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Timbaland & Swizz Beatz Settle Triller ‘Verzuz’ Payment Lawsuit
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paras Griffin / Getty The co-founders of the popular Verzuz series have settled their lawsuit with Triller. Timbaland and Swizz Beatz sued the video-sharing platform in August nearly a year and a half after the company acquired the series. According to Complex, the legendary producers struck a deal in March 2022 for $18 million. They were to be paid an additional $1 million every month for the subsequent 10 months. However, Triller allegedly failed to make those payments prompting the lawsuit demanding the full $28 million. The settlement was announced via press release. Related Stories “VERZUZ has always been a platform that is by the artists, for the artists and with the people,” says founders Swizz Beatz and Timbaland. “We’re glad to come to an amicabl...
GloRilla Blesses Old High School With $25K, Links With Cardi B For ‘Tomorrow 2’ Visual
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Lisa Lake / Getty What do you do when you finally achieve some success and name recognition in the music game? Well, if you’re GloRilla you bless your old high school with a King Kong grip and then you call on Cardi B to get together on a track. According to TMZ the “F.N.F” rapper went back to Martin Luther King Prep High School in her hometown of Memphis, Ten-A-Key to donate a very generous check for $25,000 to the school’s fine arts programs in hopes of helping its students realize their dreams in the coming future. Related Stories MLK Prep principal Chiquita Perry accepted the check in front of students and faculty members, and Glo called being in the position to give back a blessing, just like her recent single. The move comes after Cardi B also went ...
Apple Music Offcially The New Sponsor Of The Super Bowl Halftime Show
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Cooper Neill / Getty Hey Siri, who’s performing at the Super Bowl LVII Halftime show? We don’t know the answer yet, but we know that Apple Music will sponsor the big show. Per The Verge, Apple Music will begin its partnership with the NFL by sponsoring the Super Bowl LVII halftime show, replacing long-time sponsor Pepsi. Related Stories In a recent press release, the NFL announced the Emmy Award-winning Super Bowl LVI halftime show in February featuring Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, and 50 Cent drew 120 million viewers. The specifics of Apple Music and the NFL’s deal have not been disclosed, but according to the New York Times, the NFL was looking for around $50 million for a new home for its sponsorship deal. The Verge also ...
Lil Baby Delivers Inspirational Anthem for 2022 FIFA World Cup
Lil Baby is the voice behind the new anthem for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Taking place in Qatar from November 20 to December 18, the event will mark the 22nd iteration of the international competition, as well as just the second World Cup to be held in Asia. “The World Is Yours To Take” remixes the iconic 1985 Tears For Fears‘ single “Everybody Wants To Rule The World.” Interspersed with backup vocals from Tears for Fears frontman Curt Smith, Lil Baby encourages players to leave their all out on the field. “I’m by far one of the hardest workers / Real firm believer in ‘practice makes perfect,’” Lil Baby raps. “You can gather all the water, stay thirsty / Took a lot to get us here, we broke curses.” An official music video for the anthem will be shot on-site at the World Cup in Qatar. Artist...
Pitchfork London Adds Final Wave of Artists
Pitchfork is delighted to announce the final wave of artists for the second edition of its London festival, taking place across the city from November 9 to 13. Kae Tempest, Danny L Harle, I. JORDAN, Lucinda Chua, LCY, and Samia all join the lineup. Previously announced artists include Animal Collective, Faye Webster, Jenny Hval, Cate Le Bon, William Basinski, and Black Country, New Road. On Sunday, November 13, Pitchfork will present an intimate show with Kae Tempest at The Albany in Deptford, in collaboration with Lewisham London Borough of Culture 2022. Two club events will take place on Saturday, November 12. PC Music alumnus Danny L Harle will present his celebrated club event Harlecore at Dalston’s EartH Hall, topping a bill that includes hardcore pioneer Gammer, Cryalot, Torus, and C...
Sleater-Kinney Detail Dig Me Out Covers Album, Share Courtney Barnett’s “Words and Guitar”
Sleater-Kinney are celebrating the 25th anniversary of their third studio album Dig Me Out with the release of a new covers album: Dig Me In: A Dig Me Out Covers Album is due out October 21. A portion of the proceeds from the album will be donated to SMYRC, an LGBTQIA+ youth center based in Portland. Earlier this year, the band announced that Wilco, St. Vincent, Courtney Barnett, Low, the Linda Lindas, Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires, Tunde Adebimpe of TV on the Radio would each be covering songs from the 1997 album, and now, the group has shared the full tracklist. The album will include new versions of the original Dig Me Out songs performed by the aforementioned musicians, as well as Low, Black Belt Eagle Scout, Margo Price, and others. Ahead of the release, Courtney Barnett has shared h...
