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Best New Tracks: JID, DJ Khaled, Offset x Moneybagg Yo and More
As the week in music comes to a close, HYPEBEAST has rounded up the best projects for the latest installment of Best New Tracks. This week’s list is led by JID, DJ Khaled and Offset x Moneybagg Yo, who each released the albums The Forever Story and GOD DID and the single “Code.” Also joining this week’s selection are fresh drops from Joji, Flo Milli, Ezra Collective x Sampa The Great, Butcher Brown, Pi’erre Bourne, Mach-Hommy and FIDLAR. DJ Khaled – GOD DID [embedded content] DJ Khaled drops yet another star-studded project for his 13th studio album, GOD DID. The 18-track record features guest appearances from Drake, JAY-Z, Eminem, Future, Travis Scott, Rick Ross, 21 Savage, Kodak Black, Nardo Wick, Takeoff, City Girls, Don Toliver, Kanye West, SZA, Lil ...
Ewan McGregor to Star In Showtime’s A Gentleman in Moscow
Ewan McGregor is headed to Russia, kind of. The actor is set to star in Showtime’s upcoming drama series A Gentleman in Moscow, currently slated for a 2023 release date. Based on Amor Towles’ 2016 novel of the same name, A Gentleman in Moscow follows Count Alexander Rostov (McGregor), an aristocrat whose gilded background has inadvertently put him on the wrong side of history in Stalin-era Soviet conflicts. Rostov is banished in the lavish Hotel Metropol, where he risks being murdered if he ever sets foot outside again. He spends the next several years in the hotel as some of Russia’s most turbulent years pass, learning a thing or two about friendship, family, and love while there. “It’s an amazing, wonderful story and I am very excited to get to play such a fabulous role,” McGre...
Three Thousand Years of Longing Is Very Much George Miller’s Version of a Fairy Tale: Review
The Pitch: Alithea (Tilda Swinton) is an aloof and solitary scholar who travels to Istanbul for a conference; browsing through the markets one day, she purchases a small glass bottle that intrigues her. Back at her hotel room, she uses her electric toothbrush to clean some dirt off the bottle, and poof! Out comes a Djinn (Idris Elba) who, after taking a few minutes to catch up with the 21st century and the existence of the English language, does his job and offers Alithea three wishes. Alithea, though, is a scholar of mythology, and so she’s immediately wary of the Djinn’s offer, given the centuries of precedent which suggests that no good can come of magical wishes. So she asks the Djinn to tell her his life story: How he came to be imprisoned in the bottle, and why he has been imprisoned...
Britney Spears and Elton John Release “Tiny Dancer” Remix “Hold Me Closer”: Stream
Britney Spears and Sir Elton John’s highly anticipated collaborative single “Hold Me Closer” has arrived. Stream it below via Apple Music and Spotify. The refreshed take on John’s 1971 staple “Tiny Dancer” proves to be just as nimble with Spears adding some new flourishes to the duet. The song was recorded by the pair together in a Beverly Hills studio in mid-July along with Grammy-winning producer Andrew Watt. “Hold Me Closer” stands as Spears’ first music release since her conservatorship was terminated in November 2021. The pop icon officially confirmed the track on August 13th and expressed her excitement about its debut in a now-deleted Instagram post, saying: “I appreciate this and all of your support it means so much to me !!! I can’t wait for you all to hear what we’ve been wo...
Noah Cyrus and Ben Gibbard Brace for Heartbreak on New Song “Every Beginning Ends”: Stream
Noah Cyrus is gearing up to release her debut solo album, and with her latest single “Every Beginning Ends,” she’s got none other than Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard in her corner. Listen to the two’s new duet below. A slow country ballad, “Every Beginning Ends” mourns the beginning of the end of a relationship. “You went to sleep without saying you loved me,” Cyrus first sings, prompting Gibbard to reply,. “I guess I thought you already knew.” The opening is just one of many call-and-response lyrics in the track, as the artists draw up all those dreaded signs of two people falling out of love. In a statement, Cyrus recalled working with Gibbard, a veteran of emotional songwriting. “That was such a surreal experience,” she said. “I’ve always been such a huge fan, so it was pretty daunti...
Twitter Calls Out Irv Gotti For His Creepy Ashanti Pillow Talk During BET’s Murder Inc. Docuseries
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Paras Griffin / Getty Irv Gotti is having a month and not in a good way. Instead of riding the positive nostalgia wave that his Murder Inc. docuseries is producing, it’s his comments about cringe comments about Ashanti that are taking center stage. The Murder Inc. Story is currently the talk of social media, and when it wraps up will be another hit for BET but also a stain on the network because of how Ashanti was treated. It’s no secret Ashanti wanted nothing to do with the docuseries, and we now know why, IRV GOTTI. During a recent episode, Irv Gotti shared how his two-decade-old relationship with the songwriter/singer began. “I’m separated from [my wife] Deb. I’m on my own. And Ashanti’s coming to the studio every day and our friendship and bond ...
