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John Mayer Reveals Who ‘Your Body Is a Wonderland‘ Is About on ’Call Her Daddy’ Holiday Special
John Mayer stopped by Call Her Daddy for the hit podcast’s first-ever holiday special and spilled some major tea about his breakout hit “Your Body Is a Wonderland.” The topic came up when host Alex Cooper asked the rocker what he was like in high school, in an episode that dropped Tuesday night (Dec. 20). “I didn’t have a presence,” Mayer admitted. “So I think that one of the bigger misnomers about me is that there’s like a jocky-ness to me, you know? Like there’s an alpha, musician jocky-ness to me and the bottom line is, like, I went to school to get it over with. And my life began at 3 o’clock in the afternoon when I came home and played guitar.” Cooper was quick to point out that just a few years after graduating from high school, he was winning his first Grammy for 2002’s “Your Body I...
‘Smooth Like Butter’: This BTS Collab Is Perfect for Beauty Lovers
All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors. However, Billboard may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. The Bangtan Boys dropped a new collaboration for beauty-loving members of the BTS Army! BTS and the South Korean beauty giant Laneige teamed up for a special edition of the brand’s lip sleeping mask set. The Laneige BTS x Amorepacific Lip Sleeping Mask Lip & Pop Edition Set features three delicious scents inspired by the BTS singles “Butter,” “Permission to Dance” and “Dynamite.” Available at Sephora.com and Laneige.com, the $35 set includes an exclusive “Butter” flavor (that smells like buttered popcorn) along with a couple of fan-favorite scents: ...
RM of BTS Wants To Be More Like a Wildflower
On December 2, 2022, Kim Namjun, the 28-year-old leader of the South Korean boy band BTS, who goes by the moniker “RM,” released his debut solo album Indigo. For RM, who started putting out his music on online hip-hop communities under the pseudonym of Runch Randa in 2007, this album has taken 15 years to materialize. In that time, he changed his name twice (from Runch Randa to Rap Monster before settling with RM), made his debut with BTS as the leader of the boy band, achieved worldwide superstardom, and rewrote K-pop history. He is now back as a solo artist with an album that commemorates the end of his twenties (In Korea, newborns are considered 1 year old at birth and turn a year older on January 1 rather than on their birthday. RM would be turning 30 in Korean age on January 1, 2023 a...
Megan Thee Stallion Shooting Eyewitness Offers Confusing Testimony, Pegs Both Tory Lanez and Megan’s Ex-Friend as Shooter
Sean Kelly, an alleged eye witness to the 2020 incident in which Megan Thee Stallion was shot, offered confusing and contradictory testimony Tuesday (Dec. 20) about what really happened, saying he never actually saw a gun — but also that he saw a man matching Tory Lanez’s description holding one, and that Megan’s former friend and assistant Kelsey Harris may also have fired. During the seventh day of the blockbuster trial, Kelly (a key witness for Lanez’s defense team) testified that when he first looked outside his home on the night of the incident, he saw Megan and Harris kicking and punching each other outside of a vehicle. “They were pulling their hair and hitting each other. It was quite violent,” he told Lanez’s attorney George Mgdesyan. Shortly after a man matching the description o...
Ozzy Osbourne Reacts to ‘Patient Number 9′ Grammy Nominations: ‘The Whole Thing Shocked Me’
Ozzy Osbourne earned four Grammy nominations for his Patient Number 9 album, and he tells Billboard that the nods were an unexpected, yet welcome, surprise. “The whole thing shocked me,” he says in a new interview with Lyndsey Havens. “I mean, if I won anything for the album I’ll be floored.” “That’s what I like about the business. It’s never short of — I love surprises,” he adds in the clip of the Q&A above. Osbourne says he’s “kind of excited for being nominated for the best rock album” for Patient Number 9, which topped Billboard‘s Top Rock Albums chart in September. He’s also nominated for best rock song and best rock performance, for the song “Patient Number 9” featuring Jeff Beck, as well as best metal performance for “Degradation Rules” with Tony Iommi. (A full list of nominatio...
Termanology ft. Kool G Rap “Let Ya Glock Burst,” Rich The Kid “No More Friends” & More | Daily Visuals 12.20.22
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Matt Winkelmeyer / Getty Lately Kool G Rap’s been creeping back onto the rap scene with guest appearances on his fellow OG Hip-Hop peers cuts and today he continues to remind everyone why he was one of the ILLEST MC’s of Hip-Hop’s golden era. Linking up with Termanology for his visuals to “Let Ya Glock Burst,” G rap and Termanology take it back to the old school and politic in a stair case where they pop a bottle of Hennessey and flaunt some toast for anyone who might think about trying to take their bread. Y’all don’t want this OG smoke. From the OG’s to the YG’s, Rich The Kid is definitely enjoying his young career right about now and in his clip to “No More Friend,” goes on a shopping spree for furs and diamonds with his peoples before getting turnt up...
