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Drake Hilariously Mocks Kanye West Feud With Adidas At Nike Event

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Drake was feeling extra petty at a recent Nike event where he took a dig at Kanye West and Tyga.

Drake may not have reached the master troll level of 50 Cent, but he does know how to take tasteful shots at his foes. That was evident recently after he took the stage at Nike’s campus in Beaverton, Oregon, to host the shoe company’s annual event as part of its Just Do It Day.

Even though it should be noted that Drake and Kanye West publicly squashed their beef recently, it looks like he is still taking jabs at the “Jesus Walks” rapper. The event in question was part of the Nike Maxim Awards, which lasted for a week.

In front of a crowd filled with celebrities and athletes affiliated with the brand, Drake took a dig at Kanye’s current ongoing battle with Adidas. “And when you put things into perspective, you know, Adidas has Kanye — I think,” Drake said during his speech.

The clip from the awards has been making the rounds on social media as well. The comment was not lost on those who had gathered as they burst into laughter.

The “all Falls Down” rapper’s most recent reason for his discontent with the brand is that, according to him, the internationally recognized corporate sports company has been stealing his designs. In true Kanye fashion, after he made the accusations, he went after several members of the company.

Drake added that his longstanding partnership with Nike was truly an honor before he paid tribute to some of Nike’s most renowned advocates, including the late Virgil Abloh.

“At Nike we have Lebron James, Kevin Durant, Giannis [Antetokounmpo], Michael Jordan; the greatest creative mind of all time, Virgil Abloh. Rest in peace,” he said.

The “God’s Plan” rapper made the comments as Kanye West has been trending in the last week for his battle with Adidas and Gap. One that he has already claimed victory after getting huge support from some of his peers, including Swizz Beatz and Diddy.

“I COULD HEAR THE JOY IN MY TEAMS VOICES TODAY. ADIDAS DON’T WANT NO MORE SMOKE. THE MOVIE CREDIT’S ARE ROLLING. THIS WAR WASN’T ABOUT MONEY,” he said in all caps in one of t his posts on Instagram.

Kanye West added that his fight is purely about control of his businesses and family as well as having a voice. He said that he asked Adidas to settle the matter privately, but his requests went on deaf ears.

He was pretty active on the social media site, and in another post, he indicated that his legal team had advised him not to post anything about Gap for at least ten days.

Meanwhile, the comment was just some light humor from the OVO Boss, who highlighted many other achievements of the brand. He also welcomed Travis Scott to the stage to close out the special event.

The rapper, who folks tried to cancel following the Astroworld tragedy, took the opportunity to remind fans of why he was so beloved before the mishap.

He performed a medley of songs, including “MAFIA,” “ANTIDOTE,” and “GOOSEBUMPS.”

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Ne-Yo Asks Judge To Deny Wife Crystal Smith Spousal Support & Custody Of Kids

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Ne-Yo does not want to pay his estranged wife Crystal Smith spousal support, and he has also filed for custody of the couple’s three children as they battle it out in divorce court.

The R&B artist has responded to Crystal Smith’s divorce petition that was filed in early August, which claimed that the couple’s marriage had irretrievably broken down. She alleged that he had several affairs during the course of their marriage and even claimed that he fathered a child with another woman during their marriage.

On Wednesday, Radar Online reported that Ne-Yo filed court documents saying their marriage had “irretrievably broken with no hope of reconciliation.”

However, the artist objects to Smith’s request for temporary and permanent alimony and primary custody of their three children. They share sons, Shaffer Chimere Jr. and Roman Alexander-Raj, and daughter, Isabella, and Ne-Yo is asking the court to grant joint legal and physical custody, noting that he is an “active and loving Father to his children,” and can care for the children despite the marriage ending.

“[Ne-Yo] asserts that he is financially, physically, and emotionally capable of serving as a joint physical custodian of the parties’ three minor children alongside [Crystal],” the document read.

In regards to debts incurred during the marriage, the artist wants both parties to pay their respective debts as it appears in their names, and he also wants the “exclusive use” of their marital home based in Georgia.

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“He has been solely responsible for the mortgage and maintenance of this property since the date of purchase,” the document said. The singer says that he owns three properties that were bought by him during the course of their marriage and wants that fact to be considered since Smith never contributed to the purchase price of any.

The artist admitted that Smith was a housewife who remained unemployed because she “benefited significantly due to her personal association with the Respondent and his career.”

