Kanye West Breaks New Record, Thanks To SoFi Stadium Show
Ye's SoFi Stadium shows helped him hold the new record for the highest-grossing concert by a rapper.
It’s going to take much more than some backlash to cancel Kanye West. Despite every attempt to prevent him from performing across the world, it seems that the scarcity is lending itself to major ticket sales to a point where he’s now breaking records. Kind of crazy how the guy everyone called a Nazi is selling out stadiums, huh?
Per Kurrco, Ye now holds the record for the highest-grossing concert by a rapper in history. This comes after each of his SoFi Stadium concerts grossed $16.3 million. Each of the two concerts sold 74,389 tickets. That alone broke SoFi Stadium’s concert gross record. However, it also made Ye the first rapper to surpass 70K tickets and $16M from one show in the U.S. Regardless of how you feel about him, it’s a pretty extraordinary feat that contextualizes his significance in music and culture, despite his actions and comments.
Ye’s continued to perform across the U.S and the globe over the past few months, and it’s proven to be incredibly successful, even without mass support from the media. In Istanbul, he declared that he had the largest stadium show of all time, drawing in 118K audience members. And with show dates lined up in the U.S. now, it feels like we’ll probably hear more records being broken in the future.
Kanye West's New Certifications
Outside of that, Ye has continued to rack up some impressive feats as of late. Most recently, he became the artist with the most amount of gold and platinum songs. The RIAA just certified 68 records and helped him add another new record to his belt.
With the release of Bully earlier this year, fans are wondering what happens next for him. He’s stated that he isn’t working on a new album currently, but fans got a deluxe edition of the album recently. We’ll keep you posted on further updates.
It’s going to take much more than some backlash to cancel Kanye West. Despite every attempt to prevent him from performing across the world, it seems that the scarcity is lending itself to major ticket sales to a point where he’s now breaking records. Kind of crazy how the guy everyone called a Nazi is selling out stadiums, huh?
Per Kurrco, Ye now holds the record for the highest-grossing concert by a rapper in history. This comes after each of his SoFi Stadium concerts grossed $16.3 million. Each of the two concerts sold 74,389 tickets. That alone broke SoFi Stadium’s concert gross record. However, it also made Ye the first rapper to surpass 70K tickets and $16M from one show in the U.S. Regardless of how you feel about him, it’s a pretty extraordinary feat that contextualizes his significance in music and culture, despite his actions and comments.
Ye’s continued to perform across the U.S and the globe over the past few months, and it’s proven to be incredibly successful, even without mass support from the media. In Istanbul, he declared that he had the largest stadium show of all time, drawing in 118K audience members. And with show dates lined up in the U.S. now, it feels like we’ll probably hear more records being broken in the future.
Kanye West's New Certifications
Outside of that, Ye has continued to rack up some impressive feats as of late. Most recently, he became the artist with the most amount of gold and platinum songs. The RIAA just certified 68 records and helped him add another new record to his belt.
With the release of Bully earlier this year, fans are wondering what happens next for him. He’s stated that he isn’t working on a new album currently, but fans got a deluxe edition of the album recently. We’ll keep you posted on further updates.
Alley Boy Dead At 42
The Atlanta rapper reportedly passed away after a long battle with kidney failure.
Tragedy has struck Atlanta this weekend after news of Alley Boy’s death. The rapper was 42 years old, per All Hip Hop. News of his passing surfaced on Sunday, though an official statement from his family or representatives had not been released at the time of publication. The rapper, born Curt Freeman, had spent the last several years publicly documenting his declining health while hoping to receive a kidney transplant.
Following reports of his death, peers and friends shared tributes across social media. Big Bank, DJ Scream, Rocko, and Hot Boy Turk were among those who honored Alley Boy's legacy. The "Fish Fry" rapper is remembered as one of the most respected voices to emerge from Atlanta's Zone 6 because of his authenticity and influence on the city's rap scene.