Bad Bunny To Perform From Yankee Stadium For The VMA’s
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Orlando Sentinel / Getty We’re just a few days away from the annual MTV Video Music Awards and with the show constantly looking for new and exciting ways to please their viewers, they’ve enlisted Bad Bunny to be the latest artist to perform outside the MTV box. According to Variety the current king of Reggaeton will be performing during the music video ceremonies on August 28th but instead of being on stage at New Jersey’s Prudential Center, the music artist turned WWE champion will be doing his thing live from Yankee Stadium in the BX. To make things even more interesting MTV promises his performance will include “never-before-seen choreography” from the Boogie Down Bronx. Related Stories The Puerto Rican artist made his first VMAs appearance in 2019 alo...
Voice of FN Meka Claims Capitol Records Never Paid Him
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Virtual Humans / Virtual Humans The controversy over the “world’s first” artificial intelligence rapper FN Meka has grown after another rapper who was hired to do their voice is now blasting Capitol Records, claiming they never paid him for his work. According to reports, Kyle The Hooligan revealed that he was the voice of FN Meka, who was billed as the “world’s first A.I. rapper. The news comes shortly after Capitol Records announced that they dropped FN Meka just a week after introducing him as the newest artist signed to their label. The Atlanta, Georgia-based artist went on his Instagram page to reveal that he was contracted to be FN Meka’s voice and explained how everything came about. “They came to me with this A.I. s*** and was like would I want to...
Snoop Dogg Creates New Animated Children’s Series ‘Doggyland’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Gregg DeGuire / Getty Snoop Dogg has become quite the entrepreneur over the past few years and now Martha Stewart’s partner-in-crime is looking to enter the world of children’s animation. Vibe is reporting that the Doggfather has partnered up with Hip Hop Harry creator Claude Brooks and singer-songwriter October London to create his new children’s cartoon series Doggyland and truth be told, we’re interested to see what Snoop has cooked up in his kitchen. While no one would’ve ever imagined the man who “b*tches ain’t sh*t but h*es and tricks” would one day create an animated series for kids, it’s something that the Death Row boss is very proud of at this point in his life. Related Stories “As a father, grandfather and longtime youth football coach, it’s al...
IDK Drops New Two-Pack ‘W13’
IDK has dropped a little gift for his fans — a two-pack dubbed W13. The project clocks in at approximately seven minutes with two tracks, entitled “Free Slime” and “Drive” and produced by Ragz, HUTCH and E Whizz and Statik Selektah, respectively. W13 marks IDK’s first release since his latest album Simple., which was created in tandem with KAYTRANADA. In a recent interview with HYPEBEAST, he revealed that a meeting with Kanye West made him realize that rap was the life for him. “I got a call from him while I was with 88-Keys and he said ‘I wanna hear your album and if you’re real,’” he said. “My record wasn’t out yet at the time so the fact that he knew about it was kind of crazy to me. Next thing you know we were together, just talking and hanging out. That’s when I was like, ‘Alright I’m...
Netflix’s Cryptic Teaser Introduces Adam Driver and Don Cheadle in Apocalyptic Disaster Film ‘White Noise’
Netflix has released a sneak peek at its upcoming Noah Baumbach film adaptation of the classic Don DeLillo novel of the same name. The novel was first published in 1985 and it received global attention as it dissects the way modern technology has inescapably impacted human society. While it is now three decades past the events of the novel and today’s technology is much different than what it was in the ’80s, the notion can still be interpreted in the present day. The cryptic teaser trailer introduces Adam Driver as Jack Gladney, a professor of “Hitler Studies” who appears to grapple with life, death and the concerns of day-to-day life. His wife Babette is played by Greta Gerwig and Don Cheadle plays Driver’s colleague Professor Murray Siskind. While Jack searches of a way to be happy in t...
Phoebe Bridgers to Star in A24’s New Horror Film ‘I Saw the TV Glow’
A new A24 horror movie is coming to screens near you. The latest film is titled I Saw the TV Glow and is set to arrive from writer and producer Jane Schoenbrun. A24 is partnering with Fruit Tree Productions to bring the film to life. They have put together a cast that includes many musicians including Fred Durst, Lindsey Jordan from Snail Mail, King Woman and Danielle Deadwyler. Also part of the cast are Amber Benson from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Ian Foreman, Michael Maronna, Connor O’Malley, Emma Portner and Danny Tamberelli. The film, which has already wrapped production, has not yet announced a release date, however, a very bare bones synopsis does keep fans guessing. The plot information leaves much to the imagination of audiences and can only hold fans over with a short descriptionst...
