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Young Thug Brings Out Gunna, Nate Ruess and Travis Barker During SNL Debut

Young Thug made his Saturday Night Live debut last night, and he made sure it was one to remember. The rapper played two selections off his just-released sophomore album, Punk, starting with a raucous performance of his latest single “Tick Tock” that ended with a chaotic drum solo by Travis Barker. For his second song, Thug brought out Nate Ruess and Gunna to perform their melodic collaboration “Love You More,” which also featured percussion by the blink-182 drummer. Thug dropped Punk on Friday. The album includes features from the likes of Post Malone, A$AP Rocky, Drake, Travis Scott, Future, Doja Cat, J Cole, and late rappers Juice Wrld and Mac Miller and is the follow-up to 2019’s So Much Fun. Watch Young Thug perform “Tick Tock” and “Love You More” below. [embedded ...

Young Thug Drops Second Studio LP ‘Punk’ & Twitter Salutes The Young Stoner Life Boss

HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Michael Tullberg / Getty Young Thug has released hours upon hours of music but he’s actually just releasing his second studio album this Friday (October 15). The Atlanta star released his latest body of work titled Punk, and Twitter thus far is enjoying the Young Stoner Life honcho’s newest track. There isn’t a ton of backstory regarding Punk, save for some quips over the past two years since the release of his studio album debut, So Much Fun. While he’s built up his YSL Records family with hitmakers Lil Baby, Gunna, and more, Thugger has long been considered the young king of trap and melody in Atlanta and his sound continues to evolve with the new record. Joining Thug on his sophomore studio album is this YSL team in Strick and Gunna, and he also ...

The 2021 BET Hip Hop Awards Winners &; Best Performances

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bennett Raglin / Getty The 2021 BET Hip Hop Awards aired last night (Oct. 5) after being held in Atlanta late last week. “In Hip Hop We Stand” was the theme of this year’s awards show as the producers wanted to stress one culture that spans different generations, styles, and regions. The show stayed true to that mandate with performances Lil Jon & Bia, Baby Keem, Big Daddy Kane Tobe Nwigwe, Young Thug and more. St. Louis rap legend Nelly was honored as this year’s “I Am Hip Hop” recipient and he reminded everybody why with a medley of his greatest hits. Related Stories As far as the night’s winners, Megan Thee Stallion, Cardi B, Tyler, The Creator, Drake and Lil Durk led the field with the most nominations but Lil Baby and Tyler, The Creator went home...

Halsey, Kacey Musgraves, Brandi Carlile, Young Thug to Perform on SNL

Saturday Night Live is back for Season 47 and its music lineup features a slew of heavy hitters. The first four music guests are Kacey Musgraves, Halsey, Young Thug, and Halsey. This will be Carlile and Young Thug’s first time performing on the show, while Musgraves is returning for a second time and Halsey is back for her fourth appearance with the most recent on Season 45. Hosting will be Owen Wilson, Rami Malek, former SNL castmember and Ted Lasso star Jason Sudeikis and … Kim Kardashian. This will be Kardashian’s first time hosting SNL. Hopefully (for her sake) it goes better than it did for Elon Musk earlier this year. Here’s the full lineup and dates: Oct. 2 – Owen Wilson / Kacey MusgravesOct. 9 – Kim Kardashian West / HalseyOct. 16 – Rami Malek / Young ThugO...

Elton John Taps SG Lewis, Dua Lipa, More for “The Lockdown Sessions” Album

For the music industry, 2021 has been full of surprises. But a new album from Elton John might be the biggest one yet.  Due October 22nd, The Lockdown Sessions will feature eclectic collaborations with artists from across the sonic spectrum: Stevie Wonder, Nicki Minaj, Lil Nas X, Yo-Yo Ma—the list goes on and on. The record will also include a hotly anticipated collab with electronic music wunderkind SG Lewis. Co-written with British singer-songwriter Frances, “Orbit” came to fruition after the artists linked in March for a discussion on John’s Apple Music 1 show, Rocket Hour.  “I would desperately like to do something with you as far as writing or doing something,” the legendary musician said to Lewis. “So I’ll get you my email, ema...

Young Thug Taps Inner Rock Star with ‘Tiny Desk’ Performance

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Rich Fury / Getty Young Thug has always claimed his Rock star status, but with his recent performance for ‘Tiny Desk’ fans got to see the status turn to reality. Joined by a full band, performing in front of the gardens of the Houdini Estate in Los Angeles, Thugger played a set of new songs: “Die Slow,” “Droppin Jewels,” “Hate the Game,” and “Tick Tock.” For the last song, the band was joined by legendary Blink182 drummer, Travis Barker, to perform an alternative “Ski.” Earlier this year, Young Thug released Slime Language 2—a new collection of music featuring Gunna and the Young Stoner Life collective. For the last decade, the world of rap has lived, learned and been liberated while under the influence of Young Thug. His contorted cadence, visionary fash...

