Hip-Hop
Lil Nas X’s ‘Old Town Road’ Becomes the Highest Certified Song in RIAA History
Lil Nas X reacted to the news on social media on Saturday (Jan. 9). “OLD TOWN ROAD IS OFFICIALLY 14 TIMES PLATINUM! MOST PLATINUMS FOR ANY SONG EVER! LETS GOOO!” he wrote. (SZA had the top comment on his Instagram post, where fans were quick to upvote the praise she offered: “BRUH !!! Lmao what’s higher than diamond !????? I can’t even think of a gem JUST GIVE HIM THE RADIO.”) Meanwhile, Cyrus tweeted, “Incredible. I’m speechless. #OTR is now 14x platinum and the most certified song in music history.” See the “Old Town Road” hitmakers’ reactions below. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, ch...
HoneyKomb Brazy Flexes His ‘Mirror Flow’ in ‘Brazy Sh#t’ Video: Watch
Alabama rapper HoneyKomb Brazy reflects on his greatness in the full video for “Brazy Sh#t (Mirror Flow), which premiered on Thursday (Jan. 7). After being released from jail, where he shared a cell with his father for six months, and surviving a shootout in November that was captured by surveillance footage, HoneyKomb gets back on his feet and raps in front of a mirror in the new R&R Films-directed visual. Although he wears a Vancouver Grizzlies jersey in the video, the RN4L signee compares himself to San Antonio Spurs pro baller Tim Duncan. “I be slam dunking like Tim Duncan,” he raps while showing a snippet of his game footage. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with gi...
Hip-Hop, Latin & Vinyl’s Popularity Grew in 2020 (Rock, Pop & CDs’ Did Not)
Roddy Ricch’s “The Box” (via Atlantic) was the top streaming song in 2020 with 1.3 billion on-demand streams, beating out Future’s “Life Is Good” featuring Drake (via Epic), which had 1 billion on-demand streams. Lil Baby’s My Turn (via Quality Control) was the No. 1 album for the year, generating 2.6 million consumption units, with Taylor Swift’s folklore (via Republic) coming in second at 2.2 million album consumption units — of which 1.3 million were from sales (including 796,000 from downloads), making it the year’s best-selling album. In fact, Swift placed four albums in the year’s top 200 albums, as her Lover album ranked No. 33 with 878,000 album consumption units; evermore was No. 70 with 569,000 units and 1989 was No. 116 with 428,000 units. For the 21st year in a...
Russ’ New Lil Baby Collab Is Anything But ‘Ugly’
Russ has officially entered 2021. The rapper unveiled his first song of the year on Friday (Jan. 8), a melodic Lil Baby collaboration titled “Ugly.” The accompanying Edgar Esteves-directed video finds the Atlanta natives amid flashing colored lights, living luxuriously in a high-end strip club. “‘Cause I got your b—h now in love with me / And I’m in this b—h now, it’s getting ugly,” Russ proclaims in the hook. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.
Nicki Minaj Will Pay Tracy Chapman $450,000 to Settle Copyright Lawsuit
Is it too late to say “Sorry”? Via The Hollywood Reporter, Nicki Minaj has agreed to pay Tracy Chapman $450,000 to settle a copyright lawsuit over Minaj’s “Sorry”, which sampled Chapman’s “Baby Can I Hold You” without permission. Minaj wrote the song with Nas for her 2018 album Queen. Initially, Her Pinkness didn’t know she had interpolated “Baby Can I Hold You”, only finding out shortly before the album’s release that, like a Russian nesting doll, one of her samples had itself sampled Chapman. Minaj pleaded with Chapman to clear the song over Twitter, to no avail. Ultimately, Queen dropped without the offending track, and that might have been the end of it. However, Minaj allegedly leaked “Sorry” to Funkmaster Flex, after which it landed on the internet. The two women have ...
DaBaby Arrested In Beverly Hills For Alleged Firearm Possession
Rapper DaBaby was arrested in Beverly Hills Thursday after he allegedly carried a concealed weapon into a store, police said. DaBaby, whose real name is Jonathan Kirk, was walking on Rodeo Drive with a group of men when security called police, claiming that someone from the group had a “weapon in his waistband” while in a store, according to the Beverly Hills Police Department. The group was detained around 4:45 p.m. when they returned to their vehicle. After police investigated, the 29-year-old rapper, known for hits like “Suge” and “Rockstar,” was arrested on charges of carrying a concealed weapon and carrying a loaded firearm in a vehicle. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. I...
