Tamar Braxton Makes Birdman Drink Water At Cash Money-No Limit Verzuz, ComplexCon

Birdman closed out the Cash Money Verzuz No Limit celebration with a classic Birdman rant — he started with straight shots ...
Times Union

‘Take Me Down to Stewy’s’: How a rap parody about an upstate NY gas station became a hit

Russell VanAlstyne, 28, of Johnstown, left, and Jackson Simpson, 26, of Root, right, the creators of “Take Me Down to Stewy’s,” are interviewed on Tuesday at the Times Union in Colonie. The creative ...
UPI

Megan Thee Stallion releases 'Lover Girl' amid Klay Thompson relationship

Oct. 24 (UPI) --Megan Thee Stallion dropped the song "Lover Girl" Friday. The release arrives amid the rapper's relationship with NBA star Klay Thompson. The couple announced their romance in July, ...
Hip-Hop Wired

Rapper Ghetts Arrested & Held After Fatal Hit-And-Run Incident

Ghetts, an award-winning rapper who resides in the United Kingdom, was arrested and held in custody due to a fatal hit-and-run incident that he was reportedly involved in. Earlier this week, Ghetts ...
The Hill

GOP senator blocks Democratic bill to pay all federal employees during shutdown

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) objected to a request by Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) on Thursday for the Senate to immediately consider and pass a bill to pay all federal workers, members of the military ...
WTVF

U.S. Marshals arrest suspect wanted in murder of Memphis rapper

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — U.S. Marshals say a man wanted in connection with the deadly shooting of Memphis rapper Sayso P has been arrested in Clarksville. According to the U.S. Marshals Service, ...
NPR

Tupac's life was 'yin and yang,' writes author of 'Only God Can Judge Me'

Tupac Shakur wasn't always the cool, stylish and tough figure who came to define 1990s hip-hop. As a teenager, he was awkward and eccentric. He wore braces over his gapped, slightly brown teeth and ...
The New Yorker

Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. Generative A.I., once an uncanny novelty, is now being used to create not only images and videos ...
Yahoo

Rapper Kevin Gates Accused Of Cutting His Kids Off Financially

Kevin Gates has been accused of being in debt, in parenting terms. The rapper's estranged wife, Dreka, is in court to collect every penny he currently owes her in child and spousal support, and it is ...
WFLA News Channel 8

Prosecutors: Alicia Andrews helped plan ‘hellish onslaught’ that killed rapper Julio Foolio in Tampa

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Prosecutors said 22-year-old Alicia Andrews wasn’t just in Tampa the night Jacksonville rapper Charles Jones, known to fans as Julio Foolio, was killed. They said she helped plan ...
AOL

AWS Goes AWOL: Are We Too Dependent on the Cloud?

Discuss the failures that led to the AWS outage this week and which companies and services were impacted. Debate whether companies have become too dependent on AWS and its peers, especially when ...