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SZA, J. Cole and Travis Scott to Headline 2022 Day N Vegas Music Festival
The Day N Vegas music festival is slated to return for a third year this Fall, and it has just announced its ultra-stacked lineup. The hip hop and R&B-centric event has called upon a trio of chart-topping headliners in SZA, J. Cole and Travis Scott, while a flurry of major name rappers and singers are listed on the undercard. Anticipation will certainly be high for SZA’s festival run this year as her long-awaited next studio album is reportedly dropping this Summer. This marks Scott’s third time being booked for the festival, but it may be his first time actually touching the stage given that he canceled the first year due to a knee injury and he pulled out of the second year following the tragic events at his ASTROWORLD festival. Other notable artists on the bill include rappers 21 Sa...
Miles Bridges Claims He Was Drinking Pink Lemonade & Not Lean, Twitter Not Convinced
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Todd Kirkland / Getty Miles Bridges, like many a young NBA player in the offseason, is enjoying the time off and probably isn’t sticking to tight diet restrictions. A photo that the Charlotte Hornets star posted suggested he was sipping lean, but he claims that the drink was pink lemonade. Miles Bridges Has Some Explaining To Do Bridges, 24, is one of the best young players in the league and had his best scoring average this past season with the Hornets. What has Twitter buzzing at the moment is an image Bridges reportedly posted to his Instagram story featuring the pink drink in a styrofoam cup paired with a joint. In perhaps a last-ditch effort to not create a PR nightmare, Bridges tweeted and deleted “Pink Lemonade” with an upside-down smiling em...
Who?: Lori Harvey Wipes All Traces Of Killmonger From Her Instagram
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Lionel Hahn / Getty In case you haven’t been paying attention, now former celebrity couple Michael B. Jordan and Lori Harvey have called it quits. To make sure things are official, it seems that the latter has wiped all traces of the renowned actor from her Instagram account. Cold world. Hot girl summer is officially on, at least for Harvey, and social media has taken note of the petty. Or the refocus depending on whose side you’re on in this debacle. It’s worth noting most everyone actually has no personal stake in this jib. The couple had been together for over a year, so that’s something. Harvey’s father, Steve Harvey, confirmed the split on his radio show. But as we mentioned, the deal was sealed when all the pics of Jordan that used to be on Lo...
Man Suspected Of Killing Atlanta Rapper Trouble Surrenders To Authorities
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paras Griffin / Getty A breakthrough has been made in the shooting death of Atlanta rapper Trouble after the suspect turned himself in. A warrant for the man’s arrest went out shortly after it was revealed that the artist also known as Skoob was killed during a home invasion. Jamichael Jones Is Suspected Of Killing Atlanta Rapper Trouble As reported by local outlet 11 Alive, Jamichael Jones, 33, was taken in early Tuesday (June 7) morning at a hospital in Clayton County according to the outlet’s account. Investigators closed in on Jones after searching locations he was last seen and they eventually descended upon his mother’s home. It was then that they negotiated a time for Jones to turn himself in. The Rockdale County Sheriff’s OFfice credited Jones’ mo...
Drake Reportedly Wrote His Verse in ”Churchill Downs” in 11 Minutes
Lil Yachty has claimed that Drake wrote his entire verse for Jack Harlow‘s “Churchill Downs” in just 11 minutes. During an episode of Off the Record, Yachty told DJ Akademiks that Drizzy talked to him about the verse in the song. He claims that Drake “said he did that shit in like 11 minutes. He said he did that in front of Jack. That verse, he told me that … They did it when they were out there in the islands. He did it right in front of him.” Yachty claims he’s more impressed that the verse is two minutes long. Recently, a viral video surfaced online of Harlow looking over Drake’s shoulder and the Atlanta rapper shared that it might be taken from when Drizzy started writing his verse. The song was initially leaked a few weeks before the release, which sent the internet into a f...