He also believes that she is not incapable of finding work, so he doesn’t have to continue to maintain her.

“[she] possesses the considerable ability to procure stable and consistent employment at this current time and following the dissolution of the marriage,” he said.

Last month Smith had spoken about her relationship with the artist just days before she filed for divorce, where she said the marriage was “nothing else but wasted years and heartbreak.”

The couple got married in 2016 and separated around February 2020. They re-married last year and shortly after welcomed their daughter Isabella.

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Eminem Reveals He Lost Brain Function After Overdose, Talks ‘Relapse’ Album

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Eminem is opening up about his 2007 drug overdose and how the incident affected his recovery.

According to the rapper’s Manager Paul Rosenberg, after the overdose, it was speculated that the rapper may have suffered brain damage that would dramatically change his life, and probably he wouldn’t be the same ever again.

In 2007, Eminem had a near-fatal overdose. Many feared the worse While in the public’s eye, he appeared to steadily improve and regain control of his life, the rapper is now disclosing that his recovery was far from simple, he said while speaking with his long-time manager Paul on his Podcast Paul Pod.

“It took a long time for my brain to start working again,” the “8 Mile” rapper began.

His manager interjected, “you literally were coming off of an overdose, and they had to sort of stabilize you with a few medications. And some of them took you a minute to adjust to — let’s just leave it at that.”

He added, “so, you’re learning how to rap again almost literally, right? Because it’s the first time, probably, you were creating without having substances in your body in… however many years, right?”

The Detroit rapper, whose real name is Marshall Mathers, also recollected the moments following the overdose when his manager expressed concern for him to doctors.

The pair also discussed his first song after the overdose, “Give me the Ball/ Detroit Basketball,” which was leaked in 2010 where the song never even sounded like Em.

Rosenberg, however, said that the rapper’s recovery was steady, and after months he was starting to be his old self. At least on the musical front as Eminem shared mentally that other things were going as he adjusted to not being in a drugged-up state where his skin itched as he realized that he was still in withdrawal almost six months after the overdose.

“I was taking 75-80 Valium a night,” Eminem said.

That was not the end for him dealing with drug abuse, as Rosenberg noted that Mathers again had to go to rehab after he released his album post the drug overdose. When he returned, he had “an album with a bunch of f***ing accents on it.”

“I didn’t really notice it [the accents] and was just so excited that you were making music and having a good time with it,” Rosenberg said. “At the end, I went to play some music for some people and they were like, ‘yeah, he’s rapping really well again but what’s up with the accents?’”

Eminem speak on Relapse 2 album

“I remember when I first got sober and all the s**t was out of my system I remember being really happy. Everything was like f***ing new to me again,” Eminem added. “It [Relapse] was the first album and the first time that I had had fun recording in a long time.”

During his 2010 appearance on Recovery with Dre in Hawaii, Eminem recalled his old music as the guide to finding himself again.

“It was literally like a fing awakening and it happened in like fing five minutes, 10 minutes listening to some of my older s*** and going, ‘I need it to feel like this again,’” he said.

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Queen of Dancehall Spice Album ‘Emancipated’ Debuts In Top 10 On Billboard

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Spice new album Emancipated debut at No. 7 on the Billboard Reggae chart this week.

The Queen of dancehall Spice is showing she has what it takes to be an independent artist after she earned her fourth entry on the streaming and sales-driven Billboard Reggae Albums chart.

Spice continued her ascendancy in the genre with her second full-length album, Emancipated. According to the first-week performance, the album has sold 1,500 total units of consumption from sales and streaming in its first week of release. That included 700 copies from pure album sales and 1.1 million combined audio and video streams in the US. It’s a good showing for the “Go Down Deh” artist and is a little better than what she was able to accomplish with her debut 10, which spent came in at No. 6 on the chart last year. However, it was nominated for a Grammy.

That was the last work she did for her previous label, VP Records, and it sold just 1,447 total units, which consisted of both sales and streaming in the US in its first week.

Emancipated was released on August 26 via Stealth Music/Spice Official ENT and features nine tracks. She is no stranger to the chart, and in 2014 her So Mi Like it EP came in at No. 14, while her mixtape Captured debuted at number one in 2018.

Meanwhile, on the US Current Reggae Albums chart, the album debuted at number one with 653 in pure album sales.

