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Bobby Shmurda Begs To Free From Epic Records; Compares Label To Prison
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty The trend with rappers complaining about their recording home continues. Bobby Shmurda is asking to be let go from Epic Records and compares it to a prison bid. As per Complex the Brooklyn, New York native is still not feeling the vibes with his record label. On Thursday, February 10 he vented his frustrations on a very detailed Instagram post. In short he claims Epic is slowing him down by not allowing him to release his already delayed album. “I got a 70 year old lady running my label And I love her dearly but doesn’t want to let me go At allllllllllll no Matter what I do I’ve been Sign to them since was 19 I did six years in jail trying to get off this label before I came home,” he wrote in the since-deleted post. “You n...
Kanye West Says Travis Scott Will Perform With Him at Coachella 2022, Demands Billie Eilish Apology
In an Instagram post today, Kanye West has demanded that Billie Eilish apologize to Travis Scott. At a concert earlier this week, Eilish stopped her show and said, “I wait for people to be OK before I keep going,” when a fan needed an inhaler. West took that as shade toward Scott, who West said will perform with him during his headlining Coachella 2022 set. Eilish is also a headliner at this year’s festival. He wrote: COME ON BILLIE WE LOVE YOU PLEASE APOLOGIZE TO TRAV AND TO THE FAMILIES OF THE PEOPLE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES NO ONE INTENDED THIS TO HAPPEN TRAV DIDN’T HAVE ANY IDEA OF WHAT WAS HAPPENING WHEN HE WAS ON STAGE AND WAS VERY HURT BY WHAT HAPPENED AND YES TRAV WILL BE WITH ME AT COACHELLA BUT NOW I NEED BILLIE TO APOLOGIZE BEFORE I PERFORM In a comment on the post, viewed by Pitchf...
Saweetie and H.E.R. Share New Song “Closer”: Listen
Saweetie has shared a new single that’s set to appear on her forthcoming debut album Pretty Bitch Music. “Closer,” out today via Icy and Warner Records, features H.E.R. A new music video for the track is forthcoming. Listen to the single below. Saweetie closed out 2021 with a performance on Saturday Night Live. She did “Tap In,” “Best Friend,” and her newest single at that point, the Dr. Luke–produced song “Icy Chain.” Also in 2021, Saweetie released “Fast (Motion),” the Insecure soundtrack offering “Get It Girl,” and her Drakeo the Ruler collaboration “Risky.” In addition to releasing the new album Back of My Mind, H.E.R. had a massive year in 2021. She won an Oscar, won the Grammy for Song of the Year, paid tribute to Tina Turner at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, an...
Colin Stetson Announces The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Soundtrack, Shares New Song: Listen
Colin Stetson has shared a new piece of music, a preview of his forthcoming soundtrack to David Blue Garcia’s update of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It’s titled “Every Last One.” The rest of the score arrives on February 18 via Milan Records, with the film hitting Netflix the same day. Listen to “Every Last One” below. Stetson discussed his work on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in an interview with Variety, saying, “I knew it would be an opportunity to go as far as I wanted in searching for the musical score.” He said he used recordings of a saxophone and hog grunts for the film’s iconic villain, Leatherface. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre score is the latest entry in a large body of soundtrack work from Stetson, who issued three soundtrack LPs in 2020. Since scoring the horror film Hereditary ...
Charli XCX Shares New Video for “Beg for You”: Watch
Charli XCX has shared a new video for her recent Crash single “Beg For You,” which features a guest appearance from Rina Sawayama. Check it out below. Charli released the song “Good Ones” in September, with Perfume Genius remixing it at the end of the year. The rest of the album arrives on March 18. Caroline Polachek and Christine and the Queens join her on the latest Crash single “New Shapes.” The trio had been slated to perform “New Shapes” on Saturday Night Live in December, but it was scrapped due to a surge in COVID-19 cases. Earlier this year, Charli released Alone Together, the making-of documentary about her 2020 album How I’m Feeling Now. She’s set to tour North America in support of Crash at the end of March, with a European leg beginning in May. Content This content can al...
‘Bel-Air’: How to Watch the ‘Fresh Prince’ Reboot Online
All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors. However, Billboard may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. There’s a new “Fresh Prince” in town. Bel-Air, the highly anticipated Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reboot executive produced by Will Smith, will debut on Peacock on Sunday (Feb. 13). Jabari Banks stars as Will in the dramatic reimagining of the original series. Olly Sholotan is Carlton Banks, Coco Jones plays Hillary Banks, Akira Akbar portrays Ashley Banks and Jimmy Akingbola as the Banks family butler, Geoffrey. Explore Explore Will Smith See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Adrian Holmes and Cassandra Freemon play Uncle Phil an...
