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NBA Star Kawhi Leonard’s Debut ‘Culture Jam’ Album Set To Drop This Week
Kawhi Leonard of the Los Angeles Clippers has announced the upcoming release of the first half of his rap project, Culture Jam Vol. 1. Out via Virgin Music Label, the debut Culture Jam volume is centered on celebrating the unity of basketball and hip-hop. Through founding and curating the project, Leonard seeks to support young athletes in underserved communities. “Everything Different,” the first single off of the album, dropped in May from YoungBoy Never Broke Again and Rod Wave. A portion of the proceeds from the song went towards the Mamba & Mambacita Sports Foundation in honor of the legacies of Kobe and Gianna Bryant. The release was followed by “Waves” with Gunna and Polo G later that summer. Scheduled to drop this Friday, October 22, the full tracklist for the first part of&nbs...
Watch an Explorer Encounter a New Pokémon in Eerie Trailer for ‘Pokémon Legends: Arceus’
The Pokémon company has released a new trailer for the upcoming Pokémon Legends: Arceus. Rather than the typical gameplay footage, the eerie video uses found footage, following a videographer in his exploration of the Hisui region. While it’s basically impossible to actually see anything in the grainy footage, the videographer narrates his encounter with an unknown Pokémon. He muses that the Pokémon is neither a Growlithe and Vulpix and describes it as having yellow eyes, white fur and a red-tipped tail. Then, the mystery Pokémon begins to approach him and presumably attacks him before the video cuts to a staticky black screen. Pokémon Legends: Arceus will launch for Nintendo Switch around the world on January 28. The game takes place in the Hisui region before the events of Pokémon D...
With ‘Justified,’ Kacey Musgraves Scores First Airplay Top 10 Since 2013
Concurrently, “Justified” rises 28-26 on Adult Pop Airplay and marks Musgraves’ first entry on Pop Airplay, bowing at No. 39. While “Justified” has drawn nominal exposure on country radio thus far, it has spent seven weeks on the multi-metric Hot Country Songs chart. After peaking at No. 22 in September, it currently places at No. 35, driven by 2.2 million U.S. streams and 1,000 sold in the week ending Oct. 14, according to MRC Data. Star-Crossed, Musgraves’ fifth studio album, debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 dated Sept. 25 and has earned 157,000 equivalent album units since its release. The album has made headlines recently after a Recording Academy subcommittee ruled it ineligible to compete for the best country album award at the 2022 Grammys. Y...
Chris Brown Calls Kyrie Irving a ‘Real Hero’ for Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine: ‘I Stand With My Brother’
Brown has yet to make an official statement on whether he’s been vaccinated against COVID-19, but Irving recently revealed that he is neither pro-vaccine nor anti-vaccine during an Instagram Live on Oct. 14. “The financial consequences, I know I do not want to even do that,” Irving said. “But it is reality that in order to be in New York City, in order to be on a team, I have to be vaccinated. I chose to be unvaccinated, and that was my choice, and I would ask you all to just respect that choice.” The Brooklyn Nets player added, “I am going to just continue to stay in shape, be ready to play, be ready to rock out with my teammates and just be part of this whole thing. This is not a political thing; this is not about the NBA, not about any organization. T...
Garth Brooks & RIAA to Honor Charley Pride With Lifetime Achievement Award
In September 2020, just months before his death in December, Pride collaborated with Brooks on the duet “Where the Cross Don’t Burn,” written by Troy Jones and Phil Thomas. Brooks traveled to Pride’s Dallas studio to record the duet, a musical tale that chronicles the friendship between a young white boy and an older Black man during segregation. In August, Pride was feted by CMT with the 90-minute special CMT Giants: Charley Pride, which featured Pride’s wife Rozene, as well as a sterling lineup of artists including Brooks, Jimmie Allen, Reba McEntire, Darius Rucker, Luke Combs, Mickey Guyton, George Strait, Wynonna, Ronnie Milsap, Reyna Roberts, Gladys Knight and more. In addition to artists performing their favorite Pride hits, the special also included rare, old...
Shoshana Bean Sets Dates for 2021 Holiday Shows: Exclusive
Singer and actress Shoshana Bean is reviving a holiday tradition with the announcement of three holiday concerts this December. Tickets to the dates, dubbed the “Sing Your Hallelujah” concert are available now online. The three dates come after last year’s scheduled shows were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, Bean pivoted to a virtual holiday concert, which was filmed live at the Apollo Theater in New York City and streamed online. (Bean previously performed holiday concerts in 2018 and 2019.) Bean brings her “Sing Your Hallelujah” show to London, New York and Los Angeles this year, with her first show on Dec. 4 in London’s West End at Cadogan Hall. She will then return to where it all began, and where last year’s streamed concer...