Queen to Release Newly Discovered Song With Freddie Mercury Vocals From ‘The Miracle’ Sessions
More than three decades after Freddie Mercury passed away at 45 from AIDS-related complications the world may hear new music from the iconic Queen vocalist. During a BBC Radio 2 interview in the midst of this weekend’s platinum jubilee celebration of Queen Elizabeth, Queen guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor revealed that they recently uncovered a previously unheard song featuring Mercury’s vocals. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “We did find a little gem from Freddie that we’d kind of forgotten about,” Taylor, 72, told BBC Radio 2 host Zoe Ball in the chat. “And it’s wonderful. Actually, it was a real discovery.” While Taylor and May did not reveal the track’s title — Deadline reported that it is called “Face It Alone,” which Billboar...
Microsoft-Made Glass Encoded With Thousands of Songs Headed to Doomsday Vault in Norway
LONDON —A Norwegian company that is planning to create a doomsday vault to preserve the world’s most important music works has partnered with Microsoft on what it calls a “paradigm-breaking” storage solution capable of holding recordings for many thousands of years. Oslo-based Elire Group teamed up with the tech giant to come up with a “proof of concept” silica glass platter that can be used as a medium for storing master-quality digital copies of music recordings, which are burnt into the glass using state-of-the-art laser optics. Elire plans to initially store the glass capsules in a dedicated space inside the Arctic World Archive, an existing underground storage facility located on a remote arctic island midway between Norway and the North Pole. Opened in 2017, the Arctic World Archive ...
Travis Barker Is ‘So Proud’ of Son Landon Graduating From High School
Travis Barker is a proud dad. Like a lot of parents at this time of year, the Blink-182 drummer took to Instagram over the weekend to celebrate a June rite of passage. “So proud of you,” Barker wrote to his 18-year-old son in celebration of his first-born’s graduation from high school. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “It has been a great pleasure and honor to raise you and I can’t wait to witness all the amazing things you’re going to do and become,” Travis added alongside a pair of black and white pics in which father and son are hanging on the couch and a second one of Landon solo rocking an animal-print jacket. “Congratulations on graduating, I love you.” Landon appreciated the kind words, responding “I Love you! [heart emoji].” Travis’ wife...
Songtradr Acquires AI Metadata & Music Search Company Musicube
B2B music company Songtradr has acquired Musicube, an AI metadata and music search company that helps match music to content and a brand’s target audience. Using neural networks and proprietary AI, Musicube’s software is delivered via web widgets and an API that offers metadata at scale for labels, publishers, music supervisors and more. It also allows customers to search for tracks, playlists and artists based on audiences, moods, genres, vocal features, instruments and tempo. With the acquisition, Songtradr expands its portfolio of tech-enabled music solutions, which also include music technology and data companies Tunefind and Pretzel, both of which the company purchased last year, and Jaxsta, which Songtradr invested in back in 2020. “Musicube has approached audio analysis from an enti...
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FKA Twigs Has New Music on the Way
Following the release of her last full-length LP CAPRISONGS, Cheltenham-born singer FKA Twigs has just unveiled a release date and cover art for her next single entitled “Killer.” Due to release on June 16, Twigs took to social media to tease the new track last night, describing the new release as one for “the baddies with a tear in their eye.” Along with the single artwork, FKA Twigs has also leaked a short clip of her performing the new song on stage on her respective TikTok and YouTube platforms. [embedded content] FKA Twigs’ last mixtape CAPRISONGS dropped back in January and it kept things very UK-focused, despite her success across the pond. The 17-tracker featured the likes of UK drill star Unknown T, Coventry-born Pa Salieu, Jorja Smith and Shygirl. Keep an eye out for ...
Jack Harlow Gets His Own KFC Meal, Line of Merch
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: KFC / KFC For aficionados of KFC and Jack Harlow, their prayers have been answered in the form of a new collaborative meal available today (June 6). The popular fast-food chain announced a new collaborative partnership on Monday (June 6th) with the “First Class” rapper to release the Jack Harlow Meal. The Grammy-nominated artist began working with KFC in December of last year to come up with the meal, which is now available for customers nationwide to purchase on Monday in their restaurants and through their website in addition to the KFC mobile app. Harlow spent time at KFC’s headquarters in his hometown of Louisville to carefully craft the meal that bridges the old and the new. “From releasing ‘Come Home the Kids Miss You’ and now launching my own meal ...
