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Red Hot Chili Peppers Score Their First No. 1 Album in 15 Years — Who Else Waited a Decade-Plus?
With Unlimited Love‘s debut atop the Billboard 200 this week, the Red Hot Chili Peppers scored their first No. 1 album in almost 16 years, dating back to 2006’s Stadium Arcadium. So just how rare is it to wait that long between Billboard 200 chart-toppers? Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are talking about other acts who have waited at least 10 years between No. 1 albums. We searched through every No. 1 on the Billboard 200 going back to January 2010 and found 12 other acts who waited at least a decade, including Backstreet Boys, A Tribe Called Quest and Paul McCartney, who waited a whopping 36 years to get back to the top. Who else is on the list? You’ll have to listen below ...
Watch Chance the Rapper Perform “Child of God” on ‘Colbert’
Chance The Rapper performed his new track “Child Of God” on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The song initially arrived in late March and featues vocals from Moses Sumney. The original music video saw Chance rapping in the same room his 2021 music video for “The Heart & The Tongue” was filmed in. The visuals feature artist Naïla Opiangah in the background painting on a canvas behind him. Chance and Opiangah first met on a trip to Accra, Ghana and recently debuted their joint contemporary art project titled Child Of God at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art. In his performance on Colbert, Chance brought Opiangah’s artwork with him to set the stage. Opiangah’s painting can also be seen as the single’s cover art. Elsewhere in the interview, Chance spoke about collaborating with Sumne...
Snoop Dogg Hints at Possible Collab Between Death Row Records and Bad Boy Records
Snoop Dogg has even bigger plans for Death Row Records, and one of them involves its East Coast rival, Bad Boy Records. In an upcoming Drink Champs episode, the new owner of Death Row shared that it’s time for the two labels — which led the bitter hip-hop rivalry between the East and West Coast in the ’90s — to reconcile on positive terms.“We can show growth and progression that we can move forward, and we can take this Bad Boy—Death Row what it used to be and make it a collaboration on peace and love,” Snoop said. “‘Cause that’s who I am. I’m Suge and Puffy.” He also took this opportunity to shut down those who are opposed to the positive collaboration, “Shut the f*ck up and stop being brainwashed. I love Puff. I love his kids now n***a, what’s happening? I own Death Row so I do what the ...
Golf Wang Drops Tyler, the Creator’s ‘Call Me If You Get Lost’ Vinyl Set
Golf Wang has dropped the official vinyl, CDs, cassette tapes, and posters for Tyler, the Creator‘s sixth studio album Call Me if You Get Lost. Initially released in June of last year, the album went on to win the BET Hip Hop Award for Best Album of the Year in 2021 and a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album in 2022. The 12” vinyl sleeve features the album’s alternate album cover, an acrylic painting done by artist Gregory Ferrand of Tyler traveling in Europe while the CD and cassette artwork features a driver’s license shot said to pay tribute to rapper Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s cover from 1995. The name on the ID card displays “Tyler Baudelaire,” one of artist’s new fur cap-wearing character creations that some speculate may be a reference to French poet Charles Baudelaire. Rounding out the offerin...
JAY-Z Brings Out Michael Jackson in Unearthed Summer Jam 2001 Footage
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Desire Detail Johnny Jewel–Produced Album Escape, Share Video for New Song: Watch
Desire—the Italians Do It Better project fronted by Megan Louise—announced the new album Escape in April 2020. Two years later, the album has a concrete release date: It’s out May 3 via Italians Do It Better. The album was produced by Johnny Jewel. Watch the video for the new song “Telling Me Lies,” plus find the album’s artwork and tracklist, below. Escape is the second Desire album after the 2009 debut II. Chromatics, whose last tour featured Desire as an opening act, announced their breakup last year. The band’s announcement was made by all the members aside from Johnny Jewel, and Jewel went unmentioned in the announcement. Jewel’s representative confirmed the breakup in a statement, which did not mention the other three members by name. Read “Did Chromatics’ Album Dear Tommy Ever Exist...
