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Fat Joe pulled up to Jay-Z and Beyonce's pizza party in a Yankee fitted and still remembered he was "middle class" by the time he hit the sprinter back to Jersey 💀
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Jay-Z's group paid about $56 million for Tidal's parent in 2015. Square paid $297 million for 80% of it in 2021. In between, Kanye said Tidal owed him $3 million, and Jay said he had given Kanye $20 million.
February 14, 2016. The Life of Pablo comes out on Tidal only. Kanye is one of the app's artist co-owners. That same day he tweets that he is $53 million in personal debt.
Reports said Pablo brought Tidal 1.5 million new subscribers. Kanye's camp said his contract paid a bonus for them.
The same year he got a reported advance for his Saint Pablo Tour. In November he cancelled the rest of the dates.
June 30, 2017. Jay releases 4:44 and raps about the $20 million. Days later TMZ reports that Kanye's lawyers sent Tidal letters claiming about $3 million. Tidal answers that he never delivered the videos the deal required.
Kanye's version came in May 2018: a Live Nation touring deal arranged by Roc Nation, not a gift. The framing "made me feel like I owed more than just the money itself."
Jay's version, on Rap Radar: "The $20 million thing shouldn't have been said. Sometimes you go too far."
Kanye had the better side of the $3 million fight. One album added a reported 1.5 million subscribers to an app that later sold for $297 million, and the bonus came to about 1% of that.
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For years, 50 Cent told it like this: his friend robbed Ja Rule for his chain, and that started one of rap's biggest beefs. Ja Rule says 50 had nothing to do with it. The man with the gun was angry about a girl.
"He pulls out the burner on me." 1999, Southside Jamaica, Queens. Ja says a guy he knew, just home from prison, rolled up on his block, put a gun on him and accused him of sleeping with his girl while he was locked up. Ja handed over the chain. "The guy with the gun won."
Within 20 minutes, he says, a big homie from the neighborhood got the chain back. No watch was ever traded for it, he says.
In 50's version, Ja got angry after seeing him at a club with the robber. In October 1999, 50 released "Life's on the Line," aimed at Ja and Murder Inc. In March 2000, 50 was stabbed at the Hit Factory studio in New York. Murder Inc. rapper Black Child later said he did it.
Ja's name for 50 as a storyteller: "MC Gusto."
In the video below, Ja Rule tells his version himself, start to finish.
Two men, one chain, two stories. Whose version do you believe?
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Joe Budden asks the room how they would feel if their significant other received an invitation to Drake’s birthday party.
Joe Budden brings up reports that Lena the Plug received a personal invitation from Drake and requested a plus one. The assumption was that she would bring another woman, but instead, her alleged fiancé, Adam22, ended up being her plus one.
(Source: The Joe Budden Podcast @ Patreon Exclusive)
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Camron says someone in Australia named Camron Giles has been receiving his BMI publishing checks then says he shockingly found out Un Rivera credited himself as a writer on his album after looking into it 😳
(Via @TalkwithFlee/@revolttv)
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Pooh Shiesty momma and Kodak meet and. We can see where Pooh Shiesty gets his gangster from😭🔥🐍
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Jay-Z: $2.5 billion. Dame Dash's third of Roc-A-Fella: auctioned for $1 million. Dame says it ended at one dinner, with one sentence from Jay.
He says he'd heard it from L.A. Reid: Jay would take the Def Jam president job, but Dame and Biggs couldn't come with him. Dame didn't believe it. At dinner, he says, Jay told him: "As long as you're around, I can't be looked at as a businessman."
The facts: Jay-Z, Dame Dash and Biggs Burke started Roc-A-Fella in 1995. In 2004 Def Jam bought the rest and made Jay its president. In 2024, Dame's one-third stake went to New York State for $1 million, over $1.7 million in back taxes.
Dame, in the video: "It was more friendship for me and money for him."
The case for Dame: he says every label turned Jay down until they built their own. He ran the business. He thought partners stay partners.
The case for Jay: the songs and the voice were his. He wanted to grow as a businessman. Nobody signs a friendship for life.
In the video below, Dame describes that dinner.
If your best friend outgrows your business, does he owe you a seat?
