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Meta Announces The Notorious B.I.G. VR Concert Experience
Meta is celebrating what would have been the 50th birthday of The Notorious B.I.G. with the VR concert experience, Sky’s the Limit. Arriving on December 16, the event is being developed alongside the estate of the rap legend and will feature Biggie performing his classics as a “true-to-life, hyperrealistic” avatar. Fans will also be brought along a “narrative journey” of a virtually-recreated ’90s Brooklyn in The Brook on Meta Horizon Worlds, with writer and music journalist Touré performing as the speaking voice of the rapper. In addition, Diddy, The LOX, Latto, Nardo Wick, Lil’ Cease and DJ Clark Kent will all be performing with the avatar of The Notorious B.I.G. “Having the ability to create a variance of new opportunity to showcase my son Christopher’s music through the advancemen...
Kendrick Lamar Shares New “Rich Spirit” Video: Watch
Kendrick Lamar has released the music video for his Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers song “Rich Spirit.” It follows visuals for “The Heart Part 5,” “N95,” and “We Cry Together.” Calmatic directed the new vidoe, which is set in an opulent home. Watch the clip below. Lamar performed “Rich Spirit” on Saturday Night Live last month. Yesterday, he got nominated for several Grammy Awards for Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, including Album of the Year and Best Rap Album. Revisit “How Kendrick Lamar Made ‘Die Hard,’ According to Collaborators Blxst and Amanda Reifer” on the Pitch. Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
Ari Lennox Announces 2023 North American Tour
Ari Lennox has announced her 27-city tour in support of her new album age/sex/location, kicking off January 26 at House of Blues in Las Vegas and wrapping up in her hometown of Washington D.C. at the Howard Theatre on March 28. Check out the full list of dates below. Lennox dropped age/sex/location in September; she previously shared a video for the single “Hoodie” and performed “POF” and “Waste My Time” on the Tonight Show. Last year Lennox was arrested in Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport by Dutch military police; she claims she was racially profiled. She released her debut LP Shea Butter Baby in 2019. Read the new interview “Ari Lennox Is Searching for a Radical Love” on the Pitch. All products featured on Pitchfork are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy somet...
Kali Malone Announces New Album With Lucy Railton and Sunn O)))’s Stephen O’Malley, Shares New Song: Listen
Stockholm-based composer Kali Malone has announced a new album with Lucy Railton (cello) and Sunn O)))’s Stephen O’Malley (electric guitar) called Does Spring Hide Its Joy. The 3xLP release has a runtime of more than two hours. Each song shares its title with the album; the first to be released is “Does Spring Hide Its Joy v2.3.” The album is due out January 20 via Ideologic Organ. Check it out below. Best known for her pipe-organ compositions, Malone performs with “tuned sine wave oscillators” on Does Spring Hide Its Joy. The album was recorded with O’Malley and Railton in the Spring of 2020 in the cavernous halls of Berlin’s Funkhaus, a former state-run East German radio facility turned recording studio complex. It has since evolved into a site-specific sound installation in collaborat...
Glorilla Announces 2023 U.S. Tour Dates
Memphis rapper Glorilla has announced a string of tour dates in support of her new EP Anyways, Life’s Great, taking her across the U.S. in early 2023. The tour kicks off January 27 in Charlotte, North Carolina, and wraps up in her hometown at the end of Feburary. Check out the full list of dates below. Glorilla dropped Anyways, Life’s Great—featuring the standout track “Nut Quick”—last week. Yesterday (November 15) it was announced that her breakout single “F.N.F. (Let’s Go)” had been nominated for the Best Rap Performance Grammy. In September, she joined Cardi B on “Tomorrow 2,” the sequel to her July single “Tomorrow.” Read about “F.N.F. (Let’s Go)” in “These Women Rappers Are Busting Up New York Drill’s Boys’ Club” on the Pitch. All products featured on Pitchfork are independently selec...
Jay-Z & Beyoncé Tie The Record For Most All-Time Grammy Nominations
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Tim Nwachukwu / Getty Sometimes competition in a marriage can hurt the relationship of a man and his wife, but when it comes to Jay-Z and Beyoncé, a little healthy competition might just push them to achieve greater success. On Tuesday (Nov. 15), the nominees for the upcoming Grammy Awards were revealed, and Beyoncé received nine nominations for her latest album, Renaissance, and in the process tied her with hubby Jay-Z for most Grammy nods ever as he collected five nominations of his own. In total, both artists have been nominated for the coveted award 88 times a piece. According to Variety, if Beyoncé snags just three of those nine, she’ll tie the record for the most Grammy trophies in the history of the game which belongs to Georg Solti who sits atop w...
