Jay-Z Disses Drake, Nicki Minaj and Kanye West in Freestyle at 2025 Roots Picnic

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*Jay-Z stepped onto the Belmont Plateau stage at The Roots Picnic in Philadelphia on May 30 and launched into a four-minute freestyle targeting Drake, Nicki Minaj, Kanye West, Tory Lanez, Dame Dash, and Jaguar Wright before serving up a 31-song set.

The rap mogul joined The Roots to headline night one of the festival’s 18th annual edition, and the freestyle drew immediate reaction online, The Mirror reports. The bars about Nicki Minaj sparked some of the sharpest responses after Jay rapped, “That lady back on that stuff, she sounds like she’s in love with ’em. Her Ken can’t even pick their kid, enough of them.” The mention of Ken was widely seen as a double dig, as Nicki’s husband, Kenneth Petty, carries a registered sex offender status.

The diss follows months-long social media dispute in which Minaj accused Jay-Z and Roc Nation of failing to pay out millions she claimed she was owed from a 3% equity stake in TIDAL, receiving only $1 million in 2021. She also criticized what she described as Roc Nation’s grip on industry opportunities.

Nicki Minaj at the 2014 Billboard Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 18, 2014 in Las Vegas, NV — Photo by Jean_Nelson/Depositphotos

Turning to Kanye West, Jay referenced Ye’s past public commentary about the cognitive abilities of Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s younger children. “WAIT, HAS ANYONE EVER SEEN JAY AND BEYONCES YOUNGER KIDS? THEYRE RETARDED,” West wrote on X in 2025, before defending artificial insemination as a means to avoid having children with disabilities. He added, “JAY Z OR NOBODY HAVE NO POWER OVER ME.”

In response, Jay rapped Saturday: “You ever heard of wonder-kin? My children are some of them / Have you n–as have no shame? You really wanna get under my skin? / I’ll really get under ya skin (stab), ask Un how I’m playing.”

The “Un” reference alluded to music executive Lance “Un” Rivera, who was stabbed by Jay-Z at a New York nightclub in 1999.

“Y’all thugs with y’all thumb again, everybody thinks they’re the ones insane / You’re no maniac, watch how he sane he acts in my presence, n–as shrink,” Jay-Z said of Ye during the freestyle.

The night ended with guest appearances from Meek Mill, Jazmine Sullivan, Bilal, and State Property. Jay-Z has three sold-out Yankee Stadium shows this summer.

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Cardi B Expands Legal Fight with New Lawsuit Targeting Tasha K’s Husband

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Cardi B is pursuing a new legal strategy in her effort to collect millions of dollars awarded in her defamation case against Tasha K, this time targeting the blogger’s husband and a company created after the original judgment was entered.

The rapper filed suit on May 6 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, The NC Beat reports. The defendants are Yelen Entertainment, LLC and Cheickna Kebe, who is married to Tasha K. The action seeks to recover unpaid judgments dating back to 2022 that, according to the complaint, now total more than $3.8 million including accrued interest.

Cardi’s legal team alleges that Yelen Entertainment was established in Florida on May 31, 2022, months after a Georgia federal jury awarded Cardi B nearly $4 million in damages against Tasha K and Kebe Studios, LLC for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Cardi now argues that the new company continued the same business operations while the financial liability remained with Kebe Studios.

The lawsuit also points to financial arrangements that allegedly moved revenue associated with Tasha K’s media operations through Yelen Entertainment. Cardi B claims those arrangements hindered efforts to collect the judgments entered against Tasha K and Kebe Studios.

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Trump Slams ‘Third Rate’ Artists After His Own Freedom 250 Lineup Unravels

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*President Donald Trump is calling for the cancellation of the troubled Freedom 250 concert series after more than half of the announced performers withdrew within days of the lineup being unveiled.

In a pair of Truth Social posts Saturday, Trump lashed out at artists who backed away from the patriotic concert series and suggested replacing them with a rally featuring himself as the main attraction.

The irony is that Freedom 250, the nonprofit organization founded by Trump to help commemorate America’s upcoming 250th birthday, was responsible for booking the performers he later described as “overpriced” and “third-rate.”

“We should have a giant MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN RALLY, for 250, instead of having overpriced singers, who nobody wants to hear, whose music is boring, and yet who do nothing but complain,” Trump wrote Saturday night, Variety is reporting.

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