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Drake’s tension with nearly half of hip-hop caused dozens of rumors to begin floating around online. It is hard to tell if Metro Boomin, the architect behind “Like That” (the track that kicked it all off), knew just how messy things would get. But he surely has provided the instrumentals for others to air out their grievances with Drake.

To quickly recap the mounting allegations made against Drake; Rick Ross accused him of undergoing several cosmetic procedures, including a rhinoplasty (more commonly referred as a nose job). The Weeknd alleged that his label, OVO Sounds, stifles the careers of its signees. Asap Rocky claimed to have been sexually involved with the mother of Drake’s son Adonis. With the exception of The Weeknd’s comments, so far Drake has addressed each remark in some way or another.

For starters, Drake seemingly denied getting a nose job. He also confirmed that Asap might have been involved with Adonis’ mother, but it doesn’t matter because in Drake’s eyes he had Rihanna (who so happens to be the mother of Asap Rocky’s two sons, RZA and Riot) first.

But on Kendrick Lamar’s latest lethal diss, “Meet The Grahams,” he pulled what fans are dubbing “a Pusha T.” Essentially, Kendrick challenged Drake’s parenting skills and manhood as he believes his foe is “hiding” another child – this time a daughter.

So, Does Drake Have A Daughter As Kendrick Lamar Claims On “Meet The Grahams?”

According to Drake’s post on May 3 via his Instagram Stories, the answer is no.

“Nah,” he wrote. “Hold on. Can someone find my hidden daughter please? And send her to me? These guys are in shambles.”

However, users online are having a hard time accepting Drake’s rebuttal as fact. Some have even taken him up on his research challenge. Based on Kendrick’s third verse, the child in question is supposedly no child at all but rather a preteen (approximately 12 years old).

With that nugget of information, users on X (formerly Twitter) dug up Drake’s post from January 15, 2012. For users, Drake’s “Baby girl” upload was all the proof they needed.

It doesn’t help that when Pusha T claimed Drake had a secret son (which turned out to be true), Drake behaved similarly. So, stick around long enough and things could change.

Listen to Kendrick Lamar’s full track below.

Drake has enemies. If you’ve been keeping track as Uproxx has he actually has a quite a lot of enemies. Over the last few weeks, the public has learned that the “First Person Shooter” rapper has had several dust-ups online and on record. But heavy is the head that carries the genre’s record-breaking, charting success.

Between The Weeknd and Nav to the estate of Tupac, Drake has taken several shots across the industry. Asap Rocky claimed to have intimately been with the mother of Drake’s son Adonis. Rick Ross accused his former friend of getting a nose job to combat his “racial insecurities.” Even, Ye (better known as Kanye West), questioned the true nature of Drake’s 2022 deal with Universal Music Group.

Slowly, but surely, Drake has begun to chip away at each record’s rumors. So, on Drake’s latest response track, “Family Matters,” he used a mixture of pet names and legal names to clapback at his opposition. Here you can learn who about Fring. But, that still leaves Leland Wayne to be revealed.

Continue below for answers.

So, Who Is Leland Wayne From Drake’s “Family Matters” Diss Song?

Sandwiched between lines, Drake fires off rounds at Kendrick Lamar, Ross, and The Weeknd. But there are some names listeners did not immediately recognize, including Leland Wayne. So, who is Wayne? Let’s just say it isn’t a family relative of Drake’s mentor and longtime friend, Lil Wayne.

The mystery man in question is none other than Metro Boomin. While the world may refer to him by his stage name, the producer’s family simply know Leland Tyler Wayne. For whatever artistic reason, Drake decided to go with Boomin’s legal name, according to KBIA (an outlet near Boomin’s hometown of St. Louis, Missouri). Could it be an intimidation tactic? Possibly. Or it might have been creative way to include his archenemy into his witty lines without the need for any metaphoric heavy lifting.

After reading the stanza below aimed at Metro Boomin, the latter seems to be the best bet.

Pluto sh*t make me sick to my stomach / We ain’t never really been through it Leland Wayne, he a f*ckin’ lame, so I know he had to be an influence / These n****s had a plan and they finally found a way to rope you into it / Two separate albums dissin’, I just did a Kim to it, n****, skim through it

As users online pointed out, the last thirty days in hip-hop culture have mirrored Marvel Studios’ Captain America: Civil War. This can all be traced back to Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s bubbling stock pot of problems.

