CARDI B REVEALS NEW SINGLE FEATURING KANYE WEST AND LIL DURK: Cardi B is officially dropping a new single called “Hot Sh*t” featuring Kanye West and Lil Durk. The track is set to arrive on Friday (July 1). However, while announcing the song, Cardi went on IG Live to vent about things not going the right way as far as releasing the song. She explained, “With the promo, I just don't feel like doing too much this time around. Because I'm just exhausted with everybody.” Cardi continued, “I'm so tired of people not doing their f**king job correctly. I'm so tired of people just doing things their way. Just…I'm just over it, you know what I'm saying? I'm over it. I'm gonna put this record out, if it do good, it do good. I think it's gonna do good 'cause at the end of the day, the record is amazing. I love the record. It's something that I feel like you haven't heard from me before.”
DETAILS ON KENDRICK LAMAR'S DIAMOND CROWN OF THORNS: Kendrick Lamar performed at Glastonbury festival this past weekend and on his head sat a titanium diamond crown of thorns, made by Tiffany & Co. Apparently, the piece took 10 months to make, contains over 9,000 diamonds and is a total of 150 carats.
YNW MELLY PUT A HIT OUT ON HIS OWN MOTHER: Florida rapper YNW Melly, who is accused of a double homicide after the murders of his two friends YWN Juvy and YNW Sakchaser, put out a hit on his mother, according to a prosecution witness in his case. According to XXL, in court documents that stem from an April 11 deposition conducted by Detective Danny Polo, Polo, who has done searches on Melly's phone, says information was obtained that shows the rapper is guilty of several crimes including authorizing a hit on his own mother. In the depo, Polo was asked by Melly's attorney, Stuart Adelstein, “Has, in your opinion, Melly authorized any communication for the commission of a crime?” Polo then replied, “Yes. If you read his phone, there’s narcotics trafficking, and firearms violations authorizing the killing of his mother. Those are the things that you would consider 'authorizing.'”
SPOTEMGOTTEM ARRESTED AFTER EVADING POLICE ON JET SKI: SpotemGottem was arrested on Sunday (June 26th) and taken into custody by the Miami-Dade Police Department after fleeing from police on a jet ski. The rapper was charged with eluding a law enforcement officer by boat, a felony and reckless operation of a boat, a misdemeanor. According to NBC 6 South Florida, police attempted to pull the rapper over who was speeding on a jet ski near Miami Marine Stadium, but Spotem did not stop. Police eventually caught up with the rapper and arrested him. He was already out on felony bond from a separate arrest from July of last year.