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YFN Lucci is doing what he humanly couldn't do just a few years ago -- pound the pavement and promote his new album!!!

TMZ Hip Hop linked with Lucci this week during his latest run in NYC for his "Already Legend." album ... dripping in designer, and the Atlanta-born star says he feels like he's living the dream with a 2nd chance.

Lucci was released from prison back in January after serving nearly four years for violating Georgia's Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act.

Los Angeles Dodgers player Alex Vesia is mourning the death of his baby daughter, Sterling Sol ... who tragically passed away just two days after the team announced he would not participate in the World Series.

"Our little angel we love you forever & you’re with us always," Alex and his wife, Kayla, said in a shared post on Instagram.

"Our beautiful daughter went to heaven Sunday October 26th. There are no words to describe the pain we're going through but we hold her in our hearts and cherish every second we had with her."

Denise Richards just scored a big legal win over her estranged husband Aaron Phypers ... because she's getting court-ordered protection from him after accusing him of domestic violence.

A judge on Friday reportedly granted Denise's request for a restraining order against Aaron, and the ruling bars Aaron from blabbing to the media about Denise or owning guns ... TMZ has confirmed.

The restraining order will remain in place for 5 years ... and Aaron can't contact Denise, disturb her peace or abuse her.

Kris Jenner will celebrate her 70th birthday in grand style this weekend, and there's a buzz this may well be a surprise wedding!!!

Multiple sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ ... the bash will be held at the $165 million Beverly Hills estate of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez.

We're told around 300 people will attend. We're also told there will be a major recording artist performing during the party.

The Dallas Cowboys are paying tribute to Marshawn Kneeland after he tragically passed away on Thursday ... leaving flower bouquets at his locker.

Cowboys cornerback Josh Butler shared an Instagram photo on Friday that shows the current state of Kneeland's spot in the team facility.

"Love you dawg," Butler wrote.

Daymond John’s coming in hot for the "eat the rich" crowd ... unloading on "TMZ Live" and insisting the ultra-wealthy are keeping the world turning, not tearing it apart!

The "Shark Tank" mogul told us Friday billionaires aren’t the villains ... going on to list facts and figures on how they're constantly giving away so much $$$, while also creating jobs, building hospitals, and pouring money back into the economy, while critics just sit around and talk.

When Harvey pushed back -- pointing out TMZ’s Gen Z staff is all in on wealth distribution amid the income disparity convo, and rooting for Zohran Mamdani’s call for change in NYC -- Daymond didn’t miss a beat. He clapped back, telling them to go work for the government ... before pointing out those same employees aren’t even getting paid right now thanks to the shutdown ... though we're not sure how that binary choice proves the point.

Molecular biologist James Watson died at a hospice in East Northport, New York, on Thursday. He was 97.

Watson's death was confirmed by his son, Duncan, who said his father had been transferred to the hospice from a hospital after being treated for an infection, according to The New York Times.

The scientist shot to fame in 1953, when he co-discovered the double-helix structure of DNA alongside Francis Crick, and the pair -- as well as Maurice Wilkins -- were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology nine years later for their work.

Watson eventually became the first director of the Human Genome Project, and he also served as the director and chancellor of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where he worked for almost 40 years.

Watson garnered controversy later in his career for making disparaging remarks about the intelligence of Black people in an interview with The Sunday Times of London in 2007.

He eventually sold his Nobel Prize medal in 2014 for $4.1 million to support both his family and various research initiatives, and the medal's buyer, Alisher Usmanov, ended up returning it to him.

Rapper Maxo Kream can get back to rolling in peace ... he cut a deal with prosecutors and got the criminal case against him stemming from a traffic stop in Texas last July dropped!!!

TMZ Hip Hop obtained docs signed by a judge on Friday, Nov. 7, showing the case has been dismissed ... thanks to a deal with prosecutors arranged by his legal team.

Maxo had been charged with unlawful carrying of guns by a registered gang member after police say they found 2 in the vehicle on July 7 ... but now the case has been dropped in exchange for the rapper forfeiting the guns and agreeing to some community service and a gun safety class.

