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Nick Cannon Says He Practices Consensual Non-Monogamy: ‘It All Starts With Honesty’
Nick Cannon has been the subject of discussion in recent years, as he is a father of seven children with a number of different women — including one who is pregnant with the star’s eighth. Cannon appeared in a YouTube Live interview this week with R&B duo DVSN and sex therapist Dr. Tammy Nelson, where he discussed “open monogamy” and the today’s state of romantic relationships. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “I’ve practiced monogamy, I’ve been a cheater, I’ve been toxic,” Cannon said, adding that he wants to “be the best self I can possibly be and be the best father I can possibly be.” “It all starts with honesty,” he added. “It’s really just surface, basic stuff. One of my therapists coined what I do as consensual non-monogam...
The Ledger: Royalty Growth Requires Changing More Than How They’re Calculated
The Ledger is a weekly newsletter about the economics of the music business sent to Billboard Pro subscribers. An abbreviated version of the newsletter is published online. If The Beatles wrote a song about music royalties, the band would sing about a “Long and Winding Road” to higher subscription fees and better pay for artists and labels. The music subscription business model has become the record industry’s main breadwinner since launching in the early 2000s. But for two decades, many artists and rights holders have bristled at the royalty rates paid by streaming services. Some rates have improved: ad-supported royalties grew as online advertising matured. Royalties from subscription services have less wiggle room for change, however. The biggest innovation is a change in how to divvy a...
U2 to Perform First Concerts at MSG Sphere in Las Vegas
U2 will be the first group to perform at the MSG Sphere at The Venetian in Las Vegas when the $1.8 billion arena opens next year, multiple sources tell Billboard. The performances will be the first dates of a multi-show residency by the band at the high-tech arena, which is being built by Madison Square Garden Entertainment chairman James Dolan near the Venetian off the Las Vegas Strip. Officials with MSGE describe the MSG Sphere at The Venetian as the next generation of live entertainment, offering fans a multi-sensory experience of sound and light inside the largest spherical structure ever created. For concerts, the MSG Sphere at The Venetian can hold 20,000 standing spectators or 17,500 seated guests, with 23 VIP suites. The Sphere will include 160,000 square feet of video vi...
Airbeat One Makes Explosive 2022 Return As Germany’s Premier Dance Music Festival
The verdict is in: Airbeat One is a bona fide dance music lover’s paradise. The colossal festival successfully celebrated its 19th edition this year, following a two-year, pandemic-induced hiatus. Returning to its airfield near Neustadt-Glewe in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Airbeat One 2022 united over 200,000 attendees from over 50 countries through a shared love of EDM. With over 300 international DJs and performers across six stages, as well as a plethora of activities and vendors, this year’s Airbeat One 2022 offered an escape from reality unlike any other. Taking attendees to a different destination around the world in each edition with its curated, thematic designs, the 2022 fest was inspired by the country of Italy, with four of its six stages being redesigned to reflect ...
Nickelodeon Is Throwing a Family-Friendly Music Festival With San Holo, LP Giobbi, More
Get ready to see some of EDM, pop and hip-hop’s biggest stars share the stage with… SpongeBob SquarePants. Nickelodeon has announced NickFest, a family-friendly music festival coming this fall to Southern California. In an effort to cultivate an experience that highlights the lighthearted nature of the brand, every aspect of the fest will be inspired by the iconic children’s cable channel’s programming. Organizers promise food from star chefs inspired by their programs, activities based on fan-favorite Nickelodeon show moments and special appearances from some of the brand’s notable characters like Arnold from Hey Arnold, Tommy and Chuckie from Rugrats, Blue from Blue’s Clues and Bikini Bottom’s SpongeBob and Patrick. And, of course, plen...
Listen to Chris Lorenzo and COBRAH’s Sultry Tech House Banger, “Mami”
It’s no secret that tech house is having a moment, and one of the genre’s leading producers today unveiled one of its most hotly anticipated tracks. Long revered as one of the most gifted sound designers in house music, Chris Lorenzo has dropped “Mami,” a sultry house bomb that has been running roughshod in his live sets this year, including EDC Las Vegas and Lollapalooza. The track features a seductive COBRAH, whose come-hither topline is akin to cognac and satin sheets. Lorenzo says he knew he had an instant hit on his hands when he first heard COBRAH’s lead “Mami” lyric, an unapologetic ode to hedonism. Combined with his signature, thick basslines and an ingenious steel drum pattern, it lends to a bona fide club banger. “I had been listeni...
