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J. Cole is on pace to have a monstrous first week with his latest studio album The Off-Season. The album, which features 21 Savage, Morray, Lil Baby, and others, has been hailed as one of the rapper’s best bodies of work to date with fans applauding Cole’s lyricism, delivery, flows, and overall presence. This week, the album’s pre-release single “i n t e r l u d e” debuted at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100. As the album nears a #1 debut next week, it has been reported that it ended up breaking Spotify’s single-day streaming record for this year, clocking an astounding 62 million streams.

Dropping the most hyped project of the week, J. Cole attracted a lot of attention when he finally released his latest studio album, which he had been teasing for over a year. The Off-Season was the first listen for a lot of hip-hop fans last Friday and people obviously rushed to enjoy the project because it’s being reported that Cole broke records on Spotify when it dropped.

The Off-Season is reportedly the most-streamed album in a single day so far this year. The rapper is currently aiming for over 300,000 sales in the album’s first week out, which would make for the biggest first-week debut this year.

What’s your favorite song from the project? Let us know in the comments.

There are a few things that Soulja Boy will go down for in the history books but his screeching “DRAAAAKE?!” call-out on the Breakfast Club has been cemented in the pantheon of great viral internet antics. The two have collaborated in the past but it seems like whenever Soulja is back in the headlines, there’s a concerted effort to drag Drake into his shenanigans.

HNHH recently chopped it up with Big Draco who explained that Bow Wow has forever had his back, even after calling out  Drake, again. 

“My peers give me my credit, man,” he said. “That’s my boy in real life, you know what I’m sayin’? I’m gonna say it like this — I just have fun. People know — look, shout out to all them folks but they know what’s up. I’m the one, you know what I’m sayin’? I’m the one. C’mon man. I’m the one. It need be to Soulja. Soulja this, Soulja that.”

When it came down to calling out Drake specifically, Soulja explained that it was all in good fun, adding that there wasn’t “any pressure.”

“I was just poking a little fun. Having a little fun, like, ‘C’mon, man. You know what’s going on Drake. Stop playing with me, boy.’ But it’s all love. Shout out to Drake and to Bow Wow.”

Peep our full interview with Draco here, or watch the video below.

MC Kevin, a 23-year-old rapper from Brazil, has passed away after falling from a hotel’s fifth-floor balcony. According to testimonials, the artist was reportedly attempting to avoid his wife so she wouldn’t catch him having a threesome with another woman and his friend.

The news was reported by Brazilian newspaper Extra Globo, which was later translated by the Daily Mail. MC Kevin fell from a Rio de Janeiro hotel’s balcony as he reportedly tried to jump onto a lower balcony. He was found near the hotel’s swimming pool. Police have reportedly taken the phones of model Bianca Domingues and Kevin’s friend Victor Elias Fontenelle, who were both reportedly inside the hotel room at the time of the incident. The three are said to have “maintained sexual relations” before Kevin jumped from the balcony in fear of his wife finding them. He was rushed to the hospital and pronounced dead when he arrived.

The rapper married his wife, Deolane Bezerra, just a few weeks ago. She mourned in a post on Monday, saying, “You left and took a piece of me with you. You were always so incredible… It’s not fair for you to leave like this. It’s not. It’s not.”

We will keep you updated with all the latest information in this story. Rest in peace, MC Kevin. We’re sending our love and condolences to his family and loved ones.

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We wouldn’t be surprised if the IRS slid into Cuban Doll’s DMs because the rapper just revealed that she has no intention of paying her taxes this year. 

Nobody likes filing their taxes. It’s a pretty mind-numbing task that we need to complete annually though. Rapper Cuban Doll is fed up with having to fill out so many forms just to hand over her hard-earned money to the government, so she’s decided that she’s just going to skip out on her taxes this year– or so she says.

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The 23-year-old rapper took to Twitter to reveal that she would rather be jailed than pay her taxes this year. “Paying taxes ain’t for me,” she allegedly tweeted this week. “I’ll sit in jail f*ck y’all.” 

Many of the people commenting on her post are predicting that she actually will be jailed after making such a revelation publicly. Generally, you wouldn’t want to announce that you’re planning on skipping your taxes on social media, where the feds can easily see what you’re posting. 

In related news, Ja Rule was recently named in a lawsuit accusing him of skipping out on over $3 million in taxes. It seems as though Cuban Doll is taking a page out of his book.

What do you think about this?

Singer Ari Lennox has been dedicating her extra time during the pandemic year to cleaning up her lifestyle, something she has shared with her followers heavily on her Instagram. She was already known for being a confident queen before focusing on her health, so losing weight as part of the process, is only making her stronger in that department. 

And, as time goes on, Lennox has been slowly but surely been getting more comfortable with posting spicy content, as she rebrands a bit, and shows off her new look. That being said, she stunned the world on Wednesday morning when she posted photos on Instagram rocking a grey Christian Dior bikini while sitting poolside. 

Ari set the mood with a short and to-the-point caption: “All Night Long – SWV,” leaving the world to fill in the gaps themselves, mainly by way of their impressed reactions. These reactions were not relegated to Instagram, but across the web– most notably, Twitter had a lot to say about this particular post.

While some people are in awe of Lennox and genuinely admire how incredible she looks…

Others can’t help but talk about how it feels as though she’s only getting this much praise right now because she lost weight. This led to a few people pointing out that it’s messed up that women don’t get treated well unless they look a certain way, even if they also looked fine before making an effort to change their physical appearance. 

Either way, the glow-up is real, clearly. Outdated beauty standards aside, Ari deserves all the praise in the world for all the hard work she put into her body to look this good. 

Check out Ari serving up the confidence we all need here.

Jeremy Lin’s career in basketball has been nothing short of inspiring. When he came into the league with the New York Knicks, there was no guarantee he would be a success, however, “Linsanity” took over and it led to one of the best months of basketball the Knicks had ever seen. Eventually, Lin began to bounce around the league and while he won a championship with the Toronto Raptors in 2019, he ended up playing in China throughout 2020.

This past year, he made his way into the G-League in hopes of getting back to the NBA. Unfortunately, such an opportunity never came, and now, it seems like Lin is done with the game. In a lengthy post on Instagram, Lin said that he has had to overcome a lot throughout his career and that at this point, it doesn’t feel like another NBA shot is coming anytime soon. 

Per Jeremy Lin:

“For months, I saw others get contracts, chances, opportunities. I told myself I just need ONE ten-day contract, one chance to get back on the floor and I would blow it out the water. After all that’s how my entire career started – off one chance to prove myself. 
For reasons I’ll never fully know, that chance never materialized. But I proved Im better than ever and an NBA player. And like I’ve said before…dream big dreams, risk big heartache. 

Im blessed and had an NBA career beyond my wildest dreams. I had the luxury of taking a year to chase a dream w/o worrying about paying bills. My family, friends, business partners all waited on me as I gave up being a go-to player in China to go back to the G League.”

Lin also gave a shoutout to all of the Asian-American basketball players out there who have been grinding to realize their dream. Lin understands the hardships they have to go through, and he wants to see them all succeed.

If this is the last we see of Lin on the basketball court, we wish him nothing but the best in retirement.

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