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SZA's SOS sets a new chart record this week as it logs its 12th nonconsecutive week atop the Billboard 200.The album, which recently received its deluxe LANA edition, earned 130,000 equivalent album units in the week ending January 2. This total includes 125,500 streaming equivalent album units (166.31 million on-demand streams of the songs), 4,000 in album sales and 500 in track equivalent album units. SOS' 12th week at No. 1 officially makes it the first R&B/hip-hop album by a woman to hit that mark in 38 years; the last to surpass that record was the 14-week reign of Whitney Houston’s self-titled in 1986.Elsewhere on the chart, Kendrick Lamar jumps to No. 2 followed by Sabrina Carpenter at No. 3, the Wicked film soundtrack at No. 4 and Billie Eilish at No. 5. Making up the bottom ha...

One of Nicki Minaj's alleged former managers is suing her of assault, battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress.TMZ reports that Brandon Garrett, Minaj's supposed manager around April 2024, is accusing the rapper of physically and verbally assaulting him. He claims that during the tour's Detroit stop, she slapped him in the face and caused his head to swing backward and his has to fly off after she became enraged over him delegating someone else to pick up her prescription.Minaj alleged screamed at Garrett in her dressing room, "Are you f*cking crazy having him pick up my prescription? You have lost your f*cking mind and if my husband were here, he would knock out your f*cking teeth. You're a dead man walking. You just f*cked up your whole life and you will never be anyone, ...

A new clip of Ye in the studio has surfaced, offering fans another quick listen to the artist's upcoming album BULLY.The 30-second snippet is currently making its rounds on the internet, and sees Ye in the studio enjoying what could only be assumed as some of his latest production work. At the end of the clip, however, he realizes he's being filmed and tells the person behind the camera to cut the footage. No additional information about the track or the album were revealed alongside the visual.BULLY was announced in September 2024 during Ye's listening event in Haikou, China. “I got a new album coming out. The album’s called Bully and this song is called ‘Beauty and the Beast,’” he told fans present at the Wuyuan River Stadium, playing the gentle cut. Mike Dean, Ye’s long-time music colla...

redveil has dropped off another atmospheric cut. Entitled "what3ver" the new offering is what fans hope marks the start of redveil's next album era.It was redveil's "Soulfood" single from 2020 that put the young rapper/producer on the map; he then followed up the cut with 2020 album Niagara and then 2022's learn 2 swim. Since learn 2 swim, redveil has joined hands with Denzel Curry on the remix of "pg baby" and, most notably, JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown on Scaring The H*es track "Kingdom Hearts Key"). As for his most recent long-form release, that was the six-track playing w/fire EP, which will be two years old in April.The just-under-three-minute "what3ver" finds redveil in his typical zone, delivering profound lyrics over an ethereal self-produced beat."I just put my casket outfit together...