Alley Boy never shied away from discussing the circumstances that led to kidney failure. During an appearance on the A Humble Soul podcast, he explained that his kidneys were severely damaged after years of drinking lean and complications with high blood pressure. The Gift Of Discernment MC used his own story as a cautionary tale, especially after detailing how he also used to sell codeine. In 2024, he was undergoing dialysis three times a week for more than a year while waiting for a transplant that ultimately never came.
Alley Boy’s Career
Over the course of his career, Alley Boy became a key figure in Atlanta’s trap scene, having made a name for himself in the underground and co-founding the label Duct Tape Entertainment, which later secured a distribution deal through Asylum/Atlantic Records. Throughout his career, he collaborated with major artists in hip-hop, including Gucci Mane, Young Jeezy, Future, Freddie Gibbs, Pusha T, Yo Gotti, Meek Mill, Master P and more. Rest In Peace, Alley Boy.
Sound off in the comments with your favorite Alley Boy song.
Tragedy has struck Atlanta this weekend after news of Alley Boy’s death. The rapper was 42 years old, per All Hip Hop. News of his passing surfaced on Sunday, though an official statement from his family or representatives had not been released at the time of publication. The rapper, born Curt Freeman, had spent the last several years publicly documenting his declining health while hoping to receive a kidney transplant.
Following reports of his death, peers and friends shared tributes across social media. Big Bank, DJ Scream, Rocko, and Hot Boy Turk were among those who honored Alley Boy's legacy. The "Fish Fry" rapper is remembered as one of the most respected voices to emerge from Atlanta's Zone 6 because of his authenticity and influence on the city's rap scene.
Alley Boy never shied away from discussing the circumstances that led to kidney failure. During an appearance on the A Humble Soul podcast, he explained that his kidneys were severely damaged after years of drinking lean and complications with high blood pressure. The Gift Of Discernment MC used his own story as a cautionary tale, especially after detailing how he also used to sell codeine. In 2024, he was undergoing dialysis three times a week for more than a year while waiting for a transplant that ultimately never came.
Alley Boy’s Career
Over the course of his career, Alley Boy became a key figure in Atlanta’s trap scene, having made a name for himself in the underground and co-founding the label Duct Tape Entertainment, which later secured a distribution deal through Asylum/Atlantic Records. Throughout his career, he collaborated with major artists in hip-hop, including Gucci Mane, Young Jeezy, Future, Freddie Gibbs, Pusha T, Yo Gotti, Meek Mill, Master P and more. Rest In Peace, Alley Boy.
Sound off in the comments with your favorite Alley Boy song.
Kanye West Becomes Artist With The Most Songs Certified Gold Or Platinum
Ye just earned a whopping 68 fresh certifications from the Recording Industry Association of America, helping him make history.
Kanye West is still pushing for the next steps of his career, hosting stadium shows around the world and recently dropping his new album BULLY. But even if Ye chose to hang the cape up for good, the strength of his catalog will continue to resonate and keep him in all-time conversations.
Thanks to a fresh batch of a whopping 68 new certifications from the Recording Industry Association of America, he is now the artist with the most gold or platinum-certified songs in history, according to Rap on Instagram. The previous artist to hold this record was reportedly NBA YoungBoy. These include updated certifications for multi-platinum songs and albums, some first-time platinum records, and a few fresh Gold plaques.
You can check out the full list caught by Bars on IG below, the highest certification of which is "Heartless" going 14 times platinum. Albums-wise, Graduation is now eight times platinum, The College Dropout is six times platinum, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is five times platinum, 808s & Heartbreak is four times platinum... The list goes on.
First-time platinum records include "Spaceship," "Saint Pablo," Jesus Is King, "Dark Fantasy," "Hey Mama," "New Slaves," and "Only One." New gold tracks include "Send It Up," "Say You Will," "Roses," "No Child Left Behind," "Frank's Track," and "Two Words."
