On New Year’s Day, Brooklyn rapper Joey Bada$$ took aim at Kendrick Lamar with a track called “The Ruler’s Back.” Kendrick has yet to respond, but TDE rapper Ray Vaughn, TDE affiliate Daylyt, and other West Coasters have spent much of 2025 shooting back at Bada$$ in his stead. After …
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Since Kendrick Lamar took aim at Drake with his verse on Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That” in the spring of 2024, the Compton and Canadian rappers have traded dozens of dark verses (and counting) in a beef unlike any before it. Since then, there have been accusations of domestic …
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“Wop, wop, wop, wop, wop.” Those five words are among the most memorable of all the vicious punches thrown by Kendrick Lamar in his Drake diss track “Not Like Us” — and now, they have inspired a video game. Not Like Us: The Game is a web-based whack-a-mole clone based …
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When Drake and Kendrick Lamar decided to go at each other, we knew that there was a chance for low blows; we just didn’t know we’d end up subterranean. The four tracks they exchanged on May 3 and 4 — Kendrick’s “Meet the Grahams” and “Not Like Us,” as well …
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We know Kendrick Lamar and Drake will throw more shots, levy more seedy allegations, and might even drop more all-out diss songs from here. But the bulk of the war has been fought, and the crown goes to Compton. In hindsight, the way Drake poked the bear with Instagram Stories …
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Ashley Park, who stars as Mindy in Emily in Paris, announced Monday that she is recovering after suffering from septic shock earlier this month. Park took to Instagram to express gratitude to the people who messaged her kind remarks, their stories of hospitalization, and experiences with sepsis. “I’m sorry for …
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There’s some obvious good news about this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards. The show, hosted by Anthony Anderson, and dedicated to celebrating 75 years of television for the 75th annual Emmy ceremony, was about as solid and entertaining as modern awards telecasts get: lots of nostalgia, lots of reminders of why …
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In the most important scene of the first season of The Sopranos — arguably the most important scene of television of the last 25 years, if not much longer — Mob boss Tony Soprano stalks and murders Febby Petrulio, a former wiseguy who testified against friends of Tony’s and then …
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David Choe‘s past came back to haunt him as resurfaced footage from a 2014 podcast episode found the actor, who appears in the popular Netflix series Beef, recounting in explicit detail a story about sexually assaulting a Black massage therapist. In a new statement released to Variety, the show’s creator …
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Netflix’s Beef, which began streaming last Thursday, is already one of the most exciting television shows of the year. As strangers who can’t let go of a road rage incident, no matter how much people get hurt in the process, Steven Yeun and Ali Wong deliver incredible performances, alone and …
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