Drake's Furious At This Canadian Politician

Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter VI has officially debuted on the Billboard 200 at number two. In other news: 

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• Drake has a new opp 👀 

• We’re getting new YoungBoy this summer 🎵 

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Billboard Hot 100

The above chart shows Billboard’s Hot 100 ranking for this week. The Hot 100 ranks songs based on streaming activity, radio airplay audience impressions, and sales data —all measured by Luminate.

Almost everybody experienced a fall on the charts this week, with Drake’s “NOKIA” getting father away from the top spot and the “Timeless” comeback apparently being short-lived. However, the new collab from BigX and Lil Wayne, “Hip-Hop,” is enjoying its first week in the Hot 100 after Tha Carter VI dropped on June 6.

Why This Politician is Apologizing to Drake

Jagmeet Singh probably thought he was just going out for a chill night of live music. Instead, he walked straight into the middle of rap’s coldest civil war. The former New Democratic Party leader and current political main character was spotted vibing at one of Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s Toronto shows — and let’s just say Drizzy did not take kindly to the cameo.

Footage of Singh enjoying the Grand National Tour quickly hit the timeline, and while most people laughed it off, Drake was clearly not amused. After all, his own city asking for an encore of “Not Like Us” was already painful. But even the city’s politicians are showing no loyalty? That was salt in the wound and apparently, reason enough for a virtual town square shaming.

Singh only went for SZA (allegedly)

Sure, Drizzy tried to do what he could to look unbothered as the Grand National Tour lit up his city. He dropped a new feature with Toronto rapper Smiley, “2 Mazza,” in between the shows on June 13th. He originally was going to stream with Kai Cenat on the night of Kendrick’s first show, to review director submissions for his upcoming “SOMEBODY LOVES ME” music video, but then delayed it last-minute. Allegedly, this was because the submissions were so good that they needed more time to review (which I’m sure everyone believes). 

However, once the footage started coming out of everyone, including Singh, having a blast at K. Dot and SZA’s show, he decided to crash out on the politician and not his real enemies. 

Drake posted a screenshot of his past DMs with Singh, where he can also be seen tagging the rapper in stories and saying that he was honored the 6 God gave him a follow—back in 2019. However, any potential friendship is probably out the window now since Drizzy called him a “goof.”

Singh immediately responded to the viral post and put on his best Drake fanboy act, stating that he went “for SZA, not Kendrick…Real talk, I get it. I shouldn’t have gone at all. OVO and Drake have lifted up this city and [Canadian flag emoji]. For me it’ll always be Drake over Kendrick.”

Yet, there’s a clip of him dancing to “tv off” like he helped write the setlist.

Fans dragged Drake for beefing with a lawmaker instead of his actual rivals (so much for being unbothered), and clowned Singh for folding like a lawn chair. Still, the Kendrick and SZA tour stop managed to make waves long after the two artists left the city. Timelines in Toronto were full of think pieces from Drake loyalists about the audacity of everyone who attended the shows.

Given the size of the 100K+ crowd that showed up for Kendrick and SZA across both shows, Singh might have secured more votes by standing on business with his decision…

NBA YoungBoy Has a 4th of July Surprise

To say NBA YoungBoy is having a good year would be an understatement. After dodging serious time in a Utah drug ring case last November, he paid a $25,000 fine and walked away without jail time. Things weren’t all smooth, though: a separate set of gun charges landed him 23 months behind bars, five years of probation, and a $200,000 fine.

Then, in true plot-twist fashion, President Donald Trump came through with a pardon on May 28th.

"I want to thank President Trump for granting me a pardon and giving me the opportunity to keep building—as a man, as a father and as an artist…The moment means a lot. It opens the door to a future I've worked hard for and I'm fully prepared to step into this,” he said in a statement shortly after the news broke. 

Now that the legal drama is (mostly) behind him, YoungBoy is wasting no time ramping up. He’s gearing up for his first headlining tour in five years, Make America Slime Again, which kicks off this September. The streets have been starving, and he’s finally coming back to feed them.

Earlier this year, he dropped the compilation album More Leaks in March, followed by loose singles like “Finest” in May. However, fans have been locked in for a proper new project—and now it’s officially on the calendar.

We’re Celebrating YoungBoy and America's Independence

On June 16, YoungBoy took to his IG stories to confirm that his next project is dropping on July 4th — just in time for fireworks, barbecues, and slime.

Other details like the title and tracklist are still being kept under wraps, but it's enough to get fans excited about what’s to come. They’re flooding the comments and crossing their fingers for a collab with Carti (they allegedly have a collab album called 004KT that has been teased for years) and YoungBoy’s craziest tour yet. With a presidential pardon, a comeback tour, and new music all in motion, YoungBoy is racking up wins faster than ever. This might just be the start of his biggest chapter yet. 

• Coca-Cola and UMG are locked in. They joined forces to launch Real Thing Records to “elevate emerging talent from around the world” and bring fans and artists together.

• Dame Dash has to pay up. He has reportedly lost his companies and copyrights in order to pay off more than $800,000 of debt.

• Gunna is giving back. He is co-hosting a youth empowerment camp in Frisco, Texas on June 21st along with Washington Commanders offensive lineman Laremy Tunsil, and Kansas City Chiefs defensive end Charles Omenihu.

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