Over on the Billboard Reggae Albums chart, Bob Marley & The Wailers continue to hold strong at No. 1 for an astounding 139th consecutive week, with Legend. Best of Shaggy: The Boombastic Collection is at No. 2, while Sean Paul’s Dutty Classics Collection is at No. 3.

At No. 4 is UB40’s Greatest Hits compilation, and Stick Figure features in the No. 5 and No. 6 positions with their albums World On Fire and Set In Stone.

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Yung Bleu Buys Himself A Private Jet: “It Took Me 10 Years To Get Here”

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Yung Bleu celebrates his success with the acquisition of a private jet.

The rapper/singer is proving that he is a businessman at heart as he shared that he bought himself his first jet at age 28. Yung Bleu shared a lengthy emotional post about his motivations for buying the jet after dedicating himself to his career.

“Nobody know we’re life can take you . It took me 10 hard years to get here,” he began. “We’re can I start. I used to day dream all day when I lived with my mama. I used to tell people everyday Ima be successful. Some people believed some didn’t. I just Kept going ! On my road to success I fell off bout 4 r 5 times. Lost Alotta loved ones . Gave away Alotta money blowed a lot to . But I dnt regret ! I helped Alotta people.”

He also shared that he experienced many personal struggles, including not being able to buy his son diapers at one point.

“At the same time Never hated on Nobody ! never said I deserved another man success . always played my role . Stayed a HUMBLE BEAST ! hits , im resilient! can’t be defeated ! I pulled my self up every-time ! ! IM PROUD OF MYSELF ! U A F***** BEAST. To not even owning a car to owning plane ! I couldn’t afford to buy Corbin diapers now to owning my own private jet . From alabama ? Man I broke barriers I’m already a goat in my state,” he said.

Yung Bleu also shared a motivational message for his fans. “When I was young in the game I didn’t no what being a ARTIST Vs BUSINESS MAN was. Alotta these people dnt understand the moves I make behind closed doors. I just be letting y’all flex but mane ! I had to post this 1 ! I’m posting this to motivate the young guys ! Long term investment ! #MOONBOYJETS @moonboyuniv #HUMBLEBEAST.”

The rapper recently shared that he was making power moves with the impending launch of his Moon Boy University coming soon.

Yung Bleu showed photos of the building under construction and said that Moon Boy University will house his artists, producers, and video producers while also offering training producers in the music industry.

“The year gone be some amazing sh** getting done I promise. Studio, conference room. Video/Movie production room im even gonna start inviting young upcoming producers doing classes etc ! I’m so excited about this,” he wrote.

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Tekashi 6ix9ine Not Happy About Court Ordered Protection From Girlfriend

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6ix9ine says he doesn’t need a court to protect him from his girlfriend who recently put the paws on him.

Tekashi 6ix9ine’s girlfriend has been ordered by a court to stay away from the rapper after her domestic violence arrest last week in which she allegedly battered the “Trollz” rapper at a Miami nightclub. Jade and Tekashi have been together for more than four years, but it seems that their relationship has broken down. Despite the arrest and charge, Tekashi doesn’t seem keen on having her suffer consequences, TMZ reported.

6ix9ine’s girlfriend has been issued an extensive protective order to keep no contact with the rapper. This includes not only all forms of remote contact, such as phone calls, texts, letters, and social media but also physical contact. Jade must also stay at least 500 feet away from the Brooklyn rapper.

It doesn’t seem that Tekashi or Jade will follow the order. The rapper stated that their relationship is doing well, meaning that they are still together despite the incident. He recently went on Instagram Live and tell fans that they are in a good place with their relationship but admitted that he found himself in a dark place frequently, so he is taking a break.

The rapper also says he is allowing Jade and her child to remain in residence at his house in Florida until they take care of the legal issues. 6ix9ine, on the other hand, will stay in a hotel until that is sorted out, but he does indicate that there is a possibility that he will move back into the home with her and her child.

Last month Jade was arrested for throwing hands at 6ix9ine. At the time, the rapper said that her friends had encouraged her to fight with him. Part of the altercation was also videoed and shared online.

Despite Jade being the aggressor, 6ix9ine had said that he was going to pay her bond so she could be released from bail. At the time, she was placed on a $1500 bond.

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Offset and Cardi B Gifted Son Waves His Own G-Wagon At 1st Birthday Bash

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Offset and Cardi B are celebrating the first birthday of their baby boy, Wave, with a mini car show to ring in the first 12 months of his life. The couple is notorious for spoiling their kids and things was no different at Waves birthday party.

