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Snoop Dogg has revealed plans to launch his own app and streaming platform for Death Row Records, which he recently acquired. In his recent Drink Champs interview, the new Death Row owner explained that he removed several of the label’s albums — including his own Doggystyle, Dr. Dre‘s The Chronic and Tha Dogg Pound‘s Dogg Food — from streaming platforms such as Apple Music, Spotify and Amazon Music because he wants to put the records on his own platform that will pay much higher. “First thing I did was snatch all the music off those platforms traditionally known to people, because those platforms don’t pay,” Snoop shared. “And those platforms get millions and millions and millions of streams and nobody gets paid other than the record labels, so what I wanted to do is snatch my music off, c...

Jack Harlow has made his first ever No. 1 solo Billboard Hot 100 chart debut with his new track “First Class.” Billboard reports that the single from the Louisville lyricist has topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart, also marking his second No. 1 single. His first was in 2021 with Lil Nas X on his collaboration for “Industry Baby.” “First Class” was an immediate radio success, bringing in a record of 54.6 million streams, a 2022 record. On the radio, the song received a 4.1 million airplay audience impression and 10,600 downloads in just the first week of its release. Prior to Harlow, Harry Styles earned the 2022 streaming record for “As It Was” last week. “First Class” sampled another No. 1 hit, Fergie’s 2006 “Glamorous,” which undoubtedly helped gave the track a boost for its release. The s...

Ryan Michael Reavis, one of the three men charged in the September 2018 death of Mac Miller, has been sentenced to 10 years and 11 months in prison. Rolling Stone reports that Reavis, 39, referred to himself as the middle man who gave another drug dealer the fentanyl-laced oxycodone pills that killed the rapper. He also previously claimed that he was unaware that the pills he dealt were the ones that killed Miller up until he was arrested by law enforcement in September 2019. “This is not just a regular drug case. Somebody died, and a family is never going to get their son back. My family would be wrecked if it was me. They’d never be all right, never truly get over it. I think about that all the time. And I know that whatever happens today, I’m the lucky one because my family is here and ...