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J. Cole Admits He Never Read
Dave Chappelle Rushes To Kanye West's Ranch In Wyoming To Be By His Side
His Roc Nation Contract As He
Plugs 'The Fall Off's' 1st 2 Singles
Dave Chappelle visited Kanye West at his ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming on Tuesday (July 21) amid con- cerns over his mental health. Kanye posted a video on Twit- ter with the stand-up come- dian and longtime friend as they posed for a group photo.
“Thank you Dave for hop- pingonajettocomeseeme doing well,” Kanye tweeted. “Dave you are a god send and a true friend. All love.”
In the clip itself, Kanye tells Dave that the world needs some joy and asks him to say something to make him smile. “Brotherhood is real, love is
J. Cole penned a highly emotional personal essay this week for Dereck Jeter’s publication The Players Trib- une called “The Audacity.” At one point, the revered MC ad- mitted he never read the con- tract when signing with JAY-Z’s label Roc Nation on February 24, 2009, a date he says he’ll always remember be- cause it’s the day before Dreamville Records president Ibrahim Hamad’s birthday.
“That day, we both took an elevator way up to the fancy of- fice of a high-end entertain- ment law firm housed in a New York City high-rise,” he recalled. “Far from what I would have imagined, the ac- tual moment of signing the contract was relatively unre- markable. Ib and I sat in a
KANYE WEST, DAVE CHAPPELLE AND SOME OTHER FRIENDS AT THE RANCH.
J. COLE
small, quiet conference room across from an associate of my fancy new lawyer. The moun- tain of papers in front of him included multiple copies of a record deal that I never actu- ally read.
real,” Dave said.
Kanye laughed in response,
saying, “Wait a second – I’m still not smiling bro,” before telling him to “lift our spirits.”
“An uplifting joke? You know I don’t write them,” Dave said. He continued, “S**t, I don’t know. I’m still on my first cup of coffee.”
Juice Wrld's Posthumous LP Tops Billboard 200 While 17 Songs Hit Hot 100 Chart
Juice Wrld’s Legends Never Die title rang true as his posthumous album dominated the latest Billboard charts. The late artist’s LP reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and scored 17 entries on the Hot 100 in its first week.
Legends Never Die sold roughly 497,000 album equiv- alent units in the U. S. during the week ending July 16, which is the largest weekly total of
JUICE WRLD
2020. The deceased rapper’s LP outperformed the previous high mark of 444,000 units set by The Weeknd’s After Hours.
Juice earned the second No. 1 album of his career thanks to massive streaming numbers, racking up 422.63 million on- demand streams. That total gave Legends Never Die the biggest streaming week of the year and the fourth-biggest in history.
Kanye West Apologizes To Kim Kardashian Over Recent Twitter Rants
Kanye West is answering for his tweets. Well, some of them.
On Saturday (July 25), the 43-year-old offered an apology to wife Kim Kardashian after Kanye insinuated that he asked Kim to get an abor- tion when she became preg- nant with their daughter, North during his first “cam- paign rally” in South Carolina on July 19.
“I would like to apologize to my wife Kim for going public with something that was a pri- vate matter,” Ye tweeted. “I did not cover her like she has covered http://me.To Kim I want to say I know I hurt you. Please forgive me. Thank you for always being there for me.”
KIM KARDASHIAN-WEST AND KANYE WEST
Kanye’s tweet-spree earlier this week raised concern for his well-being. The rapper not only shared he believes his mother-in-law Kris Jenner is a white supremacist but also insinuated Kardashian slept
with Meek Mill, an accusa- tion Meek (sort of) denied.
Ye also claimed he’d been considering divorcing the real- ity television star, prompting rumors Kardashian had been looking for a divorce herself.
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