NYC Mayor Eric Adams & Hip-Hop Legends Kickoff Yearlong Celebration Of The Culture’s 50th Anniversary
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced yesterday (Nov. 15) that The City of New York will partner with the Universal Hip-Hop Museum to launch 50 events and fundraisers during 2023 honoring the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop. As seen in a news clip from CBS News, Adams took the stage alongside community leaders and Hip-Hop stars and luminary personalities dressed in a black and white adidas tracksuit in an apparent homage to Run DMC. “What we’re saying in ‘Hip-Hop is 50’ is that Hip-Hop has grown up in a manner that they are not going to be exploited,” Adams said, per theGrio. “As we talk about education in school, as we talk about the products that are going to be sold, we’re looking at the economics of Hip-Hop,” he added. ...
Offset Says He Wishes He Could Hug Takeoff “One Last Time”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jay L. Clendenin / Getty In the days following the shocking killing of Takeoff in Houston earlier this month, many wondered how former Migos member Offset would be reacting to the news of his cousin’s death. Yesterday (Nov.15), Offset finally publicly broke his silence on the tragedy. Taking to Instagram to speak to the memory of his cousin, Offset wrote a heartfelt message to Takeoff and let everyone know that he’s going through the kind of “unbearable” pain that one would experience at such a trying time. Explaining how heavy life is currently feeling at the moment, Offset wrote “I wish I could hug you one last time. Laugh one last time. Smoke one last time. Perform one last time. I know someone with a soul like yours is in heaven now. I hope you can se...
HHW Gaming: Rockstar Games Reportedly Said Nah To An Enimem-Led ‘Grand Theft Auto’ Movie
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jeff Kravitz / Getty Eminem starring in a Grand Theft Auto movie? That reportedly almost was an actual thing. During an appearance on Bugzy Malone’s Grandest Game podcast, Kirk Ewing, a friend of GTA creators Sam and Dan Houser and an industry vet, touched on a Grand Theft Auto movie starring Eminem supposedly rejected by Rockstar Games in the 2000s. The film was to be helmed by Top Gun director Tony Scott, while Eminem, fresh off the release of the Marshall Mathers LP a year before and winning Best Rap Album Best Rap Solo Performance at the 2001 GRAMMYs, was on tap to star in the film. “[The agent] said, ‘Kirk, we’ve got Eminem to star, and it’s a Tony Scott film. $5 million on the nose. Are you interested?’” Ewing said. “And I phoned up Sam and I ...
Kid Cudi Fires Back for Not Being Nominated for a Grammy
Kid Cudi is back on Twitter to express how he feels about being snubbed for a Grammy for the upcoming year. Following the release of the full list of 2023 Grammys nominations, Cudi took to Twitter to address his notable absence. Some fans have taken to social media to chime in as they expected Cudi to receive at least one nomination for his eight studio album, Enterglactic which also complimented his Netflix series of the same name. The album featured big names including, Ty Dolla Sign, 2 Chainz, Don Toliver, Steve Aoki, and Dot da Genius. Cudi appears to try to keep his head up but claimed in a tweet, “Music award shows have been virtually ignoring me for over 10 years. I see people upset that I didn’t get a nom but its ok y’all. The acting world will be kinder to me. Im already winning a...
Drake Ties With JAY-Z for Most No. 1 Albums on R&B/Hip-Hop Chart
Drake has officially tied JAY-Z‘s record for most No. 1 albums on Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop chart. The chart-topping debut of Her Loss, Drizzy and 21 Savage‘s collaborative album, on both the R&B/Hip-Hop and Billboard 200 charts gives the OVO Records founder his 14th No. 1 entry on the former list. He and JAY-Z now both share the title of most No. 1s among rappers, male artists and solo artists, with only The Temptations’ record of 17 No. 1 albums above them. Her Loss debuted with a total of 404,000 equivalent album units in its first week, and set the record for the largest week for a hip-hop/R&B album in 2022 so far and the fourth-largest streaming week for any album in history with 513.56 million on-demand official streams of the tracks. Elsewhere in music, watch Kendrick...
Zoe Kravitz Reveals Taylor Swift Was a ‘Very Important Part’ of Her Quarantine Pod
Zoë Kravitz spilled the tea in a new interview about quarantining during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic with none other than Taylor Swift. “She was my pod,” the actress told GQ of hunkering down with the superstar and her boyfriend Joe Alwyn as she filmed Matt Reeves’ The Batman in the U.K. “She was a very important part of being in London, just having a friend that I could see and that would make me home-cooked meals and dinner on my birthday.” For her part, Swift had equally nice things to say about her pal, telling the magazine via email, “Zoë’s sense of self is what makes her such an exciting artist, and such an incredible friend. She has this very honest inner compass, and the result is art and life without compromising who she is.” Part of that art included the duo collab...
