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[2Cool2Blog @2Cool2Blog]

50 Cent says marriage is a bad contract via @AppleMusic

[Kurrco @Kurrco]

THE GAME
DRAKE

NO BREAKS

FULL PREMIERE 🚨

[ATLHEAUX🤪🤪🤪🤪 @FoxBeTweetin]

Saves for football szn *

[STILLTRU @itsstilltru]

the amount of rules in life that are made up just to see if you’re pussy is mad funny

[AB @AB84]

San Francisco rubbing off on em…

[CY Chels @SeewhyChels]

🚨 Akademiks reacts to Marc Lamont Hill’s response on the Joe Budden Podcast and DOUBLES DOWN on his problem with hip-hop “journalists” but says Marc wasn’t really his target, ROB MARKMAN was

Ak says journalists should be fact-checking his theories and telling the public when he’s right, wrong, or onto something instead of becoming what he calls “reaction channels.”

“Y’all got bullied or fired out of doing journalism. Y’all all are now reaction channels.”

Then he FLAMES Rob for calling journalism his “superpower”

“What superpower? Reading ain’t your superpower. Talking ain’t your superpower. What the f*ck superpower do you have?”

[hy @TheMindOfHY]

TDE did irreparable damage to this woman's career.

They invested too much marketing dollars into her; tried to present her as this new superstar that had a huge fan base, which was not the case.

Now, it's so bad that people are taking a song from an album cut on a separate artist's project and using it to make her look bad.

Most people aren't going to read into this. They're not going to look into what the song is. You can see by the replies, they just need more of a reason to hate on her. It's not for any facetious reason, it's because people felt like they were being gaslit, which they were.

[october @jacksonoctoberr]

@QuickestTempa

[Chad Johnson @ochocinco]

Pinkyyy

[CulturedUpdates @CulturedUpdatez]

Kevin Durant reveals where he puts himself amongst the all time Greats:

“The TOP, I can relate to the Michael Jordan’s, the Kobe’s, the Lebron’s, Larry Bird. I’m at that table.”

“I feel like I Mastered the game, and that should be the only goal, I don’t give a f*ck about Magic Johnson or Larry Bird and what they’ve done in comparison to me”.

KD letting it be known, he’s HIMothy and I ain’t mad at it. His career, what he’s accomplished & individual skill gives him a green light to say that. One of the greatest the game has ever seen, for sure.

You agree or disagree? Is he at that table?

[(st_ides) @benjamins_st]

Joe Budden’s critique is straightforward: J. Cole often comes off disingenuous because his explanations follow a repeated structure‼️“At first I felt like this… and then I felt like this.”‼️ Reacting to Cole’s Cam’ron interview during the "Fall Off" press run, Budden said he doesn’t believe much of what Cole says‼️.

In that one interview alone, Cole used the pivot on the Cam lawsuit, the Kendrick diss, features that were supposed to happen, and how Jay-Z handled early marketing and deals‼️. Budden’s issue isn’t changing your mind; it’s the polished, after-the-fact framing that makes every prior stance feel provisional‼️.

The Diss Track as the clearest example of the pattern‼️
This is the highest-profile version of it‼️.

- On “First Person Shooter” with Drake, Cole claimed the Big 3: “We the big three like we started a league.”‼️
- Kendrick hit back on “Like That.”
- Cole responded with “7 Minute Drill” on "Might Delete Later"‼️catalog shots, “fell off like "The Simpsons",” “your last shit was tragic,” framed as a warning shot‼️.
- Days later at Dreamville Fest he called it “the lamest shit I ever did,” said it didn’t sit right with his spirit, apologized, and pulled it from streaming‼️.

On “Port Antonio” he reframed it as choosing not to lose a “bro” and said he was “finally free” after people stripped him of the Big 3 label‼️. Budden called that out as dodging accountability for helping create the framing in the first place and labeled the whole posture soft‼️.

The sequence is the pattern: assertive positioning → engagement → rapid spiritual retraction → new narrative that makes the earlier move look like a lapse or external pressure‼️💯.

Other instances that fit the same mold⁉️
Big 3 / competitive posture vs. “I don’t really feel a way.”
Cole has long presented as someone above the competitive circus who values peace‼️. Yet he amplified the Big 3 language, dropped a structured response when challenged, then immediately walked it back as a misrepresentation of himself‼️. Later interviews describe the initial reaction to “Like That” as mixed and the diss as him saying “just enough”‼️again the calculated middle path that later gets rejected as inauthentic to his spirit‼️.

For years the no-features stance was part of the brand‼️. He later became more open to collabs, and some origin stories around certain records (like the YouTube “J. Cole type beat”) were called pandering by Budden‼️. The shift itself isn’t the problem; the way earlier purity gets narrated versus later pragmatism creates the same “at first / then” texture‼️.

Cole’s accounts of the early Roc years—pressure for hits, the awkward “tell Drake to give him one” moment, confrontations about creative direction, getting his masters via distribution often land in the exact “at first it felt like X with Hov, then it evolved into Y” structure Budden flagged‼️. Budden has also suggested the current public closeness feels performative given how rarely they appear together‼️.

The Civic / Trunk Sale run for "The Fall Off" (old Civic, hand-to-hand sales, roots emphasis) got labeled performative by Budden‼️“fake humble,” “I’m rich but I relate to you.”‼️ Similar skepticism follows other moments where Cole leans into the everyman posture while operating at a high commercial level‼️.

The core of the critique⁉️:Cole’s public self often arrives with a built-in escape hatch‼️. Words and actions can contradict in sequence (engage then retreat; claim competitive stake then claim spiritual misalignment)‼️, and the explanations smooth it into growth or principle afterward‼️. Defenders see consistency with his longer-term values around peace and relationships‼️. Critics see a pattern of testing the waters, then cleaning it up when the temperature rises‼️. “7 Minute Drill” is simply the most public version of a tendency already visible in interviews and smaller career moves‼️💯.

[RubbaBandGrant 🇭🇹 @RubbBandGrant]

we got a grown MAN. making 12 year old girls bounce they titties with him and nobody thinks it’s weird. But yall finna call me weird for calling it out.

[Chris Original Black Navy Vet @Chris4Perkins2]

Systemic racism explained

[Michael Abston @mtvmikee]

Don’t let Josh Allen have a bad game this season 😂😂😂

[AuxGod @AuxGod_]

Damon Wayans recently revealed an action figure of his beloved legendary Major Payne character, ‘Major Benson Winifred Payne’, and decided to give us a quick impression

[Quincy Avery @QuincyAvery]

What replaced stream east?

[one54africa @one54africa]

"My dad would come home and he would have a deer strapped to his back." - Van

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[one54africa @one54africa]

“America said go out and buy land, so we bought more land.” - Van

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