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Desus And Mero Split Over Issues Surrounding Their Long-Time Manager, Allegedly
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: John Lamparski / Getty When I first heard that Desus and Mero would not be returning to Showtime for a fifth season—I an’t gon’ lie—my heart sank. I was in a salty mood for most of that day. You have to understand, they were heroes of mine. They reminded me of me and my boys sitting in an apartment front room cracking jokes at each other or at anything in sight while watching TV and enjoying—well—smokable refreshments of the recreational variety. These two Black men made it all the way to a late-night show on a premium cable channel—a platform historically reserved for white men and people of color who are palatable for white consumption—and they did it without code-switching. In the American entertainment industry, that’s a monumental feat. So yeah, the ...
MAGA Struggle Rapper Kid Rock Fans Trash Concert Venue After He Cancels Performance
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Mike Ehrmann / Getty Over the weekend MAGA struggle rapper Kid Rock left his fans in North Dakota feeling hot and bothered and it led to an insurrection-ish moment at the venue he was set to perform in. According to TMZ, the former “rapper” turned far-right country singer canceled his concert performance at the last minute this past Friday (July 22) citing high winds as the reason he couldn’t take the stage. Naturally this left his white boy drunk fanbase boiling as Night Ranger had performed for 2 and a half hours before an An officer from the Ward County Sheriff’s Department announced that the concert was a wrap at around 11pm. Related Stories Drunk and angry, the 18,000 people in attendance decided to blow off some steam by flinging beer cans onto the ...
Teaser For ‘Atlanta’s Final Season Chocked Full of Easter Eggs From Past Episodes
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz All good things must come to an end. Donald Glover’s brainchild, Atlanta, preps us for the final season with a new teaser. The Final Season of Atlanta Premiers In September FX dropped a teaser for the final season of Atlanta, and it’s chocked full of easter eggs from standout episodes from each of the show’s seasons. The 43-second teaser does feature the show’s main cast Donald Glover’s Earn, Zazie Beetz’s Vanessa, LaKeith Stanfield’s Darius, and Brian Tyree Henry’s Paperboi. Glover and Beetz walk out of a liquor store while Coconut Crunch-O’s, the cereal advertised in season one’s “B.A.N.S” episode, rains from the sky. LaKeith Stanfield shows up after crashing the invisible car hilariously first featured in the show’s firs...
Funko To Enter Gaming in New Partnership with 10:10 Games
Funko, a contemporary collectible label made famous by its Pop vinyl figurines, is moving into the gaming domain in collaboration with 10:10 Games, led by former Traveller’s Tales and TT Games founder Jon Burton. Within the partnership, the culture and lifestyle brand will launch an AAA Action Platformer in 2023. “By partnering with 10:10 Games and utilizing the best creators in the business, we will have the talent to deliver games that reflect Funko’s unique look and feel across its lines and varied products,” Funko CEO Andrew Perlmutter said in a statement. This isn’t Funko’s first time in the gaming space — the company previously worked with Microsoft on the now-discontinued Gears Pop! mobile game. Notably, the brand’s 10:10 Games partnership will mark its first time working on th...
Bobby Shmurda Has Announced His First Post-Prison EP ‘Bodboy’
It looks like Bobby Shmurda is finally dropping his long-awaited first post-prison project later this summer. Earlier this year, the rapper took to Instagram to call out major record labels for “blackballing” him. Now, it appears that he is ready to drop his upcoming nine-track EP. Bobby Shmurda took to his Instagram to make the announcement that his latest project Bodboy will be dropping in early August. The EP will feature his newest single “Hoochie Daddy” as well as guest features from Rowdy Rebel and Fat Tony. On top of the new EP announcement, the press release has indicated that Shmurda’s new label GS9 Records will be operating in partnership with ONErpm. The announcement of Bodboy as his first post-prison EP comes just weeks after the rapper did his HotNewHipHop interview where he a...
Post Malone and Doja Cat Share Carefree “I Like You (A Happier Song)” Music Video
Riding on the success of their new duet “I Like You (A Happier Song),” Post Malone and Doja Cat have dropped off an official video for the bouncy track, directed by child. The visual sees Malone in the role of an artist creating grand, colorful paintings in a sunlit studio decked out with Vincent Van Gogh’s Almond Blossom wallpaper. Outside the workroom, the chart-topper finds himself working on a sketch in an open field, where Doja Cat models for him with flowers covering her body and later runs topless through a flowery meadow. In the video’s conclusion, a French voiceover says, “Let’s move forward with passion, with desire, and love.” “I Like You (A Happier Song),” which debuted at No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100, marks the third single from Posty’s album, Twelve Carat Toothache. The rec...
