LISTEN: Lil Durk Reworks G Herbo’s “Never Cared”

Ye walked into the federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday and sat in the second row with Lil Durk’s family as cooperating witness Kacey “OTF Jam” Hester testified for a second straight day against the Chicago rapper. Outside, Ye posed for a photo with OTF artist Doodie Lo, both holding a “Free Durk” T-shirt. Doodie Lo, born David Saulsberry, posted the picture to his verified Instagram and wrote, “Ye We Love And Respect You For Showing Up At Our Darkest Times,” per a No Jumper post that pulled in more than 600 likes within hours. The appearance came...

Tekashi 6ix9ine has found himself once again at the center of Lil Durk’s high-stakes federal trial, this time through testimony that placed his long-running online provocations squarely in the courtroom record. During proceedings in Los Angeles this week, cooperating witness Kacey Hester — better known as OTF Jam — described an Atlanta studio conversation that allegedly took place in the period leading up to the August 2022 shooting at the heart of the case. According to Hester, Durk (whom he referred to as “Blood”) and several associates discussed the persistent online trolling that followed King Von’s death in 2020. The...

The Game marked his daughter Cali Lynn Dream Taylor’s 16th birthday in classic big-dad fashion over the weekend, surprising her with a brand-new Mercedes-Maybach estimated at $300,000 during a private party in Beverly Hills. https://twitter.com/HypefreshC/status/2091884370558849282 Video from the Saturday night celebration shows the Compton rapper leading Cali outside while she wore a blindfold, with party guests looking on. Once the covering came off, Cali reacted with pure excitement — shouting “I got a car!” before climbing into the driver’s seat, playing music and posing with the keys. Her mother, Tiffney Cambridge, stood nearby as The Game watched the moment unfold with...

Dr. Dre is sharing his thoughts on AI’s growing role in music. In an interview with The New York Times alongside his longtime business partner Jimmy Iovine, the legendary rapper and producer called AI a “new tool for creativity” and said he doesn’t see it “as a threat.” https://twitter.com/HypefreshC/status/2091881819012796855 In the piece, published Sunday (Aug. 23), Dre compared resistance to AI with the skepticism that initially greeted drum machines and synthesizers. “I had a discussion with a few people a few days ago,” Dre told the Times. “They were against AI and I’m like, ‘OK, you sound like the person that would have...