This historic achievement is something Kanye West will celebrate on the road by bringing these hits to life internationally. Ye's next show is in Spain on July 30, followed by Portugal on August 7, Kazakhstan on August 14, New Orleans on August 28, and Chicago on September 3 and 4. All these announcements have been pretty sudden and individual for each show. So there could be many more concerts and performances to come.
Other MCs got massive RIAA updates this weekend. Amid the success of The Real Me, Future got his own heap of certifications; 53 of them, to be exact.
While commercial metrics certainly aren't everything in hip-hop, Ye and other legends already proved their staying power culturally and artistically. So to see their efforts yield big-buck results is more of an inevitability than anything else.
Ye just earned a whopping 68 fresh certifications from the Recording Industry Association of America, helping him make history.
Kanye West is still pushing for the next steps of his career, hosting stadium shows around the world and recently dropping his new album BULLY. But even if Ye chose to hang the cape up for good, the strength of his catalog will continue to resonate and keep him in all-time conversations.
Thanks to a fresh batch of a whopping 68 new certifications from the Recording Industry Association of America, he is now the artist with the most gold or platinum-certified songs in history, according to Rap on Instagram. The previous artist to hold this record was reportedly NBA YoungBoy. These include updated certifications for multi-platinum songs and albums, some first-time platinum records, and a few fresh Gold plaques.
You can check out the full list caught by Bars on IG below, the highest certification of which is "Heartless" going 14 times platinum. Albums-wise, Graduation is now eight times platinum, The College Dropout is six times platinum, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is five times platinum, 808s & Heartbreak is four times platinum... The list goes on.
First-time platinum records include "Spaceship," "Saint Pablo," Jesus Is King, "Dark Fantasy," "Hey Mama," "New Slaves," and "Only One." New gold tracks include "Send It Up," "Say You Will," "Roses," "No Child Left Behind," "Frank's Track," and "Two Words."
This historic achievement is something Kanye West will celebrate on the road by bringing these hits to life internationally. Ye's next show is in Spain on July 30, followed by Portugal on August 7, Kazakhstan on August 14, New Orleans on August 28, and Chicago on September 3 and 4. All these announcements have been pretty sudden and individual for each show. So there could be many more concerts and performances to come.
Other MCs got massive RIAA updates this weekend. Amid the success of The Real Me, Future got his own heap of certifications; 53 of them, to be exact.
While commercial metrics certainly aren't everything in hip-hop, Ye and other legends already proved their staying power culturally and artistically. So to see their efforts yield big-buck results is more of an inevitability than anything else.
Eminem’s Ex-Wife Kim Scott Hospitalized After Suicide Attempt Two Months Post-DUI Arrest
Kim Scott’s health crisis arrives two months after her felony DUI arrest, marking another rough turn in her ongoing legal battles in Michigan.
Kim Scott landed in the hospital over the weekend after a medical emergency at her Michigan home, marking another chapter in what’s been an absolutely brutal three months for Eminem’s ex-wife.
Paramedics responded to her residence around 8 P.M. Saturday and transported her to McLaren Macomb Hospital on a gurney after she suffered what was reported as a hemorrhage or laceration causing heavy, uncontrolled bleeding.
According to the 911 audio, a caller revealed that Scott allegedly cut her wrist with a knife.
The 51-year-old’s health crisis arrives exactly two months after her May 14 arrest in Mt. Clemens, where she allegedly struck a parked vehicle and blew a .204 blood alcohol content, nearly three times Michigan’s legal limit.
That May incident wasn’t just another DUI charge.
Kim Scott landed in the hospital over the weekend after a medical emergency at her Michigan home, marking another chapter in what’s been an absolutely brutal three months for Eminem’s ex-wife.
Paramedics responded to her residence around 8 P.M. Saturday and transported her to McLaren Macomb Hospital on a gurney after she suffered what was reported as a hemorrhage or laceration causing heavy, uncontrolled bleeding.
According to the 911 audio, a caller revealed that Scott allegedly cut her wrist with a knife.
The 51-year-old’s health crisis arrives exactly two months after her May 14 arrest in Mt. Clemens, where she allegedly struck a parked vehicle and blew a .204 blood alcohol content, nearly three times Michigan’s legal limit.