Drive-By Truckers Announce New Album Welcome 2 Club XIII, Share Video for New Song: Watch
Drive-By Truckers have announced the new album Welcome 2 Club XIII and shared its title song. The new track comes with a music video directed by Jason Shevchuk. Watch it below. Welcome 2 Club XIII arrives June 3 via ATO. It follows Drive-By Truckers’ pair of 2020 albums, The Unraveling and The New OK. The new album gets its title from a venue where founding members Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley performed at the start of their careers. “There were no cool bars in town and Club XIII was the best we had,” Hood said in a statement, “but it wasn’t all that good, and our band [Adam’s House Cat] wasn’t particularly liked there. From time to time the owner would throw us a Wednesday night or let us open for a hair-metal band we were a terrible fit for, and everyone would hang out outside until we...
David Lynch Debunks Cannes Movie Report: “I Have No New Film Coming Out”
Yesterday, Variety reported that the 2022 Cannes Film Festival would feature the premiere of a brand new David Lynch feature film starring Laura Dern. The publication got the news from “two well-informed sources.” Now, in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Lynch has said he will not have a movie premiere at Cannes. “I have no new film coming out,” he said definitively. Lynch continued: That’s a total rumor. So there you are. It is not happening. I don’t have a project. I have nothing at Cannes. It’s unfortunate. It got built up that people thought, “Oh, that’d be nice.” But there is something new, but it’s not mine. I don’t know whose it is. They say there’s something new at Cannes, and they don’t say whose it is, and some people thought it was my film, but it’s not. So we’ll...
Lucius Say Harry Styles Should Have Given Them a Feature Credit on “Treat People With Kindness”
Lucius, who just released their new album Second Nature on Friday, gave an interview with The Los Angeles Times where they reflected on their work with Harry Styles on the Fine Line song “Treat People With Kindness.” The duo said they felt they were unfairly denied a featured artist credit on the track after making significant contributions. The duo are credited on the song as vocalists when you click through to view the song’s credits, but don’t receive a prominent featured artist credit on streaming platforms. “We start the song, we sing every chorus, just us,” Jess Wolfe said. “We trade off the bridge. It is us and Harry Styles. Harry Styles and us.” “It just hurt,” Wolfe says. “Here was an opportunity to spread the love a little bit, which he purports to do all the time. And it could’v...
Take The L Trends After Sister Administering Proper Fade Video Makes Rounds On Social Media
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: DjelicS / Getty Here at Hip-Hop Wired, we’re not keen to show violent videos of fights but today we’re making a slight exception. A video making its rounds on social media of a vicious fight between two young women has “Take The L” trending for all the right and wrong reasons. On April 10, @@BarbieTheeStar shared an older video from the @JustGirlFight Twitter account, which hosts a bunch of street fades of all sorts. In this particular clash, a young Black woman in a green top and Black pants squared up with another shorter young woman wearing all Black. It was clear that the taller woman knew how to throw down, literally and otherwise. The shorter young lady had no chance and the fight was all but done after she was kicked in the face by the ...
Twitter Discusses The Hijacking Of AAVE, Debates Proper Usage
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Westend61 / Getty AAVE, also known as African-American Vernacular English, is an often controversial discussion not so much due to its usage but how AAVE is properly applied. As the English language in America is replete with regional influences, AAVE falls under that distinction and a discussion on the style of speaking is currently trending on Twitter. Twitter user @IvoryTheJunior posted an interesting thought regarding AAVE On Monday (April 11) and the discussion that was sparked from the tweet is still bubbling today (April 12). “Watching non-black people “adopt” (*kidnap) AAVE is so funny to me because there are legit some AAVE terms/phrases that I, a Black person, just don’t use because they don’t sound right coming from me. Y’all mouths be in...
He Tha Best: DJ Khaled Gets Star On Hollywood Walk of Fame
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kevin Winter / Getty DJ Khaled got another prestigious honor as he became the latest artist to join the vaunted Hollywood Walk of Fame, with a few famous peers such as Jay-Z in attendance at the ceremony. On Monday (April 11th), the highly-popular DJ and producer was the celebrity of honor at the ceremony introducing his star on the Walk of Fame took place in Los Angeles, California. The We The Best CEO’s star is now number 2,719 on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and its location is at 6212 Hollywood Boulevard, right next to the iconic Amoeba Music record store. The ceremony drew a high number of attendees and required police and security on the scene to close off the street due to the heavy amount of traffic. Among those well-wishers were some of Khaled’s c...