Every few days another one of rap music’s stars have either been reluctantly drafted into the war of words (Snoop Dogg and the estate of Tupac) or willingLu enlisted into the conflict (Ye, better known as Kanye West).

But the musicians’ latest round of diss tracks seem to be riddled with insider knowledge, which has left fans confused about several references. On Drake’s new track “Family Matters,” he cryptically named drop a few folks including one Fring, leaving listeners scrambling to decipher his lines.

So, Who Is Fring From Drake’s “Family Matters” Diss Track?

Outside of his ongoing feud with Kendrick, Drake admittedly has a lot of enemies. Instead of dedicating yet another track to the Compton native, Drake took jabs at another foe, Asap Rocky. When Drake rapped: “Ask Fring if this is a good idea the next time you cuddled in that bed again / She’ll even tell you leave the boy alone ‘fore you get your head split again.”

If this line was clear enough, the preceding bar, “Smokin’ Fenty ‘bout it, should’ve put you on the first one / Try get it in,” shoud’ve provided you with all the context you needed. On “Show Of Hands,” Asap joked with Metro Boomin and Future that he should have been included on the duo’s first joint project, We Don’t Trust You.

The most obvious reference in Drake’s lyric is Fenty, as it is Rihanna’s last name. Rihanna having dated Drake in the past and as Asap’s current partner as well as children’s mother for anyone who needed further assistance piecing everything together, there it is.

But exactly is Fring anyway? Well, Fring’s is a restaurant in Drake hometown of Toronto, Canada that he has publicly supported over the years. It might also have served as a pet name for Rihanna according to his 2015 conversation with New York Times’ T Magazine.

Given what Asap Rocky revealed about his past entanglement with the mother of Drake’s son Adonis, many find Drake’s remarks about Rihanna to be fair game.

Listen to the full track below.

So far, Drake and Rick Ross’ brewing beef hasn’t expanded beyond the studio. However, the “Champagne Moments” rapper joked that his foe might have taken it to the friendly skies.

Yesterday (May 3), on Instagram, a Drake fan page revealed that Ross’ private jet made a crash landing in Dallas, Texas. Initially, users online were hesitation to believe the claim made by Keep 6ix Solid, given the long list of allegations tossed around by the two entertainers. However, the jet covered in Ross’ personal and record label branding made it difficult to refute.

With the outlet’s post gaining traction, Ross took to his social media pages to confirm the story. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), he managed to find humor in the traumatic incident.

“My jet just crashed,” he wrote. “Drake’s OVO F16 fighter jet just shot us down.”

Ross’ joke pointed out the irony in the situation after he spent the last few weeks clowning Drake for supposedly having a relic aircraft. He also alleged that Air Drake wasn’t intended for human passengers making it unsafe to travel in. So Ross’ jet being temporarily grounded is a sick twist of events.

Fortunately, no one was injured during the crash. Well, that’s not including Ross’ ego. He continued the unsavory joke in a dramatized and factually inaccurate recounting of the moments leading to the crash. View the full clip originally shared to Instagram below.

All roads were supposed to lead to Sin City. However, if you were ready to shuffle between performance sets at Lovers & Friends Festival 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada, you just crapped out.

Yesterday (May 3), while practically the entire world was focused on Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s diss exchanges, the budding live R&B event announced that it was being forced to pull the plug. On X (formerly Twitter), organizers revealed that due to inclement weather and warnings from weather experts, they decided to cancel the jam-packed day out of safety concerns.

“The National Weather Service has issued a High Wind Warning, including dangerous 30-35 mph sustained winds with gusts potentially more than 60 mph,” read the statement. “Following advice from the National Weather Service and in consultation with local public officials, we must make the safest decision for our fans, artists, and staff, and cancel tomorrow’s Lovers & Friends Festival. This was an incredibly heartbreaking decision to make as we are aware that fans have traveled from all over the world to enjoy this incredible lineup of superstars and have been looking forward to this event for several months.”

With acts such as Janet Jackson, Alicia Keys, Backstreet Boys, Brandy, and of course Usher on the lineup, festivalgoers were livid and didn’t mind airing out their grievances online. Following the news, Usher took to his personal X page to express his frustration.