On Sunday, the Offset shared a series of birthday messages as he shared his love and pride for Wave. “MY BIG WAVE IS 1 YEARS OLD TODAY,” Offset wrote on Sunday as he shared several throwback moments over the last year. One of the photos showed Offset holding his baby boy for the first time while he was still wrapped in the hospital blanket, while another showed him sitting on his own in a jet.

The Migos rapper also shared several Instagram stories in honor of Wave. One of them showed them on a shopping trip, while another showed him fixing his son’s hat while the baby boy sat in his stroller. He also shared a throwback of himself and Cardi B with a few of their magazine covers over the last year.

Young Wave was also gifted a diamond-crusted Mercedes-Benz G Wagon mini car for his first birthday from his aunt Hennesy Carolina, Cardi B’s sister.

Offset and Cardi B have Wave along with four-year-old daughter Kulture. Cardi B also shared a few cute messages on Wave’s birthday.

“He got his daddies mean mug lol,” she captioned a photo of Offset and Wave. In addition to his sister Kulture, Wave has several siblings from his father’s side his sister Kalea, 7, and brothers Kody, 7, and Jordan, 12.

Cardi B also shared videos on her Instagram Stories of Wave’s birthday party. Wave is seen driving into his own party while surrounded by photographers. He and his sister Kulture are seen wearing matching denim jackets similar to their father’s pants, Cardi B’s jacket, and their other siblings’ outfits. Wave might have been past his bedtime as he was looking around at everyone, but he did seem to keep up till around 9 pm.

Cardi B also shared the after party for Wave’s birthday, which included tracks by Jamaican dancehall artists Kranium and Popcaan blazing while soca tunes also blazed away.

Cardi B and Offset got married in 2017, but the couple appeared to have marital issues leading to Cardi B filing for divorce in 2020. However, all seems well with the couple now.

Earlier this year, Offset, in an essence interview, spoke about being a father and having a blended family.

“It’s a blessing to be able to have them all together, and to have a wife who’s open and treats them as if they’re her kids,” he said. “It could be an issue, but I don’t have to go through that, and that’s beautiful.”

“I feel like sometimes people go into a relationship with a man or a woman who has kids with negativity — and I feel like people should embrace it, and love it,” Cardi added. “I love our family, and I wouldn’t want it any other way,” she said.

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Quentin Miller Says Nicki Minaj Behind Meek Mill Attacking Him Over Drake Beef

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Quentin Miller has been missing in action from the scene for a bit now, but he’s back, and the rapper is talking about some of the moments in his career, including the famous fight he had with Meek Mill.

Quentin Miller is close to Drake, but he somehow got wound up in a feud with Meek Mill in 2015, who claimed that he was Drake’s ghostwriter. At the time, Nicki Minaj was in a relationship with Meek Mill, and it seems that she had taken Meek’s side on things.

In a new interview, Quentin Miller claims Nicki instigated Meek and his Dreamchasers crew to beat him up and extract a video confession.

Nowadays, Nicki and Drake are great buddies, but it seems that while everyone is celebrating the latest Michael Jackson Video Vanguard recipient, at least Quentin recalls Minaj’s past behavior that many might have forgotten.

Drake and Nicki Minaj recently appeared together on the Young Money Reunion tour, where they performed alongside each other, and they even shared some lens time where they appeared to be at a great place with their friendship.

In a recent interview on Rory & Mal’s podcast, the artist and songwriter say that Meek Mill had cornered him when they fought, and everything appeared fine after they spoke.

“The man [Meek] said ‘get on camera and say you was lying, you wrote that sh*t’, and I said ‘nah’, you know what I’m saying,” he began.

“So with that situation, it’s so crazy bro, that day it was insane, so I’m about to go to HitBoy’s house but before I go I’m about to stop at the Nike store. I go to the Nike Store it was on Wiltshire at the time, I get out the Uber, Paparazzi is across the street, it’s just a bunch of paparazzi. I’m like ‘oh sh*t who is it’, me and Meek lock eyes. I just turned. I just go in the store. As I turn I saw one of them like [waving like yow yow] they come into the store… ‘aye yo what’s up man’ he says, ‘all this sh*t like you making me looking me look crazy whatever, and I’m like ‘bruh’…he’s like ‘I could tell you ain’t on no street sh*t. So I ain’t gon do nothing’ So I’m like, ‘Iight.’ so he just left and did a quick turnaround,” he said.

