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Snoop Dogg Acquires Death Row Records, Twitter Salutes The Doggfather
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Stephen J. Cohen / Getty Death Row Records remains one of the most iconic names in Hip-Hop history, and it appears one of its former stalwart stars is now in a new position of ownership of the famed label. Snoop Dogg, who got his start as a professional record artist with the outfit, purchased the label, and fans on Twitter are saluting the Doggfather. The new venture for the always-working Snoop Dogg was announced on Wednesday (Feb. 9), which details that the Long Beach, Calif. native acquired Death Row Records from the MNRK Music Group, which is owned by the investment firm Blackstone. “I am thrilled and appreciative of the opportunity to acquire the iconic and culturally significant Death Row Records brand, which has immense untapped future value...
Peep The First Trailer To ‘Jurassic World Dominion’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Universal / Universal Pictures The Jurassic Park franchise is set to come to an epic conclusion this summer when Jurassic World Dominion stomps into theaters and in its first official trailer we get a glimpse of what we can expect come June. Picking up where Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom left off, Chris Pratt and company find themselves in a new world where the dinosaurs who’ve made their way off the island are now reclaiming various parts of the world as their own. From the cities to the sea, the T-Rex’s, Raptors, and the brand new Atrociraptor are causing havoc to human kind’s way of life and it’s on Chris and Jurassic Park OG’s Laura Dern (Ellie Statler), Sam Neill (Alan Grant), and Jeff Goldblum (Ian Malcolm) to help him figure out how to correct the...
Kanye West, Fivio Foreign and Alicia Keys Drop “City of Gods”
Kanye West has dropped a new single with Fivio Foreign and Alicia Keys ahead of the release of new album DONDA 2. All three artists took to their social media channels earlier to promote the release of the new single “City of Gods.” Alicia Keys hinted that the single is a product of Ye’s “Black Future Month” as she accompanied her post with a behind-the-scenes image of the three artists performing the track. The partnership between Ye and Fivio comes after Fivio spoke about working with the DONDA rapper last November. His next album is slated to be executive produced by Ye and it is a matter of ensuring their schedules match before a drop is imminent. He previously claimed, “Something might happen tomorrow, it might drop tomorrow. A month from now, but no later than like two, three months....
Ed Sheeran’s ‘The Joker and the Queen’ Lyrics vs. Taylor Swift Remix Lyrics: What’s New?
Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift are together again, this time for a remix of his = (Equals) track “The Joker and the Queen” — and this time around, there’s a whole new verse, courtesy of Swift. Swift takes over the second verse on the remix, replacing Sheeran’s original lyrics with the female perspective of the love song. She, too, goes all in on the analogy of love as a card game, singing, “I’ve been played before if you hadn’t guessed/ So I kept my cards close to my foolproof vest/ But you called my bluff and saw through all my tells/ And then you went all in and we left together.” Below, find the remix lyrics, including Swift’s brand-new verse, as well as Sheeran’s original lyrics. “The Joker and the Queen” (featuring Taylor Swift) remix lyrics (new lyrics in bold) How was I to know?It’s a ...
Janet Jackson Returns to the Charts, Streams Soar 109% After Documentary Series
Janet Jackson’s new documentary series leads to significant gains for the legend’s catalog and the return of some of her best-known classics to Billboard’s sales charts. The four-part series, titled Janet Jackson., premiered on A&E and Lifetime in a two-night event on Jan. 28 and 29. The documentary, which spans the superstar’s life, from her earliest years through her 2019 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, was the channel’s most-watched non-fiction program since Surviving R. Kelly in 2019. The first episode registered 2.8 million people on live TV, and another 1.2 million in the next few days either digitally or on demand, according to Nielsen, with parts two through four drawing 4.3 million, 3.7 million and 3.8 million viewers, respectively. [embedded content] Attention ...
Here Are the Lyrics to Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow’s ‘Industry Baby’
When Lil Nas X teamed up with Jack Harlow to release “Industry Baby” in July 2021, the song immediately went viral on TikTok and soon climbed up the charts. “Industry Baby” soared to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 dated Oct. 23, 2021, marking Lil Nas X’s third Hot 100 leader, following his record 19-week No. 1 “Old Town Road,” featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, and “Montero (Call Me by Your Name),” while Harlow notched his first. If you need a guide to follow along with the words of Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow’s TikTok-viral hit, find the lyrics below. (Daytrip took it to ten, hey) Baby back, ayyCouple racks, ayyCouple Grammys on himCouple plaques, ayyThat’s a fact, ayyThrow it back, ayyThrow it back, ayy And this one is for the championsI ain’t lost since I began, yeahFunny how you said it was...
