Hip-Hop
Chet Hanx, Son of Tom Hanks, Drops New Song “White Boy Summer”
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-14T18:13:59+00:00“>April 14, 2021 | 2:13pm ET We live in a cold, uncaring world — a place devoid of logic or compassion — and if you needed proof we now have the new song “White Boy Summer” by Chet Hanx. The third child of Tom Hanks has long been a powerful argument against his father’s perfection. From his days rapping under the name Chet Haze, to his insistence that he was allowed to use the N-word, through his odd appearance at the Golden Globes last year when he spent the whole evening talking in a fake Jamaican accent, the man now calling himself Hanx has always been an agent of chaos. Hanx’s newest venture kicked off two weeks ago, when he shared a baffling video on Instagr...
Megan Thee Stallion’s ‘Cry Baby’ Tops Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay Chart
The new leader gives Megan Thee Stallion a third No. 1 on the Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop tally. The Houston rapper first led with “Savage,” featuring Beyonce, for four weeks last year and followed with the one-week champ “Body” in February. Featured artist DaBaby, meanwhile, scores his sixth chart-topper on the radio ranking as “Cry Baby” joins the below crew: Song Title, Artist (if other than DaBaby), Weeks at No. 1, Date Reached No. 1“Suge,” six, June 22, 2019“BOP,” four, Jan. 25, 2020“What’s Poppin,” Jack Harlow featuring DaBaby, Tory Lanez & Lil Wayne, two, Aug. 15, 2020“Rockstar,” featuring Roddy Ricch, three, July 25, 2020“For the Night,” Pop Smoke featuring DaBaby & Lil Baby, four, Jan. 23, 2021“Cry Baby,” Megan Thee Stallion featuring DaBaby, one, April 17, 2021 “Cry Baby” ...
Paris Texas Announce Debut EP BOY ANONYMOUS, Share “FORCE OF HABIT”: Stream
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-14T15:18:23+00:00“>April 14, 2021 | 11:18am ET Promising South Central rap duo Paris Texas have announced their debut EP, BOY ANONYMOUS, out May 14th. To accompany the reveal, they shared a pensive new song, “FORCE OF HABIT”, and an accompanying music video. Details about BOY ANONYMOUS are scarce, aside from the project spanning eight songs. A press release describes the EP as exploring “a dizzying range of textures and moods” while maintaining focus and cohesion. The debut effort is also meant to prove the duo is “as dynamic as they are bold.” The self-produced “FORCE OF HABIT” is centered around a guitar loop and balances shit talk with self-deprecating lyrics like, “Everybody ...
Jenny Lewis and Serengeti Share New Collaborative Track “GLTR”: Stream
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-14T15:41:44+00:00“>April 14, 2021 | 11:41am ET Jenny Lewis and Serengeti continue their collaborative streak today with the new single “GLTR”. Take a listen via the accompanying music video, directed and edited by Lewis and filmed at the Hendersonville Memory Gardens where Johnny Cash is buried, which is embedded below. With a subtle electronic dance groove, “GLTR” gently spins in the darkness as the pair touch on the need to release the tension from our lives. While Lewis sings of “what a lie” daily stresses can be, Serengeti questions where our focus lies. “How’s your Instagram these days?” he raps. “Did you get a lotta action when you had braids?” Serengeti des...
Cardi B Calls Out ‘Blue Check Republicans’ on Silence Over Shooting of Daunte Wright, Pepper-Spraying of Veteran
The officers ordered Nazario — who was in uniform and who had driven to a gas station in order to be in a well-lit location — to exit the vehicle as he held his hands up outside the window, asking them why he was being stopped; he said he was afraid to get out and was then hit with pepper spray in the eyes and forced to lay on the ground. In the video, Cardi — dressed in a fuzzy, white bathrobe — continued, “…Over some f—ing license plate that these mother—-ers couldn’t see — temporary license plate. We have seen a young man get killed by a cop, unarmed, and the excuse was the cop that had been on duty for 20-plus years, mistaked a gun for a taser,” she added, in reference to the police killing of 20-year-old Daunte Wright o...
Lil Nas X and Dominic Fike Make Out in BROCKHAMPTON’s “Count On Me” Video: Watch
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-14T02:28:33+00:00“>April 13, 2021 | 10:28pm ET BROCKHAMPTON have released a new music video for “Count On Me”, one of the early singles from ROADRUNNER: NEW LIGHT, NEW MACHINE. The clip stars Lil Nas X and Dominic Fike as “lovers on vacation” gone wrong. Watch it below. In the music video, directed by Dan Streit and the band’s own Kevin Abstract, Lil Nas X and Dominic Fike can be seen driving down a road in a Jeep while making jokes, talking about Radiohead, and dancing to music. When they arrive at their destination by nightfall, the two climb down to a secluded river while lightning flashes overhead and kiss on a bank. The song switches into an ambient interlude at that point a...