How Northern Nights Music Festival Stays True to Its Roots
It’s only natural that music festivals would hold music as a central priority, but at Northern Nights, it’s not quite so simple. That’s mostly because as many come to the Humboldt-Mendocino county-line-straddling event for cannabis as they do for music, so attention gets split between the productions onstage and the many varied cannabis offerings at the festival. 2022’s iteration was no exception either. In fact, last weekend the kaleidoscopic forest rave used the very same two-pronged approach to throw its most evolved and integrated event to date. By making more than a few major strides from past editions of the now-paradigmatic music fest, 2022 wasn’t just a triumphant post-pandemic return. For the ragtag band of dance music-loving misfits turned world-class event producers ...
The Best Hip-Hop Projects Of 2022 So Far According To HHW
Source: Westend61 / Getty 2022 has delivered a number of stellar Hip-Hop projects thus far and trying to determine the best releases thus far has been a monumental chore for the Hip-Hop Wired team. Below is our attempt at trying to list out some of the top albums and mixtapes that dropped this year, not ranked but in alphabetical order. Hip-Hop tastes are subjective and varied, so expect to see names and projects in the list below that might not line up with your favorites. We understand that we can’t provide a one size fits all approach to making this list. Our list is compiled of mainstream acts, rising up-and-coming stars, grizzled veterans, underground champions, and all things in between. Names like Saba, Earl Sweatshirt, EarthGang, and Fly Anakin among others will be familiar to thos...
‘Dungeons & Dragons’ And More New Trailers That Debuted At San Diego Comic Con 2022
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paramount | Hasbro / Paramount Pictures The 2022 San Diego Comic Con is officially underway and while many await announcements from Marvel on the next phase of the MCU and rumors that Warner Bros. will announce that Henry Cavill will return as Superman in future DCEU projects, we did get some new film trailers for movies set to drop this year or next. From fantasy films to some reboots of 70’s, 80’s and 90’s classics, the fanboys of the entertainment industry will surely be having a grand ol’ time with the projects slated to release in the future. Unfortunately none of these are MCU or DCEU related but still, it’s a little something for everyone. Check out some of the trailers that debuted at SDCC below and let us know which ones caught your eye in the co...
Say What?: Unvaccinated New Yorker Contracts Polio Becoming The First Known In Case In A Decade
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Smith Collection/Gado / Getty The world just can’t seem to catch a break from these viruses. First COVID-19, then Monkeypox, and now POLIO. An Unvaccinated New Yorker Contracted Polio In A Unique Way The Associated Press reports an unvaccinated young adult from New York contracted polio, becoming the first known case in the United States in a decade, health officials said. The infected individual lives in Rockland County and developed paralysis a month ago, one of the virus’s devastating symptoms it inflicts on its host. Health officials say the person did not travel outside of the country. Health officials are currently trying to determine how the person caught polio, but it appears they had “a vaccine-derived strain of the virus,” possibly catching it f...
Lil Baby & AXE Partner To Keep You Smelling Fresh as Fr*sh
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: AXE / AXE Summer is in full swing, with heat waves across the nation to confirm the time of the year. is upon us So Atlanta rapper Lil Baby partnering with AXE comes very much on time. The team-up includes limited-edition WHAXE Packs, which are a curated selection of products inspired by Lil Baby and AXE and the latter’s Fresh as Fr*sh ad campaign. The pack includes, maybe most importantly, a WHAXE Apollo x Lil Baby Deodorant Stick and Body Wash—we did mention it’s hot out there, and B.O. is forever non-cipher. Also in the kit is a WHAXE four-finger ring and a WHAXE branded toothbrush because halitosis is also not to be tolerated—or you can use it to clean the blinged out ring. Related Stories The WHAXE name is a combo of his WHAM nickname ...
Watch the Weeknd’s New “How Do I Make You Love Me?” Video
The Weeknd has shared a new music video to accompany his Dawn FM cut “How Do I Make You Love Me?” The animated clip was directed by Jocelyn Charles and creative directed and conceptualized with frequent Weeknd collaborators Cliqua. Watch it below. The singer has also released Sebastian Ingrosso and Salvatore Gannaci’s new remix of “How Do Make You Love Me?” Check that out below, too. The Weeknd issued Dawn FM—his follow-up to 2020’s After Hours—earlier this year. The Weeknd has shared visuals for the album’s “Sacrifice,” “Gasoline,” and “Out of Time,” the latter of which starred Jim Carrey as a doctor in an operating room. In April, the Weeknd and Swedish House Mafia (who remixed “Sacrifice”) co-headlined Coachella 2022, filling in for Kanye West after he canceled his slot. Later that mont...