“Mannn…I’m just as disappointed as you are,” he wrote. “We were getting ready to turn up and celebrate today. I have to follow the orders of city officials and the National Weather Service for everyone’s protection and stand strong in my belief that everything happens for a reason.”

Without providing specifics, Usher went on to tease that he would make it up to ticket holders very soon. “I’m sorry we won’t get to see each other today,” he wrote. “But know that I am always working on something to express my heartfelt gratitude for each and every one of you who continue to support me. I’ll see you soon.”

Whatever he has up his sleeve fans surely hope it is an even larger 20th anniversary performance of his critically acclaimed album, Confessions. Online Usher shared behind-the-scenes footage of what would’ve been his headlining set at Lovers And Friends 2024, but unfortunately the public won’t have the chance to see it.

In the note issued by the festival, refunds for those who paid via Front Gate Tickets will be processed within the next 30 days. Find more information here.

Chickens bursting out of chests. Butcher running out of time. Homelander offering “a creamy, delicious milkshake” before pulling off choreographed ice-skating maneuvers. What is happening in The Boys‘ fourth season?

“Chop chop, m*therf***ers.” That’s the best explanation on tap from the most levelheaded presence of the bunch: Mr. Mother’s Milk.

The Boys has managed to keep the overboard-energy flowing consistently for three full seasons, and this trailer suggests that showrunner Eric Kripke will continue to walk the finest of lines with the fourth outing. As always, there’s too much going on, and a viewer must pick and choose what wildness to hone in on, but long story short? Butcher’s running out of days on the calendar, and he must use what he discovered in that Gen V finale to make his grandest effort at making Supes go extinct.

Meanwhile, Homelander has moved on from that show-stopping cameo to rally The Seven (with two new members, Firecracker and Sister Sage) to be “wrathful gods” while Ashley has pulled in the newly crowned Guardians of Godolkin (Kate and Sam) for an unknown plan. Let’s hope that Antony Starr enjoyed ice skating more than understandably losing his cool on stunt wiring.

Let’s do the synopsis thing:

…the world is on the brink. Victoria Neuman is closer than ever to the Oval Office and under the muscly thumb of Homelander, who is consolidating his power. Butcher, with only months to live, has lost Becca’s son and his job as The Boys’ leader. The rest of the team are fed up with his lies. With the stakes higher than ever, they have to find a way to work together and save the world before it’s too late.

Don’t forget that Jeffrey Dean Morgan will makes his appearance this season. As well, the main cast of The Boys includes Starr, Karl Urban, Erin Moriarty, Jack Quaid, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Tomer Capone, Karen Fukuhara, Jessie T. Usher, Colby Minifie, Claudia Doumit, and Cameron Crovetti.

Amazon’s The Boys gets busy in Season 4 on June 13.

Kendrick Lamar and Drake — two of rap’s biggest heavyweights — turned up the temperature in their beef this week by trading disses at rapid speed. Kendrick returned fire with “Euphoria” and doubled back today with “6:16 In LA.” Drake answered back with “Family Matters,” but before most could even digest that track, Kendrick clapped back with a scathing diss titled “Meet The Grahams.”

Listen below.

The Dallas Mavericks are moving on to the Western Conference Semifinals. Dallas played host to the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday night with an opportunity to end their first round series in their own building, and while things were tied up at the half, the Mavs rode a scorching hot second half from Kyrie Irving to a 114-101 win.

Luka Doncic came out in the first quarter and looked like he really did not want to go back to Los Angeles. Doncic, despite only shooting 4-for-11 from the field in the opening frame, led all scorers with 14 points and chipped in four assists, showing off the big game chops that have come to define him as a player.

While Paul George was able to answer with 10 for the Clippers in the opening quarter, the team generally struggled to score, going 7-for-19 from the field. That, mixed with a 7-0 Mavs run at the end of the quarter, meant Dallas held onto a 34-26 lead after one.

The Mavs did seem like they had a good handle on things in the second quarter, even amid a rough shooting half. And then, their offense went ice cold, while the Clippers were able to go on a run. In all, Los Angeles went on a 15-2 spurt that let them tie things up at 48 each, and after both teams traded baskets at the end of the quarter, things were all tied up at 52 at the break.

While Doncic had 18 points, he did not make any of his seven attempts from three and he went 5-for-15 from the field. PJ Washington pitched in 11, while Irving was ice cold, going for two points on 1-for-6 shooting. The Clippers were led by 14 points and six boards from George, an 11-point and 9-rebound half from Ivica Zubac, and 10 bench points from Norman Powell.

