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Jeff Teague on Kendrick Lamar selling out two nights in Toronto: Two nights. I mean, fans are fans. But to sell out two nights in Toronto when Drake is there… That's tough. Drake is Toronto.

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XXL Magazine: Gelo performing “Tweaker” with his brother Lonzo Ball at the #BETAwards pre-show 🗣️

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Shaquille O’Neal on mosh pitting as DJ Diesel: “Trust me, it's not safe. I go out there, whole 30,000 coming to have to hold them people up. Q. Was there ever one that actually made you nervous? Shaq: Yes, because one time I had a little girl that similar to my work wife's size and she was just hugging me, but everybody was coming and she fell. So now she's on the ground and stepping on. So now I got to get violent… Now I got to throw a couple elbows. So I had an incident in Germany where the girl got messed up and I had to take her to the hospital. She was okay.”

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Eric Woodyard: The #Pistons continue to have their pulse on Detroit’s hip-hop and music scene. On March 25th, they’ll begin selling a limited-edition merchandise collab and bobblehead with Detroit rapper @BigSean as a part of Big Sean Night vs. the Spurs at 7 p.m. at Little Caesars Arena. 🔥 pic.x.com/RWpbpo1V7q

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LiAngelo Ball's building quite the roster of big-name rap collabs ... first Lil Wayne, now GloRilla!! Gelo's brother, Chicago Bulls guard Lonzo, gave fans a sneak peek of the middle Ball's upcoming music video on his Instagram story on Tuesday ... which shows Glo -- one of the hottest female rappers out right now -- on camera with the "Tweaker" artist. This will be Gelo's second single since his debut song ... which reached No. 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and reportedly generated almost $640k.

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NBA 2K: Ball out to @LiAngeloBall 's "Tweaker" for Season 5 in NBA 2K 🔥

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Shams Charania: Fun NBA All-Star news: LiAngelo Ball will perform on All-Star Saturday night, Feb. 15, at Chase Center in his first televised show.

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LiAngelo Ball is looking to capitalize off his newfound success in the music industry ... telling TMZ Sports he wants to drop a project with NBA YoungBoy!! We caught up with the baller-turned-rapper at LAX on Thursday ... just hours after Ball dropped a music video for his viral debut song, "Tweaker."

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Gelo -- who signed a multimillion-dollar contract with Def Jam -- has been getting looks from a ton of names in the rap game who want to work with him in the booth ... but when we asked him who's at the top of his own list, he's got one name in mind. "I know before I'm done with this s***, I gotta get a tape with YoungBoy," Gelo said. "Like a collab tape."

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Dime: The success of LiAngelo Ball’s breakout record “Tweaker” has reportedly landed him an $8 million record deal with Def Jam 😳 (via the breakfast club)

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Shams Charania: LiAngelo Ball has signed a deal with Def Jam and Universal Music Group, a representative from his label Born2Ball Music Group says. Sources said the deal is worth as much as $13 million, with $8 million guaranteed, and gives Ball full ownership of music and his own record label.

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Data provided by Videocites, a social media tracking and analytics company, shows a much smaller gap between the NFL and NBA compared to TV and streaming viewership. The data shows that from Dec. 25 to Dec. 27, the NFL drew 921 million video views, about 14% more than the 811 million views the NBA delivered. The NFL was able to do this despite streaming two games during about a seven-hour run time compared to the NBA, which had its first game tip-off at noon ET with the final game ending around 1 a.m. ET. However, a deeper look into the Videocites numbers shows slightly more than half of the video views generated by the NFL were based on the 12-minute halftime performance of Beyoncé (464 million). The games themselves generated 457 million video views.

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Former high school basketball standout and Facebook reality show star LiAngelo Ball is not the first musician that I expected to write about in 2025. LiAngelo, the older brother of Charlotte Hornets star LaMelo Ball and younger brother of Bulls guard Lonzo Ball, earned the coverage though.

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Now a musician who wraps under the name G3, his latest track “Tweaker” is legitimately good. Already played in NBA locker rooms (including the Bulls and Cavs) as well as NFL locker rooms (including the Lions), this song has garnered more than 2.7 million listens on YouTube since it debuted on WorldStarHipHop. It is the number one trending song on YouTube music (ahead of artists such as Tyler, The Creator as well as Lil Baby, Bad Bunny, and Drake). There is a deeply nostalgic feeling to this track that is reminding many listeners of what hip-hop sounded like in the early 2000s, which is one of the reasons it is such an immediate hit.

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