Blueface has found himself in the hot seat after Chrisean Rock alleged he invaded her privacy by deleting private material off her phone.
Lil Uzi Vert Balcony Dives At Concert: Watch
At a recent show, Lil Uzi Vert embodied their inner Rod Wave, jumping off a balcony into the crowd below. Uzi had been standing on the ledge in front of the VIP section, getting the crowd hyped. A couple of times, they leaned back and let the VIPs keep them upright. Then, Uzi carefully hopped over the balcony and jumped about five or six feet into the section below, briefly disappearing before bouncing back up and presumably heading for the stage.
Of course, as mentioned, diving from the balcony has become a staple on Rod Wave’s current tour. Wave has opened his show with a controlled balcony dive on at least two occasions, doing the second one in Kentucky with hometown guest Jack Harlow. While many people have criticized Wave for “glorifying suicide”, the musician seems unperturbed and eager to continue performing the stunt.
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Uzi’s Team Begs Rapper Not To Retire Via Billboard
Meanwhile, Uzi’s team is currently fighting the rapper about their plans to retire. During a recent tour stop in Chicago, Uzi announced that the upcoming Luv is Rage 3 will be their “final album”. “No, relax. It’s okay. After Luv Is Rage 3, I guess I will go on another tour for Luv Is Rage 3. But after that, I wanna try to live a normal life,” Uzi explained. However, aside from saying a post-Luv is Rage 3 tour, they did not specify a retirement date.
However, the announcement was met with opposition from their label and management agency. “Uzi, please don’t retire! Love, your Generation Now family. Love, your Diop Agency family,” read a billboard in Philadelphia’s Fashion District. It’s clear that the financial powers that be aren’t eager to have Uzi retire, especially after their massive year with The Pink Tape and the promise of Barter 16. It remains to be seen if Uzi goes through the retirement plans after Luv is Rage 3 is released.
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Bianca Censori’s Braless Outfit For Girls’ Night Has All Eyes On Her
As the first anniversary of Kanye West’s unconventional marriage to Bianca Censori approaches, we’re curious to see how the pair plans to celebrate. Their first 365 days of union have seen them travelling all around the globe together, from London to Japan, causing a stir in many of the places they’ve graced with their presence. Censori is facing allegations of performing oral sex on her husband during a ride on an Italian river boat, and the Australian’s often-revealing outfits have landed her in hot water on several occasions too.
Thankfully, the architect is surrounded by people who support her creative freedom, and her right to feel safe while wearing whatever she wants. Usually, Ye isn’t too far from her side to keep Censori safe from any danger. Earlier this week, it looks like she had some close gal pals in tow to protect anyone who might be oogling her ample cleavage as her husband keeps busy with his creative endeavours. As The Mirror reports, the Yeezy employee kept her head warm with a large fluffy hat but left little to the imagination in terms of her chest.
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Bianca Censori’s Friends Share New Photo
The outlet’s body language expert, Inbaal Honigman, gave some insight as to what the new selfie might tell us about Censori’s current state of mind. “First, her shoulders and chest are tense. We know that, because the veins in her neck are popping! The tension in her upper body means that she carries anxiety,” the celebrity specialist speculated. “She doesn’t seem to be happy spending the evening away from Kanye. Her lightly parted lips suggest that there might be something she wants to say,” they added.
As Bianca Censori steps out with her girlfriends for a night of fun on the town, hip-hop heads are growing concerned about the status of her husband’s album with Ty Dolla Sign. The creative duo cancelled their live performance in Italy, and later postponed album listening parties, leading some to believe their joint work may never see the light of day. Read the latest updates on that at the link below, and check back later for more hip-hop/pop culture news updates.
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DJ Akademiks & Saucy Santana’s Boo ZellSwag React To Wack 100 Heating Beef Up
A very interesting debate just propped up in the ongoing beef between DJ Akademiks and Saucy Santana. For those unaware, the two began to send shots at each other following Ak’s criticism of Yung Miami, for which the rapper defended her against him. Now, Wack 100 got roped into things, sitting down for what seems like a podcast conversation with the commentator to express support of his own. In a clip of their meeting, the music executive boasts about calling up a bisexual male friend of his to beat up Santana for them. This is all pretty bizarre and wild when it comes to rap beef, but it’s all fortunately stayed only on social media for now, and hopefully doesn’t go any further.
