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Hip-hop fans are expecting a classic team-up with Lil Baby and Lil Durk’s first official collaborative album, which is set to release in two days. The Voice of the Heroes has long been teased as the latest in a series of high-powered joint albums in the rap world, following in the footsteps of Kanye West and JAY-Z, Drake and Future, Offset and 21 Savage, and many others. From what we’ve heard so far on the title track, it looks like Baby and Durk are coming with something special on Friday, and we’ve officially got the tracklist in our hands to get us even more hyped up.

The early hours of Wednesday morning brought us a nice surprise as Lil Baby updated his socials with the official tracklist for The Voice of the Heroes, complete with features and all. The eighteen-song album will include guest appearances from Travis Scott, Meek Mill, Young Thug, and Rod Wave. With so much excitement around the body of work, Lil Baby added some commentary on what he predicts will happen once they drop, saying, “We Setting The World On Fire [fire emoji].”

The duo of superstar rappers started off this week by releasing the first single from the project, which you can listen to below.

Take a look at the tracklist for The Voice of the Heroes and let us know which song you’re most excited to hear. The album arrives on Friday.

He’s a longtime, avid fan of the Los Angeles Lakers but their loss to the Phoenix Suns has Snoop Dogg throwing his hands in the air. The Long Beach icon represents all things California without hesitation, especially as it pertains to sports. On Tuesday (June 1) evening, the Lakers faced off against the Suns in Game 5 of the playoffs, and no one expected the Southern California team to lose by 30 points, 85 to 115.

As expected, reactions to this loss have been tremendous, coming from everyday fans to former Lakers players to sports commentators to…Snoop Dogg. “Never thought I’s say it but we sorry and the clippers better than us,” the rapper penned in a text image he shared to Instagram.

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He wasn’t quite finished. “Frank vogel can’t coach and why the f*ck montrez harrel ain’t getting no run. F*ck this is heart breaking A d. Hurt more than Mary j blige. Records. We soft [finger pointing up emoji][angry censored emojis][thumbs down emoji].” Snoop wrote in the caption that he didn’t want anyone calling him, but his son Cordell couldn’t help but tease his dad.

“[crying laughing emojis] I love when the Lakers don’t win just to see what you gon post,” Cordell worte in the comments. Snoop was one of the thousands of disappointed responses that also included Magic Johnson who told his team to show up and show out at Game 6 on Thursday. Check out a few posts about the game below.

One would think that with a successful career that has spanned decades, fans would know quite a bit about Mary J. Blige. Yet, even as candid as Blige has been in interviews since the inception of her career, there is much more than the world has yet to learn about the award-winning entertainer. On Tuesday (June 1), the official countdown to Blige’s latest project begins, and no, it isn’t an album but a documentary. 

Mary J. Blige’s My Life will reportedly be an intimate look at the development and creation of the singer’s 1994 sophomore album, My Life. The record has gone down in music history and solidified Blige’s placement in the industry as the Queen of Hip Hop-Soul.

“I’m so excited to share the trailer for my new documentary,” Blige penned in a caption to an Instagram post of the documentary’s trailer. “Get ready to learn the story behind one of the most inspiring albums of all time in. #MJBMyLife with Yours Truly!! Coming June 25th to @amazonprimevideo.”

Friends like Rapsody, Busta Rhymes, Misa Hylton, Gabrielle Union, Keri Hilson, Estelle, Malik Yoba, Nivea, and Jason Mitchell were just a handful of the thousands of excited responses Blige received on her post. 

“My Life is probably my darkest album at one of the darkest times I’ve had,” said Blige in the documentary’s trailer. “Most of the time I was just depressed and didn’t want to live. I had it all inside and I was able to sing it and write it, and I didn’t know that so many people felt the same way.”

Check out the trailer below and let us know if you’ll be tuning in on June 25.

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The era when Death Row Records was running the music industry is hailed as one of the best for Hip Hop. Yet, when you ask people who lived through that time as they ran in label-affiliated circles, the Row’s intimidating approach to business dealings wasn’t always welcomed. Still, Suge Knight and his Death Row crew were one of the most respected, and successful, collectives in the industry, but it all began crumbling as legal troubles rolled in and, of course, with the callous murder of Tupac Shakur in 1996.

Those old Death Row stories feature an unlikely figure as Keyshia Cole was around 12 or 13-years-old when she began spending time with the label. Death Row producer Kurt Kobane recently said in an interview that even at that age, Keyshia was allegedly running things. Last August, Keyshia shared in an interview that she and Tupac were friends, and immediately prior to him being killed, he allegedly told her that he planned on leaving Death Row and working out a deal with Quincy Jones.

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“I actually did know [Tupac.] He wanted to sign me to Quincy [Jones] when he was with Kidada, Quincy’s daughter, and he was gonna leave Death Row and go to sign with Quincy. He wanted me to go over there because he said that Death Row was not the place for kids,” she said at the time. However, in a recent interview with The Art of Dialogue, Death Row singer Danny Boy calls foul on that statement.

“He ain’t told her sh*t,” said Danny. “Everybody was close to Pac when he died. Everybody. That’s all you hear. That’s what people do. But Keyshia went up—Pac went up to her. How old was she? Twelve, 13-year-old? He let her hear some sh*t that could have really got him hurt? He wasn’t just gon’ walk and say anything about anybody, especially, ‘I’m finna leave Suge’ in front of a 13-year-old.”

“He ain’t told her sh*t like that.” Danny Boy also said that Pac wouldn’t go to Quincy Jones because the legendary music producer has never entered into the Rap game. According to Danny, it wouldn’t have made sense for Pac to even entertain the thought. He did, however, co-sign Tupac’s love for Kidada and said he was convinced they would one day get married. 

Check out the clip of Danny Boy’s interview below.