Sam Moore

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NBA YoungBoy may not be out of legal problems even though he received a presidential pardon from Donald Trump. YoungBoy was set for a lengthy stint on probation after he was convicted on gun charges but Trump opted to pardon the rapper for his crimes. It’s a decision that has not sat well with Utah lawmakers who called out Trump for letting YoungBoy off the hook.

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Kanye West‘s rape accuser, Lauren Pisciotta, is reportedly in hiring, according to her lawyer. Speaking to Complex, Arick Fudali, a partner in The Bloom Firm, detailed the impact filing a lawsuit against West had on Pisciotta. He said: “Lauren, as I’ve said in public before, is basically in hiding. She is very afraid of Mr. West and Mr. West’s circle and Mr. West’s supporters. She’s received an enormous amount of online backlash and ridicule and hatred. “Really ugly, gross stuff.

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UMG allegedly threatened to kill Pop Smoke‘s posthumous debut album over their belief that a Pusha T guest verse featured a diss aimed at Drake. According to Steven Victor, who manages Pusha and signed Pop to his Victor Victor Worldwide imprint, UMG wanted to censor the verse. He said to Billboard: “What happened on the Pop Smoke song is that UMG thought that he was dissing Drake on that song. He wasn’t, but they thought he was. Pop Smoke was released on my label and obviously I managed Pusha.

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Clipse were forced to pay a seven figure sum to get out of their Def Jam record contract. It was previously revealed by Pusha T that the duo had parted ways with the storied record label over a dispute regarding their new album Let God Sort Em Out. However, Pusha’s longtime manager, Steven Victor, has revealed that Def Jam forced the brothers to cough up a significant amount of money to break their deal.

1 day ago | hiphopdx.com | Sam Moore

Cardi B has admitted that she thinks she’d be in jail if she had not filed to divorce Offset last year. Speaking on her X Spaces, Cardi detailed how difficult she was finding her relationship with the former Migos rapper in its final days. She said: “I don’t think people understand how tired I was … I was mentally drained. Couldn’t eat—I was getting frequent headaches. I was literally losing my mind.