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Re: ‘Scorpion’ – At This Point, Drake Is Only Competing With One Person… Count this writer among the people who’ve often looked for a

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Re: ‘Scorpion’ – At This Point, Drake Is Only Competing With One Person… Count this writer among the people who’ve often looked for a reason to doubt  Drake  and his accomplishments. On the Friday release of his latest album,  Scorpion , billed as (only) his fifth proper album (some of the others were considered mixtapes, playlists, curations, etc.), the urge to be a doubter – not a hater, a doubter…there’s a difference – returned once more. For me, it hasn’t been the urge to “put a knife in his ribs,” as the OVO rapper might put it, just a desire to put those ribs in check, by pointing out all the asterisks that should go with his many accomplishments on the charts and with his music in general. But just as Drake has done with his many haters and his beefs with other rappers over the years,  Scorpion  shows, once more, that the Canadian rapper will always wind up on top, and that maybe I should change my approach to covering Drake.   Whether he’s squashing a beef with

Go Inside Beyoncé and Jay-Z's $135 Million Bel Air Mansion With Four Pools, Bullet-Proof Windows and a Helipad

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Go Inside Beyoncé and Jay-Z's $135 Million Bel Air Mansion With Four Pools, Bullet-Proof Windows and a Helipad There are lifestyles of the rich and the famous, then there is  Beyoncé  and  Jay-Z 's lifestyle.  Music's most powerful couple is currently in escrow on a stunning mega-mansion nestled in the exclusive Los Angeles neighborhood of Bel Air, a source tells E! News. The 30,000-square-foot property was privately listed for $135 million, but it appears Bey and Jay's  reported $120 million bid  was enough to secure the incredibly lavish home for their growing family.  E! News obtained exclusive images of the property, which was in its final stages of a four-year construction project at the time they were taken. As expected, this isn't any 'ol celebrity pad. The Carter-Knowles' brood can look forward to kicking back in one of four pools, eight bedrooms, 11 bathrooms as well as an expansive kitchen and living area with custom-made fixtures from It