One of the men involved in the bizarre Florida pub shooting -- where a farmer allegedly opened fire over an argument about how many eggs chickens can lay -- says the gunman was super paranoid ... and took an honest question the wrong way.

Tyler McHargue joined us on "TMZ Live" Friday and explained how a harmless discussion about egg-laying hens turned into gunfire and multiple arrests early Tuesday morning.

Tyler says he was out with friends celebrating a birthday when they met Peter Riera at Harpers Pub in Port St. Lucie, Florida. Riera is the man cops say opened fire outside the pub following the argument.

Kelsea Ballerini hasn't been afraid of letting her fans into her personal life through her music ... and she just dropped a bit of juicy info about her plans for the future in a new track.

The singer-songwriter released her newest song, "I Sit In Parks," on Friday -- just a day after revealing she has an EP, "Mount Pleasant," set to debut later this month -- and the track covers some pretty heavy material ... including her desire to become a mother.

The song deals with Kelsea making observations about a happy family, and she openly wonders if she's missed out on a big opportunity after "chasing things a body clock doesn't wait for" in the song's chorus.

At another point, Kelsea ponders whether the song character wants her freedom "like I wanna be a mother."

Kelsea's had brushes with the potential of motherhood before, and she admitted in a 2023 episode of "Call Her Daddy" the breaking point in her marriage with Morgan Evans was when she realized she wasn't ready for kids.

Kelsea said she told Morgan she was open to freezing her eggs once she turned 30 -- she was 29 when they had their conversation about parenthood -- but he apparently didn't want to wait, and they ended up divorcing in 2022.

It's finally here, folks ... the Recording Academy has released its list of nominees for the 2026 Grammy Awards!

The nominations for next year's awards ceremony were announced during a star-studded livestream on Friday, and we're already going through all the songs and albums to pick out our personal favorites!

You already know there's plenty of big names on the list -- and we're going to bring you up to speed on some of the biggest ones!