The Ledger: Hits Are Great, But Labels & Publishers Seek Higher Margins Too
There’s little doubt record labels and publishers will continue to improve revenues in the coming years on the backs of streaming subscriptions, stronger internet advertising and burgeoning sectors like social media and connected fitness. But there’s less certainty about how their margins will grow as industry revenues surge. Investors and analysts are making their best guesses. During Warner Music Group’s earnings call on Tuesday (Feb 8), RBC Capital Markets analyst Kutgun Maral asked management asked if recent deals “are indicative of a greater focus on M&A” and if they “are accretive or dilutive to margins.” CEO Stephen Cooper said WMG will “be quite assertive” in seeking deals it believes can be “immediately accretive [to margins].” Lou Dickler, senior vp, controller, added that th...
Young Dolph Shooting Suspects Plead Not Guilty in Memphis
“Memphis is already past ready for justice in this case,” Hagerman said. Both Johnson and Smith have prior felony convictions for violent crimes. Johnson, 23, was traveling on a highway in Indiana on Jan. 11 when he was stopped and arrested on a murder warrant outside of Terre Haute by the U.S. Marshals Service, authorities said. Smith, 32, was arrested in December on an auto-theft warrant involving the vehicle used in Young Dolph’s killing. Both defendants were being held without bond. Juni Ganguli, Johnson’s lawyer, said he spoke with his client after the hearing. “I don’t think anyone’s ever happy when they’re indicted for first-degree murder, so he’s sad and confused,” he said. Ganguli and Smith’s lawyer, Michael Scholl, are both well known in the Memphis legal world and both have work...
Taylor Swift & Ed Sheeran’s Best Friendship Moments
Over the past decade, Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran‘s friendship has grown into one of the music industry’s strongest, as the pop duo are constantly collaborating, performing together and generally supporting each other every step of the way. On the heels of their brand new “Joker and the Queen” remix released on Friday (Feb. 11), we’ve compiled our favorite moments from throughout Swift and Sheeran’s friendship. See them below. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news 2012: “Everything Has Changed” Swift and Sheeran first teamed up musically back in 2012 for “Everything Has Changed,” off Swift’s album Red. In the heart-melting music video, the singer-songwriters showcase miniature doppelgängers building an everlasting friendship at a tender age. [embedde...
Orville Peck To Release Second Album ‘Bronco,’ Shares Four New Songs
Following his 2019 debut Pony and 2020’s EP Show Pony, country singer Orville Peck has announced his sophomore album Bronco. The 15-track album will be released in three separate chapters, the first of which arrived on streaming today. Fans received four singles in the installment. There’s the LP’s lead single “Daytona Sand,” along with “C’mon Baby, Cry,” “Outta Time” and “Any Turn.” “C’mon Baby, Cry” came with a music video directed by Austin Peters, who worked with Peck on visuals across the Bronco album. The video opens with Peck singing at a western bar and having glass bottles thrown at him, and then cuts to him performing on a neon-lit stage as an admirer watches on. “I got an hour or so, take my hand and let it go,” Peck croons. “Call me up anytime, c’mon baby, cry.” Bronco will b...
Nicki Minaj and Lil Baby Return With New Single “Bussin”
Nicki Minaj and Lil Baby have returned to drop a new track, “Bussin.” The single follows the duo’s “Do We Have a Problem?,” which was released last week alongside a Benny Boom-directed visual featuring actors Joseph Sikora and Cory Hardrict. Minaj and Lil Baby engage in a back-and-forth banter throughout the verse: “I call Baby, ‘Yo, where that stick at?’” Minaj asks before Lil Baby takes the mic, “Tell them boys come get his shit back.” “If they act up, we gon’ fix that. My new n**** ain’t with that chit chat,” she returns, to which Lil Baby responds, “You know, you ain’t gettin’ your bitch back.” At the end of the “Do We Have a Problem?” video, Minaj teased “Bussin” with a performance of a verse from the track inside a neon hallway. The almost ten-minute video concluded on a cliffhanger ...
UNTOLD Festival Reveals Massive Phase 1 Lineup With Kygo, David Guetta, Above & Beyond, More
After the reveal of UNTOLD Festival‘s first wave of 2022 artists, one thing certainly won’t be left untold: this year’s event could be the biggest yet. The Romanian festival is one of Europe’s most beloved, inviting approximately 300,000 fans annually to the city of Cluj-Napoca for a celebration of electronic dance music music culture. UNTOLD was also one of the only major European music festivals to take place in 2021 during the pandemic, bouncing back with a momentous edition featuring a slew of major artists in techno and house music. And this year is no different. The 2022 UNTOLD Festival, dubbed “Untold Chapter VII,” promises another stellar lineup. Organizers have now revealed the first phase of artists, announcing a formidable Mainstage lineup of ...
