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2 Chainz Drops Tracklist for Upcoming Album ‘Dope Don’t Sell Itself’
As 2 Chainz gears up for the release of his new mixtape Dope Don’t Sell Itself next month, the rapper has shared the tracklist. The tracklist gives fans a glimpse of what is to come as well as the guest features they can expect to hear. For the rapper’s seventh studio album, which follows his 2020 project So Help Me God, where he enlisted some of his peers including Lil Wayne, Kanye West, Rick Ross and NBA Youngboy to appear on the album. The Atlanta-based rapper first announced the upcoming Dope Don’t Sell Itself on January 21. So far, he has released two singles from the album, “Million Dollars Worth of Game” with 42 Dugg and “Pop Music” featuring Moneybagg Yo and BeatKing. The rapper posted to his music and merch website the rest of the tracklist which sees the album include 12 songs fe...
PinkPantheress Announces First-Ever U.S. Tour Dates
PinkPantheress has announced four May concerts. They’ll mark her first-ever U.S. headlining shows. Find the tour dates below. PinkPantheress—a Bath-born, London-based musician—broke through last year with the songs “Pain,” “Break It Off,” “Passion,” and “Just for Me.” The tracks featured on her debut mixtape To Hell With It, which got released via Elektra and Parlophone in October. Read about PinkPantheress in “The Zoomer Embrace of Drum’n’Bass” on the Pitch. All products featured on Pitchfork are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. PinkPantheress: PinkAcrossAmerica May 2022 PinkPantheress: 05-07 Oakland, CA – Starline Social Club05-10 Los Angeles, CA – The Masonic Lodge at Hollywo...
Pink Siifu Announces U.S. Tour, Shares New Video: Watch
Pink Siifu has shared another new Gumbo’! music video. Siifu wrote and directed the “Wayans Bros.” visual with Ameer Kazmi. Watch below. Along with the new video, Pink Siifu has announced a U.S. tour. The concerts are slated to take place in March and feature support from Turich Benjy, Peso Gordon, and VonBeezy, along with a DJ set from Ted Kamal. Find Siifu’s schedule below. Last month, Pink Siifu shared the music video for “Gumbo’! 4 tha Folks, Hold On.” Check out Pitchfork’s “The 38 Best Rap Songs of 2021,” featuring Gumbo’!’s “Call tha Bro (Tapped In).” Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. Pink Siifu: 03-03 Chicago, IL – Schubas Tavern03-04 Detroit, MI – Deluxx Fluxx03-05 Cincinnati, OH – Radio Artifact03-07 Philadelphia, PA – ...
Spotify Removes Neil Young’s Music at His Request After Criticism of Joe Rogan’s Podcast
Earlier this week, Neil Young posted an open letter to his website urging his record label and management to scrub his music from Spotify, accusing the platform of “spreading fake information about vaccines” by hosting The Joe Rogan Experience. Now, Spotify has agreed to pull Young’s work from streaming, according to a statement from a Spotify spokesperson. As of this writing, some of Young’s albums remain on Spotify. Pitchfork has reached out to representatives for Neil Young for comment. “We want all the world’s music and audio content to be available to Spotify users,” the spokesperson stated. “With that comes great responsibility in balancing both safety for listeners and freedom for creators. We have detailed content policies in place and we’ve removed over 20,000 podcast episode...
Nicki Minaj and Lil Baby Releasing New Song Next Week
Nicki Minaj and Lil Baby have announced that they’re releasing a new song next week. The single is set to arrive on February 4 with an accompanying music video. “DO WE HAVE A PROBLEM!? BABY X BARBIE,” she tweeted when revealing the news. It’s been four years since Minaj last released an album, 2018’s Queen. Since then, she’s collaborated with Jesy Nelson, Bia, Polo G, and Drake on new songs and been working on an HBO Max documentary series. Last year, Lil Baby partnered with Lil Durk on the collaborative record The Voice of the Heroes. He also linked up with Meek Mill for “Sharing Locations” and joined Kirk Franklin and Just Blaze for the Space Jam: A New Legacy cut “We Win.”
Grimes Unveils “Shinigami Eyes” Visual With Guest Appearance From BLACKPINK’s Jennie
Grimes has officially released her newest single, “Shinigami Eyes.” The track is set to appear on her upcoming EP Fairies Cum First, which will serve as a prelude to her next studio effort Book 1. “Shinigami Eyes” arrives with an accompanying music video directed by BRTHR and also features a special guest appearance from Jennie Kim of BLACKPINK. In an interview with Zane Lowe, Grimes explained that there isn’t really a “deeper meaning” despite the conversation. “I’m not sure what I should say or not say. I always say a bunch of stupid s**t and get in trouble, but either way. This is the label executive decision song. I love the record, but it’s just like, everyone’s like, what’s the deeper meaning?” she said. “And it’s like, well, Nino Angelo just really had just watched Death Note an...
