September 2026

Lil Durk has been acquitted on all charges in his federal murder-for-hire trial, a verdict that landed with immediate force across hip-hop circles and sparked a sharp debate about whether the outcome deserves celebration, cautious acknowledgment, or something in between.

Rod Wave sampled a significant portion of Boosie Badazz’s early catalog, cleared every track legally through Trill Entertainment, the label that owns the music, and then went a step further.

Capleton got a formal proclamation from Patrick Brown, the mayor of Brampton, Canada and the King Shango himself says reading it made him want to keep pushing harder in music.

Valiant just put the word out himself he’s celebrating his birthday in New York City this Saturday, September 19, and he wants you there.

Colin Kaepernick is not holding back on what he believes really happened when Jay-Z signed his deal with the NFL back in 2019.

Here’s the part that makes this story genuinely strange: Diddy is actually winning the defamation lawsuit his lawyers are now trying to walk away from.

The detail that keeps standing out here is not the arrest itself, it’s that a second security guard heard the glass shatter and turned around to find Boosie Badazz holding the broken hookah base while screaming at the man bleeding on the floor.

The record that probably no one saw coming after just two editions of a competition: Wizkid has now won NotJustOk’s Afrobeats Rumble back to back, making him the only artist to have lifted the title twice.

Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley is about to add a very different kind of trophy to his shelf.

Drake calling himself “Baby Gaza” might be the most unexpected flex in his recent run, and it lands in the middle of a short film that already has people talking.