T.I. says he’s retiring — at least from performing.

The King of the South and Young Dro sat down with 96.1 The Beat’s afternoon show “Rari at 2” with hosts Ferrari Simmons and BT, and the station’s annual Jingle Ball holiday concert in Atlanta on Dec. 19 was brought up. T.I. is headlining alongside Sexyy Red, T-Pain, Saweetie, The Kid Laroi, Khalid and Tinashe, but it may very well be his last performance ever.

“I appreciate y’all for offering me my last working gig because I do not need the money anymore and I will not be performing,” he told the room. “I don’t want to do it anymore. … I don’t want people to pay me to hop around and sweat for their entertainment anymore.”

Young Dro then comically added that he would be picking up the gigs T.I. turns down. “I will be picking up all of Tip’s shows that he ain’t going to. Doing them all,” the Polo Ralph Lauren enthusiast said to laughs.

Ferrari then asked if he was going to “do” something for another upcoming show, and Tip answered, “Of course, I’m going to answer the phone to tell them that I will not be performing.” He did say, however, that he will perform again — but only on his terms.

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T.I. and his wife Tameka “Tiny” Harris recently won a $71 million lawsuit claiming that toymaker MGA stole the design of a line of “O.M.G.” toy dolls from their real-life teen pop group OMG Girlz. The now-defunct pop group was created by Tiny and featured her daughter Zonnique “Star” Pullins. So maybe that has something do with his decision.

As far as rapping goes, he might be retiring from that soon too. In October of last year, after being asked what fans can expect musically from the Atlanta rap legend, he told the We In Miami Podcast that he’s planning to release a double album titled Kill the King and Kiss the King and it will be his final album. He also mentioned that one of the first singles was going to be a song with NBA YoungBoy. That track is called “LLOGCLAY” and it dropped earlier this year in May.

JoJo Siwa opened up about her sexuality and her reputation in a wide-ranging interview with Hailey Welch, a.k.a. the viral “Hawk Tuah” girl.

In the latest episode of Welch’s Talk Tuah podcast, she brings up a recent photo shoot Siwa did with LadyGunn, in which the “Karma” singer is seen posing with a bedazzled gold chest plate and a matching G-string thong with a bulge peaking through. “The stone bulge is — we were just giving a little spice, a little gender-bend, a little you can be anything you want to be,” she said of the male genital addition to the outfit. “It just was spicing myself up a little. It’s like back in the day when Harry Styles wore a dress. Obviously, wearing a bulge is a little different than wearing a dress.”

Siwa was referring to the December 2020 issue of Vogue, where Styles appears on the cover playing with genre-bending fashion by wearing a Gucci dress. Siwa added, “One thing about me is I like to be for the people who are different, for the people who don’t fit in and the people who are unafraid to take risks. Being that person, I have to go as far as I possibly can into the risk zone.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Siwa discussed her dynamic with her new girlfriend, So You Think You Can Dance alum Dakayla Wilson. “I have big d— energy. It’s not a good thing, it’s not a bad thing, it’s just a thing. When it comes time to –just me at home, I have a switch. My d— gets soft,” she said. “My girlfriend’s always like, ‘I never thought that would happen. I thought you would just be, like, a hard-a– all the time.’ I’m definitely baby spoon vibe, but I will be big spoon. When we fall asleep, we fall asleep as a big spoon. But if we’re watching a movie, put your arm around me. I am nuzzling you.”

She added of their intimate moments that she had been a “bottom” for most of her relationships, but that has changed with Wilson. “I have dabbled into top land. I prefer being bottom. […] I don’t like being a top, but I’m a really good top because I know what I like as a bottom.”

Watch the full episode of Talk Tuah below.

The “big three” conversation is a tiresome one in rap. With Kendrick Lamar, Drake and J. Cole still running strong as commercial titans from the 2010s, fans and critics have been trying to identify the next class to fill their shoes.

Billboard Unfiltered returned with a new episode on Thursday (Oct. 10) as Staff Writer Kyle Denis, Deputy Director R&B/Hip-Hop Carl Lamarre and Senior Charts & Data Analyst Trevor Anderson debated who could crash the big three party.

Lamarre’s “modern day big three” — without K. Dot, Drake and Cole — includes Rod Wave, Playboi Carti and Travis Scott.

Denis believes Tyler, The Creator is one of the tastemakers trailblazing for the next generation of rap and should be more highlighted in big three conversations.

“I think that combo of his acclaim, his success — we know he can sell, we know he can tour, we know he can headline major festivals. He’s beloved across genres,” he said. “He’s been pretty consistent on an upward trajectory for these last couple years.”

A more heated debate broke out surrounding Doja Cat and her résumé fitting into today’s rap landscape. “For me as well, I think what she needs to do to bolster her résumé — she just needs a No. 1 album,” Lamarre said. “That’s a glaring blemish on her résumé.”

Tommy Richman made the bizarre decision to not include his Billboard Hot 100 hits “Million Dollar Baby” and “Devil Is a Lie” on his Coyote LP. After listening to Richman’s debut, Anderson didn’t see why the pair of bangers couldn’t have been a fit on the project.

“Only Tommy Richman knows what a Tommy Richman album is supposed to sound like,” Anderson said. “When I heard the album, it’s not like, ‘Oh, I can clearly see why ‘Million Dollar Baby’ wasn’t on there.’ It doesn’t sound different to me where it wouldn’t have fit. Maybe it’s to prove something.”

Denis chimed in: “I feel like this is a business versus art thing for him. Do I care that much?” Coyote didn’t chart on this week’s Billboard 200 after selling about 4,300 copies in the first week, per Luminate.

Watch the full episode below.

Punk’d is back.

Rebranded as Punk You, producer Sophie Watts and entrepreneur Joe White have brought back the legendary prank show with the help of Punk’d co-creator Jason Goldberg, and their latest victim is Sexyy Red.

The eight-minute video on the Punk You YouTube channel shows the St. Louis rapper and a group of family and friends getting ready to hang out in a Texas mansion in the middle of woods for a couple days. They already feel like the vibes are off with one of Sexyy’s friends suggesting that they hit a strip club instead staying in to watch movies. “I’m stressed out tonight,” she says. “I need to go out. See some big booty freaks.” They then realize that they’re surrounded by woods and Sexyy tells them she doesn’t feel right. “I’m getting weird feelings and stuff,” she tells them while curled up on the couch. “I’m getting chills, nah, this is weird.”

Her suspicions are confirmed once the lights start to flicker and Sexyy gets goosebumps. The TV starts to bug out and an image of a little girl flashes on the screen through the static, and of course, everyone starts to freak out and Sexyy tries to leave. Her head of security is in on the prank, though, and tells her that he went to the store to pick up some Backwoods. Sexyy then Facetimed a friend to break down what happened, but her friends were denying that they noticed anything. And that’s when all hell breaks lose.

This iteration of Punk’d is made for the digital era that we’re in. “This is a format that we’ve specifically designed for social media,” said Watts while talking on-stage during Adweek‘s Brandweek.

So far, Punk You has done episodes pranking streamers Jynxzi and Stretch, and NLE Choppa.

You can watch the full episode here.