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Art dealing is one of several ways that the elite stay in their tax brackets, but not many are auctioning off their own creations. Grimes and Elon Musk are viewed as an eccentric couple with the world’s resources at their fingertips, and their moves—both business and creative—have proven to be lucrative, including Grimes’s latest that made her nearly $6 million richer. Recently, Grimes created a set of digital artworks and auctioned them off to the highest bidder. They’re described as NFTs—or non-fungible tokens including films, clips, images, poems, and the like—and they fetched the musician and artist a pretty penny.

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The art project, dubbed the WarNymph Collection Vol. 1, was a collaboration between Grimes and her brother, Mac Boucher. A video titled “Death of the Old” was a hot commodity as it was the subject of a bidding war that resulted in a selling price of $400K. Shorter video pieces like “Earth” and “Mars” sold for $7,500 and within two days sold 300 copies.

“Newborn” depicts a child that many believe is an interpretation of Elon and Grime’s infant son, X Æ A-Xii. It has reportedly been relisted for sale at $2.5 million. In all, in under twenty minutes, it’s reported that Grimes made $5.8 million from the crypto-art sale. Check out a few of the pieces below.

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Durk’s ability to turn around music is probably one of his most impressive traits as a rapper. The rapper turns out music at a pretty rapid rate for someone who’s only gotten better with time and he has been around for a while. This August will mark the 10-year anniversary of I’m A Hitta and 2021 was already claimed as his year by the time we closed out ’20.

The Voice was worth the wait and the deluxe surprisingly complimented the OG version but Durk isn’t slowing down. The rapper’s been readying the release of a brand new Only The Family compilation tape. The crew dropped their last compilation project, Family Over Everything in 2019, and then, of course, Durk’s monstrous 2020 run occurred. On Friday, they’ll be coming through with Loyal Bros, Durk and OTF confirmed on Instagram.

Durk has a lot of projects in the cut right now. Along with the compilation tape, he recently teased the possibility of doing a joint project with Lil Baby. It’s unclear whether this will actually happen but the people appear to be prepared for a full-length collab album between the two rappers.

Additionally, Lil Durk is already hinting at his forthcoming collaborative project with Metro Boomin’ titled, No Auto Durk. No release date has been set but Durk appears to be in go-mode.

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DJ Vlad’s latest interview with Boosie Badazz has unearthed no shortage of gems, as the vocal Baton Rouge rapper has reacted to damn near every topic in recent memory. In today’s installment (part 37), Boosie touched on the widely publicized Verzuz battle between Jeezy and Gucci Mane, during which the late tempted fate with a performance of the incendiary “Truth.” All the while, onlookers watched amidst palpable tension, wondering if Jeezy would react to Guwop’s clear provocation.

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“I watched the part with Pookie Loc, I watched that shit,” says Boosie. “He said ‘I’m smoking on that Pookie Loc tonight.'” After Vlad jokes about a meme insinuating that Gucci Mane was armed during the performance, Boosie has a hearty laugh before circling back to the topic at hand. “I like how they bossed up, but I would have charged that n***a,” admits Boosie. “If he had said he was smoking on my partner, I’d have felt that was a type of disrespect…I thought we were walking about music. You can say that in a song if that’s part of a song, but you ain’t gon’ say…” 

“They was supposed to have that understanding before they got there,” he continues. “But I like how they handled it as bosses. I got a lot of respect for them for not taking it there and really bossing up and letting it be.” Vlad remarks that while Jeezy appears to have moved past the incident, Gucci has yet to fully shake the grudge. “Jeezy done showed the world he a real n***a,” reflects Boosie. “He not trying to prove he a real n***a again by going back. That’s what Jeezy stood for.” 

Check out Boosie’s take on Jeezy and Gucci Mane’s Verzuz battle below, and check back for further insight from the Baton Rouge rapper as it surfaces. 

Ice Cube certainly deserves praise for his many contributions to hip-hop, from his legendary discography to his role in shaping gangsta rap as we know it. But that’s not everything Cube has brought to the table. Lately, the rapper has been focused on seeing his Contract With Black America come to fruition, having already garnered serious interest from both former President Donald Trump and current President Joe Biden.

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With a meeting with the President’s team still in the works, Ice Cube has taken to Instagram to share an update about the CWBA. “We added 2 new sections to the Contract With Black America,” he announces, encouraging his followers to have a look. “Check it out at cwba.us.” The two additional sections include the “Sports Industry Economic Development Plan – CWBA Sports Initiative,” as well as “Additional Concerns Regarding Black Women.” 

The former is described as follows by the website’s official write-up: “This CWBA Sports Initiative is offered to address the systemic racism prevalent in much of the sports industry, particularly as it relates to economics, leadership, participation, and wages.” Full details about what the section aims to include can be seen on the website.

As for the Additional Concerns Regarding Black Women section, the official description focuses on protection and recognition for a crucial demographic. “Today, Black American women live in the ‘afterlife’ of chattel slavery, and thus, continue to face unique challenges derived from the enslavement and subjugation of their ancestors,” reads the official CWBA website. Further explanation about this new section can be explored in full right here. 

Be sure to show Ice Cube some appreciation for keeping the Contract With Black America moving, and one has to wonder if we will see its implementation at any point in the years to come. Stay tuned for further developments on this story.