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On Wednesday, Kanye West retracted his earlier statement saying “slavery was a choice.” Said West, “I don’t know if I properly apologized for how that slave comment made people feel. I want to take this moment right now to say that I’m sorry for hurting, I’m sorry for the one-two effect of the MAGA hat into the slave comment and I’m sorry for people who felt let down by the moment.” Recognizing the repercussions of his words, West elaborated further, adding: “I appreciate you guys giving me the opportunity to talk to you about the way I was thinking, what I was going through and what led me to that. I just appreciate you guys holding onto me as a family.” 

Top Dawg Entertainment’s newest family member, California rapper REASON, is working on his first full-length release on the label, and now his new video for “Better Dayz” just dropped. The “Better Dayz” video is directed by longtime TDE collaborator Jerome D. You can check out the new clip below. REASON  will be opening up for Jay Rock’s Redemption Tour this fall.

Meek Mill is donating 6,000 backpacks to his hometown of Philadelphia, PA this week. The rapper is teaming up with Puma, United Legwear, sports shop Fanatics and Philadelphia’s luxury store Milano Di Rogue to donate the backpacks. There will be backpacks for elementary, middle school and high school students. The backpacks for the elementary kids and middle schoolers will include pencil sharpeners, rulers, glue sticks and crayons.  The high schoolers will receive dry erase markers, notebooks and pens in their backpacks. On Wednesday, TMZ captured Meek surprising some students his alma mater, James G. Blaine Elementary School with backpacks. Meek is preparing to co-headline the Made in America Festival this Labor Day weekend (September 1-2), which is also his first show at home since being released from prison.

Rapper Logic has announced a release date for a new project with a brand new freestyle. At the end of his “YSIV Freestyle,” the rapper revealed that a new mixtape titled Young Sinatra IV will arrive September 28. It marks the fourth installment in the mixtape series, preceded by 2011’s Young Sinatra, 2012’s Young Sinatra: Undeniable and 2013’s Young Sinatra: Welcome to Forever. Logic last delivered his Bobby Tarantino II mixtape in March of this year. His last full LP was 2017’s Everybody. He also recently shared a video for the Ryan Tedder-assisted “One Day.” 

Cardi B found herself in hot water after a skit of her playing Martin Luther King Jr’s wife Coretta Scott King leaked, and their daughter, Dr. Bernice King, has expressed how tasteless she found the video. However, it seems Cardi has reached out to Dr. King and apologized, and the two could be engaging in a further discussion soon. The skit, titled ‘The Real Housewives of the Civil Rights Movement,’ leaked on TMZ, and appeared to be a few years old. It was a segment from the show Off the Rip, hosted by Rip Michaels of Wild ‘N Out. In the skit, Cardi appears alongside women portraying Rosa Parks and the wives of Rev. Jesse Jackson and Malcolm X, and pokes fun at MLK Jr’s alleged infidelity during the Civil Rights Movement. Dr. Bernice King did not take kindly to the skit, which coincidentally was leaked on the same day as the 55th anniversary of the March on Washington and MLK’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Cardi didn’t respond publicly herself; however it does appear that she reached out to Dr. King to express her apologies. Dr. King again took to Twitter, thanking the artist by saying:  “Thank you, @iamcardib, for reaching out to me and apologizing for the skit that aired on @TMZ. I look forward to talking with you soon.”