“Wack 100 gets a high ranking member of the Gaygency on the line who says he’s down to fight Saucy Santana,” DJ Akademiks captioned his post showing Wack’s remarks. “Aye @the1saucysantana u lining it up or wat [crying emojis]. Thanks Unc @wack100.” “He mad I got someone of his own flavor to squabble w him,” he continued in an Instagram comment under coverage of this development from Hollywood Unlocked. “Unwritten rule a straight man and a ‘other’ should never fight unless they sleeping together. Shout out to wack 100.”
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DJ Akademiks & ZellSwag’s Thoughts On Wack 100’s Saucy Santana Beef
However, Saucy Santana’s boyfriend ZellSwag also came through with an IG comment under this post. No matter where you look, there are sides forming in this beef, and maybe more people hop on to give their take. “Wack callin the same n***a he be f***in’ on,” he retorted. “Everybody in LA knows that. Wack suck more D then his b***h. I’ll slap him Ak and the punk he called on the phone. Y’all really don’t want these problems fr.”
Meanwhile, do you think this feud will escalate any further or is this the end of the line for them? Was Saucy right in defending the City Girl or did he find himself in too much trouble to handle? However you may feel, let us know in the comments section down below. In addition, for more news and updates on DJ Akademiks, Wack 100, and Saucy Santana, stick around on HNHH.
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Young Thug’s RICO Case Sees Another YSL Member Take Plea Deal
Young Thug’s RICO case continued its twists and turns, as a new plea deal occurred. Derontae Bebee pleaded guilty to seven charges.
Spotify To Remove Royalties From Majority Of Music On The Platform: Report
Spotify is facing major backlash against a policy change that will eliminate royalties from a majority of its musical catalog. According to a report from Music Business Worldwide, Spotify is raising the threshold that needs to be reached before artists can earn royalties on their music. Songs will now have to reach around 200 annual streams before Spotify will pay the artist. If that threshold isn’t reached, any money the artist would have earned will be diverted back into Spotify’s general revenue pool. Essentially, bigger artists would earn the money created by smaller indie artists. Furthermore, while 200 streams a year doesn’t sound like a lot, MBW explained that the figure is a lofty goal for many small, independent artists. Furthermore, when multiplied across the low-play songs on the platform, Spotify is saving tens of millions dollars a year.
Spotify argues that the change will be negligible. The company argued small creators often don’t see the revenue regardless. However, it is a widely hated change. Some have gone as far as to call it a reverse Robin Hood scenario. In essence, Spotify is taking from smaller artists to pay bigger ones. “Right now, streams and revenue are effectively synonymous, but by this time next year, they will mean very different things. [Smaller artists] will be othered, their revenue becoming a new black box for the biggest artists to share between themselves,” theorized industry analyst Mark Mulligan. Spotify said in a statement that nothing had been finalized yet.
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Spotify’s Full 2024 Changes
While the royalties was the biggest and most controversial change, it wasn’t the only thing that Spotify proposed changing next year, citing two other potential changes. The first is a widely welcomed change, bringing fines to distributors who enable fraudulent activity on tracks they own and distribute. Streaming fraud, be it through bots, click farms, imposter tracks, or ghost artists, has become a widespread issue. A crackdown on the practices that enable the fraud is seen as long overdue by the industry.
Elsewhere, Spotify also plans to crack down on royalties for “noise tracks”, i.e. such as background noise like rain or white noise. Currently, Spotify grants royalties on playtime over 30 seconds on these tracks. However, this has led to a spate of creators releasing full albums comprised of 31-second tracks to maximize their revenue. The new change will raise the minimum playtime from 30 seconds to an unspecified number.
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Kai Cenat “Released” From Seven-Day Prison Stream: Watch
If you lived under a rock- well, if you don’t follow streaming these days, which can feel like the same thing- you might’ve missed that Kai Cenat spent seven days in prison recently. Not real jail, mind you, but rather a simulation of prison life with celebrity guests, challenges, and a whole lot of antics. Now, we’re getting footage of his “first day out” following his seven-day prison stream, where he kept the feed up around the clock and broadcasted the whole thing. While meeting with his friends, they bestowed icy chains upon the Twitch giant amid his excitement to be out. Overall, it seems like he made a lot of money off of this, something that even his online detractors have expressed respect for.
Whether or not the New York native had to go this far for clicks, views, and donations, though, is another debate. Upon his release, many folks opened up the floodgates of that debate once again. Some feel like Kai Cenat exploited a public interest in prison, glorifying it and making light of the circumstances that fuel the system while not dealing with its actual consequences. Others just liked to gawk at the content throughout, and though his hustle was well-earned.