Getting Back in the DJ Booth: Jadaboo Talks Spinning For Six Hours at Diddy’s Parties, Her Viral ‘Rain’ Edit & Her 2022 Song of the Summer
As clubs have been reopening and shows have been resuming across the country after a year-and-a-half long COVID-19 pandemic pause on the live music industry, Billboard is asking club and touring DJs about their experience fading between spinning at home to performing back outside. There’s a saying that goes something like, “You can’t always be in the mix, or else you’ll lose your flavor.” But for seasoned DJ Jadaboo, she’s spinning at almost every popping party, premiere and afterparty and spreading her signature flavor of feel-good, old school and new school hip-hop, R&B, funk and dance music from coast to coast. After growing up seeing her loved ones involved in the music industry – her father was a producer and her high school sweetheart (now fiancé) is rapper Kyle – Jada wanted to ...
How Singer-Songwriter Montell Fish Is Redefining Christian Music
Montell Fish became a musician the same way he began his latest album: with a broken heart. “I was passionate and I went through a breakup,” he says. “Every time I go through a breakup, I write a good album.” At the time, Fish was 16 years old, and newly kicked out of his mother’s house due to a budding romance with drugs. (“Weed edibles, and then psychedelics like shrooms,” he elaborates). Quickly, he spiraled into a state of depression, unsuccessfully juggling the breakup with a girlfriend and familial tumult, turning to music creation, and eventually, God, for reprieve. “I was just so low and depressed that I started calling out to God like, ‘If you’re real, show me,’” he explains. “And then I began to see the God that my mom knew.” Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See...
Latin Recording Academy Sets Date for 2022 Latin Grammys
The Latin Recording Academy announced Monday (July 25) that the 23rd annual Latin Grammys will take place Nov. 17 and will return to Las Vegas. Additionally, nominees will be announced on Sept. 20. The 2022 Latin Grammys ceremony is set to broadcast live from the Michelob Ultra Arena at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. The three-hour telecast, which will be produced by Univision, will air live on the network beginning at 8 p.m. ET, preceded by a one-hour pre-show starting at 7 p.m. ET. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news According to the Latin Recording Academy, the first round of voting will take place between July 28 and Aug. 8. The final round of voting is set for Sept. 30 to Oct. 13. Earlier this month, the Latin Grammys kicked off their Acousti...
Brad Paisley, Lady A Sell Music Rights to HarbourView
In another move reflecting its diversified genre approach to music acquisitions, HarbourView Equity Partners has entered the Nashville scene in a big way with new investments in Brad Paisley and Lady A‘s catalogs. Paisley, who has won three Grammy awards and has generated activity totaling 17.4 million album consumption units in the U.S., has sold his music royalty income stream to his master recording catalog to HarbourView. Beyond his successful music career, Paisley remains in the spotlight most recently thanks to his involvement in Nationwide Insurance advertising campaigns and due to his partnership with Boot Barn for the Moonshine Spirit clothing line. His last studio album was Love and War in 2017, which reached No. 13 on the Billboard 200 chart and peaked at No. 1 on Top Country Al...
Eddie Vedder Returns To Action at Pearl Jam’s Amsterdam Tour Finale
After his vocal issues forced Pearl Jam to cancel its last three shows, Eddie Vedder returned to the stage tonight (July 25) in Amsterdam just in time for the final concert on the band’s summer European itinerary. Vedder completely lost his voice after he performed in hot, dusty and smoky conditions on July 17 at Lollapalooza Paris. He revealed early in tonight’s show that doctors told him he’d need two weeks to recover, but Vedder was having none of it. “I said, ‘I’m not gonna fuckin’ leave this part of the world without playing one more show,’” he replied. The frontman also thanked Dr. Marco Frankenfurt, the doctor who treated him in recent days, and showed pictures of them on the video screens. Pearl Jam eased into the proceedings with four straight acoustic songs: “Nothing As It ...
Turnover Announce New Album Myself in the Way, Share Title Track Featuring Turnstile’s Brendan Yates: Stream
Turnover have announced a new album and shared the video for the title track “Myself in the Way” featuring Turnstile singer Brendan Yates. The Virginia band’s fifth studio album drops November 4th via Run for Cover Records. The smooth track sees Turnover going in a chilled-out disco direction with auto-tuned vocals and jazzy chords. With Yates on board, it’s hard to not compare the song with the more R&B-tinged moments on Turnstile’s latest album, Glow On. The similar band names also add a parallel element. “Over the last couple of years, I really tried to stop finding reasons why not to do something,” Turnover singer Austin Getz said via a press release. “This song specifically is about getting engaged despite fears I’ve always had of being able to provide for a family, to give a...
