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Kanye West Drops ‘DONDA (Deluxe)’ With Verses From André 3000, KayCyy and More
Kanye West has delivered the deluxe version of his latest full-length album, DONDA. Clocking in at just a little over two hours, the new edition arrives with a whopping 32 tracks and features verses from André 3000 on the controversial cut “Life Of The Party,” KayCyy on “Keep My Spirit Alive pt. 2” and Kid Cudi on “Remote Control pt. 2” to name a few. DONDA (Deluxe) also includes a selection of new cuts such as “Up From The Ashes” and “Never Abandon Your Family.” Over the weekend, TIDAL took to Twitter to deliver the message “Kanye West Presents Donda Deluxe” and nothing else, with the tweet going live after a billboard promoting DONDA (Deluxe) appeared near 1Oak in Los Angeles, California, with the same message. Reports of a deluxe edition hit the internet earlier this month after fans sp...
Nine-Year-Old Boy Trampled at Astroworld Dies
Ezra Blount, the nine-year-old Astroworld attendee who was put in a medically-induced coma last week, has died. Blount’s family confirmed the news of death with Houston’s ABC affiliate KTRK first to report. Blount is the youngest person to die following the concert disaster that left eight dead and hundreds injured. Ezra was on his father Treston Blount’s shoulders when the deadly crowd surge started at the beginning of Travis Scott’s set at 9 pm., and the two became trapped. Blount was trampled and suffered injuries to his kidney, lung and liver. “The Blount family tonight is grieving the incomprehensible loss of their precious young son,” the family’s attorney, Ben Crump, said in a statement. “This should not have been the outcome of taking their son to a concert, what should have been a...
Beanie Sigel Now Claims Kanye West Does Not Owe Him for Coining “YEEZY”
In his first Drink Champs interview, Kanye West revealed that Beanie Sigel gave the rapper his “YEEZY” nickname and that he owed him millions for coming up with the billion-dollar brand name. While Sigel responded to Ye in a recent club appearance, stating that the DONDA artist would technically owe him around $50 million USD and 5% of YEEZY stock, Sigel recently said in an interview that there is no bad blood between them, despite the lack of compensation. Sigel said, “As far as his business mind and where he took it — you know, Kanye work hard for his. Kanye don’t owe me nothing.” He also added that Sigel would not ask for a specific price because he understood that West was able to build the empire on his own from the ground up. Sigel continued, “You give somebody a fish today, he gon’ ...
Soulja Boy Addresses Drake, Ye FKA Kanye West On ‘Tha God’s Honest Truth’ With Charlamagne Tha God
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Soulja Boy has laid claim to be the inventor of a number of viable Hip-Hop trends, and he may well be the first rapper to go viral. The Atlanta rapper and entrepreneur sat down with Charlamagne Tha God to break down a handful of times he broke the Internet by way of his outsized personality. Big Draco, 31, was a guest on Charlamagne’s Tha God’s Honest Truth talk show for the “Inside The Rapper’s Studio” segment. Soulja, this time more subdued and laid back than he normally is, watched Charlamagne air videos of his most viral moments and asked for a breakdown for each instance. Related Stories As for the infamous “Draaaake” moment, Big Soulja said, “It was all about Drizzy. They caught me off guard with that question,” prompting Charla...
Courtney Michelle Draws Ire Of Black Twitter After Seemingly Putting Ari Fletcher & Jayda Wayda On Blast
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: @thecourtneyc / Instagram Courtney Michelle, who refers to herself as a Luxury Lifestyle Vlogger, released a video to TikTok that seemingly threw two other Black women entrepreneurs under the bus. In the video, Michelle refers to Ari Fletcher and Jayda Cheeaves AKA JAYDA WAYDA, saying that she doesn’t understand why popular social media personalities are “goals” for others. In the viral TikTok video, Michelle is seen driving along and opens her video by saying, “I don’t relate to most of y’all because a lot of you look to Ari and Jayda, and, beautiful girls, but like that’s your goals of what you want to be like.” She continued, “Goals for me is the mom who pulls up to Whole Foods in the brand new Escalade with the Mim Xari stroller, her kids are de...
Wizkid wins “Best African Act” at MTV EMA 2021
Nigerian music icon Wizkid has just won the 2021 MTV EMA award for “Best African Act”. Today is the MTV EMA 2021 award ceremony and Wizkid has been announced as the winner in the “Best African Act” category. Earlier, the “Essence” crooner was nominated in the category and he was up against Tems, Diamond Platnumz, Amaarae, and Focalistic. After amassing the highest number of votes from fans, Wizkid was declared the winner amongst his rivals. This would be one of other MTV EMAs the Starboy would be bagging. TOP PICKS FOR YOU: This year has been such a great year for his with his record-breaking album “Made In Lagos” and the single “Essence” which features Tems. HUGE congratulations to BIG WIZ @wizkidayo 🦅 for winning Best African Act! From Lagos to the world 🌍🔥&...