#BRUHnews Foot Locker Employee Allegedly Ejaculated Into Sneakers At Work
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: aqua / aqua Sneakers are known to inspire passion, but this is ridiculous. A Foot Locker employee was allegedly having sex with and ejaculating into sneakers. But the extra gross part here is that said employee put the sneakers back into their boxes. A video of a man engaging in self-love in a storage room of a Foot Locker went viral this week for all the wrong reasons. Actually, there is no good reason. Related Stories Reportedly there is footage of the ejaculate in the sneakers’ insoles and that’s about as much as we want to think about it, ever. “As you can see, we’re at Foot Locker here, there is nobody else here, only my sh*t, and I am fully, completely, 100 percent sexy and naked,” says the sneaker freak in the clip. It went down in Ontario, Canada ...
Bong Bong: RZA Files $2M Lawsuit Against Bootleggers Selling Fake Wu Merchandise
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Sakura/WENN.com / WENN The RZA promotes peace and unity but he is still about his coin. He has filed suit against several parties who have been selling unauthorized Wu-Tang Clan merchandise. As spotted on Complex The Abbott is claiming different websites are profiting from his group’s logo without paying the proper licensing fees. According to documentation obtained by Complex RZA says that these merchants are guilty of “trademark infringement, counterfeiting, and false designation of origin”. Additionally the bootleggers, who are have been identified as all China based, are also passing the goods as genuine articles. “Many defendants also deceive unknowing consumers by using the Wu-Tang Clan Trademarks without authorization within the content, text, and/...
Rae Sremmurd’s Slim Jxmmi Arrested For Battery, Girlfriend Shoots Down Assault Claims
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: MDPD / MDPD Slim Jxmmi, one half of duo Rae Sremmurd, was arrested on charges of battery on Tuesday (Jan. 25) after he allegedly assaulted his girlfriend. Now, the girlfriend says that police have the charges all wrong and Jxmmi is now out on bond. Local outlet WPLG reports that Slim Jxmmi, 30, was arrested by Miami police after officers responded to a domestic disturbance at the rapper’s home. A woman inside the home allegedly told police that Jxmmi, real name Aaquil Brown, pulled her hair and snatched braids from her scalp while trying to stop her from picking up their baby from a playpen. The arrest record account shows that Jxmmi and his girlfriend were fighting about another woman the rapper follows on Twitter. Jxmmi apparently left the home to work ...
Kool G Rap ft. Lil Fame & Freeway “Wiseguys,” Trippie Redd “Stoned” & More | Daily Visuals 1.26.22
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ollie Millington / Getty Many a Hip-Hop head knows that Kool G Rap is one of the Golden Era’s most overlooked and underappreciated artists as he’s never had that crossover commercial hit a la Jay-Z, Tupac or Notorious B.I.G., but the man is a Gawd to real ones and he’s returned to remind us of his deity status. Linking up with fellow Hip-Hop OG’s, Lil Fame of M.O.P and Freeway for the visuals to “Wiseguys,” Kool G Rap takes it right back to the streets where work continues to get moved and toast continues to burn anyone trying to eat in his hood. From the old school to the new, DaBaby keeps on his video grind and in the clip to “Hit” gets together with NBA YoungBoy to play with toy guns in a spacious room inside of someone’s mansion. Real random concept f...
Kanye West Confirms He Has Finished a Verse for Cardi B
It seems like a collaboration between the artist formerly known as Kanye West and Cardi B is well underway. Speaking in his recent Hollywood Unlocked interview, Ye confirmed that he is done in the studio for the Cardi B cut. “My cousins was saying ‘Come by here’ yesterday but I was finishing, I was finishing that verse for your girl, you know what I mean,” he said, referring to Cardi. “I always believed in her since she was on [Love & Hip-Hop], period.” Earlier this month, rumors began circulating that the pair had filmed a music video in a Balenciaga store. Ye was spotted in the Miami store with Future, and he and Cardi — both Balenciaga ambassadors — supposedly shut down the branch to film. Stay tuned for more info on the Ye x Cardi B collab. Elsewhere in music, Migos’ Culture&n...
Post Malone Discusses “Imminent” Release of Upcoming Album ‘twelve carat toothache’
Following a social media update from Post Malone late last year, the artist seemingly confirmed the arrival of his new album. In a recent Billboard feature, Post Malone shares that his new album will be titled twelve carat toothace and is set to arrive imminently. In the interview, Post Malone divulged why he has not released any new music in the past two years. The artist moved out to Utah for some peace and quiet and hoped that it would benefit his creativity, “Here there are very few distractions.” He noted that he needed a place to recharge as the pandemic left him anxious and he felt he was “on the brink of burnout.” Post Malone added, “You think about everything at the same time, and it’s f***king overload. There’s a lot riding on the music. There’s a lot riding on just being able to...
