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Rick Ross ft. Jazmine Sullivan & 21 Savage “Outlawz,” RZA & Flatbush Zombies “Plug Addicts” & More | Daily Visuals 12.13.21
HipHopWired Featured Video The Bawse may not drop new material as regularly as he used to but when he does best believe the sh*t holds the kind of weight he’s dropped over the years (props!). For his latest visuals to “Outlawz,” Rick Ross links up with Jazmine Sullivan and 21 Savage and sit on their respective thrones before Ross rolls up to the projects to show them he’s still ‘bout that life regardless of the success. Keeping with the OG theme, the RZA returns to lend the Flatbush Zombies a hand and in their clip to “Plug Addicts” torture an old white man who was probably at the Capitol Riot on January 6th. We kid we kid. Check out the rest of today’s drops and some joints you might’ve missed over the weekend including work from Peewee Longway, GMF Fatboy, and more. RICK ROSS FT. JAZMINE...
LL Cool J Honored With His Own Statue In His Hometown of Queens
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Al Pereira / Getty Hip-Hop legend LL Cool J has always made it a point to represent his home borough of Queens throughout his career. That love was reflected in a new statue dedicated to him. Last week Tuesday (December 7th), the “4,3,2,1” rapper and actor shared a post to social media featuring a new statue built and installed in his honor. The Instagram post he shared contained the caption “Anything is possible. Statue of me in Corona Park, Queens by the talented @sherwintheartist.” Related Stories The statue, which is a bust of LL Cool J atop a boombox similar to the one he had in his iconic music video “Radio”, is installed in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. The boombox element of the sculpture even has a 7” cassette of the song in it to be played by an...
City Boys Up!: Azealia Banks Says Her Manager Used Love To Finesse Her Out Of Money
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: C Flanigan / Getty Azealia Banks is coming for her coin. She alleges her former manager developed an intimate relationship with the purposes of defrauding her. As spotted on Madame Noire the Harlem, New York performer is missing money and says her ex-boyfriend is responsible for the thievery. Rolling Stone reports that Banks has responded to a libel suit filed by Jeff Kwatinetz. In her countersuit she claims her former label boss at Prospect Park soon turned their professional relationship into a personal one; she says he posed as a “romantic suitor” to “steal” from her. Related Stories Her court filings state say Kwatinetz used his influence to coerced her sign over the rights to her 2014 album Broke With Expensive Taste to his Prospect Park label f...
Exit Interview: Japanese Breakfast Reflects on a Best Selling Book, Her Grammy Nomination and the Activity That Kept Her Calm
If you told Michelle Zauner in early 2021 that she’d dominate the year-end lists — both in music and books — she would’ve thought you were nuts. But here we are. And she had a perfect spot to soak it all in: Onstage in early December during a warm Mexico City evening, her confident stage presence seemed to neatly encapsulate that trajectory as Japanese Breakfast. Performing on opening night at House of Vans in the Mexican capital city, the singer-songwriter let loose with the controlled intensity built up from a year in lockdown. Zauner led the sold-out crowd in the concert-venue-turned-skatepark in singalongs and anthems, even managing to slide in a cover of the Cranberries’ beloved 1993 alt-rock hit “Dreams.” Earlier in the day, before dazzling those thousand-plus fans, Zauner calmly too...
The 30 Best Songs of 2021
A pair of rappers pulling off the best Tom Tom Club sample since Mariah Carey’s “Fantasy” (G Perico & Rucci), an iconic New Wave band trafficking in tongue-in-cheek nostalgia (Duran Duran), a blackgaze act embracing their love of vocal harmony (Deafheaven), and psych-rockers using the shopping mall as a metaphor for capitalist greed (My Morning Jacket) — SPIN‘s 30 Best Songs of 2021 offer something for everyone. For our latest year-end track recap, we kept our overall sorting process the same as 2020: For a cut to be eligible, it needed to be one of two things: 1) a stand-alone single released in 2021 or 2) part of an album issued in 2021. 30. Beatrice Deer – “The Storm” The sound is so simple that, at first, it feels almost formless: a primal drum groove, shards of metallic elect...
Original AC/DC Singer DAVE EVANS Collaborates With Former METALLICA Producer FLEMMING RASMUSSEN
Original AC/DC singer Dave Evans has recorded two new songs with legendary producer Flemming Rasmussen, best known for having been helmed three of METALLICA‘s early albums, plus winning a Grammy for his work on METALLICA‘s “One” in 1989. One of the songs, “Guitarman”, was written by Danish musician and composer Nicholas Hill, while the second track is a cover of an Elvis Presley classic that Evans had previously performed with AC/DC. The new Evans recordings, which were made through a collaboration betwen Chrystal Records Argentina and Space Rock Productions Denmark, will be released in the next few months. Dave recorded AC/DC‘s first two singles, “Can I Sit Next To You Girl” and “Baby, Please Don’t Go”. But in October...