‘Beauty and the Beast’ Prequel Series Put on Hold at Disney+
Beauty and the Beast’s TV spinoff has hit a speed bump. Disney+ has put its musical prequel spinoff from its 2017 feature film on hold amid delays with creative elements and scheduling challenges with its cast. Sources close to the streamer say the show will eventually be made though it’s unclear if the cast, including film stars Josh Gad and Luke Evans, will be available when (and if) that comes to pass. As THR exclusively reported in March 2020, the project was developed as a six-episode series that would feature Gad and Evans reprising their roles as Gaston and LeFou, respectively, in an origin story for the beloved characters. The show was picked up to series with an eight-episode order in June 2021 with Briana Middleton (The Tender Bar) cas...
Kanye Refusing to Perform at Coachella Unless Billie Eilish Apologizes to Travis Scott
Shortly after a headline reporting a recent situation where Billie Eilish stopped a show to help a fan, Kanye West has now asked for the 20-year-old artist to apologize to Travis Scott. The instance took place at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena during a stop for Eilish’s Happier Than Ever the World Tour. The artist briefly paused the show for a fan that needed an inhaler and said, “I wait for the people to be okay before I keep going.” Shortly after media outlets began reporting that the statement was directed towards Travis Scott, in reference to last year’s Astroworld Festival tragedy. Kanye West took to Instagram, posting a screenshot of a headline along with a caption. “COME ON BILLIE WE LOVE YOU PLEASE APOLOGIZE TO TRAV AND TO THE FAMILIES OF THE PEOPLE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES NO ONE INTENDED...
Rema Announces Debut Album Rave & Roses, Shares New Song “Calm Down”: Listen
Nigerian pop star Rema has announced his debut album. Rave & Roses is out March 25. The collection of music he calls Afrorave features contributions from 6lack, AJ Tracey, and Yseult, plus the previously released track “Soundgasm.” Listen to the new song from the album, “Calm Down,” below. “‘Calm Down’ is about the events that led me to finding love at the time,” Rema said in a statement. “It started at a party where I saw a girl who stood out from other girls so I felt like shooting my shot. We spoke and danced… but her friends didn’t let me get any closer which killed the vibe, but afterwards when they weren’t there, we stayed in touch and hit it off.” Revisit the Rising interview “Rema Is Leading the Next Generation of Nigerian Pop.” Content This content can also be viewed on ...
Taylor Swift Joins Ed Sheeran for New Version of “The Joker and the Queen”: Watch the Video
Friends and collaborators Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran have come together once again for a new song: Swift is featured on a new version of Sheeran’s = song “The Joker and the Queen.” The track arrives with a music video that you can watch below; scroll down for the new “The Joker and the Queen” single artwork. Swift and Sheeran first collaborated on the 2012 Red song “Everything Has Changed.” The artists reconnected for Reputation’s “End Game.” And, last year, Sheeran was featured on two cuts from Swift’s Red (Taylor’s Version): the re-recorded “Everything Has Changed” and “Run (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault).” Since releasing = in October 2021, Ed Sheeran has joined Fireboy DML for a new version of “Peru.” Earlier this week, Sheeran performed “The Joker and the Queen” and “Bad Habits” ...
Margo Price Announces New Memoir Maybe We’ll Make It
Margo Price has a memoir on the way. It’s titled Maybe We’ll Make It, and it covers her early career as a singer-songwriter. It’s out October 4 via the University of Texas Press as part of the American Music series, which is co-edited by journalist and former Pitchfork editor Jessica Hopper along with Charles Hughes. Price shared a statement about the project, which is her first book: I’m so excited to share with y’all that for the past five years, I’ve been working on writing a book. It has truly been a labor of love and I’m so thrilled that it will finally be released by the University of Texas Press. Maybe We’ll Make It takes place over the better part of a decade when I was struggling to make a career as a songwriter and an artist. It’s a love story about loyalty, loss, grief and...
Colin Stetson Announces The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Original 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 of them in 2020: one for Color Out of Space (More Music From the ...
