I feel bad for the diehards on this one. He literally stole the song and now they have to sit here and treat it like it is his. Puts them in the worst position every single time.

The ones who actually ride for the work end up having to defend the un-defendable. That is the part fans won’t say aloud.

He was leading the service, which was being broadcast on Facebook, when the crucifix detached and fell. Worshippers can be heard screaming for help in the footage. The Archdiocese of Guayaquil confirmed his death. He was a Redemptorist and the parish priest there.

Corn Balls.

🚨What’s the Dirt running an Akademiks-style character hit on the man suing Drake over the “Janice STFU” chorus is interesting, especially when you remember the same channel previously broke down, on video, evidence and stories of Drake hanging around teenagers and younger girls at parties. Madison Beer at 17 at a Memorial Day party talking about being in his room, yacht parties with clear underage attendees, the whole pattern. That footage is still out there. So when the same guy now wants to treat an old domestic violence allegation against a plaintiff as the story that ends the copyright case, it raises an obvious question: how seriously are we supposed to take the framing? The actual suit is about stems, metadata, timestamps, and an identical chorus. Avi Hirschfield and Drake already share a writing credit on Beyoncé’s “Heated.” Drake’s camp responding with “no connection or knowledge of this person, full stop” is already a stretch. Digging up a 2013 Oregon case (C132872CR) to smear the plaintiff doesn’t answer the copyright claim. It just tries to make people look away from it. Even if you accept the ex-wife’s detailed account of the knife incident at face value, the selective outrage is loud. Drake has kept Baka Not Nice close for years. Baka was arrested in 2014 on charges of forcing a 22-year-old woman into prostitution and taking her money. He pleaded guilty to assaulting her and a weapons charge. The human trafficking and procuring charges were dropped only because she refused to testify. He had prior convictions for armed robbery, assault, discharging a firearm during a robbery, and possession for trafficking. When Baka got out, Drake posted “Been waiting for 11 months!! Baka finally home!!!!!” and rapped on “Know Yourself” about declaring a holiday when Baka got back on the road. He signed him to OVO. Baka has stayed around, including at family events. That association has been public for over a decade. Drake himself is also in the middle of multiple legal fights right now: the defamation case against UMG over “Not Like Us” (dismissed, appeal pending), the RICO suit alleging stream manipulation through Stake, and now this copyright action. Pattern recognition is not hard. Uncredited or disputed writing credits have followed him for years. Running the plaintiff’s old arrest record while ignoring the rest of the picture is not investigation. It is PR. The chorus claim either holds up under the metadata and stems or it does not. Personal history on either side does not rewrite the files.

Big Numbers.

An Elliott Welfare Check Joe Budden just spent real time on the pod asking what is happening with Elliott Wilson. Not a drive-by. A full inventory. The list is straightforward: • Accustomed to institutional checks for years (XXL, Complex, TIDAL, UPROXX). The media game changed in front of him multiple times. He has not made the pivot to independent creator economics. “Eat what you kill” is not the operating system. • Turned down Everyday Struggle with Joe when the money was not high enough. Joe took the lower number for the brand and trajectory. Elliott chose the safer institutional path instead. • SaVon Slater (JBP producer) publicly says Elliott still owes him roughly $20k for work on The Elliott Wilson Experience. Texts, agreement, payment plan offered, low counter or silence. • Approached Vlad about a collab. First interview (Hit-Boy) was agreed unpaid. After clips circulated, Elliott asked for $3k. Revenue on the piece was estimated around $1,200. Project did not continue. • Optics of the last couple years: residual Drake-side resentment from the Bigger Picture era, the rat emoji history, and recent moves that look like someone operating from a place of needing a check rather than building independently. Budden’s read is that Elliott still has the stature, but the recent pattern is sullying it. One more pass left. This is not a mysterious fall. It is a man who spent decades inside systems that cut checks, now trying to operate in a world that requires different mechanics, and the friction is visible.

A ProPublica reporter asked his bosses for money to gamble like a problem user. They gave him more than $20,000. He used it on DraftKings during the NBA playoffs, chasing losses and betting late at night. The platform’s responsible gaming tools barely registered. DraftKings made him a VIP and kept the promotions coming. The experiment was designed to test the safeguards. What it showed is which behavior the system actually rewards.