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Kai Cenat’s “First Day Out” After Seven-Day Jail Stream
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Regardless of what you think of this seven-day prison stream, the 21-year-old definitely increased his profile with it. Even if it was mostly due to the debate that people engaged in over the righteousness of this, that engagement shows that people are tuning in. Kai Cenat might not be the most famous face under the sun, but who else can say that they had an entire audience locked in and active for seven full days in a row- and from a prison simulation, for that matter? If anything, criticism of this stream is more about its concept than it is about him as a creator or personality.
Kai Still Has That Energy After Prison
Meanwhile, what do you think about this? Are you celebrating the social media giant’s “first day out” or do you think he needs a couple more days in? Whatever the case, let us know in the comments section down below. Also, come back to HNHH for more news and the latest updates on Kai Cenat.
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Jaidyn Alexis Screams At Blueface For Calling Chrisean Rock In Video Shared On “The Jason Lee Show”
Navigating life as a recording artist and co-parenting with one woman is hard enough. Now that he has two baby mamas, things are only becoming messier for Blueface. Last month was a huge month for the “Thotiana” hitmaker’s first co-parent, Jaidyn Alexis, as she celebrated her birthday, dropped off her “Barbie” single, and signed a deal with Columbia Records. On top of all that, the couple also sat down for an interview on The Jason Lee Show – a move which Chrisean Rock copied just a few weeks later.
For her turn in the hot seat, the Baltimore kept it real about surviving various forms of abuse, overcoming postpartum struggles, Lil Baby romance rumours, and the potential of having another child with Blue. At one point during her episode, Rock pulled out receipts of Alexis screaming at their baby daddy for calling her, proving that getting pregnant again would cause some serious tension for the recently engaged pair.
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Chrisean Rock Shares Messy Fight Between Blueface and Jaidyn Alexis
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“She’s fighting him because he, I don’t know, called my phone,” the Baddies cast member told Lee during their chat before passing her cell over. “WHY DO YOU KEEP DOING IT?” Alexis’ voice unmistakably blasts from the device. “STOP ANSWERING THIS B**CHES CALLS,” the “Stewie” artist screams at Blue, though Rock insists that it was her Cr*zy In Love co-star who’s been blowing up her line, and not the other way around.
After putting Blueface’s baby mama drama with Jaidyn Alexis on blast, Chrisean Rock has been keeping busy with her son. While kicking off her weekend, the new mother was happy to show how big and strong her two-month-old has grown while also revealing that she’s hired help to assist her in taking care of her house. Read more about those updates at the link below, and check back later for more hip-hop/pop culture news updates.
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Missy Elliott Inducted Into Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, Performs Her Greatest Hits: Watch
Missy Elliott was one of 13 legendary musicians inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this week. Her class included the likes of Chaka Khan, Kate Bush, Willie Nelson, and Rage Against The Machine. In her speech, Missy showed love to many people, especially her mother and Timbaland. “I have to thank my mother who is here. My mother has never seen me perform in my whole entire career. But lemme tell you, wait, it’s not my mother fault. I most definitely didn’t wanna be saying she’s a b-tch, no minute man, p don’t fail me now, all of these records. I never wanted my mother to come to a show to hear me curse, ’cause you know, she from the church. But this night is so important and I wouldn’t have it no other way. Mommy, I thank you for allowing me to write on your walls songs.”
Furthermore, she continued, turning her attention to Timba. “And Timbaland, I love you. We started this in high school. I am proud of you. I see you, you are legendary. There’s so many of y’all that are so legendary in here. This is the 50th anniversary of hip hop. And so this is deeper than me just being up here. I was telling Robin, you just feel like it’s so far to reach when you in the hip hop world and to be standing here, it means so much to me. I thank you all—the committee from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, I just wanna say I love y’all and just try to spread love ’cause we so needed in this world. And I thank y’all, all the inductees. Y’all are so amazing. And congratulations to y’all. I’m honored to be even just in the room with you all. And I thank y’all. Thank you so much.”
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Missy Elliott Performs Her Biggest Hits
Following her speech, Missy performed a number of her greatest hits. “Get Ur Freak On,” “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly),” “Work It,” “Pass That Dutch,” and “Lose Control” were all on the setlist as she was joined by a host of dancers. After her set, she revealed that the ceremony was the first live performance of hers that her mother had attended.
The induction, the first for a female rapper, comes at the end of a monumental year for Missy. She was part of a massive Hip Hop 50 tribute at the Grammys, where she shared the stage with Queen Latifah, who also served as herr introduction at the Hall of Fame induction. Furthermore, the induction comes two years after Missy received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Additionally, she also had a street named after her in her hometown of Portsmouth, Virginia.
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