At long last. Today (June 11), Queensbridge rapper Nas announced that the long-awaited, long-delayed The Lost Tapes II album is finally manifesting.
Using the proper modicum of Hip-Hop communication in 2019, social media, Nas took to Instagram to show off what looks like a fossilize tape that has “The Lost Tapes II” etched into the front.
Back in 2015, Nas said the aforementioned project would drop in 2016 which lead to ire from fans when it never happened, with plenty of blaming going to his label Def Jam. Instead we got the Kanye West-produced NASIR in 2018, which came and went with little fanfare after much overhype.
Considering how loved The Lost Tapes is, the re-up should be a winner considering Nas is known for vaulting dope material. No word on an exact release date, yet, though.
Vado had a hell of a run in 2018. He consistently blessed the streets with music including several collaborations Dave East throughout 2018. Although a collaborative project between him and Dave East was rumored to be in the works, there hasn't been any recent updates on that. Now, he's back with his second project of the year titled, Crime Square.
Laced up with six songs, Vado came through with his latest project, Crime Square. The project arrives just a few months after he released V-Day 3 which included features from Dave East and DreamDoll. Crime Square features Smoke DZA and Al Doe. DZA appears twice on the project including on the Al Doe collab.
Peep Vado's latest project, Crime Square below and keep your eyes peeled for more music from the rapper.
Floyd Mayweathersat at the top of the list of Forbes‘ 2018 highest-paid athletes list, due in part to his super fight with mixed martial artist, Conor McGregor, and taking home $285 million. For this year’s list, soccer star Lionel Messi takes the top spot with Money Mayweather falling off the entire top 100 listings altogether.
Forbes today released its annual ranking of the World’s 100 Highest-Paid athletes, who collectively earned $4 billion over the last 12 months, up 5% from last year’s earnings of $3.8 billion. Lionel Messi was named the world’s highest-paid athlete for the first time, up from second place last year, with $127 million in total earnings. Messi unseats Floyd Mayweather, who held the crown last year, and was the leader four times in seven years. Behind Messi is longtime rival Cristiano Ronaldo (No. 2), who earned $109 million between his salary and endorsements. Serena Williams (No. 63) returned to the ranking, after no women appeared in 2018. Cost of admission to the 2019 list is the highest ever at $25 million, up $2.1 million from the previous year. Endorsement income experienced an increase of 12.5% to $987 million this year.
At number three keeping with the football theme, Neymar checks in followed by Canelo Alvarez and Roger Federer at the four and five spots respectively. Russell Wilson and LeBron James find themselves in the top 10.
The Toronto Raptors were just three minutes away from winning their first ever NBA Title on Monday night as they had a 103-97 lead against the Golden State Warriors. That's when Raptors head coach Nick Nurse decided to call a timeout which had many around the NBA scratching their heads. The Raptors had all the momentum at that point in the game and after the timeout, the Warriors were able to come back and go on a 9-0 run. Of course, the Warriors ended up winning the game by a score of 106-105 and Nurse's timeout immediately became one of the scapegoats of the game.
Stephen A. Smith went on ESPN's First Take this morning and lambasted the Raptors head coach for disrupting the team's flow in the late stages of the game. After the match, Nurse said he used the timeout because he didn't want to lose it, although Smith called BS on that, stating "You were about to win the championship in 3 minutes, okay. And you disrupted it."
Smith then went on to say that the timeout cost the Raptors the win and a championship on home court. The Raptors will have two more opportunities to win the series including on Thursday night in Game 6 which takes place in Oakland.
Game five of the NBA Finals was a barn burner that went down to the wire with both the Golden State Warriors and the hosting Toronto Raptors going to blows in a quest for victory. With his squad facing elimination, Kevin Durantmade a valiant return to the court on Monday (June 10) but suffered a tough injury just as things were heating up.
Golden State Warriors president of basketball operations Bob Myers was openly emotional when he told media members after the game that the injury was to Durant’s right Achilles. ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne and Adrian Wojnarowski report that the team fears Tuesday’s MRI will reveal the injury to be a tear of the Achilles tendon, the same injury that kept DeMarcus Cousins out of action for one year.
