50 Cent returned to social media this week with a new music video for his collaboration with Max B, titled “No More Tricks, No More Tries.” The visuals appear to rely heavily on artificial-intelligence effects, creating digitally rendered scenes that frame the song’s confrontational tone. Throughout the clip, the artist delivers pointed lines directed at several figures he has sparred with publicly, including Jim Jones, Maino, Fabolous, and Dave East. […]

Ari Lennox recently had a candid conversation with the Effective Immediately podcast about her dating history. According to the “Shea Butter Baby” singer, she spent too much of her early years giving toxic men attention. While Ari acknowledged that she still struggles with being attracted to “toxic energy,” she’s much more cognizant than in years past. She also expressed regret for not paying the “sweet energies” the attention they deserved. “I think […]

Wale is not one for the online shenanigans. So when a troll took a shot at him in a recent X post, he offered quite the clapback. “A female told me I rap like Wale and I got so f*cking offended cuz no the fuck I don’t,” an X user named NFTMansa wrote on March 10. The Maryland native responded less than 10 minutes later, writing, “Nobody believes a female […]

Cardi B wasn’t here for BIA’s comments about her ex-boyfriend and baby daddy, New England Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs. On Sunday (Feb.15), during her tour stop at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, CA, right before Cardi was set to perform, “Pretty & Petty,” a diss track dedicated to BIA, she decided to clap back at the “WHOLE LOTTA MONEY” rapper for shading Diggs. While Cardi admitted that she and […]

More than two decades after it ruled radio, Usher and Alicia Keys’ classic duet, “My Boo,” still feels untouchable. But according to songwriter Adonis Shropshire, the record almost never saw daylight. In a new interview with Men’s Journal, published February 14, 2026, by Terrell Smith, Shropshire revisited the late-night studio session that birthed the 2004 smash, eventually performed at Super Bowl LVIII. What fans now consider a cornerstone of mid-2000s R&B began […]