According to a familiar cliché, a picture is worth a thousand words. Your favorite celebrities—including rappers—are doing less and less press, but luckily their thumbs and smartphones still work. Instagram has provided a way for them to document their lives and/or thoroughly embarrass themselves for our collective enjoyment. The beauty of it all is that you don’t even need to join Instagram, as most rappers are perfectly fine leaving their feeds open for public viewing. And if you’d rather avoid the IG life altogether, we’ve filtered through the top rapper’s pictures and videos and consolidated all the week’s events into one convenient feed.
This week, Rihanna swims with sharks for a fashion magazine cover, French Montana wins a celebrity bowling tournament, and Snoop Dogg’s son is about to be a Bruin.
Swizz Beatz Drops Hints Toward New Ruff Ryders Album
Swizz Beatz snaps a pic of Dark Man X in the studio in New York, and after the debacle that was his most recent release on Seven Arts Entertainment does the team have anything else in the tank? If Swizz’s caption has anything to say about it then we should be finding out soon. Caption: “#nodaysoff#Zone#RR#AlmostReady”
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Drake And Meek Mill Clown On Kevin Hart
After Kevin Hart posted a selfie of himself in a leather sleeveless top showcasing his clearly defined biceps, he drew the attention Drake, Meek Mill, and Lil Duval. All 3 decided to clown on Kevin on their own IG page, reposting this image and adding a humorous caption. Meek even asked Kevin to take his shirt off. Here’s Kevin’s retaliation, with subsequent posts in response to all 3. Caption: “@champagnepapi @meekmill & @lilduval …..its on biiitttcchheeessss . You all have just committed social media suicide #WAR #YallDoneFuckedUp #BeAfraid”
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Rihanna Swims With Sharks
Rihanna tests the waters with her latest magazine cover… literally. She swims with three sharks for the March issue Harper’s Bazaar, a fashion magazine. In a gold Chanel swimsuit, she claims she has always been fearless in her fashion. You can find a behind-the-scenes short video of the shoot on Youtube. Caption: “@harpersbazaarus subscribers’ cover! In honor of the 40th anniversary of #JAWS”
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French Montana Wins Celebrity Bowling Tournament
Who knew French Montana could bowl? Alongside his partner Ronnie Russell, French Montana won Chris Paul’s CP3 PBA Celebrity International. They outbeat many celebrities such as Nick Cannon, Chris Hardwick, Chris Paul, and Terrell Owens. The event was aired on ESPN, in which Frenchie comments, “It’s all in the wrist.” Caption: “Shout out to @cp3 I put it in god’s hand !!!. #espn#champion”
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Fool’s Gold Co-Founder Joshua Prince Passes Away
Joshua “Dust La Rock” Prince, co-founder of record label Fool’s Gold, passed away on February 2. The news was revealed by the label via their website, with the cause of his death unknown. A-Trak, the label’s other co-founder, sends his condolences. Caption: “Lost one of my dearest friends today. RIP Joshua Prince aka Dust La Rock, original Fool’s Gold co-founder… Art director for myself, Fool’s Gold and Duck Sauce. You helped define so much of what I stand for. Love you man. Still can’t believe this.”
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DJ Drama Hints At Releasing Lil Wayne’s “Dedication 6”
DJ Drama and Lil Wayne have been collaborating on Wayne’s Dedication mixtape series since 2005. A recent photo of the two hints at a sixth installment to the series. Although Weezy hinted at the Carter V being his last album, this doesn’t mean he’s out of the mixtape game. Here is Drama in between Wayne and Young Money President Mack Maine. Caption: “Sorry For The Wait 2. Carter V. Dedication 6.”
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Snoop Dogg’s Son To Play Football For UCLA
Snoop Dogg is a proud father. On National Signing Day (Feb 4), Snoop’s son Cordell Broadus announced that he’ll be playing football for the UCLA Bruins. Cordell is currently ranked as the #14 wide receiver in the nation, and chose UCLA over numerous schools. Snoop continues to bombard IG of how proud he really is. Caption: “Channel 21 comin to UCLA !! @cbroadus”
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Irv Gotti Takes Credit For Iggy Azalea’s Steve Madden Involvement
Irv Gotti from Murder Inc. recently takes to IG to claim his role in Iggy Azalea’s recent shoe campaign with Steve Madden. With 3 posts from Iggy’s photoshoot with the brand name shoes, we can only wonder why. He responded that he was responsible for doing the deal that connected Iggy to the company. Caption: “#Repost @thenewclassic with @repostapp. For the record: I absolutely LOVE these images, they are from the shoot I directed for my Steve Madden campaign. Im incredibly proud of the shoes we’ve made together, as well as these images that I’ve been anxiously waiting to share with you all. What I had a “rant” about on Twitter isn’t in regards to these pictures, it was about another, different set of images i wasn’t a part of creating that I felt weren’t reflective of my vision and direction for the collection. I’m an artist and I’m extremely passionate and emotional and crazy sometimes because I care ALOoOoot about this shit! I love Steve and he gets it! Artists clash sometimes, it doesn’t mean I dislike the brand. I love Steve Madden as an individual and as a company. I have 3 more seasons I’m making with these guys and I’m going to enjoy it. Shit just happens sometimes and you gotta fight for what you believe in! I believe in this collection immensely; that’s why I just wanted it to be perfect. it comes out tomorrow and I hope you guys enjoy it because I put my heart and soul into them! Sorry for the drama! I didn’t mean for it to turn into some big blog situation (as usual) but I’m not gonna sit back and totally let Steve Madden get dragged under the bus because as a whole they’re awesome ppl. I just don’t support neoprene Jesus sandals WITH socks. That all. Powered by VISIONARY. @stevemadden”
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Dame Dash Teams Up With Kanye West
Just a couple weeks ago, Dame Dash handed Kanye West a BET “Honorary Vision” award. Dame Dash launched Roc-A-Fella Films in the late 90’s. The production company has since released Jay Z’s Streets is Watching, State Property, Paper Soldiers and Paid In Full, among others. Here he is between Ye and Q-Tip. Caption: “The thing we don’t do historically and culturally is stick together but we are stopping that now if we stick together we don’t need any middle men from others cultures… We know we can do it on our own…but we are so powerful together…pause and we have our own money..we already made history in music so we can do that for fun so we’re gonna do movies… This is like when Spielberg and Geffen got together and did dreamworks…it’s time…me and kanye making movies and my brother Qtip was there to bless the deal #independencewon #cutoutthemiddleman photo by @raquelmhorn @loisaidas @damondashstudios @dressedtokill_ddstudios @toohonorable_ddstudios @qtiptheabstract”
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Puff Daddy Pays Homage To Tupac
Puff Daddy is definitely all about IG, with over 20 posts a day. 2 of the posts featured Puff getting along with some former foes. One paid homage to the great Tupac, as he referred to him as the “king.” The other was with Snoop Dogg, another Death Row Records rapper he had beef with. It’s nice to see the west coast / east coast rivalry squashed. Caption: “#KING #PAC”