Taylor Swift’s Red (Taylor’s Version) Broke Her Own Streaming Record After One Day
Taylor Swift knows all too well what it’s like to break records, and with the release of Red (Taylor’s Version), she’s done it again. On Saturday, Spotify confirmed to Billboard that the re-recording smashed the record for the most-streamed album in a day by a female artist with more than 90.8 million streams around the globe. That number only surpasses Swift’s own folklore, which previously held the record at 80.6 million streams upon its surprise July 2020 release. And that’s not all: thanks to the hype around the new release of the fan favorite LP, the superstar also earned the distinction as the most-streamed female artist in a single day in the platform’s history with more than 122.9 million streams. Advertisement Related Video Red (Taylor’s Version) contains a massive 30 tracks — inc...
ALWZ SNNY Plays a Real-World Game of Monopoly In “I’ll Be Alive” Music Video
Dance music producer ALWZ SNNY is back with one of his strongest releases to date, a progressive house anthem called “I’ll Be Alive.” The track is uplifting in nature, featuring a poignant topline and ALWZ SNNY’s typical bubbly sound design. The lyrics invite listeners to embrace life and squeeze all the juice they can out of it—a theme we can all relate to after the isolation of the pandemic: “They say I’m a drifter ’cause I’m always on another road, maybe all the answers are a million miles away from home.” ALWZ SNNY expands on the storyline in a brilliant music video, directed by JDFilms. The song’s wanderlust motif is fleshed out by way of a real-world game of Monopoly, where the game’s pieces—like the banker a...
Watch FOZZY’s RICH WARD Perform At AEW’s ‘Full Gear’ Event
Rich Ward from FOZZY played a live guitar rendition of Britt Baker‘s entrance entrance theme when Baker put her AEW Women‘s World Championship on the line against Tay Conti at AEW‘s “Full Gear” pay-per-view event on Saturday, November 13 at Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Video footage of Ward‘s performance can be seen below. FOZZY frontman Chris Jericho currently competes in AEW and is the leader of the Inner Circle, which also includes Jake Hager, Sammy Guevara, Santana and Ortiz. They competed at “Full Gear” against Men Of The Year (Ethan Page and Scorpio Sky) and American Top Team (Junior Dos Santos, Andrei Arlovski and Dan Lambert). As previously reported, FOZZY will embark on the spring 2022 leg of its “Save The WorldR...
JOHN 5: ‘I Lost Some Very Close Friends To COVID’
John 5 has explained his decision to pull out of his previously announced U.S. tour as the support act for legendary Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen. The trek, also featuring IMAGES OF EDEN and SUNLORD, was slated to kick off on November 16 in Atlanta, Georgia and conclude on December 18 in Houston, Texas. In a new interview with “Whiplash”, the KLOS radio show hosted by Full Metal Jackie, John 5 said about the circumstances that contributed to his decision to scrap his touring plans for the remainder of 2021: “Well, what it was is — to be completely, a thousand percent honest, I lost some very close friends to COVID. And it was just going crazy and going rampant. And I was gonna be touring in these places where there’s a lot of people. And I love to meet people ...
Late QUIET RIOT Drummer FRANKIE BANALI: A Video Tribute
Former QUIET RIOT bassist Chuck Wright has shared a six-and-half-minute video tribute to the band’s late drummer Frankie Banali, who died in August 2020 after a 16-month battle with pancreatic cancer. You can watch it below. As previously reported, a public funeral service for Banali — who joined QUIET RIOT in 1982 and played on the group’s breakthrough album, 1983’s “Metal Health” — will be held on Monday, November 15 at 2:30 p.m. at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California. SiriusXM personality Eddie Trunk shared the invite on his Instagram and wrote in an accompanying message: “Honored to have been asked to host this. If you are in the LA area 11/15 you are welcome to attend this service for our dear departed friend @fbana...
LZZY HALE: HALESTORM’s New Album ‘Is Absolutely A Banger’
HALESTORM frontwoman Lzzy Hale talked to the 105.7 The Point radio station about the progress of the recording sessions for the band’s follow-up to 2018’s “Vicious” album. She said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “We have it done. We literally finished the album three days before we left for tour. There were two new songs that kind of came together right at the end when we thought everything was wrapped. And we were, like, ‘Now we have to do this, but we’ve gotta go.’ It’s just so beautiful.” Regarding the musical direction of the new HALESTORM material, Lzzy said: “This album is absolutely a banger. It’s on eleven. We have really just kind of exceeded all of the energy that has come before on these albums, both ...