BEARTOOTH Announces ‘The Below Tour Part 2’ With SILVERSTEIN, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA And ERRA
BEARTOOTH has announced “The Below Tour Part 2”. The second leg of the headline trek kicks off on March 26 in Fort Wayne, Indiana and runs through May 3 in Louisville, Kentucky. Also appearing on the bill are SILVERSTEIN, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA and ERRA. The trek follows the original “Below Tour”, which took place this past summer and was sold out at every turn. Citi is the official presale credit card of “The Below Tour Part 2 Tour”. As such, Citi cardmembers will have access to purchase presale tickets beginning Tuesday, December 14 at 12 p.m. ET until Thursday, December 16 at 10 p.m. local time through Citi Entertainment. The Knotfest.com VIP presale is set for Wednesday, December 15 at 10 a.m. ET and the Ticketmaster presale is on deck for Wednesday, ...
BRUCE DICKINSON Talks To FRANCIS ROSSI In Fourth Episode Of ‘Psycho Schizo Espresso’ Podcast
The fourth episode of “Psycho Schizo Espresso”, a brand new podcast from IRON MAIDEN‘s Bruce Dickinson and Oxford University psychologist and best-selling author Dr. Kevin Dutton, has just been launched across all podcast platforms. Check it out below. In this episode, Dutton and Dickinson chat to STATUS QUO founder and frontman Francis Rossi about how to survive in the shark pit of rock and roll. They talk egos, personas, and the psychological dynamics of being in an enduring, iconic rock band. Oh, and does it really make sense for Spotify to have over 4000 different music genres? You can listen to “Psycho Schizo Espresso” wherever you get your podcasts, and the show is also available in Vodcast form on YouTube. Head to this location to find the podcast on yo...
KORN Announces March/April 2022 U.S. Tour With CHEVELLE And CODE ORANGE
KORN will embark on a headlining tour in March with support from CHEVELLE and CODE ORANGE. Produced by Live Nation, the 19-date arena trek will begin on March 4 in Springfield, Missouri and make stops in Greensboro, Providence and Albany, among other cities, before wrapping up in Wichita, Kansas on April 1. Tickets for the upcoming tour go on sale Friday, December 17 at 9 a.m. local time on Ticketmaster.com. Citi is the official presale credit card of the KORN 2022 tour. As such, Citi cardmembers will have access to purchase presale tickets beginning Tuesday, December 14 at 12 p.m. local time until Thursday, December 16 at 10 p.m. local time through Citi Entertainment. KORN is also performing four nights with SYSTEM OF A DOWN, HELMET and RUSSIAN CIRCLES in early 2022 beginning on January 3...
Cat Power Shares Cover of Billie Holiday’s ‘I’ll Be Seeing You’ and New Version of ‘Hate’
Cat Power unveiled a pair of new songs from her upcoming Covers album. One, is a proper cover of Billie Holiday’s “I’ll Be Seeing You” and the other sees Cat Power covering…Cat Power. The updated version of “Hate,” from 2006’s The Greatest is now titled “Unhate.” The version of “I’ll Be Seeing You” was inspired by recent losses in Chan Marshall’s inner circle of life, which included Sun collaborator Philippe Zdar, who died in 2019. “When people who you love have been taken from you, there’s always a song that holds their memory in your mind,” Marshall said in a statement. “It’s a conversation with those on the other side, and it’s really important for me to reach out to people that way.” The 1940s-inspired video for “I’ll Be Seeing You” sees Marshal performing in a caba...
The Journey Of Becoming A Taylor Swift Fan In Your Thirties
By Liz Riggs “Well, I guess there’s no turning back,” a fellow thirtysomething late-adopting Taylor Swift fan named Jess Tantisook tells me over the phone. She’s talking about discovering the 2020 album Folklore, but it’s impossible to discuss how we accidentally became Swifties without talking about the coronavirus pandemic, or reexamining the last two years fraught with anxiety, grief, and trepidation. “We’re all locked inside. If the world had looked different, maybe it would have passed us by.” There’s this idea that by your thirties, you’ve more or less figured out your favorites — drinks, songs, artists. Most people my age have stopped “discovering” music and, in some cases, distanced themselves from youth culture as a whole. So to become a Taylor Swift super fan nearly a decade and ...
‘Heroes of Newerth’ Is Officially Shutting Down Next Summer
After running for more than a decade, Heroes of Newerth is finally shutting down. Originally launched back in 2010, the DOTA-derived MOBA gained immense popularity following a shift to a free-to-play model in July that year, at one point peaking at 150,000 concurrent players during May of 2013. Unfortunately, as the years went by, more and more fans of the genre shifted over to DOTA 2 or League of Legends, and has left HoN to slowly wither away after 12 years. Despite the unfortunate fate of the game, however, the Frostburn Studios team remains positive: “Even though the journey of HoN or Heroes of Newerth has come to an end, we believe that all the valuable memories of our players through all these years will never fade away,” they said. “It’s ...