Diddy Gifts Twin Daughters Matching Range Rovers For Their Sweet 16
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Alexander Tamargo / Getty Being a new father is not stopping Diddy from being there for the rest of his children. He recently gave his twin daughters matching range rovers for their birthday. As spotted on Madame Noir the entertainment mogul made sure to make his twins’ special day even more special. Last weekend D’Lila Star Combs and Jessie James Combs celebrated their 16th birthdays together and he gave them a brand new Range Rover each. The luxury automobiles were contrasting in color with one having a black interior with white exterior and the other having a white interior and black exterior. Naturally the young ladies were floored by their dad’s over the top gifts. In footage captured from the event the two are seen covering their mouths in shoc...
Former R. Kelly Manager Donnell Russell Sentenced To 1 Year In Prison For Doc Premiere Threat
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: E. JASON WAMBSGANS / Getty It looks like the former manager and friend of the Pied Predator of R&B will be joining his disgraced associate in spending time behind bars. R. Kelly’s one-time manager, Donnell Russell, was sentenced to a year in federal prison Monday (Dec. 19) for calling in a shooting in order to halt Lifetime’s Surviving R. Kelly documentary from premiering in New York in 2018. According to the Associated Press, Russell admitted to U.S. District Judge Paul Gardephe that he had “made bad judgments” while working with the convicted sex trafficker whose entire adult life and career appears to be a string of bad (and abusive and predatory and gross) judgments. From AP: Russell said he reconnected with Kelly, a fellow Chicagoan he’d met deca...
Jermaine Dupri And Bow Wow Spar on Social Media Over ‘106 & Park’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Getty Images / We TV In an interview with the Goats And Underdogs podcast last week, legendary Hip-Hop producer Jermaine Dupri claimed that he created the hit BET countdown show, 106 & Park. Dupri claimed he came up with the concept specifically to benefit his then-artist, Bow Wow. “106 & Park was created by me,” Jermaine Dupri confidently claimed, per VIBE. “I created the show for Bow Wow. I was watching MTV, and MTV had TRL. They were catering to NSYNC and they were catering to Backstreet Boys and anything white that was coming out that was Pop. They was allowing these kids to scream and holler at them. And I was like, ‘Yo, we don’t have nothing for Black people like that. Like, where’s the Black kids that love music, why don’t they have a show ...
DaBaby Beats $6 Millon Lawsuit
After a five-day trial, a jury has found in favor of DaBaby (Jonathan Kirk), who was facing a $6 million federal lawsuit accusing him of battery, breach of contract, and defamation, according to documents viewed by Pitchfork. In Kirk’s countersuit, plaintiffs Kenneth Carey and Steve Anyadike were found to be liable for invasion of privacy and unauthorized use of name or likeness. In January 2020, Kirk was arrested and questioned by police in Miami about an alleged robbery; he was found to have an outstanding warrant in Texas, spent the night at Miami’s Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, and was released the next day. A month later, Carey, a concert promoter, filed a lawsuit claiming Kirk breached his contract to perform, and, along with his associates, beat and robbed him. TMZ pub...
Kid Cudi Teases New Music Collaboration With Young Thug
Kid Cudi recently took to Twitter to announce he has an upcoming music project collaboration with Young Thug. Cudi and Thug appear to be hitting the studio after a spree of Cudi’s tweets last week revealed that the duo have recorded two songs together last year. In one of the Tweets, Cudi said that Thug will appear on his upcoming ninth album, which is likely to be his latest final full-length effort. The other song will be released at Thug’s discretion, but Cudi promises fans in a Tweet that both songs are “f**kin INSANE” and that fans “have no idea,” signaling that listeners will be in for a treat. Back in November, Cudi confirmed that he is hard at work on the follow-up album to Entergalactic. A month prior in October, Cudi admitted that he does see himself “nearing the end” of his musi...
Tyler, the Creator Unveils His Favorite Songs of 2022
Tyler, the Creator took to Twitter to share the list of his favorite songs of 2022. Unlike most selections, the artist named cuts that were released in both 2022 and the years prior. Tyler listed The Sweet Enough’s “In Mind,” Charles Stepney’s “Around The House,” Pusha T, JAY-Z and Pharrell’s “Neck & Wrist,” Sol Set’s “Pour Le Moment,” Dina Ögon’s “Tombola 94,” Steve Lacy’s “Buttons,” Kendrick Lamar’s “Worldwide Steppers” and his Baby Keem and Sam Dew-assisted “Savior,” La’Verne Washington’s “I Found What I’ve Been Searching For,” Pearl & The Oyster’s “Candy” and, last but not least, Tyler’s “Cash In Cash Out” with Pharrell and 21 Savage. A fan also suggested Omar Apollo’s “Tamagotchi” — a track Tyler himself has publicly praised — prompting the artist to add the song in a fol...
