Thanksgiving Weekend is normally a quiet time for new releases — but that doesn’t mean the worlds of hip-hop and R&B stopped spinning.

On Thanksgiving (Nov. 27), R&B singer Ray J was taken into custody by Los Angeles police and charged with making a criminal threat after allegedly pointing a gun at his ex-wife, Princess Love, during a livestreamed argument. The “One Wish” singer, who’s also Brandy’s younger brother, was released on $50,000 bond later that night. “The worse it gets, the better it gets for us, impression-wise, algorithm-wise, profit-wise, everything,” he explained to Cam Newton on an episode of the former NFL star’s Funky Friday podcast, which resurfaced following the holiday arrest.

By the end of the holiday weekend (Nov. 30), the NFL unveiled the official lineup for the

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