Lil Baby has quickly become one of the most exciting young rappers in the entire world, earning his first-ever #1 album with My Turn and even becoming Lil Wayne’s favorite artist, which is a pretty impressive feat. This week, he made some comments toward his record label that seemed to suggest he was considering a return to the streets and fans were confused about what was to come.

“I told my label they need to give me $5 million or I’m going to hustle, fuck it,” he said on Instagram Live.

After a short period of speculation, both Lil Baby and Quality Control have confirmed that they were just playing around and that they’ve made way more than $5 million in recent years together.

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“@qcmceo_p tell theese people it was a joke !!! How many 5ms we done ran up,” said Baby on Instagram Stories after the story blew up, urging the head of Quality Control Music to address the situation.

Confirming that it was all a big misunderstanding, Pierre “P” Thomas told the world that there is no chance Baby goes back to hustling at this point.

“Too Many Times Idiots. Y’all MF’s Love A Story,” he said, before promoting the deluxe edition of Lil Baby’s album My Turn, which drops this week.

From the beginning, it was pretty clear that this was all just a joke but still, sometimes some clarification is needed.

JT invited fans to ask her anything for a Q&A session on her Instagram, but apparently that did not include anything that might imply that she’s dating her boss, Pierre “Pee” Thomas. On Tuesday, the City Girl shared a post asking fans to send her questions for her to answer in a Q&A video on Thursday. “Ask me whatever without being blocked I’m gonna pick the best questions & answer them on video Thursday!” she instructed. “Take advantage.”

Plenty of users flooded the comments with their most desperate inquiries, including JT’s other half, Yung Miami, who asked her, “What are you most excited about? Are you nervous? What are you looking forward to the most?” However, it looks like one fan hit a nerve with JT, after asking about the status of her relationship with Pierre “Pee” Thomas, the CEO of Quality Control Music where the City Girls are signed. “Please don’t feel no type of way about me asking this question,” the fan wrote, “but all you post is Pierre and I’m getting vibes like that’s your new boo.”

“I’m here for it because I Fuxk with you I love you @thegirljt,” they continued. “Are you two in a relationship?” JT made the answer to this question very clear, but still let the fan know that she’ll be addressing the topic in the Q&A video. “Girl I can’t wait til Thursday for YOU you asked me this 10 mutha f*ckin times & the answer is HELL NO!” JT exclaimed. “I don’t know what makes you or anybody else think this but get that out your head!!!!” City Girls have been signed to Quality Control since 2017, so it makes sense that JT would want to avoid mixing business with pleasure by entering into any kind of relationship with the label’s CEO.

Quavo and 112’s Mike and Slim will serve as judges for the Making The Band auditions in Atlanta, along with Monica and Quality Control’s Pierre “Pee” Thomas and Kevin “Coach K” Lee. Casting auditions for the reboot, which Diddy officially announced last July, will commence this weekend, beginning in Atlanta on Friday, February 28th at Center Stage Theater. While the official Making The Band’s social media accounts have confirmed that Mike and Slim will be joining the ranks of Monica, Pee, and Coach K, according to TMZ‘s production sources, fellow Atlanta native Quavo will also be partaking in the judging process to help find the next R&B supergroup.

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Hopeful talent will audition in front of these celebrity guests as well as the “Combs Cartel”—which includes Diddy and his sons Quincy, Christian, and Justin. The open casting call will take place on Friday from 10:00am-6:00pm, with callbacks scheduled for Saturday by invitation only. Once the Atlanta auditions are complete, the Combs Cartel will head over to Houston and then to Charlotte, where DaBaby will serve as a judge alongside the famous father and sons to evaluate North Carolina’s budding talent. New York auditions will then take place from March 21st-22nd.

Last month, Quality Control CEO Pierre “Pee” Thomas was accused by his baby mother, Lira Galore, of violently abusing her during her first 8 months of pregnancy with their daughter, Khaleesi. Pee denied these abuse allegations, instead claiming that Lira is the abusive one and that the money she is seeking for her injuries is nothing but “a 15 million dollar shake down.”

Following her claims of Pee’s violent tendencies and her fear of him as a result, Lira has now filed to seek a temporary protective order against him. Last week, the two of them appeared at a court hearing in their custody battle for 9-month-old Khaleesi, which was initiated after Pee requested joint custody for their daughter back in May followed by Lira’s counterclaim in December. Lira claims that during these courtroom proceedings, she felt even more threatened by Pee after he allegedly exhibited “menacing behaviour.” Lira claims that Pee did multiple things that made her feel uncomfortable, such as glare at her while they were sitting across from each other in a conference room as well as secretly attempt to take photos of her. She also alleges that he tried to get her phone number after approaching her in an “intimidating nature.” Further, when Lira and her lawyer tried to leave the room, Pee blocked the doorway and harassed her, and a deputy had to be called on to escort her out of the building.

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Lira has disclosed that all of this intimidating and questionable behaviour has left her traumatized. Even her lawyer revealed that, “for the first time in her legal career, [she] felt unsafe in the courtroom.” Lira is asking for a court order to keep Pee 100 yards away from and to not have any contact with her.