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Michael Gidewon, the co-owner of the popular Atlanta nightclub Republic Lounge, is dead after he was fatally shot outside the establishment on Saturday morning. 11Alive reports police arrived at the scene around 7 a.m. Saturday, and found Gidewon suffering from a gunshot wound. He was not responsive. Medics pronounced him dead at the scene. According to […]

Ever since DJ Khaled dropped his 13th studio album God Did on Friday, hip-hop fans haven’t stopped discussing the LP’s title track, which is highlighted by a scene-stealing guest verse from Jay-Z. Hov’s most trusted sound engineer Young Guru, who’s been working with Jay since the turn of the century, took to Instagram on Friday to post a video in which he […]

T-Pain believes if 2Pac were alive, he wouldn’t stack up lyrically to modern rappers—and that’s putting it nicely. T-Pain spoke with DJ Akademiks on his Twitch channel about hip-hop in the social media era before declaring that if 2Pac—who was killed in a drive-by in 1996—was still with us, he “would’ve gotten his ass ate the fuck […]

Drake is aware of a certain TikTok-originating clip featuring an admittedly hilarious impression of his lyrical stylings. The clip in question comes from @lonneytoons_, who shared a TikTok last week captioned “Am I lying tho?” In the clip, a jokingly presented hypothetical Drake passage is presented, ultimately resulting in more than six million views at […]

Less than a year after joining forces with Drake for Certified Lover Boy smash “Knife Talk,” 21 Savage serves as the only featured artist on the Toronto rapper’s new surprise album Honestly, Nevermind. The pair team up on closing track “Jimmy Cooks,” which sees 21 Savage deliver a closing verse in which he references the infamous incident of Will Smith slapping Chris Rock […]

On the latest episode of Talib Kweli’s People’s Party, Will.i.am chimed in on the lyricist’s 2021 back-and-forth with Kanye West and offered up a theory. Last year, Kweli said he and Ye weren’t on the best of terms, which led to Yeezy dissing him. Of particular note, West said he “never fucked with” Kweli’s music and that he posed […]

Ezra Miller, who will next be seen in the latest Fantastic Beasts franchise entry, was arrested in Hawaii this week on disorderly conduct and harassment charges. Per a local report from Hawaii News Now, the eventual arrest is said to have began on Sunday night with an incident involving fellow patrons at a bar on […]

Prosecutors say one man has died and eight others were hospitalized in connection with the consumption of spiked drinks at a bar in Bavaria. As reported by the Associated Press on Monday, prosecutors in Germany—including senior prosecutor Gerd Schaefer—have determined that Champagne at the Weiden-set bar in question had been spiked with something that had a […]

ComplexCon returns to Long Beach Nov. 6 – 7 with hosts J. Balvin and Kristen Noel Crawley, performances by A$AP Rocky and Turnstile, and more shopping and drops. Secure your spot while tickets last! Buy tickets A shooting inside a St. Paul, Minnesota bar early Sunday morning left a young woman dead and 14 others […]

ComplexCon returns to Long Beach Nov. 6 – 7 with hosts J. Balvin and Kristen Noel Crawley, performances by A$AP Rocky and Turnstile, and more shopping and drops. Secure your spot while tickets last! Buy tickets A lot has changed since 2018. We got hit with a global pandemic, TikTok became a new social media […]