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Breaking Is Now An Official Olympic Sport
Source: Handout / Getty One of the four elements of Hip-Hop (MC’s, DJ’s, graffiti and breakdancing breaking/b-boying) is now a proper Olympic sport. Today (Dec. 7), it was announced that “breaking” will be included as part of the 2024 Summer Games in Paris. That’s still almost four years away, but we’ll take it. “We have had a clear priority and this is to introduce sports which are particularly popular among the younger generations. And also to take into account the urbanization of sport,” said International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach after today’s executive board, per USA Today. Breaking actually made its Olympic debut a couple of years ago in Buenos Aires at the 2018 Summer Youth Games. While this certainly is a cause for celebration, there are those in the breaking communi...
Money Showers: Floyd Mayweather Jr. Will Bless Logan Paul With A Proper Fade In 2021
Source: Alex Menendez / Getty Floyd Mayweather Jr. is coming out of retirement yet again. This time he will face a YouTube star whose name is in high demand. As spotted on CNN the Grand Rapids, Michigan native has confirmed he will stepping back into the ring. On Sunday, December 7 he announced that he will fighting Logan Paul in a super exhibition match. Feb. 20, 2021 !!!! Early Bird Special On Sale NOW!!!! @fanmio More Details Soon.” he said via an Instagram post. The bout is right on the heels of his brother Jake Paul’s viscous knockout of former NBA player Nate Robinson on the Tyson-Jones undercard. Over the years Logan has quickly made himself a social media sensation via his popular YouTube channel and Impaulsive podcast. On Saturday, August 25 2018 he boxed internet p...
Bad Bunny Makes ‘Billboard’ History With Latest Album ‘El Ultimo Tour del Mundo’
Source: NBC / Getty Bad Bunny might’ve caught the Rona but that isn’t stopping him from continuing to prove that reggaeton wasn’t just a fad and is in fact a music genre that’s a force to be reckoned with. After experiencing a meteoric rise to fame over the past few years with hits like “Ahora Me Llama” and “Callaita,” the Puerto Rican artist made history with the release of his latest project El Ultimo Tour del Mundo as the first all Spanish-language album to land atop of the Billboard Top 200 charts. According to Billboard the album has moved 116,000 equivalent album units in the first week of it’s drop finally achieving the coveted feat that his previous album YHLQMDLG almost accomplished when it debuted at number 2 earlier this year. Of El Ultimo Tour del Mundo’s 116,000 equivalen...
Elon Musk Teases Vegas Loop With “Tunnel Rave” Set to the Sounds of Avicii
As you may know, Elon Musk and his team of engineers at The Boring Company are building underground transportation tunnels in an effort to help speed up local and national travel. While this may lead to a faster way for dance music fans to get to shows across the country, it’s what the company recently shared on their Twitter page that should really excite them. Described as a “tunnel rave,” the new video posted by The Boring Company shows off the interior of the tunnel with pulsating, rainbow lights overhead. As heard in the clip, the “rave” is soundtracked by Avicii‘s iconic dance anthem “Levels.” This seems appropriate for the Tesla CEO after he released a dance track of his own back in February 2020. This news is also simil...
Taika Waititi-Directed Xbox Series X Trailer Unmasks Master Chief as a Cat Who DJs
Turns out the sci-fi action hero we grew up on is actually a cat who loves EDM, at least according to the Academy Award-winning director Taika Waititi. Microsoft recruited the help of the renowned New Zealand cinephile for a new trailer dedicated to the recent release of their new video game console, the Xbox Series X. The three-and-a-half-minute long story shows a team of researchers enter a woman’s dreams after she plays with the new Xbox. As you would imagine, they become increasingly bizarre, showing off animated characters in the forest, free-falling, and more while she narrates what she sees in her sleep. The video concludes with the main character from the Halo series, Master Chief, begin to DJ with the use of one of the giant space structures from the game as a tur...
House Passes Marijuana Decriminalization Bill, Not Likely To Pass Senate
Source: ArtistGNDphotography / Getty A small but significant victory for cannabis legalization advocates took place in the U.S. House of Representatives with the passage of a new bill. The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act [MORE] was passed last week but it doesn’t appear likely that the bill will go into law in the GOP-controlled U.S. Senate chamber. The bill was passed with the support of a handful of Republican members of Congress and was largely backed by the Democrats in the chamber although some members of their party voted against the MORE Act. One of the main tenets of the bill would be to, “address the devastating injustices caused by the War on Drugs” and while that position is shared across the aisle in the House, the Senate is another matter altogether. The...