DMX Music Streams Soar 928% Following Death
Streams of DMX’s music had increased leading up to his passing, following his hospitalization on April 2. In the days before April 2, his songs were streamed between 700,000 and 1 million times a day. Between April 3 and April 8, they rose to between 3 and 4 million per day. In terms of music sales, DMX’s collected songs and albums sold 101,000 copies on April 9-11 – up 1,036% compared to the 9,000 they sold on April 6-8.During DMX’s lifetime, he notched 31 hits on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and 15 entries on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100. His first five albums – It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot (1998), Flesh of My Flesh Blood of My Blood (1999), …And Then There Was X (2000), The Great Depression (2001) and Grand Champ (2003) – ...
Bad Bunny Announces 2022 “El Último Tour del Mundo” Tour Dates
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-12T17:15:30+00:00“>April 12, 2021 | 1:15pm ET Bad Bunny packed as much into his 2020 quarantine as anybody on earth, releasing three albums, earning a Grammy, and winning a match at Wrestlemania 37 with the “Bunny Destroyer” finisher. After this latter feat, the trap and reggaeton star announced “El Último Tour del Mundo”, a run of 25 North American tour dates that kicks off in February of 2022. Named after his excellent 2020 LP El Último Tour del Mundo (“The Last Tour of the World”), the jaunt will be among his first chances to stump for the albums YHLQMDLG and Que No Iban a Salir. Bad Bunny will make his triumphant return to touring on February 9th in Denver, CO,...
Snoop Dogg Honors DMX’s Higher Purpose: ‘His Soul Will Live On & His Music Will Live On’
Snoop also acknowledged X’s greater calling via Instagram on Monday when he shared a message that read, “DMX did NOT wait to be perfect for God to USE him. He taught people that u can be flawed and still be a vessel.” But he added in his new interview that Darkman’s messages translated best through genres of music outside of rap. “He was funny. He loved old-school music. He loved old-school cars. And when I say he loved old-school music, he loved old-school music and gospel music, probably more than rap music. And that’s what people didn’t know,” he said. “But if you listen to him talk and you listen to what he testify and what he’s always giving up, it’s either that R&B or the gospel music that always pushed the message behind DMX.&#...
DMX’s Family Denies Rumor That Jay-Z & Beyoncé Bought His Master Recordings
The family of DMX (real name Earl Simmons) set the record straight about the alleged sale of the late rapper’s master recordings and his upcoming funeral in a new statement. “There have been a few rumors following our loved one, Earl Simmons’, passing that we’d like to clear up,” his family said in a statement provided to Billboard. “No one has bought Earl’s masters. Additionally, we are not selling any merch or raising money for Earl’s funeral. If anyone is requesting for money for his funeral please be aware the person is a scammer. We will keep the public posted on funeral/memorial service arrangements.” The most popular rumor around DMX’s catalog alleged that Beyoncé and Jay-Z had purchased X’s master recordings fo...
DMX’s 2003 Autobiography Returns to Bestsellers List After Rapper’s Death
Written by DMX alongside Smokey D. Fontaine, a former music editor at The Source, the book follows “The dark journey of a boy who became a man, the man who became an artist, and the artist who became an icon,” according to the publisher’s notes. “A talent for rhyme saved his life, but the demons and sins of his past continue to haunt him.” The book’s prologue opens with a quote from Friedrich Nietzsche, that now seems eerily foreboding: “To live is to suffer, but to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.” The accompanying chapters chronicle the rapper’s rise to fame, from his early days growing up in Yonkers, New York, to his record deal with Def Jam and creation of his first major label album, It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot...
Kid Cudi Wears Dress on ‘SNL’ in Honor of Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain, Rocks Chris Farley Shirt
Kid Cudi paid tribute to Nirvana‘s Kurt Cobain and Saturday Night Live great Chris Farley during his musical guest debut on the long-running NBC sketch comedy show. During the April 10 episode hosted by actress Carey Mulligan, the 37-year-old rapper — born Scott Mescudi — performed two tracks from his 2020 album, Man on the Moon III: The Chosen, while paying his respects to the fallen legends. For his first performance of “Tequila Shots,” Cudi stepped onto the stage wearing a fuzzy olive-green cardigan similar to the one Cobain famously wore during Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged in New York live performance, which aired months before his death in 1994. Underneath, he rocked a white shirt emblazoned with a headshot of the boisterous actor-comedian Farley, who wa...