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"JAY-Z DON'T LIKE CHRIS BROWN, DRAKE OR KANYE THAT'S WHY HE'S DOING THE SUPERBOWL" 😳
Mase isn't one to hold his tongue and on the 'It Is What It Is' podcast with Cam'ron he talked about Jay-Z headlining the NFL Superbowl Halftime show.
Mase went over the potential better artists that could've headlined like Drake Chris Brown or Kanye West but because Jay doesn't like them they aren't considered for the show.
"Who could've done it? Kanye? Drake? Chris Brown? people he don't like. Hov we onto you Hov, you need more people Hov that's what you told me. But I dig it man it's his show, he gets to pick himself he sat with himself and told his self we need to do this show."
Is Mase telling the truth?
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Two months before 50 Cent's child support for his oldest son ran out, he walked into a jewelry store and found his son at the counter. He was trading two small diamond chains for a bigger one. "With the money I'm mailing."
In the video below, 50 Cent tells it himself, in 2020.
His son Marquise was 23. "It's not a baby no more, it's a grown man."
For years 50 blamed the boy's mother. "But it's not his mother, it's him." He says his son now poses for photos with the people 50 is at war with.
His explanation is about money. "When you pray for success, you don't necessarily pray for the things that come with it." Entitlement growing in someone you love, he says, is the scariest part. "So while being a privileged child, he feels deprived."
Then the question he keeps asking himself: "How long can you love something that don't love you back?"
"I didn't think success would cost me my firstborn."
Marquise sees it the other way. On an Instagram Live in 2022 he said a father who isn't there "physically and emotionally" still owes him: "I should not want for anything."
Did 50 Cent pay what he owed and owe nothing more, or did he buy his way out of being a father?
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🚨 DJ AKADEMIKS REVEALS WHAT FAT JOE TOLD HIM ABOUT THE JOE BUDDEN SEATS AT THE KNICKS HOME OPENER! 😂🏀
DJ Akademiks tells a hilarious story about running into Fat Joe at the Knicks vs. 76ers home opener, where Joe explained exactly why he refuses to sit in the second row at major events!
After seeing how Fat Joe reacted to Joe Budden sitting behind him at the game, Ak says he was grateful to run into Fat Joe before anybody could catch him sitting in those same seats. 😂
🗣️ DJ Akademiks:
➡️ Ak says the first person he ran into at the celebrity entrance was Fat Joe, and he immediately felt relieved because he knew he had the co-sign!
➡️ Fat Joe explained that when people are always talking about millions of dollars and how much money they make, he doesn’t understand why they’re sitting behind him at events.
➡️ Joe told Ak that he learned his lesson after 50 Cent once ended up sitting directly in front of him at an event. Since then, he’s made it a rule never to sit in the second row because, according to Joe, your biggest opp might end up sitting right in front of you! 😂
➡️ Ak also tells a hilarious story about getting on an overloaded elevator with Fat Joe. When the elevator started beeping, Joe reportedly told somebody else to get off instead of stepping off himself! 😭
➡️ Things got even crazier when Ak ran into Joe Budden on the phone just minutes after seeing Fat Joe. Ak told Joe about the conversation and how Fat Joe had explained the whole second-row situation.
➡️ Ak also ran into Funk Flex, who told him, “Akku, listen, I got the 5 million for you!” and said they needed to bring him up on the show.
Ak says Fat Joe is a legend and that, whether he’s telling the stories exactly as they happened or just knows how to make them entertaining, the man knows how to keep everybody laughing!
😂 Fat Joe really got his own rules when it comes to these celebrity events! Imagine being so serious about your seating arrangement that you refuse to sit in the second row because your biggest opp might be right in front of you!
💭 Do y’all agree with Fat Joe? Is the second row really humiliating when your opps are in the building sitting in front you ? 👀
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i’ve literally rewatched the sopranos twice this year alone, and every time it’s still just as good!
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Quavo talks about squashing beef with offset after he smashed his girlfriend Saweetie. He said he was hurt because he really loved her and that was his brother. Players mess up and I’ve sniped his girls too so after we chopped it up and laughed we got back cool 😬
“He hit my girl and I hit his…we square”
