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ABC/Randy Holmes Fresh off the success of “Players,” Coi Leray feels her “hard work is actually finally paying off.” With a goal of becoming an icon like Lil’ Kim, Missy Elliott or Queen Latifah, she tells People, “It just feels good to know that everything that me and my team manifested and worked hard for is actually finally showing to the world.” Coi says […]

Barry Brecheisen/Getty Images Rick Ross‘ neighbors are pushing to get his car show canceled, but he doesn’t appear to be fazed by their attempts. In an Instagram Story Monday, he said he’s never gotten the easy way out. “I woundn’t even feel right if they wasn’t boycotting boss, because I never got nothing easy,” said Ross. “It was never handed […]

Todd Owyoung/NBC With his new album MICHAEL hitting DSPs in June, Killer Mike has announced he’s going on tour. The High & Holy Tour, featuring his choir the Midnight Revival, will commence on July 10 in Birmingham, before making stops in Charleston, Houston, Nashville, Dallas and other cities across the U.S. The tour wraps August 5 in New Orleans. A fan presale for […]

Paras Griffin/Getty Images Timbaland pulled from different sounds when he produced Aaliyah‘s 1998 song “Are You That Somebody.” Speaking on a panel for the 2023 Pop Conference at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, he revealed that one of those sounds was “Oompa Loompa” from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. “I actually was trying to make […]

Jonathan Leibson/Getty Images for ADIDAS Adidas has been hit with a lawsuit for failing to limit the financial losses in its partnership with Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, USA Today reports. Investors, specifically those who bought Adidas securities between May 3, 2018, and February 21, 2023, claim the company was aware of the rapper’s behavior and its potential effect on their […]

NBC Ten years ago this year, Chance the Rapper released his Acid Rap mixtape, which he believes is a “cult-classic.” Speaking to Complex, he says the project’s sound was incomparable to other albums that were out at the time. “There’s definitely nothing that sounds like Acid Rap if you go back to 2013,” he said. “Like, you got [Kanye West’s] Yeezus, you got [Drake’s] Nothing […]

Courtesy Live Nation Lil Wayne is giving more fans an opportunity to see his Welcome to Tha Carter Tour before it comes to an end. The final stop of his sold-out trek, taking place May 13 at The Wiltern in LA, will be livestreamed globally and rebroadcast twice for his supporters to watch. Like the in-person […]

Courtesy Live Nation, Rock The Bells LL Cool J‘s The F.O.R.C.E. Live will be his first headlining tour in 30 years, and according to the star, it will be bigger and better than anything his fans have ever seen from him. “This is going to be a show unlike anything,” he said on Instagram Live to The Roots‘ Questlove and Black Thought, who […]