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Rick Ross and Lil Durk don't have many collaborations together, but they do share a lot of topics, aesthetics, and ideas in their music. While Durk faces a lot of legal trouble right now for his alleged murder-for-hire case, Ross wants to emphasize the other side of their street tales: the fact that they made it out and found something better. However, he kind of threw Smurk under the bus in the process. Nevertheless, the Maybach Music Group mogul took to his Instagram page with a video message for young fans looking to get cash and stay out of more dangerous lines of revenue.
"It's the Biggest Boss in the game, Ricky Rozay," Rick Ross began his Instagram message, as usual. "How many n***as screamed 'Free Lil Durk' at that Rolling Loud? How many? Alright, now. For y'all young hustlers, y'all got to learn how to do roofing. Y'all got to learn how to lay marble floors. You got to learn how to do the plumbing. This is a multiple million dollar game, multiple million dollar game. I'm walking up on these real estate sites, I see very few brothers that's on the roofs, that's doing the plumbing, that's doing the drywall, that's doing the electricity. It's a lot of money in that. Once again, how many people said 'Free Lil Durk' at Rolling Loud? Exactly."
For those unaware, the last update about Rick Ross' subject we got was a claim from DJ Akademiks, who told fans that new music from Lil Durk is coming soon. "Drake's coming soon, Durk's coming soon, and YB’s getting out of jail," the streamer and media personality alleged. The Chicago artist had announced an album in 2024, but his arrest obviously changed his plans.
We will see how the Lil Durk case develops in due time. Elsewhere, Rick Ross is still beefing with his longtime opp 50 Cent, but fans clowned his recent attempt to make G-Unit Studios' concept art rendering look like 50 was faking how the unbuilt production lot actually looked. Does he know that he missed the mark? Rozay probably shrugged it off and wiped his tears with hundreds... But so did Fif.
At the BTS concert in Tokyo on Friday (April 17), j-hope opened up to ARMY with heartbreaking news. His grandmother, who played a major role in raising him and had always been proud of his journey with the group, has passed away.
Speaking to the packed crowd at the Tokyo Dome, the K-pop star chose to be open with fans about what he was going through. “Honestly, this might be a bit of a heavy thing to share, but I really wanted to express how I’m feeling today,” he said, translated from Korean into English. “Right after we arrived in Japan, I got the news that my maternal grandmother, the one who raised me from when I was little, had passed away.”
“I felt completely stunned and did not really know how to process it at first, but being around the members, sitting down together for meals, and focusing on rehearsals helped me more than I thought it would,” j-hope went on. “My grandmother was always incredibly proud, not just of me but of all the members. She truly believed in what we do. So I feel like if she was watching from above today, she would have loved every second of it.”
He closed by thanking the audience for making his first performance after the loss feel meaningful and full of support.
BTS are currently touring in support of their new album ARIRANG, which has just earned a third week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Following three opening shows in Goyang, South Korea, the group is set to perform twice at the Tokyo Dome before heading abroad for the North American leg. Before the tour wraps in March next year, they will also visit Latin America, Europe, Australia, and several other regions across Asia.
On the same day as the first Tokyo concert, j-hope’s solo interview with Rolling Stone was released. During the conversation, he spoke about stepping into a leadership presence within the group. “I think that’s my role on the team,” he shared. “It just comes naturally. It feels strange to even call it a role, but I just try to handle things as they come and support the other members in any way I can.”
Additional reporting from Billboard Korea.
