Author: The Lyricyst

Cardi B is speaking out against the negative comments directed at Vice President Kamala Harris following her announcement to run for President as a Democratic nominee. Since Harris revealed her presidential bid on July 21, social media has seen a surge of inappropriate remarks about her personal life, including her dating history. Harris, who has been married to lawyer Douglas Craig Emhoff since 2014, has faced criticism for her past relationships with television host Montell Williams and, allegedly, former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown. Conservative podcast host Megyn Kelly made a particularly offensive remark, accusing Harris of “sleeping her way…

Shante Broadus recently appeared on Big Boy TV, revealing what caught her eye nearly four decades ago when she saw the man who would become her husband, Snoop Dogg. “Tall, dark skin, and just being funny and cool, he was funny,” Broadus said of Snoop, describing him as the “clown and the rapper” when they attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School in California. According to People, the two met as teenagers in high school in the mid-’80s, then attended prom together prior to graduating in 1989. They got married eight years later. The couple, both 52, celebrated 27 years of…

Vice President Kamala Harris made a big entrance during her first official visit to her campaign headquarters on Monday evening, walking out to Beyoncé’s song “Freedom.” A source close to Harris told CNN that her team got approval from Beyoncé’s representatives to use the song throughout her presidential campaign. Beyoncé, who is known for maintaining strict clearance guidelines around her music, gave quick approval to Harris’ campaign when they sought permission to use “Freedom” on Monday — just hours before she walked out to the song, the source added. While Beyoncé has not officially endorsed Harris in the day since President…

Eminem has been on a farewell tour of sorts for his alter ego Slim Shady. But Slim has made a comeback before his death, 25 years since we were first introduced to him in Em’s music video for “My Name Is,” the debut single from 1999’s The Slim Shady LP. In the visual for The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) album cut, “Houdini,” Slim marked his return, appearing, seemingly in the flesh, alongside Marshall Mathers. In the video, a young Shady travels in time to the present day, and he and Em go back-to-back, lifting lyrics from the…

Is Kamala Harris about to have a Brat summer? On Sunday, President Joe Biden, 81, announced he dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Vice President Harris, 59, to replace him on the ticket. With less than 110 days left until Americans hit the polls on November 5, @KamalaHQ, the official rapid response account for Harris’ presidential campaign on X, was updated to match the aesthetic of Charli XCX’s latest album, Brat. If you weren’t sure, the 31-year-old UK singer released Brat last month and quickly went viral for its neon green artwork and an intentionally pixelated black font for the…

Eminem officially has the No. 1 album in the country. The 51-year-old rapper’s latest studio album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce), made its debut at the top of the Billboard 200 Album chart with 281,000 equivalent album units, according to Billboard, per data from Luminate. Despite not being issued physically for its July 12 release, the LP now has the largest week for any rap album in 2024 with 164,500 streaming equivalent albums from 220 million official on-demand streams, 114,000 digital album downloads, and 2,500 track equivalent albums. Billboard also notes that Death of Slim Shady is…

Cardi B has called out Joe Budden for allegedly changing his attitude toward her in recent years. On a recent episode of The Joe Budden Podcast, the former rapper took a moment to apologize to Cardi if any of his jokes about her had been offensive. Budden addressed Cardi’s recent rant on X Spaces, where she criticized him for commenting on her relationship with Atlantic Records and rumors about her next album. “Cardi is on my list of people I’m going to love no matter what,” Budden said. “As a musician, just in terms of the story of someone from…

Ice Cube smells something fishy in Diddy’s ongoing legal issues. In a new conversation with the PBD Podcast, host Patrick Bet-David asked Cube about the extent to which he was involved with Diddy during his music career. Cube shared that he worked with Diddy and his producers on his 1998 album, War & Peace Volume 1 (The War Disc), saying that Diddy was “cool.” Bet-David then asked Cube if he was “surprised” about Sean Combs’ current situation, which includes being the defendant in several sexual assault lawsuits, settling with Cassie for an undisclosed amount, and having his homes raided by…

Sean Kingston and his mother are facing hefty prison sentences if they’re found guilty of a $1 million wire fraud scheme. On Friday, Kingston and his mother, Janice Turner, were indicted in a Miami federal court and charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and five counts of wire fraud, Variety reports. The mother and son are alleged to have participated in a “scheme to defraud victim sellers of high-end specialty vehicles, jewelry, and other goods purchased by the defendants through the use of fraudulent documents,” according to a document filed by the U.S. District Court’s Southern…

Cardi B doesn’t want to see Joe Budden speculating about her relationship with record label Atlantic Records. On a recent episode of The Joe Budden Podcast, the rapper-turned-podcaster said that he believes fans will “never get another Cardi album again.” Cardi has yet to release a full-length follow-up to her debut album Invasion of Privacy, which came out in 2018. Budden’s co-host Trevor “Queenzflip” Robinson said he heard something similar when he visited the Atlantic Records office. “You was right, too, about Atlantic wanting to put out an album,” added Robinson. Budden said that he hasn’t heard anything from Atlantic…