But out of the locker room, the Mavericks came alive. After looking sluggish for lengthy stretches in the second quarter, the team looked far more locked in during the third. Irving got going, as he went for 13 points in the period, which seemed to inject some much-needed life into his teammates and the crowd as Dallas opened up an 87-72 lead.

It started to get late early for Los Angeles, which fell into a 20-point hole early on in the fourth. And with 5:38, it seemed like the knockout blow came when Irving pulled up from three in the corner, got fouled, made it, and sent the crowd into a frenzy to put the Mavericks up by 24. (As an added bonus, watch Doncic’s reaction to this one.)

While the Clippers were able to get the lead down to 12, both the benches were eventually emptied to see out the end of the game. Irving had 28 of his 30 points in the second half, and pitched in six rebounds, four assists, two steals, and two blocks. Doncic, meanwhile, had a double-double with 28 points and 13 assists. Powell led Los Angeles in scoring by going for 20 points off the bench, while George (18 points and 11 rebounds), Zubac (17 points and 11 rebounds), and Harden (16 points and 13 rebounds) all put up double-doubles.

Los Angeles will now head into an offseason with plenty of questions, as both Harden and George have not signed contract extensions and Kawhi Leonard’s health is as big of a concern as ever. Dallas, meanwhile, is on its way to the next round of the postseason, and will take on the 1-seed Oklahoma City Thunder.

Drake took a little more than 12 hours to respond to Kendrick Lamar’s latest diss track, “6:16.” “Family Matters,” which just went up a few minutes ago, finds Drake not only clapping back at K. Dot, but also roping in every other artist who’s mentioned him since Kendrick called him out on “Like That” with Future and Metro Boomin.

For the first time since the pair’s long-running Cold War escalated into open hostilities, Drake sounds mad here. Perhaps it was the mention of his parenting that set him off (“You mentioned my seed now deal with his dad,” he jabs to start the track) but this time, the gloves (heh) are off. Drake dispenses with whatever pleasantries may have been left, going all the way to the floor with his shots at Kendrick — or, more accurately, Kendrick’s rough relationship with his fiancée, Whitney Alford.

Among the outrageous assertions Drake includes in his latest dispatch are a suggestion that Kendrick was physically abusive to Alford (“When you put your hands on your girl is it self-defense, ’cause she’s bigger than you”) and that one of Kendrick’s children with Alford might be the result of infidelity with his PgLang partner Dave Free (“I heard that one them little kids might be Dave Free’s”).

He also undercuts Kendrick’s race-related jabs from “Euphoria” by accusing him of some hypocrisy (“Maybe I’m Prince and you actually Mike / Michael was prayin’ his features would change so people believe that he’s actually white”) and calling him a phony when it comes to his image as a revolutionary (“You just actin’ like an activist, it’s make-believe”).

You’d think with all that, he wouldn’t have enough time to lash out at the rest of his opponents, but he does, reserving bars for The Weeknd, who he calls a drug addict, ASAP Rocky, who he says should stick to modeling since fans aren’t really checking for his music, Rick Ross, for obvious reasons, and Future, who he feels was suckered into enabling this beef against his own interests.

You can listen to “Family Matters” above.

The WNBA preseason got going on Friday night, and the Fever and Wings’ preseason opener in Dallas was one of the most anticipated exhibition games in league history. That’s because it was the WNBA debut for No. 1 overall pick Caitlin Clark, and it did not take long for the former Iowa star to make her presence felt at the professional level.

Clark finished the game with 21 points on 6-of-15 shooting (5-of-13 from three) as she had her ups and downs across her 28 minutes of action, but flashed the incredible shot-making that made her must-see TV while in college.

Clark wasn’t the only rookie that showed out, as she was matched with 21 points by Wings rookie Jaelyn Brown, who knocked down three from long range for Dallas to keep them in the game until their star could take them home for the win.

Even though it was generally an off shooting night for Arike Ogunbowale (9-of-24 from the field, 1-of-7 from three), as she has throughout her career from college to the pros, she stepped up to hit timely buckets, including the game-winner as her lone made three of the night.

It was everything anyone could’ve hoped for out of a preseason game, as the stars showed out and put on an incredible performance that only adds to the anticipation for this year’s regular season.