Boy Sh-t Intro for August 9, 2021 Dear Gossips, Kanye West held another listening event last week at Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta for the second week in a row to promote his upcoming, highly anticipated album, Donda. Not sure how surprising it is that even though he’s been camping out there for weeks now to By Lainey • Aug 09, 2021 09:13 am
Amazingness Drake’s Stadium Date The last time I posted about Drake, he was with Michael B Jordan at a high school basketball game. Not just any high school but Sierra Canyon, where LeBron James’s son, Bronny, plays with Amari Bailey, a top prospect. In that post, I mentioned the jokes that were happening By Lainey • Jul 09, 2021 02:20 pm
Top Reads Who Rejects Rihanna? Yesterday I posted photos of Rihanna and A$AP Rocky out in New York at Barcade. There are two conversations coming out of these pictures, let’s start with the most WTF moment. Which is that at some point in the night, Rihanna and Rocky decided to go to a By Lainey • Jun 25, 2021 11:56 am
Top Reads Drake and MBJ: BFFs at the High School Game You’re looking at these shots of 2021 BFFs Drake and Michael B Jordan courtside at a basketball game and I think most of us might assume they’re watching professional players, right? Drake and MBJ were actually at a high school basketball game. I mean, the two high schoolers By Lainey • Jun 18, 2021 11:32 am
Equality Issues Intro for June 7, 2021 Dear Gossips, The Juno Awards are considered the top music prizes in Canada, last night was the 50th anniversary. The top headline here in Canada, however, is still the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation’s discovery of the remains of 215 Indigenous children at a former residential school By Lainey • Jun 07, 2021 09:41 am
Music Drake’s Playoff Plus One Drake’s son Adonis has been with him in LA for at least a couple of weeks now as Adonis was with him on stage at the Billboard Music Awards on May 23 when he accepted the Artist of the Decade title. This the kind of moment a parent would By Lainey • Jun 04, 2021 11:58 am
Music Drake’s Stadium Party When I last posted about Drake, it was on Thursday, ahead of Drake receiving the Billboard Artist of the Decade award on Sunday night. He had his whole crew on stage with him (“started from the bottom now we’re here”) and his parents, and he brought out his son By Lainey • May 25, 2021 01:43 pm
BFFs Drake’s week of partying Drake partying for a whole week isn’t an extraordinary occurrence. The artist formerly known as The Boy lives large, rolls deep, and has been on a decade-plus streak that does not seem to be coming to end any time soon. He just invested in a chicken meat substitute that’ By Lainey • May 20, 2021 12:00 pm
Music Nicki & Drake: Hip-Hop’s Siblings Reunite Last night Nicki Minaj hopped on Instagram Live shortly before midnight to introduce the new music she’s been teasing all week. I was expecting the release of a new single, but she actually announced that she’d be making her critically acclaimed 2009 mixtape, Beam Me Up Scotty, available By Cody • May 14, 2021 09:58 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Smell Like Drake Late last year, Drake released a line of scented candles through a new company, Better World Fragrance House. There were five at launch, one which promised to smell like him, all made in Canada, and they sold out – the timing was great, just around the holidays. Today Drake announced his By Lainey • May 06, 2021 12:00 pm
Maple Leaf Drake and the Kardashians There were several celebrities partying at Delilah in West Hollywood last night which… I guess clubbing has been reinstated in LA? Must be. And mask-less clubbing too? OK, then. I mean, who am I to side-eye? It is f-cked up now where I live. They’re about to release the By Lainey • Apr 16, 2021 10:30 am
Maple Leaf Drake’s 1, 2, 3 Drake has just accomplished something that no other musical act has ever done – he is now the first artist ever to release three songs in the top three spots of the Billboard Hot 100. “What’s Next” is #1, followed by “Wants and Needs” ft Lil Baby in the #2 By Lainey • Mar 16, 2021 01:50 pm
Maple Leaf Intro for February 8, 2021 Dear Gossips, You know what I was stupidly naïve about heading into Super Bowl weekend? How many celebrities would be there… considering that, you know, it’s a pandemic. But celebrities have always been part of the big game – in the stands and in commercials so, I guess, why would By Lainey • Feb 08, 2021 08:55 am
Maple Leaf Intro for October 19, 2020 Dear Gossips, Does it just feel like there’s been a lot of new music this year… or has there actually been a lot of new music? The pandemic has made it so that artists can't party and they can’t tour. And while, sure, some of them By Lainey • Oct 19, 2020 08:56 am
Maple Leaf Justin and Selena: the saga continues I tried to stay offline from Friday until yesterday afternoon. Tried to. Which meant I only scanned some headlines and social media once a day and, um, made sure to not fall too far behind on BTS’s relentless output. For the most part, I was pretty successful at resisting By Lainey • Sep 08, 2020 03:13 pm
Music Intro for August 14, 2020 Dear Gossips, Baby, let’s talk punctuation. Sexy, right? Drake’s new song, “Laugh Now Cry Later”, dropped last night – the rumour about Bruno Mars was wrong. The video was shot at 12am at Nike Headquarters in Oregon. So basically this is both a music video and a commercial and… By Lainey • Aug 14, 2020 09:07 am
