Soulja Boy Showbiz and Celebrity Breaking News

Soulja Boy, 31, has some explaining to do to his longtime girlfriend Aliyah Hanes, 29, who claims that the rapper didn’t tell her that he was expecting a baby with another woman. If that weren’t bad enough, Aliyah — who said in a shocking interview with Daily Mail that she was “best friends and lovers” with Soulja Boy for “over a decade” — found out about his new bundle of (not so) joy on Instagram, when he posted a video on March 19 that announced to his fans that he was having a baby boy with an LA-based hairstylist named Jackie.

Lil Yachty has shared his belief that Twitch streamers are currently making “more money” than “90 per cent of rappers.”Recently, the Atlanta rapper appeared as a guest on the streetwear store CoolKicks’ ‘Shopping For Sneakers’ web series. At the end of the vlog, he and the host discussed famous Twitch streamers Kai Cenat and Adin Ross – who are both friends of Yachty’s.“Shouts out the whole AMP [Cenat’s creator group], shouts out fuckin’ Adin Ross,” he said. “The young guys, the young bros, they goin’ crazy.

YouTube’s Director of Black Music & Culture and the founder of Spotify’s Rap Caviar playlist, has spoken to NME about hip-hop’s 50th anniversary, YouTube’s new FIFTY DEEP programme and why Soulja Boy deserves his props as an innovator of “youth culture.”The Congolese-American’s career has been heavily intertwined with the genre. Earlier in his life, he helped programme hip-hop music on BET – where shows like Rap City earned the network huge ratings, VJed on MTV in the early ‘00s, and even worked with rap mogul Diddy for three years at Bad Boy Records.One of his biggest feats, however, is creating the popular Rap Caviar playlist for Spotify: now the most-followed rap playlist on the streaming platform and meant to represent the creme de la creme of all things hip-hop.“I didn’t pitch it necessarily,” Basa said, explaining how Rap Caviar came about.

2023 BET Awards are set to feature a slate of star-studded performances! BET announced the first slate of stars taking the stage during «Culture's Biggest Night» on Thursday, revealing that the non-stop hip-hop party will span 50 years of the genre. 2023 nominees Coco Jones and GloRilla will take the stage to perform some of their recent hits, along with hitmakers Doechii and Lil Uzi Vert.Other performances from the full range of hip-hop subgenres include 69 Boyz, Big Daddy Kane, Chief Keef, DJ Unk, E-40, Fast Life Yungstaz & Easton (F.L.Y.), Fat Joe, Ja Rule, Kid 'N Play, MC Lyte, Percy "Master P" Miller, Remy Ma, Soulja Boy, The Sugarhill Gang, Trick Daddy, Trina, Tyga, Uncle Luke, Warren G, Ying Yang Twins, and Yo-Yo.«We have an incredible lineup of performers who will take us on a musical journey, covering Hip Hop spanning every decade, style, and region,» said Connie Orlando, BET EVP, Specials, Music Programming & Music Strategy in a press release.

Lil Yachty and Soulja Boy are among a group of famous faces who have been charged with illegally advertising cryptocurrency by the Securities and Exchange Commission. On Wednesday, the SEC filed the charges against the group of eight celebrities, which also includes musicians Ne-Yo and Akon, as well as Jake Paul, Lindsay Lohan, Austin Mahone, and Kendra Lust, with “illegally touting" crypto asset securities Tronix (TRX) and BitTorrent (BTT) "without disclosing that they were compensated for doing so and the amount of their compensation.” Despite not admitting or denying the SEC’s findings, each of the names mentioned by the SEC, except for Soulja Boy and Austin Mahone, has agreed to pay a total of over $400,000 in disgorgement, interest, and penalties to settle the charges.

Lil Yachty and Soulja Boy are among celebrities facing charges after being accused of promoting crypto assets, without disclosing that they were paid to do so.The action was taken following an ongoing investigation into crypto company owner, Justin Sun – launched by the Securities And Exchange Commission. Here, eight celebrities were found to be illegally boosting crypto assets, without disclosing payment.“While we’re neutral about the technologies at issue, we’re anything but neutral when it comes to investor protection,” said director of the SEC’s Division Of Enforcement, Gurbir S.

Soulja Boy and Lil Yachty, and YouTube personality Jake Paul, are among the defendants in a class action lawsuit over an alleged cryptocurrency “pump and dump” scheme.As reported by ClassAction.org, a lawsuit claims that Soulja, Yachty and Paul, as well as musician Nick Carter and YouTuber Ben Phillips, were recruited by the company SafeMoon to misleadingly promote and sell the cryptocurrency token ‘V1’.It is alleged that the endorsements were intended to artificially inflate the currency’s value, allowing founder and CEO Braden John Karony and other executives to sell their holdings for a profit while numbers were high.The suit says that the so-called ‘pump and dump’ strategy saw the value of the SafeMoon token rise “astronomically” after its creation in March 2021. It claims that the trading volume for SafeMoon tokens shot up a staggering 875 percent within nine days of the celebrity-driven marketing campaign, peaking at $191.6 million on April 22, according to the complaint.Central to the lawsuit is SafeMoon’s promise to create a designated ‘wallet’, in which investors would “have a better place” to hold their tokens.