Myers was teary when he gave the news after Game 5 of The Finals on Monday night. While the MRI will reveal exactly the extent of Durant’s injury, his season is clearly over and his recovery will likely take several months if the Achilles is indeed torn.
“He’s one of the most misunderstood people,” Myers said. “He’s a good teammate, he’s a good person, it’s not fair. I’m lucky to know him. I don’t have all the information on what really the extent of what it all means until we get a MRI, but the people that worked with him and cleared him are good people, they’re good people.”
Myers added in the post-game discussion that if fingers are pointing at anyone, they should be aimed at him and the department he runs.
NBA YoungBoy may still be a teenager, but there's no denying that this rising star is consistently dealing with grown men problems. The Baton Rouge-bred rapper is definitely deserving of his time in the spotlight, but it's impossible to ignore that YoungBoy's relationship woes make headlines just as much as more than his music does.
From catching several cases to spending some time on the run as a fugitive from a kidnapping charge, YoungBoy's explosive love life has heaped drama on his name ever since he first made waves with his 2016 mixtape 38 Baby. Despite his continual run-ins with the law and several domestic violence accusations that seem to surface with each new public relationship he's involved in, the 19-year-old rapper is working to clean up his image. "I want to change my image up. They should know what I’m like by now, they should know how we live, so I don’t really gotta flash guns or none of that shit. I got children, I got a lotta bigger things to look forward to, a career," says the father of (now) five children by four separate women. "That’s all that really matters. I want to make better music, though. Better than what I've been making.
For a complete breakdown of NBA YoungBoy's high-profile, messy AF breakups, makeups and everything in-between, check out our list below.
Jania Jackson
On February 24 2018, NBA YoungBoy was arrested before hitting the stage for a scheduled performance in Tallahassee, Florida on assault and kidnapping charges in addition to a weapons violation. The charges were administered as a result of a heated disturbance with his then-girlfriend, 18-year-old Jania Jackson which was caught on tape and released to the public by TMZ.
With the basis for the alleged assault charge due to YoungBoy putting hands on Jackson, the kidnapping charge indictment was handed down by a grand jury in Waycross, Georgia after the rapper was caught on camera dragging his girlfriend into a hotel room against her will. After the video made waves on social media, Jackson swiftly issued her response in defense of her man. "I was pulling him, that’s just us, that’s just the way we play.” “Kidnapped? F**k no! … has he ever put his hands on me? F**k no!” she explained. “We 18, what do y’all expect? What do y’all expect?… We good, I promise you that – y’all think I would stay somewhere I was getting abused? F**k no! We’re good, trust me.”
In addition to the hallway incident, several reports leaked on social media claimed that YoungBoy made Jackson sleep in the hotel lobby so he could hook up with another woman.
"Honestly, it’s not what y’all making it into. It’s not as bad as y’all making it seem,” said Jackson, admitting to sleeping in the lobby but refusing to admit that YoungBoy kicked her out. “Okay, I’m not in the room. Okay. I’m good. Maybe I just didn’t need to go to sleep tonight, shit.”
Soon after she was pictured sleeping in the hotel lobby, she uploaded a picture to her Instagram account of a YoungBoy-funded shopping spree which was apparently enough to set things right between the two of them once more.
With the charges leveled on YoungBoy keeping him from communicating with Jackson for the time being, he picked up a new girlfriend, only to warn her that once the charges dropped, she'd be gone.
"I never physically punched my girl, I never physically slapped my girl," he explained in an Instagram Live video. "But you know, they gon' bend it for who I am. And when they ban us from being around each other, you know we couldn't speak no more. But at the same time, you know, when everything back right, you know what it is. Bitch I'll leave you in a second when them charges drop." In the same video, YoungBoy revealed that Jackson was pregnant with his child and that the four tattoos on his body in her honor prove his undying love and loyalty to his soon-to-be baby momma.