The Atlanta artist, however, says when he thought things were over, Meek’s crew again accosted him with a camera to force a confession out of him to aid the then love of her life, Meek Mill, in his beef with Drake.

“He dips so I’m thinking we good and um, and then his mans came back in with the camera. I found out and I don’t know how true this is but I found out that it was a Nicki Minaj call,” he says.

While he says he can’t prove the claim, he was told that she was the one who came out with the camera idea.

“When Meek evaluated you not a street dude, you not on that street sh*t and they dipped, I heard when they went back to the car, it was Nicki who was like ‘nah run that’, listen bruh, I’m a Nicki fan, I’ve always been a Nicki fan, my daughter is a Nicki fan, but that was fucked up, man,” he added.

When asked if he knew for sure that it was Nicki Minaj who was behind them accosting him to confess on camera, the artist said he never even knew Minaj or had ever spoken to her.

“I hope that wasn’t the case if that was the case, but either way I put it on me but still finding that out that hurt because I never even had a conversation with this lady so why she like that?”

Back in 2015, Drake had responded to Meek Mill’s claim with two heavy diss tracks- “Back to Back” and “Charged.”

The rappers later quit the beef around 2018 after Meek and Nicki Minaj broke up (around 2017) as she alleged that he was abusive and once kicked her.

As for her and Drake, the two were not on good terms for quite a bit, also around 2018.

As Drake became friends with Minaj’s latest enemy Meek, he also allowed Cardi B to perform twice at OVO Fest, which seemed to have led to tensions between the two rappers. Many felt that Drake was being petty at Minaj.

While Minaj and Cardi B are still not on good terms, she and Drake seem to be chummy again.

As for Minaj, she has not responded to Miller’s interview. But in an interview with Zane Lowe in 2018, Minaj claims that she played the role of peacemaker behind the scenes of the beef.

She called the beef “one of the hardest parts of my career” and said she tried to convince Meek to leave it alone, but she was nevertheless involved inevitably.

“I was behind the scenes, wishing it wouldn’t happen,” she explained. “I said, ‘Don’t do that.’ I think, as artists, we all look back on things that we shouldn’t have done. And that was one of those things he shouldn’t have done. But he did it, and it is what it is. What I do know is that Meek and Drake have moved on from that,” she said.

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Elephant Man Addresses Rumors He Punched Diddy In The Face

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Elephant Man is speaking on rumors for the first time that he had an altercation with Diddy back in 2007 when he allegedly punched the Bad Boy rap mogul in the face.

The dancehall legend recently sat down with The Fix, where he spoke about his career in dancehall business for more than 20 years, having started as a member of the Scare Dem Crew before going solo. One of the highlights from the interview is the infamous incident that was reported in 2007, which claimed that Elephant Man and Puff Daddy, now known as Diddy or Love, got into an argument that became physical.

The “Pon Di River” artist is speaking publicly about that incident which he denies. “Yeah, one album deal, yeah when them a talk bout me and Puffy fight and me thump down the poor- me? Weh mi ago thump down puffy fah? When me desso a take dancehall to a level and me just a work and me just a do weh me want do?”

According to Elephant Man, he had a good relationship with Diddy, who signed him to his New York-based label Bad Boy Records, which led to his debut album ‘Let’s Get Physical’ released on 6 November 2007. The first single on the album is “Five-O” and features Wyclef Jean and Diddy. The album was later Grammy-nominated and was also the first Grammy nomination for Diddy at the time, Elephant man says.

According to the Jamaican ‘Energy Gad’, Diddy had sought him out after hearing about his reputation as an artist. Back then, Elephant Man’s stage presence was unrivaled due to his dancing-type songs.

“Me, Sean Paul and Junior Gong deh backstage at 97 Reggae [with] Kiprich. When me look me see Puffy and Chris Tucker weh come in the Karate show…two a dem come in and say ‘I’m here for you’. Me say: ‘yea man yah watch the show, ah the baddest show’. [Diddy says] ‘eh eh I’m here for you’…weh the man say? ‘Mi come fi sign you’” he says.

In 2007, rumors started circulating that Elephant Man and his entourage barged into Bad Boy Records headquarters and roughed up Diddy over money owed to the deejay. Some reports say that Diddy was seen with his glasses bent up and had a busted lip while Elephant Man was cursing and swearing about wanting his money from Diddy.

