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Lil Jon accidentally stabbed himself in the eye with one of his mother's insulin syringes when he was six years old. The childhood injury left him with a traumatic cataract requiring multiple surgeries, including a corneal transplant. He was bullied at school while wearing a metal eye patch, which made him shy. Eventually developing a lazy eye, he continued wearing sunglasses, transforming a painful memory into hip-hop's most recognizable look.

Solange posted footage from her first band rehearsal, and Summer Walker is on guitar. When Solange wrote that she had to beg her out of guitar retirement, Summer answered: "Anything for you darling." Before the hits, Summer taught herself to play from YouTube tutorials and posted covers online. SZA and H.E.R. both showed up under the post. H.E.R. wrote "Best. Band. Ever." and Solange called her a guitar legend right back.

J. Cole has canceled his Sacramento concert after a member of his touring crew was killed in a trucking accident Thursday morning. The driver was hauling equipment for Cole's show when the big rig overturned on southbound Interstate 5 near Woodland, California. The crash happened around 6:00 AM, and authorities say the truck drifted onto the right shoulder, then overturned when the driver tried to steer it back onto the freeway.

Bruno Mars keeps rewriting the record books. I Just Might, the lead single off his album The Romantic, has now spent 22 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, tying Kendrick Lamar's Not Like Us as the second-longest-running No. 1 in the chart's history. The only song ahead of them now is Kendrick and SZA's Luther, which holds the all-time record at 31 weeks.

Tory Lanez's prison rollout might've just started early because two unreleased tracks that recently hit the internet are the real deal, TMZ has learned. The songs have been making the rounds on social media, with fans debating whether they were genuine Tory leaks or AI-generated fakes. But sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ the tracks are authentic. Tory announced Tuesday he'll release a new double album on Friday.

Mystikal has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to third-degree rape in Louisiana. The rapper, whose legal name is Michael Lawrence Tyler, received the sentence in connection with a 2022 assault at his home in Prairieville, Louisiana.