able to do against a man of Usyk’s stature.

While it might not be the fight everyone was waiting for, it’s still an interesting one, nonetheless. Let us know who you think is going to come out on top, in the comments section below.

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50 Cent spoke about his relationship with his kids, in a recent interview with Sky News, and revealed that his youngest son, Sire, still idolizes him as a “superhero.”

“There’s a point where kids view their parents as superheroes because they don’t understand everything else in life that they have to do, work and everything else to create the comforts,” he explained in the piece. “My little guy now, he sees me like that, he thinks, ‘my dad could do it – there’s no question my dad could do it’, like if somebody can jump further and he’ll say ‘my dad can jump that far’, he thinks I can do everything, and it’s amazing.”

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He added that his whole upbringing helped to define him as a person. 50 lost his mother at the age of eight, which Sire is now.

“I look at my journey, some of the decisions that my mom made have guided mine, and it’s because people from her life had what was a representation of financial freedom, they had those nice things in front of me,” he continued.

“They got everything that you would want, so it kind of led me down the same path of the hustling and going to do different things, and, you know, I just hit the roof of that and wanted to do more, so I got involved in music and entertainment where we do things that exceed that level of success, completely.” 50 explained. “Like, that is the smallest thing, you know what I mean, it just felt big at that point, when I was little.”

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Jeff Bezos stepped down as Amazon’s CEO earlier this month, but he’s found an exciting way to pass the time (and we’re sure there is plenty more where this came from). On Tuesday, Bezos embarked on a trip to outer space aboard his own spacecraft, Blue Origin, and made a safe return with his crew members. Upon climbing off his Blue Origin spacecraft, Bezos told his awaiting audience that it was the “best day ever.”

Jeff Bezos was joined on the capsule by his brother Mark Bezos, as well as Wally Funk, who at 82, is the oldest person to go to space, and Oliver Daemen, the youngest person to ever go to space at 18-years old. Bezos and his three-person crew launched from Blue Origin’s Launch Site One facility in West Texas at 9:00 AM EST. At above 107 kilometers above the Earth, they stayed up in flight for over ten minutes and 27 seconds.

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Although Jeff Bezos is the most recent billionaire who made a voyage to space and back, he’s not the first. Nine days earlier, Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson also went on a journey to outer space and back. Branson, like Bezos, used a spacecraft from his own company to complete his mission. Branson used a rocket powered plan from his Virgin Galactic enterprise to successfully go to and back from outer space all in the same day. 

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