While on a court-mandated separation from Jackson, YoungBoy showed off his new girl for the 'Gram. Wearing a Burqa for the majority of the video, YoungBoy directs her to briefly show her face for the camera before asking her what "Allahu Akbar" means, she dutifully responds to her man by stating, "God is great."
"When I first met you to be real I had to stare you done," captioned YoungBoy alongside a pic of himself and Bhad Bhabie.
To make the situation even stickier, a video soon surfaced of the then 18-year-old rapper in bed with an underage Bhad Bhabie. Despite the fact that an emoji covered YoungBoy's face, the rapper's identifying facial tattoos quickly revealed his identity.
The posts were soon deleted and no charges were filed.
But, it didn't end there-- the rumours swirled once more surrounding a possible Bhad Bhabie x Youngboy love connection, when Bhabie was on IG Live this past weekend and had to put a girl, identified as Malu Trevejo, "in her place," after the female brought the Baton Rouge rapper up during the session.
Tattoo Lovers
After a female fan went viral for flexing her NBA YoungBoy portrait tattoo, the public quickly assumed that the two were dating. However, YoungBoy was quick to shut those rumors down.
"I don’t have no girlfriend I don’t know what’s going on I ain’t been influencing bitch,” wrote the rapper on social media.
"I’m nobody’s girlfriend stop the lies please the tattoo is just apart of my story," she tweeted. "I never said he told me to get that Y’all came up with all this so stop saying I took an L BC of y’all false accusations and meanings behind his tweets… idk what y’all got going on," wrote the fan.
Even if they didn't officially date, and even if Arabian will never admit it (she also told us in an interview later that she simply respects Youngboy as a rapper and the tattoo had nothing to do with a romantic entanglement), it's seems as though Arabian was at least YoungBoy's side chick, because her tattoo definitely got Jania Jackson feeling some type of way-- enough so that she cussed her out on Instagram Live. Topping off their beef, the two ladies went toe-to-toe on Twitter and aired their dirty laundry, publicly.
Cutting to the core, Arabian even referred to Jackson's then-unborn child as "her stepson." Ouch.
When it comes to love, no one captures the attention of Floyd Mayweather's daughter, Iyanna Mayweather quite like NBA YoungBoy. With flirtatious social media posts exchanged back and forth between the rumored couple for some time, it seemed that YoungBoy and Yaya were on their way to making things official before relations quickly soured between the two. Accused of slashing the tires on his Maybach, Yaya hopped on Instagram Live while in a crowded nightclub to profess her love for YoungBoy. "Kentrell got my heart, and I don’t care what y’all say," she said.
In response, YoungBoy issued a scathing dismissal of her drunken declaration. "I do not like girls that get drunk," he said. "I never got drunk a day in my life. You got a real problem when you drunk."
Starr Thigpen
When it comes to dissecting YoungBoy’s personal life, one thing is painfully obvious-- he doesn’t have the best track record when taking his lady loves to hotel rooms. In early February 2019, the “No Smoke” rapper was arrested alongside his apparent-then-girlfriend (and mother of one of his children) in downtown Atlanta hotel room. According to reports, a staff housekeeper entered the room, expecting it to be empty when she them came across Thigpen and the rapper. After YoungBoy instructed Thigpen to “get the housekeeper out of the room,” a physical altercation escalated until the staff member was able to escape downstairs and call for assistance. In the aftermath of the incident, NBA YoungBoy “was charged with disorderly conduct, use of fighting words, disorderly conduct - physical obstruction of another and possession of marijuana less than an ounce” while Thigpen was charged with disorderly conduct - act of violence toward another, disorderly conduct - physical obstruction of another and possession of marijuana less than an ounce.
Their pair of mugshots, featured above, quickly went viral.
Kay Marie
While outside near the Trump Hotel in Miami, Florida, NBA YoungBoy, his current-girfriend Kay Marie and his entourage were sprayed with bullets in a driveby shooting.
"He was the victim of an assassination attempt," said James Manasseh, YoungBoy's defense attorney. While YoungBoy escaped from the scuffle unscathed, Kay Marie was struck in the shoulder and one bystander died from the firefight.