Listen to Joy Overmono’s New Song “Blind Date”
Overmono and Joy Orbison have teamed up on another new track as Joy Overmono, this one titled “Blind Date.” It follows the UK bass artist’s collaborative 2019 debut “Bromley.” Check out “Blind Date,” featuring a vocal hook from Abra, below. Read Pitchfork’s review of “Blind Date.” Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
MorMor Announces Debut Album Semblance, Shares Video for New Song “Chasing Ghosts”
MorMor has revealed that his debut album is on the way. It’s titled Semblance and it’s out November 4. The Toronto artist has now shared the tracklist for the project, along with the music video for the single “Chasing Ghosts,” directed by Otto Tang. Early next year, he’ll play a handful of shows around North America in support of the album, too. Take a look at those dates and check out “Chasing Ghosts” below. Semblance includes the summer singles “Far Apart” and “Seasons Change,” as well as “Don’t Cry” from 2020. MorMor’s EP Heaven’s Only Wishful arrived in 2018, and he issued another EP, Some Place Else, the following year. He later released the one-off track “Won’t Let You.” Revisit Pitchfork’s 2018 Rising feature “MorMor Is Wary of Becoming an Indie-Pop Star, But It’s Happening An...
Lewis Capaldi Recalls the Time He Drunkenly Sent Harry Styles a ‘You Up’ Message: ‘He Didn’t Say No’
Looks like Lewis Capaldi was doing some “Late Night Talking” with none other than Harry Styles himself. During a new interview with Kiss FM UK, Capaldi remembered an instance during which he sent Styles a video at five in the morning — except he doesn’t remember what the video said. “I don’t know what it was — I was hammered,” he said with a laugh. “But he said to me, ‘This feels like a ‘you up’ text.’ I could’ve sent him an unsolicited picture of my … phone.” But, he added, the interaction wasn’t a complete wash: “I mean, he didn’t say no! In fact, he seemed quite agreeable to the proposition.” Of course, Capaldi’s friendship with Niall Horan puts him just one degree of separation away from the “As It Was” singer. But he also recalled the recent moment when he and Horan went busking toget...
First Stream: New Music From Lil Nas X, Sam Smith & Kim Petras, Joshua Bassett and More
Billboard’s First Stream serves as a handy guide to this Friday’s most essential releases — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond. This week, Lil Nas X plugs in with a new anthem, Sam Smith shakes up their formula with Kim Petras’ help and Joshua Bassett continues his evolution. Check out all of this week’s First Stream picks below: Lil Nas X, “Star Walkin’ (League of Legends Worlds Anthem)” “Star Walkin’” may exist thanks to a partnership with enormous multiplayer video game franchise League of Legends (which also helped produce the Imagine Dragons top 10 hit “Enemy” earlier this year), but Lil Nas X’s 2022 World Championship anthem is far from a corporate stopgap for the superstar: the single sit...
Lewis Capaldi Delivers a Heart-Wrenching Cover of Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Drivers License’: Stream It Now
If you thought “Drivers License” was sad before, just wait until you hear Lewis Capaldi‘s new cover. The 25-year-old singer-songwriter teamed up with Spotify Singles to record his own version of Olivia Rodrigo‘s smash debut single along with a reimagining of his new song “Forget Me,” both of which proved that no one does raspy vocals over heartbreaking piano quite like him. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news For his take on “Drivers License” — which dropped on the streaming platform Wednesday (Sept. 21) along with the new “Forget Me” — Capaldi distilled Rodrigo’s Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 into a simple, effective piano ballad, assisted only by the occasional touch of atmospheric reverb and strings. “Sidewalks we crossed, I still hear your voice in t...
Rico Nasty Drops Bars From an Icy Tundra in New “Gotsta Get Paid” Music Video
Rico Nasty has debuted an official music video for her single “Gotsta Get Paid” Directed by Moshpxt, the visual sees the rapper traverse through a series of landscapes, from an ethereal forest to an ice storm in a barren snow-capped terrain. “Don’t get in my way, I gotsta get paid / Fashionista shades like gyms, we move weights,” she raps. The song features production from 100 gecs and comes off Nasty’s July mixtape, Las Ruinas. Following 2020’s Nightmare Vacation, the new album sees her take it up a notch, with more scream-rap combined with the influence of punk, rock, hip-hop and even jazz. The video closes with an eerie nostalgic beat as Nasty faces the camera head-on, holding a gasoline can in one hand. Watch the music video for Rico Nasty’s “Gotsta Get Paid” now. In other music news, ...
