Later, U.S. District Judge Dolly M. Gee agreed with Lizzo’s claim that “a joint author of one copyrightable work does not automatically gain ownership of a derivative work in which the joint author had no hand in creating.”
Judge Gee added that the Raisens and Rothman themselves admitted ‘Healthy’ is a “standalone” song and not a demo for “Truth Hurts.”
On Friday, attorneys from both parties stated they had reached a settlement. The attorneys asked for “dismissal of the entire action without prejudice” according to Rolling Stone.
Both sides will be required to pay their own legal fees. Other details of the settlement have not been revealed.
Megan Thee Stallion blasted Carl Crawford and 1501 Certified Entertainment for countersuing her in a series of Twitter posts.
The Billboard chart-topping rapper lashed out after Crawford and 1501 filed a lawsuit against her on Monday (March 21). Megan Thee Stallion vented about her beef with the label, criticizing Crawford’s actions in particular.
“First the man over my label said I don’t make him any money,” she wrote. “now he counter suing trying to keep me on his label because he wants to make more money lol if I ain’t making you no money why not just drop me?”
Last month, Megan Thee Stallion sued 1501 after the label refused to acknowledge her Something For Thee Hotties project as an album. In a countersuit, 1501 claimed her release failed to meet the contractual requirements to be considered an album.
1501 says Megan Thee Stallion still owes the label two albums. She contends Something For Thee Hotties is an album, which means she’d fulfill her contract once she releases another project with a runtime of at least 45 minutes.
Megan Thee Stallion and 1501 have been at odds for the past two years. She’s previously accused Crawford of being a bully and suggested he doesn’t know what’s going on with his business. She called out his behavior again in her latest Twitter tirade about the label.
“My lawyers asked him for an expense report(money 1501 supposedly has spent on ME),” she wrote. “why this grown ass man put his jewelry and chains on there… lord free me from this joke ass label.”
She added, “I choose not to say nothing back abt court and address s### online but im getting tired of being painted the BAD GUY 2/47 the last girl on 1501 mad at this man too !”
Pusha T teamed up with Arby’s for a diss track aimed at McDonald’s. Yes, you read that correctly.
Arby’s released a Pusha T song trashing McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish on Monday (March 21). The unexpected diss serves as an ad campaign for Arby’s new spicy fish sandwich.
“I’m the reason the whole world love it, now I gotta crush it/Filet-O-Fish is s###, and you should be disgusted/How dare you sell a square fish asking us to trust it?/A half slice of cheese, Mickey D’s on a budget?/Arby’s crispy fish is simply it/With lines ’round the corner, we might need a guest list,” Pusha T raps.
Pusha T famously takes credit for creating the McDonald’s “I’m Lovin’ It” jingle, which he references in his diss. Although his claims have been disputed, the renowned rapper still insists he’s “solely responsible” for the jingle.
“I did it at a very young age at a very young time in my career where I wasn’t asking for as much money and ownership,” he told Rolling Stone in a new interview. “It’s something that’s always dug at me later in life like, ‘D#####, I was a part of this and I should have more stake.’ It was like half a million or a million dollars for me and my brother — but that’s peanuts for as long as that’s been running.”
Pusha T added, “I had to get that energy off me, and this [ad] was the perfect way to get that energy like, ‘You know what? I’m over it.’”
Mason & Julez just released their newest single “Passion,” and we can’t stop listening!
Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, the brother duo pride themselves in being musicians, encompassing everything from singing to songwriting to producing.
With Mason being 17 years old and Julez being 15 years old, the two conjoin forces to create the most heartfelt music possible, as they continue to gain fans on the daily.
With Mason handling more of the vocals, and Julez being more of the wordplay expert, the duo are excited as ever to be living in sunny Los Angeles. First exploding onto the scene from posting covers on Youtube to doing pop-up performances at their high school, both teenagers prove they’re far more than just TikTokers, they’re recording artists in their own right.
“Passion” serves as one of the singles from the boys’ forthcoming album titled Going on 21, in which they wrote and produced each record.
AllHipHop: Being from Melbourne, Australia, what was that like growing up?
Mason: Very different to the US. Very different from LA.
Julez: Very different, it’s cool.
Mason: We drive on the different side of the road. It has a lot of differences. LA’s very big compared to what we’re used to.
AllHipHop: You guys came to LA for music. How long have you been here?
Mason: Couple of years now, probably 2.5 maybe. We were going back and forth before that, but start of the pandemic officially.
AllHipHop: Talk about who your biggest influences were. What made you guys fall in love with music?
Mason: We’re always listening to a different variety of music. I like people from Kanye to Jay-Z and Lil Wayne. I like Musiq Soulchild. I like John Mayer and Ed Sheeran, people like that too. It’s a bunch of different people.
Julez: I like Lil Wayne, Drake, Jay Z, and Eminem.
AllHipHop: When did you realize you could do music for a living?
Mason: My brother had played the guitar. We were in Australia and he taught me when I was young, when I was only 10. He taught me to play the guitar and I started to sing a little bit more. It was nothing serious, I was just singing for fun for the family, because we’re the two youngest of 5 kids.
Julez: We were always dancing around. We always wanted to be the center of attention so we were always putting on a show: singing, dancing around, doing whatever. It just became a thing that we’d do every so often. I started doing videos and singing covers of people’s songs. We’d post them to show our family and friends, then a couple of them started going off. We’re like “Alright, let’s keep doing this.” Eventually, it just progressed.
