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After unofficially announcing his new sonic venture last week – by clearing all of his socials and sharing an ominous pre-save link – Justin Vernon has officially confirmed his next Bon Iver single is on the way.Entitled "S P E Y S I D E," the new Bon Iver cut is confirmed to be released globally this Friday, September 20.Equipped with vocals and guitar from Vernon, viola and strings from Rob Moose and additional production by Ryan Olson, "S P E Y S I D E" signals Bon Iver's first new studio release since "AUATC" and "PDLIF" in 2020, which followed up his last original studio album, i,i in 2019. The track is also set to be accompanied by a music video directed by Erinn Springer. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Bon Iver (@boniver)The official announcement arrives on t...

The New York Times reports that Sean "Diddy" Combs has been arrested in New York following an indictment by a federal grand jury.The criminal charges filed against Diddy are yet to be publicly announced as the indictment is sealed, however a source familiar to the matter told The New York Times that they believed the charges to be connected with racketeering and sex trafficking. The US Attorney's Office in New York has not responded to a request for comment.Diddy’s attorney, Marc Agnifilo, told Pitchfork that they "are disappointed with the decision to pursue what we believe is an unjust prosecution of Mr. Combs by the U.S. Attorney’s Office." The statement continues:"Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is a music icon, self-made entrepreneur, loving family man, and proven philanthropist who has spent the ...

Drake could have supposedly temporarily owned a third of JAY-Z's Reasonable Doubt, with Dame Dash claiming that The Boy previously made an offer to buy his Roc-a-Fella shares.In a recent interview on his America Nu Network, Dash alleged that Drizzy hit him up via his DMs and made an offer. "...I'm not quite sure what happened, but I thought that he had got with Jay or something," he continued. "But I don't know. It would be a good time to close. But if you got it. I wouldn't do it if you didn't get it. But you know if you want to own Reasonable Doubt. If you want to own a third of it, you have to say that at the board meetings for at least the next seven years and make money off of it."Lupe Fiasco seemingly corroborated this story as earlier as July, when Dash confirmed on an Instagram pos...

Nicki Minaj had announced a deluxe version of her latest album, Pink Friday 2, just last month. The project was called Pink Friday 2: Gag City Reloaded and was later revealed to have a posthumous feature from Juice Wrld.The rapper has circled back to tell fans that the deluxe edition of Pink Friday 2 has been scrapped. Instead, she’ll be releasing another full-length album, Pink Friday 3. The reasoning was that Minaj wanted Pink Friday 2 to stand alone as a body of work and thought that adding five to seven additional songs felt "sloppy."“Instead of doing a DELUXE to Pink Friday 2, I’ve decided to do a brand new album. I’ll still incorporate new songs like #Mamita & [The ‘anxiety’ song] for the remainder of the tour tho…and I’ll announce the new date within the next couple weeks,” she ...