That May incident wasn’t just another DUI charge.
It was her third offense, which automatically elevated the charge to a felony under Michigan law, carrying potential prison time of 1 to 5 years or jail time ranging from 30 days to 1 year, plus probation, community service, and fines up to $5,000.
Before May, there was February. Scott allegedly hit a parked Dodge Ram pickup truck in a Range Rover, pushing it roughly 50 feet before crashing into her own garage door with her son Parker and three of his friends inside the vehicle.
She pleaded no contest to operating while impaired and failure to stop after a collision in that case. Macomb County Prosecutor Pete Lucido stated at the time, “Driving under the influence is not a lapse in judgment; it is a deliberate decision that puts every person on the road at risk.”
The legal troubles compounded when Scott missed a June court hearing, prompting a judge to issue a $10,000 bench warrant for her arrest.
That warrant was later dismissed, but the damage was done. Missing a court date in Michigan carries its own penalties: up to 1 year in jail and fines of up to $1,000.
Scott was briefly booked at Macomb County Jail following the May arrest and appeared nearly unrecognizable in her mugshot with a pixie haircut.
She’s the mother of four, including three children she shares with Eminem from their marriages in 1999-2001 and a brief marriage in 2006:
Hailie Jade (30), Alaina (33), and Stevie (24). She also has a son named Parker from a relationship after her split from the rapper.
Her current condition at McLaren Macomb Hospital remains unknown, but per TMZ, paramedics found her unconscious when they arrived at her home.
The warrants that were issued against her in June have since been canceled, according to court records.
EXCLUSIVE: 50 Cent Uses Ja Rule Wrong-Number Call To Fight Ex-Assistant’s Lawsuit
50 Cent tells a judge a 1 a.m. call from someone claiming to be Ja Rule proves his ex-assistant wasn’t harassed.
50 Cent‘s lawyers say a caller claiming to be Ja Rule dialed his former assistant at 1:00 in the morning, looking for him instead of her.
That call is central to his defense in a new motion to dismiss a harassment lawsuit filed by Monique Mayers, his longtime former executive.
AllHipHop broke the news about Mayers’s lawsuit back in April, when she went public with the claims against 50 Cent.
Mayers says it started in 2015, when she refused to help 50 Cent hide assets during his bankruptcy by putting property in her own name.
She also says he pressured her to file a false police report accusing his driver and bodyguard of stealing $600,000 in cash. When she refused both requests, Mayers claims 50 Cent fired her in 2019 and got Forbes to pull a feature story about her career.
Mayers claims she got more than 80 harassing calls and texts from 25 different numbers between 2019 and this year.
50 Cent’s motion says none of the calls came from him, and strangers simply mixed up her number with his.
The Ja Rule caller is the clearest example the filing uses to make that point.
Another caller, Victor Sena, texted Mayers in 2023, saying he’d gotten her number from 50 Cent for concert tickets. He even called her by 50 Cent’s nickname, proof he thought he’d reached the rapper himself.
The rap star’s legal team argues the court lacks jurisdiction over 50 Cent, a Texas resident. Georgia’s long-arm statute requires that the alleged conduct occur within the state, and 50 Cent’s lawyers say none of it did.
The motion also says that most of Mayers’s claims fall outside Georgia’s two-year statute of limitations. 50 Cent’s team calls the case a media stunt, filed years after her 2019 firing.
A separate section of the motion defends a deposition question Mayers called “grotesquely outrageous,” about the unsolved 2006 murder of Israel Ramirez.
Ramirez was Busta Rhymes’s bodyguard, shot dead outside a Brooklyn video shoot where 50 Cent and other G-Unit members were present. 50 Cent’s attorneys argue that the question is protected legal conduct and doesn’t constitute extreme or outrageous behavior under Georgia law.
50 Cent’s filing goes further, asking the court to order Mayers to pay his attorney’s fees, calling her case frivolous and vexatious.