Diddy spoke on the rumors in 2007 while speaking with MTV off the track, saying that he and Elephant Man are good and his house is in good order.

Elsewhere in his interview, Elephant also gave some artists their flowers while sharing some of his experiences meeting Janet Jackson and Chris Brown as well as working with artists like Rihanna.

According to him, he and Chris Brown collaborated on six songs, but the respect he has earned did not stop there as Roc Nation’s Jay-Z himself sent for him to help give Rihanna her big break.

“Memba a me say memba good memba a me dem sen fi buss Rihanna,” Elephant Man said. “When Rihanna do back ‘Pon Di Riva’, ‘run run run run everybody gi dem a run’, and Jay-Z said ‘Ele we need you’… and then me and her do Umbrella Remix again, my second number one in Africa.”

Elephant Man also touched on how the song “Switch” by Will Smith came to life as his career took off as a Jamaican artist to now a mainstream artist in the United States.

“I was like me a board the airplane and dem hold on pan mi ticket and say ‘you can’t go’. You see da private jet deh, Will Smith inna it and him say you fi fawud now. Boom, me, him and Jada [Pinkett-Smith],” he said.

“When me go inna the jet, Jada go ‘Oh! Ele, mi favorite artist’, me say ‘woah’ so the work a put in and dem a see it,” he added.

Elephant Man on how Ninjaman and Super Cat influence his career

He also touched on the state of music nowadays, which he says, in his opinion, many fail to pay respects to the others in the genre. Elephant recalled many of his experiences with other artists who were simultaneously working to make dancehall into a big genre across the world. He shared respect for Ninjaman, Super Cat, and others, something he says is absent from the younger artists nowadays.

“When we now ago tell you say Ninjaman is my Gad in music, Shabba Ranks is my Gad in music, Super Cat dem, Buju, Killer dem, how can I not tell them?… Nowadays, nuh respect nuh too deh inna the thing. A man would even respect you and nuh even tell you,” he said.

“When last you see an artist post another artist? A bare war and so,” Elephant Man said.

Elephant Man had much to say about the latest viral type of music most artists chase as he spoke about the longevity of his songs like “Gully Creeper,” which still has the same effect on people almost 15 years since it was released.

“Sometimes some music affi (sic) some place, everybody just a do dem own thing. And it’s good to be commercial but it good to still make some music weh make sense and we still have to remember there is Hot 97 and there is a playlist and still member say we need songs to cross and we want go fi some Billboard and some things,” Elephant Man added.

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Vince Staples To Star In Kenya Barris Netflix Comedy About His Life

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A long-time dream of rapper Vince Staples is coming to fruition as he has announced that he will join forces with producer and director Kenya Barris to produce his own scripted comedy series on Netflix.

The show, titled The Vince Staples Show, is a mix of fact and fiction and will be loosely based on his life. He is also expected to star in the show, which is set in Long Beach, California. The “Blue Suede” rapper is set to do the executive producing alongside Barris and his own Khalabo Ink Society.

In a statement, he expressed his excitement at getting a chance to work with the streaming giant and also shared that he had been working on the format for the show for quite some time.

He also shared that Ian Edelman and Maurice Williams will serve as co-showrunners and will also executive produce with Staples and Barris for Khalabo Ink Society. Also on that list are Corey Smyth and Calmatic.

This will be a reunion for Edelman, Williams, and Barris, who also executive produced Kid Cudi’s animated Netflix special, Entergalactic. That show is expected to drop later this month. In addition to that Calmatic, who is widely known for his work with music videos and commercials, be directing the first two episodes of The Vince Staples Show.

Tracey Pakosta, Netflix Head of Comedy, explained that the company took on the project because they felt that it was their mission to work with the best artists in the world.

“Vince has already established himself as one of the most talented young musicians today and we’re really excited about how his sensibility – and sense of humor – will translate into a unique comedy series,” she added.

This will not be the rapper’s first foray into the world of acting, as he recently filmed scenes for White Men Can’t Jump, the 20th Century Studios’ remake of Ron Shelton’s 1992 sports comedy. There have also been reports that he may be given a role in the Showtime comedy pilot The Wood, based on the 1999 cult favorite.

He’s certainly been keeping himself busy as the Compton-born rapper recently dropped his fifth studio album Ramona Park Broke My Heart. It was released earlier this year in April and peaked at No. 21 on the Billboard 200 chart.

Some of the features on the album included Mustard, Ty Dolla Sign, and Lil Baby.

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