After Kay Marie was hit, YoungBoy rushed to her side to offer his help before making sure she received appropriate medical care and attention.
Source: Jonathan Rebboah/News Pictures/WENN.com / WENN
Kim Kardashian took to social media—where else?—to share the first photo of her new son with Kanye West, baby Psalm West.
In the photo, the little guy is getting his sleep on very much takes up after his momma appearance wise.
The caption just reads “Psalm Ye” leading to speculation that the kid’s middle name is “Ye.” However, per his birth certificate, he doesn’t have a middle name.
Former friends Kylie Jenner and Jordyn Woods reunited at Bootsy Bellows nightclub to celebrate the birthday of mutual pal Stassie Karanikolaou. The pair have been on the outs since rumors hit the streets that Jordyn was creeping with Khloe Kardashian's baby daddy Tristan Thompson—who also just happened to be at the Bootsy Bellows the night of the party.
There have been plenty of reports about Jordyn being kicked out of Kylie's guest house, Khloe blaming Jordyn for ruining her relationship, tales of betrayal, and Jordyn's exile from the Kardashian-Jenner clan. Jordyn denies that she did anything with Tristan that could be considered inappropriate, even detailing the house party incident on Red Table Talk, but her relationship with Kylie reportedly remains strained.
TMZ states that the encounter at Bootsy Bellows may have been awkward, but Jordyn and Kylie did speak to one another and were cordial. Kylie was only on the scene for 30 minutes and Jordyn left after 20, but Kylie allegedly saw Jordyn in the lower section of the club and made it a point to kindly approach her.
Meanwhile, Tristan was reportedly at the shindig with Drake, Jordan Clarkson and Shaq's son, Shareef O'Neal. The fellas went to the section where Kylie and Kendall were hanging out, but Kylie didn't speak to Tristan.
As much as Hip-Hop fans thrive on beef it is always good to see artists peace it out. Common recently explained how he and Drake manned up after their brief sparring match.
As spotted on Complex the Chicago MC paid a visit to Big Boy’s Neighborhood show. While discussing his newly penned book Let Love Have The Last Word the subject of his 2011 spat with Drizzy was discussed. While it was clear from jump that their respective infatuation with the queen Serena Williams led to the back and forth, Lonny admitted things got very serious. “When we had that beef, that beef was for real for me. It was real for him” he explained.
He proceeded to reveal how they eventually agreed to settle the air and move on. “We saw each other at the [2012] Grammys and it was like a little tension, and then it was just like a real honest talk that we had about like his respect for me. I was letting him know I thought he was a really dope and talented artist and we just squashed it then.”
To hear Common tell it Champagne Papi left his pride and ego at home. “So I got to give like him a lot of respect ‘cause he handled that like a grown man should. He looked me in my eye and told me, ‘Look, I really respect your music.’ I felt bad when he was dissing me.”
You can view the interview in its entirety below with the Drake talk starting at the 20:00 mark.
Lil Xan's recent run-in at a gas station could land him in heaps of trouble. TMZrecently released a video showing the 22-year-old artist waving around and pointing a gun at a man. According to reports, the man saw Xan at the gas station and thought it would a good time to call him out on his previous comments about Tupac Shakur's music being "boring." The video begins when the exchange had already escalated, and while the two men were far enough away from each other and the guy seemed to be walking away, Xan pulls out a gun.
It's Xan's argument that he felt threatened and only brandished the weapon out in self-defense, but TMZ reports that law enforcement is investigating the incident. The man involved in the shouting match with Xan went to the police to show them the video. The officer he spoke with filed a report for assault with a deadly weapon and now the Los Angeles Police Department's Robbery-Homicide Division is leading the investigation.
If the alleged victim goes on record to say that he feared for his life, even though shots weren't fired, the charges may still stick. Detectives are said to be looking at surveillance footage from surrounding businesses to see if they can catch the entire incident from beginning to end. If serious charges are to come of this, it's reported that Xan could be looking at a felony that could put him away for up to four years.
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