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The late Juice WRLD is opening this week’s Billboard 200 at No. 2 with Fighting Demons. The artist’s second posthumous album is debuting with 119,000 equivalent album units including 110,000 in streaming equivalent album units (155.49 million on-demand streams of the songs), 5,000 in track equivalent album units and 4,000 in album sales. Fighting Demons marks Juice WRLD’s fifth Billboard 200 entry, and follows previous No. 1s like Legends Never Die in 2020 and Death Race for Love in 2019. Elsewhere on the chart, Adele logs her fourth straight week at No. 1 with 30 while Taylor Swift, Michael Bublé and Olivia Rodrigo at Nos. 3, 4 and 5. Making up the bottom half of this week’s top 10 are Morgan Wallen, Mariah Carey, Vince Guaraldi Trio’s soundtrack to A Charlie Brown Christmas, Drake and Po...

Last month, Kanye West gave an honest interview on Drink Champs revealing some thoughts about his colleagues in the industry. Ye is never one to hold back on his thoughts and revealed that signing Big Sean to his G.O.O.D. Music label was one of the worst decisions he has ever made. Big Sean and Kanye West’s feud go way back and since hearing his comments, Sean Don was ready to appear on Drink Champs to set the records straight. The interview touched on many dramatic issues surrounding Big Sean and Ye’s relationship over the course of their careers. Big Sean discussed how Kanye West and JAY-Z once pressured him to fire one of his friends due to a photo that surfaced online of the three of them collaborating in the studio, as well as auditing the label for money he was owed and reaching out ...

Future took to Twitter over the weekend to proclaim that he’s bigger than JAY-Z. The tweets caught hip-hop fans in a surprise and quickly went viral as they discussed the legitimacy of Future’s claims. In separate tweets, he wrote, “I’m the only one can get YE to pull up whenever wherever..tuh,” which referred to their recent performance at Rolling Loud California, “Everything I do legendary or it want get done. Tuh,” “In the streets im bigger then jigga. Ima run me a B up easy,” which referred to Hov’s status as hip-hop’s first billionaire, and “100M’s not the goal anymore.” Twitter users replied with a mixture of memes and explanations of whether or not they agree with Future’s tweet. A fan pointed out JAY-Z’s lyric of “Yeah, so in summation, I don’t know who you racing / I’m already at ...

Mobb Deep‘s Prodigy will supposedly have a street named after him in Queensbridge, New York in 2022. According to reports, the corner of 12th Street and 41st Road will be co-named “Prodigy Way” and has just received final approval from the City Council. Prodigy’s family, fellow Mobb Deep member Havoc, Big Twins and Kenny Carter’s Fathers Alive in the Hood organization greatly helped in the co-naming of the block, with its proposal “graciously approved.” Prodigy died in June 2017 while hospitalized for complications in relation to his sickle-cell anemia. Havoc shared in 2018 that he’s working on a new Mobb Deep album “in conjunction with [Prodigy’s] family” and that it will release “pretty soon, before the end of the year,” but any updates surrounding the followup to The Infamous Mobb Deep ...

Kanye West is back with another edition of Sunday Service, with this week’s service taking place in Los Angeles once again. The one-hour event was livestreamed and uploaded as an unlisted video on Ye’s YouTube account. The Sunday Service Choir appeared in all-black hoodies and sang renditions of Frank Ocean’s “Lost” and Jeremih’s “Paradise,” holiday-appropriate favorites like “O Come All Ye Faithful” and West’s own songs including “24.” Meanwhile, children also dressed in black hoodies can be seen running around and having fun during the service. The last iteration of Sunday Service took place in late November and was dedicated to the late Virgil Abloh. The Sunday Service Choir melody performed a somber medley that included a take of Adele‘s “Easy On Me,” followed by a message th...