Soulja Boy has said that Kanye West is to blame for his not appearing on albums by other artists.He and West were involved in a public feud after the release of the latter’s tenth album ‘Donda’ earlier this year. After his contribution was left off the final version of the release, Soulja Boy gave an interview where he called Kanye a “coward”.West then said the verse was left off because it was “trash”, to which Soulja responded on livestream calling the entirety of the ‘Donda’ trash.

Soulja Boy has spoken about his viral 2019 Drake outburst, which later became a meme.The rapper – real name DeAndre Cortez Way – was speaking on The Breakfast Club with Charlamagne Tha Godwhen the presenter said that Drake is “the biggest rapper in the world” at the time.This led Soulja Boy to get up from his chair and vent his frustrations over the airwaves. “Draaake?” he said in disbelief.

Kanye West, has apologised to Soulja Boy after dropping the rapper’s verse from his latest album, ‘DONDA’.‘DONDA’ features a smorgasbord of artists, including JAY-Z, Travis Scott, The Weeknd, Lil Baby, Kid Cudi, Pusha T and then some, but Soulja Boy didn’t make the final cut once the album was finally released in late August.Shortly after the album’s release, Soulja gave an interview where he called Ye a “coward”.“You know for a fact that Kanye’s not going to let nobody release his album without

Kanye West and Soulja Boy are on good terms again. The A-list rappers had beef in August when Ye, 44, cut Soulja’s verse from “Remote Control,” a track off of Kanye’s DONDA album. Soulja, 31, was not happy about it, and even went as far as to bring up Kanye’s estranged wife, Kim Kardashian, when he trolled the fellow rapper. But on Nov. 9, Kanye decided to text Soulja and offer an apology, which the “Crank That” rapper graciously accepted.

“I might diss u every day for the rest of my life how I’m feeling, [Kanye West],” tweeted Soulja Boy on Aug. 31, marking the second day of the (increasingly one-sided) feud between him and Kanye, 44.

Soulja Boy has hit out at Kanye West after he was left off the rapper’s new album ‘DONDA’, and has branded West a “coward”.The 27-track album, which arrived after multiple delays and three high-profile listening events, features the likes of JAY-Z, Travis Scott, The Weeknd, Lil Baby, Kid Cudi, Pusha T and more.Soulja Boy and Ariana Grande were also set to appear on the record, but were nowhere to be seen when the full credits for ‘DONDA’ were revealed.Speaking to TMZ, Soulja Boy has shared his

To say that Soulja Boy was mad after DONDA dropped would be an understatement. Soon after Chris Brown called out Kanye West for allegedly cutting his verse from “New Again,” Soulja, 31, unloaded on Kanye, 44, for allegedly cutting him from the album.

Soulja Boy announced himself as the owner of Atari, making himself “the first rapper to own a video game company”.The rapper, whose real name is DeAndre Cortez Way, shared the video on August 18 wearing a hat and tee-shirt with the company’s logo, saying, “they signed me to a deal with Atari”, sounding at first like a partnership.However, Soulja Boy continued, “I’m about to revamp the company, we’re gonna take Atari to the next level. Everybody go follow @Atari.

Soulja Boy has been issued with a restraining order against a woman who is suing him for alleged sexual assault, battery and more.The rapper’s domestic violence restraining order, which was detailed in documents obtained by TMZ, gives the claimant protection for three years until July 2024.The unnamed, alleged victim is the same woman who filed a suit against the rapper, whose real name is DeAndre Cortez Way, in January.

After Rafael Nadal pulled out of Wimbledon, Kim Kardashian seemingly offered to take his place on Thursday (June 17.) “Tennis anyone?” Kim, 40, tweeted, along with three pictures of standing on a tennis court, a racket in one hand and a ball in another. However, Kim’s outfit wasn’t your normal tennis uniform – instead, she sported a tan two-piece that showed off all her curves.

Soulja Boy has taken to social media to claim that he’s the one who “invented Logan Paul”.In a running joke that has been going on for years, the rapper has claimed on numerous occasions that there isn’t a trend in pop culture that he hasn’t had a hand in.His list of ‘I did it first’ claims range from being the first rapper to own a Lamborghini phone and multi-colour Rolex to being the first to become a successful rapper from YouTube; he even claimed that Drake, who was recently named Artist of

Bow Wow and Soulja Boy have teased their upcoming Verzuz battle, saying that the competition is going to be “bigger than life”.Verzuz is the popular entertainment series that pits producers, songwriters and artists against each other in a rap battle style format on Instagram Live and Triller.Competitors take it in turns playing a song from a list of 20 from their discography, as fans, friends and fellow artists watch on.

Soulja Boy is being sued for domestic violence, assault, and sexual battery, among other charges, by a former romantic partner.According to reports by Rolling Stone, USA Today and NBC News, the rapper – real name DeAndre Cortez Way – has been accused of punching and hitting the plaintiff, who is only identified as Jane Doe. The lawsuit alleges that Way assaulted Jane Doe when she was pregnant, and she later miscarried.

Soulja Boy faced the wrath of Randy Orton on Twitter during the early hours of March 2. It all started with Soulja’s tweet from Feb. 28, which read, “Rap game faker than WWE.” The following day, wrestler, Adam Pacitti, responded to Soulja Boy’s tweet. “Shut up you little b****,” he wrote. “I’m a WWE wrestler and I challenge you to a wrestling match for the gold.”

Soulja Boy is facing legal action from a woman alleging was sexually abused by a member of his entourage.