"Abracadabra" -- Lady Gaga

"Manchild" -- Sabrina Carpenter

"Anxiety" -- Doechii

"Luther" -- Kendrick Lamar with SZA

"Wildflower" -- Billie Eilish

"DTMF" -- Bad Bunny

"Apt." -- Rose and Bruno Mars

"The Subway" -- Chappell Roan

"Abracadabra" -- Lady Gaga

"Manchild" -- Sabrina Carpenter

"Luther" -- Kendrick Lamar with SZA

"Wildflower" -- Billie Eilish

"DTMF" -- Bad Bunny

"Apt." -- Rosé and Bruno Mars

"Golden" -- HUNTR/X

"Debi Tirar Mas Fotos" -- Bad Bunny

"Swag" -- Justin Bieber

"Chromakopia" -- Tyler, The Creator

"Mutt" -- Leon Thomas

"GNX" -- Kendrick Lamar

"Mayhem" -- Lady Gaga

"Let God Sort Em Out" -- Clipse

"Man's Best Friend" -- Sabrina Carpenter

Lola Young

Alex Warren

Leon Thomas

Sombr

The Marias

Addison Rae

Katseye

Olivia Dean

"Swag" -- Justin Bieber

“I’ve Tried Everything but Therapy (Part 2)” -- Teddy Swims

"Mayhem" -- Lady Gaga

"Something Beautiful" -- Miley Cyrus

"Man's Best Friend" -- Sabrina Carpenter

"Manchild" -- Sabrina Carpenter

"Disease" -- Lady Gaga

"Messy" -- Lola Young

"Daisies" -- Justin Bieber

"The Subway" -- Chappell Roan

"Chromakopia" -- Tyler, The Creator

"GNX" -- Kendrick Lamar

"Glorious" -- GloRilla

"God Does Like Ugly" -- JID

"Let God Sort Em Out" -- Clipse, Pusha T & Malice

"Private Music" -- Deftones

"I Quit" -- Haim

"From Zero" -- Linkin Park

"Never Enough" -- Turnstile

"Idols" -- Yungblud

"Patterns" -- Kelsea Ballerini

"Snipe Hunter" -- Tyler Childers

"Evangeline vs. the Machine" -- Eric Church

"Beautifully Broken" -- Jelly Roll

"Postcards From Texas" -- Miranda Lambert

"Ain't in it for My Health" -- Zach Top

"Hard Headed Woman" -- Margo Price

"Oh What a Beautiful World" -- Willie Nelson

"American Romance" -- Lukas Nelson

"Dollar a Day" -- Charley Crockett

"Mutt" -- Leon Thomas

"Escape Room" -- Teyana Taylor

"The Crown" -- Ledisi

"Why Not More?" -- Coco Jones

"Beloved" -- Giveon

"F*** U Skrillex You Think Ur Andy Warhol But Ur Not!! <3" -- Skrillex

"Inhale/Exhale" -- Rufus Du Sol

"Fancy That" -- PinkPanthress

"Ten Days" -- Fred Again..

"Eusexua" -- FKA Twigs

Dan Auerbach

Cirkut

Dijon

Blake Mills

Sounwave

Amy Allen

Tobias Jesso Jr.

Edgar Barrera

Jessie Jo Dillon

Laura Veltz

"Sable, Fable" -- Bon Iver

"Songs of a Lost World" -- The Cure

"Don’t Tap the Glass" -- Tyler, the Creator

"Moisturizer" -- Wet Leg

Hit-Boy and The Alchemist have been taking their "Goldfish" album show on the road -- to dynamite effects ... with sold-out theaters streaming their film!!!

TMZ Hip Hop caught up with Hit and Al at their recent L.A. streaming, and they tell us they wanted to give fans a more engaging experience with the project ... so they shot a bunch of videos and pieced them together in movie format!!!

There's plenty of heavy talent -- Danny Trejo, Rory Culkin, Blake Anderson, UFC star Shara Magomedov, and more -- to match the featured artist appearances ... Big Hit, Conway, The Machine, Slink Johnson, Lefty Gunplay, and others.

Frank Grillo thinks the world is ready for an A.I. hero on the big screen ... 'cause he argues humans ain't fixing the world on their own!

We caught up with the actor at LAX on Thursday ... and we asked him about his upcoming film "Override" -- in which he will play an A.I. "synthetic angel," according to Variety.

Grillo says he believes the world's ready for such a hero because we aren't "making it happen" in terms of saving the world at this point.

Donald Trump just made Darryl Strawberry's year -- the President of the United States has pardoned the New York Mets legend in his 1995 tax evasion case.

The three-time World Series champ revealed the news on Friday ... expressing his gratitude in a detailed Instagram post. He revealed POTUS personally called him on Thursday afternoon to inform him of the clemency.

"Yesterday I was home caring for my wife as she recovered from surgery, when my phone kept ringing relentlessly," Strawberry said.

Andrew Zimmern is being a Scrooge about Christmas, but it's not what you think ... he's just a big fan of Thanksgiving, and thinks the holiday is getting the short end of the wishbone.

We got the celebrity chef in New York City and our photog asked him about all the Christmas advertisements and decorations going up in the first week of November.

Andrew says it's part of a bigger problem in America ... holidays don't get their due. He says Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas all deserve their own moment, and we shouldn't start preparing for one until the other is over.

11:41 AM PT -- Mark's Brother Nick Sanchez Jr., on behalf of the Sanchez family, tells TMZ Sports ... "It's been a long month for Mark as he continues to recover from serious injuries while also grieving the loss of a close friend. While the recent news — and its timing — is understandably disappointing, our priority remains his continued healing and recovery. Mark deeply values his time at FOX and the exceptional colleagues he’s had the privilege to work with. Those relationships are meaningful and will endure."

A month after Mark Sanchez was involved in a near-fatal fight while in Indianapolis to call an NFL game for FOX, the company has handed the quarterback-turned-broadcaster his pink slip, TMZ Sports has learned.

A FOX Sports spokesperson tells us ... "We can confirm that Mark Sanchez is no longer with the network. There will be no further comment at this time."

We broke the story in early October -- Sanchez, in town to call the Colts vs. Raiders football game, was involved in a bizarre altercation where he allegedly attacked a 69-year-old delivery driver ... prompting the man to stab Mark in self-defense, nearly killing him.