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Instagram captions will be well-fed this weekend, as Drake’s long-awaited Certified Lover Boy has now been released. The album, originally expected to be released late last year, marks the OVO Sound co-founder’s first studio full-length since 2018’s Scorpion. The latter featured the oft-mentioned-here deep cut “Summer Games,” as well as megahits like “God’s Plan” and the online challenge-spurring […]

New Bobby Shmurda is on the horizon.  After teasing it on social media, the Brooklyn rapper blessed fans with “No Time for Sleep (Freestyle)” on Friday.  “No Time for Sleep” is Bobby Shmurda’s first official solo release since coming home from prison in February. Although fans wanted him to jump headfirst back into music like his […]

Jacob Chansley, aka the “QAnon Shaman,” has reportedly struck a plea deal in his Capitol riot criminal case. According to the Daily Beast, the 33-year-old Arizona resident is expected to plead guilty to his role in the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection. He was previously hit with a six-count indictment that includes obstruction of an official proceeding, violent […]

Virginia is one step closer to removing the Robert E. Lee statue on Richmond’s Monument Avenue. According to the New York Times, the Virginia Supreme Court affirmed a circuit court ruling that paved the way for the 12-ton statue’s removal in the capital city. The decision was explained in two opinions Thursday, more than a year after Gov. Ralph […]

2 Milly told the New York Daily News that two units at Rikers Island were left unattended after correction officers failed to show up for more than 24 hours earlier this week, leaving the inmates to take up various administrative tasks.  “We are really running the dorm by ourselves. I’ve never seen anything like this,” […]

Former Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney Jackie Johnson was indicted Thursday on charges of violating her oath of office and hindering a law enforcement officer following an investigation into her office’s handling of the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia last year, the Associated Press reports.  The investigation found Johnson showed “favor and affection” toward Greg McMichael, one […]

Tyrese Gibson has opened up about the colorism he’s experienced while working in the film industry. The F9 star told Leah’s Lemonade that he lost a lot of roles to his friend and colleague Terrence Howard due to colorism. “Terrence Howard has no idea how many roles that I was about to book and they […]

After claiming the Most Improved title last year, Lil Durk is in the running for this 2021’s rap MVP. And now he has one very gaudy stat that could make him a shoo-in for a Podoloff Trophy.  This week, Billboard reported that Lil Durk has the most Hot 100 entries of 2021 for any artist of […]

Lawyers for Parkland School shooter Nikolas Cruz got into a dispute over language, saying he shouldn’t be referred to as a “killer” during his trial. The New York Daily News reported that on Wednesday, assistant public defender Melisa McNeill contended during a Zoom hearing that phrases like “the massacre,” “the schoolhouse slaughter,” “an execution,” and other […]

Terry Crews has responded to the criticism he received over his recent comments about “being uninvited to the cookout.” Wednesday, the Brooklyn Nine-Nine actor shared a tweet in which he seemingly referenced notorious cult leader Jim Jones, who’s known for a 1978 mass murder-suicide involving cyanide-laced Flavor Aid. “The best thing about being uninvited to the cookout…is […]