Watch Big Sean Freestyle Over Drake’s “Love All” and Kanye West’s “Hurricane”
Big Sean on Wednesday stopped by Power 106’s L.A. Leakers to deliver a powerful freestyle over Drake‘s “Love All” and Kanye West‘s “Hurricane,” along with Nardo Wick‘s “Who Want Smoke??” and JAY-Z‘s “Dear Summer.” Powered by Hit-Boy, the rapper performed an almost nine-minute rape across four total tracks. Sean began on “Dear Summer,” remembering his last encounter with Kobe Bryant, announcing his wariness of American government and claiming he deserved to rap Nipsey Hussle‘s final verse on “Deep Reverence.” The Don Big Sean is in rare form, unleashing BARS over Drake’s “Love All”, Kanye’s “Hurricane”, & Nardo Wick’s “Who Want Smoke” in nearly 9-minute freestyle! ???•@BigSean @Hit_Boy @J_Credible @djsourmilk @TheLALeakers #LIFTOFF ?•[WATCH] https://t.co/eE09dPYGO0 pic.twitter.com/...
Swedish House Mafia Will Make Festival Comeback at Coachella 2022
Coachella usually waits until January to announce its lineup so it came as a surprise when the festival revealed this afternoon that Swedish House Mafia would be performing at the event in 2022. This afternoon, the Coachella Twitter account posted a photo of the trio standing in a red-hued field. The post was captioned with three black dots, the logo for the group. ⚫️⚫️⚫️ pic.twitter.com/ovK0xEu7Ln — Coachella (@coachella) October 20, 2021 Swedish House Mafia confirmed the news on its own Twitter, sharing a video of a jacket being embroidered with the words “Swedish House Mafia Live Coachella 2022.” 2022 @coachella pic.twitter.com/DTngxZFDOq — Swedish House Mafia (@swedishousemfia) October 20, 2021 Swedish House Mafia is made up of the DJs Axwell, ...
Lana Del Rey Rides a John Deere and Paints ‘Blue Banisters’ in Latest Video
Lana Del Rey just dropped the video for the title track from her upcoming record, Blue Banisters, which is out this Friday. [embedded content][embedded content] Making for a wholesome home video, “Blue Banisters” begins mirroring its opening lyrics, “There’s a picture on the wall / Of me on a John Deere.” Maintaining her remarkable sultry and silky vocals, Del Rey’s aura has turned from her Paradise, heart-shaped glasses and cigarette smoking days into a sweetheart of the country, bearing long cotton dresses and gathering her friends to simply paint each other’s feet. Turning to her girlfriends as muses and inspirations throughout her music released this year, as a group of them bear the cover of Chemtrails, Del Rey has found comfort in the endless support of the women that have her back:&...
Meek Mill and Giggs Take to London’s Streets in New “Northside Southside” Visual
Following the release of his fifth album Expensive Pain, Meek Mill has returned with a new music video for a front-running track, “Northside Southside,” featuring British rapper Giggs. The visual first runs through the streets of London and into a clocktower before centering on Meek rapping next to a Rolls-Royce while surrounded by a masked posse. Following scenes of girls dancing and close-ups of cars, the video abruptly transitions to a dark clip of a fast-approaching underground train before entering the tube and honing in on a menacing individual wearing all-black at the end of the car. Switching back to the street, Giggs takes center stage to deliver his verse, before the video concludes with the duo looking into the camera on the road. Aside from Giggs, the 18-track record featu...
Erykah Badu Launches New BADUBOTRON Radio On Sonos, Shares Details Of What To Expect
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Josh Brasted / Getty Erykah Badu has been one of the most compelling artists of her era and of all time for well over two decades, and she continues to find creative ways to bring her innovation and vision to the masses. Today (October 20), the talented singer, songwriter, producer, and DJ launched her new BADUBOTRON Radio station on Sonos, and she graciously spoke with during a media event earlier this week to share details of what to expect. Badu, radiantly beautiful as always, took time out of her busy touring schedule to speak with media during a roundtable discussion moderated by Carmel Holt, host of SHEROES MIXTAPE MEMOIR as part of the Sonos original programming lineup. Related Stories Taking a break to speak via video from her bus during the Live ...
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Bundy & Sincere: Nas Says DMX Got More Love On The Streets Than 98% Of Rappers [Video]
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Showtime / Showtime Nas rarely does interviews but when he does Hip-Hop listens intently. In a recent Q&A he makes it clear that DMX was loved on another level when it comes to Rap music. The Queensbridge, New York legend was a guest on the season finale of Desus & Mero. The Bodega Boys got God Son to discuss King’s Disease II and much more. In respect to the untimely passing of Darkman X, the duo asked Esco to detail his relationship with the Yonkers MC. To hear Nas tell it DMX was far more special than we are aware of; he spoke about their bond that was formed on the set of Belly. “That was a great time man,” he revealed. “’Cause to come from music and go to Times Square to the premiere and see our names on the marquee—you know, growing up ...