Jim Jones Says He Still Won’t Work With Max B Once He’s Free
Source: Bernard Beanz Smalls / Bernard Beanz Smalls, After turning a 75-year prison sentence into a 12-year bid, Max B might finally be coming home after spending the last decade and change behind bars, but don’t expect Jim Jones to exactly roll out the welcome mat once the Wavy Godfather hits the block. Just when it seemed like the former homies turned street rivals had gotten past their personal drama, Jim Jones reminded everyone that some hard feelings do remain and that specific topic is one he doesn’t like touching on at this point in his life. During an interview with Jenny Boom Boom on Instagram, the “Ballin’” rapper was asked about the possibility of working with Max B once he’s released from prison. His response wasn’t exactly a receptive one. “Nah, f*ck Max B. Max B can suc...
Bad Bunny & Jhay Cortez Top Billboard’s Global Charts, Mariah Carey & Wham! Jingle to Top Five
Chart rankings are based on a weighted formula incorporating official-only streams on both subscription and ad-supported tiers of audio and video music services, as well as download sales, the latter of which reflect purchases from full-service digital music retailers from around the world, with sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites excluded from the charts’ calculations. ‘Dakiti’ Ties for Most Weeks Atop Global 200 Bad Bunny and Jhay Cortez’s “Dakiti” rebounds from No. 2 to No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 with 121.4 million streams, up 13%, and 3,000 downloads sold, down 8%, globally in the week ending Dec. 3. The streaming sum is the third-best in a week since the chart began, trailing only the weekly highs for BTS’ “Life Goes On̶...
The Weeknd Is Rocking Around the Christmas Tree for Smiley Selfie
The Weeknd revealed how he got into the Christmas spirit over the weekend with a new holiday selfie featuring a blinged-out Christmas tree. The superstar (real name Abel Tesfaye) blinded his 26 million Instagram followers with his pearly whites next to white tree lights and gold ornaments. Fellow singer Lauv wished him well by commenting, “happy wknd!!!!” But fans aren’t just catching glimpses of “happy wknd” this season: They’re also getting holiday Weeknd, as he recently sang the “Christmas Blues” alongside Sabrina Claudio on the title track of her latest EP Christmas Blues, which was released on Nov. 27. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It be...
What’s Your Favorite Album of 2020? Vote!
Billboard picked out our 50 best albums of 2020, but we want to know which album from this year was your favorite! Taylor Swift‘s Folklore takes the cake for being our staff’s No. 1 album, as she made a surprise record of the ages with The National‘s Aaron Dessner and longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff. Dua Lipa dances to our No. 2 slot with her sophomore album Future Nostalgia. Her certifiable club quarantine set of dance-in-your-kitchen numbers travels back in time to the bygone eras of dance-pop and flies to the future à la any “Levitating” performance. 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 Beau...
Watch Bruce Springsteen and Bleachers Perform ‘chinatown’ Live for the First Time
Bleachers, the project of producer/songwriter Jack Antonoff, returned last month with the surprise release of “chinatown,” a song that featured a guest appearance by none other than Bruce Springsteen. Antonoff and his band joined forces with Springsteen again, this time for the first live performance of the song, which was filmed on the roof of Electric Lady Studios in New York City. “chinatown” comes with a b-side, “45,” which are part of Bleachers on the Roof – Live at Electric Lady. “I go to Electric Lady every day to work. I sit on the roof for hours and hours. probably spent more time on that roof this year than my bed,” Antonoff said in a statement. “I kept imagining the band up there on all the different levels playing on 8th street with everything patched into the c...
Brian May Says Freddie Mercury ‘Loved’ Wayne’s World ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Scene
Wayne’s World was released after Freddie Mercury died, but the singer actually saw Queen’s iconic moment shortly before he passed away and “laughed and laughed” at the famous “Bohemian Rhapsody” scene. Queen guitarist Brian May revealed the tidbit during the premiere of Wayne’s World Reunited Apart – PARTY TIME! Many of the cast members, including Mike Myers, Alice Cooper, Dana Carvey and Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler, participated in the event. May said that Mercury saw the timeless car headbanging sequence featuring “Bohemian Rhapsody” shortly before his November 1991 death… and loved it. His revelation surprised the cast, who were unaware of Mercury’s blessing. So, how did it happen? Myers gave a VHS tape to May, who recalled, “I took it round to Freddie no...