Griselda Records Unleashes Conflicted Soundtrack: Stream
Westside Gunn’s label Griselda Records has shared the new soundtrack from the upcoming feature film Conflicted. Stream it below via Apple Music or Spotify. Conflicted stars Benny the Butcher as a Buffalo gangster who tries to go straight, but… well… you’ve read the title. We’ll see how Griselda’s first feature film lands, but as for the music, the label has one of the most exciting rosters in hip-hop today, and the Conflicted soundtrack comes with a whole festival’s worth of talent. In addition to multiple tracks from The Butcher and WG, the album boasts contributions from Dave East, Armani Caesar, Boldy James, Lloyd Banks, Flee Lord, Smoke DZA, Heem, Camino, Eto, Ransom, Chase FETTI, Billy V, Rick Hyde, YN Billy, and Wale. Production comes from in-house beat-maker Daringer, the ...
Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Good Kid, M.A.A.D City’ Returns to Top 10 on Album Sales Chart After Eight Years
Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The Album Sales chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Nielsen Music/MRC Data. Pure album sales were the measurement solely utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram. Good Kid has sold particularly well in recent weeks on vinyl at independent record stores, as well as Target and Walmar...
Trump Considers Pardoning Lil Wayne and Kodak Black: Report
Donald Trump has 13 days left in office — tops, if he doesn’t get impeached or 25th-ed. After the events of Wednesday, he’s in such disarray he can’t even figure out where to sleep. At the same time, he’s also trying to figure out who to pardon with his last gasps of power. Unsurprisingly, a lot of folks he’s considering share the name Trump, but also on the shortlist are rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black, according to Bloomberg. Weezy publicly endorsed Trump back in October, posing for a photo-op with the one-termer. Two months later, the Tha Carter V rapper pleaded guilty to a federal weapons charge stemming from a December 2019 incident where a he was found with a firearm on his private plane. The maximum sentence is 10 years, but even without a presidential pardon, he likely would...
Key Glock Spits a (Literally) Fire Banger in ‘Off the Porch’ Video
Key Glock comes in hot for the new year with the new single “Off the Porch” and its accompanying music video. The Memphis rapper keeps it cool and low-key for the visual, which features him in a dark room surrounded only by a yellow sports car, a matching yellow bike and a mic that catches on fire once he’s done spitting. He flexes his chains, including one featuring Homer Simpson that blinks after he lets him hit his blunt, and compares his drip to that of Lil Uzi Vert. “Diamonds dancing on me like Uzi, choppa keep Bruce Lee, pullin’ up too deep,” he raps in the first verse. He released two back-to-back mixtapes last year, Yellow Tape in January and Son of a Gun in May via Paper Route Empire. His 2019 joint album with mentor Young Do...
‘Hold On,’ Because Kelly Clarkson Just Crushed This Drake Cover
Oops, Kelly Clarkson did it again. The singer put her signature smooth spin on Drake‘s “Hold On, We’re Going Home” in the latest edition of her Kellyoke series. Thursday’s (Jan. 7) take found Kelly and her band tackling the laid back 2103 track from Drizzy’s Nothing Was the Same album and somehow making it feel like even more sublimely sensual. In Clarkson’s hands, the song was transformed into an R&B power jam, with Clarkson revving up her virtual crowd into a frenzy with another stirring reworking of a modern classic. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards...
Dr. Dre’s Los Angeles Home Target of Attempted Burglary
Dr. Dre and one of the four burglars arrested (photo via TMZ) Upon hearing news that Dr. Dre was in the hospital after suffering a brain aneurysm, four men allegedly hatched a plan to break into his Pacific Palisades home. According to TMZ, the four individuals were spotted “casing” the million-dollar property around 10 p.m. local time. However, before they could reach the main building structure, Dr. Dre’s home security confronted the men and called the police. “The men fled, but cops arrived almost immediately and chased the 4 would-be burglars, catching and arresting them.” ABC 7 reports that during a search of the suspects’ vehicle, officials “found a backpack full of burglary tools, saws, and crowbars.” All four men have been arrested for attempted burglary and are curr...