VIDEO: Davido – Shopping Spree ft Chris Brown & Young Thug

Check out this brand new music video from coming from Davido – “Shopping Spree” ft Chris Brown & Young Thug out now. Finally, we have the long awaited music video for “Shopping Spree“, a song by Nigerian singer Davido. The tune is taken from his last album “A Good Time“. The song features American pop superstar Chris Brown, and rapper Young Thug. Davido promised his muse the Hollywood lifestyle and loads of shopping spree in the colourful music video. It’s great to see the three music stars together in the visuals. It was directed by Des Gray somewhere in America. Watch, enjoy Davido – “Shopping Spree” ft Chris Brown & Young Thug below & share. [embedded content] You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It b...

Davido Drops Snippet for “Shopping Spree” Video With Chris Brown & Young Thug

DMW front man, Davido has released the snippet of his latest coming video “Shopping Spree” featuring the duo of Chris Brown and Young Thug. He posted the snippet via his Instagram status with the different times the official video will be dropping tomorrow. The song “Shopping Spree” is coming off Davido latest album “A Better Time” and he features two Americans on this one. This is coming after Davido has dealt with the grief occasioned by the loss of his brother and friend Obama DMW who he visited his grave yesterday to pay his last respect alongside Tiwa Savage. He picks himself from the grief and is set to continue from where he stopped with this video dropping tomorrow. See the teaser below. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a d...

Young Thug Clarifies His Prior Comparison To Jay-Z’s Catalog Because Duh [Video]

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: WENN.com / WENN While Young Thug has the whole world skiing now some of his words have come back to bite him. In a recent interview he explains why he said he has more hits than Jay-Z. As reported by Complex the Atlanta, Georgia native paid a second visit to the Million Dollaz Worth of Game podcast. The overall vibes were very festive as he had most of his Young Stoner Life Records crew in attendance and everyone was still enjoying the positive feedback regarding their recent Slime Language 2 release. During his last appearance had some choice words regarding the legitimacy of his discography and even said that Hall of Fame Hov doesn’t have 30 stadium anthems. Naturally Wallo and Gillie asked him about the moment and he admitted he was spee...

HHW Gaming: Saweetie, Young Thug, & More Star In ‘Call of Duty: Warzone’s “Squad up the World” Season 3 Short Film

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Call of Duty: Warzone / Activision The trailer Call of Duty: Warzone’s third season is pretty damn lit. Fresh off the news that Call of Duty’s extremely popular free-to-play component Warzone has officially surpassed 100 million players and eclipsing 400 million premium Call of Duty game sales, Activision shared a new short film/trailer titled “Squad up the World” for Warzone’s third season. The action-packed trailer features the whos who of the Hip-Hop, gaming, and sports community living out their Call of Duty-inspired fantasies. The short film directed by young visionary Gibson Hazard opens up with Young Thug making a daring leap from a skyscraper into a chopper piloted by his homie Gunna. Thugger lets some bullets fly at some opponents in the building...

On Sight: Young Thug Likes Lil Uzi Vert’s New Diamond Dome Piece

Source: Prince Williams / Getty Lil Uzi Vert took the jewelry game to the next (and unnecessary) level when he implanted a $24 million dollar pink diamond on his forehead a la Vision in The Avengers. While most of the world reacted with shock and disbelief, Young Thug for one was a fan of the move and praised the Philadelphia’s new and “innovative” manner of stuntin.’ Taking to IG to touch on yesterday’s hottest Hip-Hop news, Thugger threw his support behind Vert’s new iced out forehead saying, “”Slime rule the world, believe it. Young n***as out this motherf*cka spending $24 million on they heads. N***a put $24 M on the front of they head. Y’all hoes get in line.” Why we feel like Thugger might follow suit and start putting ice chips all over his brows and cheek bones? Just sayin.’ Though...

How Davido, Wizkid, Olamide, Burna Boy broke streaming records in 2020

From all available statistics, facts and figures no other Nigerian musical artiste, male or female, was able to pull off what the quartet of Davido, Wizkid, Burna Boy and Olamide pulled off in 2020. The duopoly of Davido and Wizkid, which has been going on for years was questioned most especially by Burna Boy and the new face on the international scene, Olamide. Each one of them released an amazing album and it was a staggering success story on all streaming platforms. The figures showed Nigerian music has arrived on the international stage. Particularly of interest is Olamide, whose music has not really been able to cross the continent to the international stage. Well, thanks to his international connection, which has given wings to fly over the Atlantic. For Burna Boy, his fortunes have ...