Judge Victoria Calvert, who’s overseeing the case, hasn’t ruled on the motion yet.
50 Cent‘s lawyers say a caller claiming to be Ja Rule dialed his former assistant at 1:00 in the morning, looking for him instead of her.
That call is central to his defense in a new motion to dismiss a harassment lawsuit filed by Monique Mayers, his longtime former executive.
AllHipHop broke the news about Mayers’s lawsuit back in April, when she went public with the claims against 50 Cent.
Mayers says it started in 2015, when she refused to help 50 Cent hide assets during his bankruptcy by putting property in her own name.
She also says he pressured her to file a false police report accusing his driver and bodyguard of stealing $600,000 in cash. When she refused both requests, Mayers claims 50 Cent fired her in 2019 and got Forbes to pull a feature story about her career.
Mayers claims she got more than 80 harassing calls and texts from 25 different numbers between 2019 and this year.
50 Cent’s motion says none of the calls came from him, and strangers simply mixed up her number with his.
The Ja Rule caller is the clearest example the filing uses to make that point.
Another caller, Victor Sena, texted Mayers in 2023, saying he’d gotten her number from 50 Cent for concert tickets. He even called her by 50 Cent’s nickname, proof he thought he’d reached the rapper himself.
The rap star’s legal team argues the court lacks jurisdiction over 50 Cent, a Texas resident. Georgia’s long-arm statute requires that the alleged conduct occur within the state, and 50 Cent’s lawyers say none of it did.
The motion also says that most of Mayers’s claims fall outside Georgia’s two-year statute of limitations. 50 Cent’s team calls the case a media stunt, filed years after her 2019 firing.
A separate section of the motion defends a deposition question Mayers called “grotesquely outrageous,” about the unsolved 2006 murder of Israel Ramirez.
Ramirez was Busta Rhymes’s bodyguard, shot dead outside a Brooklyn video shoot where 50 Cent and other G-Unit members were present. 50 Cent’s attorneys argue that the question is protected legal conduct and doesn’t constitute extreme or outrageous behavior under Georgia law.
50 Cent’s filing goes further, asking the court to order Mayers to pay his attorney’s fees, calling her case frivolous and vexatious.
Judge Victoria Calvert, who’s overseeing the case, hasn’t ruled on the motion yet.
Diddy Sells Miami Freak-Off Mansion For $55M
Diddy sells his $55 million Star Island mansion where prosecutors say freak-offs happened, but keeps his other Miami property worth $14.5 million.
The lavish estate is where federal prosecutors say he orchestrated some of his most notorious freak-offs, and the sale marks a major shift in his real estate portfolio during his ongoing incarceration.
The property, which he purchased from Gloria Estefan in 2021 for $35 million, became central to the government’s case against him, with trial testimony detailing how the waterfront estate served as a hub for the alleged sex-trafficking operation that landed him a 50-month federal sentence.
Prosecutors presented evidence showing how the mansion’s layout and amenities made it ideal for hosting the elaborate parties that prosecutors say involved coercion and violence.
During his trial, witnesses testified about the logistics of organizing these events at the property, with federal agents describing what they found during their March 2024 raid.
The mansion’s location on Miami’s most exclusive island made it a fortress of privacy, allowing Diddy to operate with minimal outside interference according to court documents.
But here’s the thing: Diddy isn’t losing his foothold in Miami because he still owns another Star Island property he purchased back in 2003 for $14.5 million, keeping him firmly planted in one of the country’s most expensive neighborhoods.
The real estate moves reveal a calculated strategy as Diddy serves his sentence.
According to the South Florida Business Journal, the sale represents a significant liquidation of his most controversial property, though he’s simultaneously holding onto his other Miami holdings while his $61.5 million Beverly Hills mansion remains delisted from the market.
Diddy’s portfolio still includes multiple properties across the country, giving him substantial assets despite his legal troubles.
His projected release date from federal prison is February 23, 2028, giving him roughly two years remaining on his sentence.