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JAY-Z and Diddy celebrated The Notorious B.I.G.‘s 50th birthday over the weekend in conversation on Twitter Spaces. May 21st would have been Biggie’s 50th birthday. The legendary rapper died in March 1997 after he was tragically shot in Los Angeles. Months prior to his death, the world and the hip-hop community suffered another loss with the murder of Tupac Shakur. Having lost two iconic MCs in the span of less than a year, rap music saw a devastating blow to the industry. On Twitter Spaces hosted by TIDAL, JAY-Z was joined by Diddy, Fat Joe and others to speak about the influence of Biggie Smalls. Hov shared, “As far as Big and ‘Pac and pushing forward that’s just me being a student of the game and loving the game and loving the culture and wanting to push the culture forward.” He added t...

Harry Styles‘ latest studio album Harry’s House is projected to log the biggest debut week of 2022 so far. According to HITS Daily Double, the record is looking to open at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with a total of 450,000 to 500,000 units. If the forecasts are correct, Harry’s House will set the record for the largest debut week of 2022 so far — dethroning Kendrick Lamar‘s short-lived reign with Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, which opened with 295,500 equivalent album units. The Billboard 200’s record for biggest debut week of this year has been replaced thrice the past three weeks, thanks to Future‘s I NEVER LIKED YOU, Bad Bunny‘s Un Verano Sin Ti and K-Dot’s Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers. Styles could be the fourth artist to set that new record next week...

The rumored split between Migos is unlikely to happen according to DJ Akademiks, who claims he spoke to Offset about the reports surrounding the group’s future. In a recent interview with TMZ, Ak shared that he recently got in touch with Offset about the rumored Migos breakup. “That’s cap,” Akademiks said of the split, adding that he told Offset that he does not want to report on anything false. “They might be going through a small disagreement or whatever. I think that they’re angling it because, you know, Takeoff and Quavo just put out a song, so they’re kind of letting it lie, letting the questions linger or something like that.” “But at the end of the day, they’re family. Offset confirmed that to me, too,” Akademiks continued. “Maybe if it was the City Girls that unfollowed each other,...

Kendrick Lamar is opening this week’s Billboard 200 at No. 1 as Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers earns a total of 295,500 equivalent album units in its first week. According to Billboard, the double album’s total includes 258,500 in streaming equivalent album units (343.02 million on-demand streams of the tracks), 35,500 in album sales and 1,500 in track equivalent album units. The record officially set a series of new records, including the biggest debut week of 2022 so far, the biggest week by equivalent album units since November 2021, the largest streaming week for an R&B/hip-hop album this year so far and the largest sales week for a digital album in 2022. This marks K-Dot’s fourth No. 1 entry on the Billboard 200. Other new titles on this week’s Billboard 200 are TOMORROW X TOGE...

In honor of the hip-hop legend and in celebration of what would have been The Notorious B.I.G.‘s 50th birthday, his estate has released a new single titled “G.O.A.T.” featuring Ty Dolla $ign and nigerian artist Bella Alubo on May 21. The new track, which is produced by Kayo and Elliot Osagie, features verses from Biggie’s standout track “I Love The Dough” from his studio album Life After Death. Fans can hear him rap about his exorbitant lifestyle, “We hit makers with acres, roll shakers in Vegas/you can’t break us, lost chips on Lakers, gassed off Shaq/country house, tennis courts and horseback/ridin’/decidin’/cracked crab or lobster/who say mobsters don’t prosper?” While 2022 highlights Biggie’s 50th birthday, it is also the year that marks the 25 year anniversary of his tragic death. Lif...