AllHipHop: What was the first cover that went viral?
Mason: There was one that I did ages ago, a song called “18” by Ed Sheeran. Actually, one time we were busking. We went around Europe. We went to Ireland and were asking around the streets with one of our friends Allie Sherlock. We didn’t even realize, but someone filmed it from the crowd and must’ve sent it in. It ended up getting on this page, a vocal page, for 11, 12 million views. That was our first big hit on there. We’re like “Oh my God, how the hell is that…?” [laughs]
Julez: I didn’t even know who took the video.
AllHipHop: What’d you guys do after that?
Mason: Well in the meantime, we were writing songs and just learning more. But after that, we were so motivated like let’s keep going. Let’s write more music, let’s work with different people. That’s what really kicked us off to be like alright, let’s do this for real.
AllHipHop: You guys are only 15 and 17. Are you guys still in school?
Both: Yeah.
Julez: We’re just doing it online.
Mason: After Covid and all that, we’re doing it online. Before that, we were in high school. I did a little bit over here just before, but it was cool. I like school.
AllHipHop: Talk about your presence on TikTok. How did that happen?
Mason: Good question. [laughs] I have no idea. I just posted a bunch of random videos and I’d put in some singing videos, a couple of them randomly popped off. I’d do random stuff and had fun posting the videos.One of them ended up getting 30 million views, another one of them got almost 40. Really random and weird.
Julez: Yeah. [laughs]
Mason: It’s hard to track down.
AllHipHop: Musically, what do each of you bring to the table?
Mason: I’m the better one, the pretty one. [laughs] I sing, he raps. I’m more the heartfelt one probably, and he’s more the player I’d say. When we’re creating music in the creative process, I’m more of the music man and he’s the word man. We do a bit of both.
Julez: We produced and wrote the whole album too.
Mason: Yeah, but it’s a bit of both for everything.
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AllHipHop: “Passion” is your newest single, what inspired this record?
Mason: “Passion” came out a couple weeks ago for Valentine’s Day, it’s been great. We made that song about 6 months before that, so a little while. Usually when you play songs, you get used to it. After a while, you’re like “alright, I’m sick of hearing this song.” But it still feels fresh everytime I play it, so it’s a cool vibe.
Julez: It puts you in a cool vibe, a cool mood type thing. It’s relaxing. It was officially the Valentine’s Day single, so it’s a love song.
Mason: It’s a love song, love story kind of thing. Just setting the scene. I like the vibe of what’s going on in the moment and what’s going on around you.
AllHipHop: Did a certain female inspire it?
Mason: Yeah. I’m not gonna say who, [laughs] but yeah. It did come from experience. It was setting the scene and describing what it was feeling in that moment. Because sometimes when you write a song, people tend to jump straight to what’s happening, who you are, things like that. But no one discusses what’s happening right in that moment.
AllHipHop: What inspired the video? Where was that shot?
Both: That was shot in LA.
Mason: Me and Julez wrote the treatment for it. It’s on the reverse vibe, everything’s reversed in the video.
Julez: It’s a love story in reverse kind of.
Mason: It’s that theme because when I produced the song, I reversed a lot of the stuff. When you hear it, it has that vibe. Everything’s going backwards and it’s very spacy, so I wanted the video to reflect the same way. It’s a love story that’s in reverse, going backwards. You can see me driving the car in reverse, all things like that. I think it’s really cool. It came out really cool, overall a fun experience.
AllHipHop: What was the best memory?
Julez: The car was pretty fun, Mason was driving.
Mason: The car was really fun. I was driving, Julez was in the passenger seat. What was it? A Ford Mustang 1965. It was really cool.
Julez: It was just us two. Mason was pressing the gas and it was going fast. It was cool.
AllHipHop: You mentioned your forthcoming album, Going on 21. What’s the meaning in the title?
Mason: You can expect a lot of different things.
Julez: Different vibes of music.
Mason: This is our first time putting out a full body of work. It’s 13 songs, it’s almost like a playlist full of different vibes, songs, and different memories. It’s like a playlist and a journal in the same way. I don’t know if that makes sense or not, but that’s reflective on the writing and the music of it. Going on 21 is the way we are, we’re 15 and 17 out here in LA. It’s a pretty crazy life to live out in LA at such a young age. People are all around you and all these people are in music. You see celebrities walk by and all these other things. The way we do music and all the people around us, it’s almost we’re going on 21.
Julez: It was written in 2021 too, so it’s a bit of both.
AllHipHop: Talk about your new single coming called “Playlist.”
Mason: Yes. Before the album, we have a single called “Playlist” coming out on March 18th
Julez: Next Friday with the music video
Mason: With the music video we just shot last week, so we’ve got a lot of stuff cooking.
AllHipHop: What can we expect from the video?
Julez: A lot of good vibes, dancing. Infectious dancing.
Mason: [laughs] You’re going to start dancing if you hear it. It’s a cool vibe. We had a lot of fun making it, especially the video too. We had a lot of friends in it, so it was really cool.
AllHipHop: Writing and producing the project during the pandemic, Did that encourage you guys to lock in?
Both: Yeah!
Mason: That honestly was the best for us, making that album during that process it gave us a lot of time to lock it in and no distractions, things like that. We learned a lot through that too, then from other people we learned from them too. It’s a very different album to other things, especially cause it’s not all on one theme. It’s a bit in every kind of lane they have.
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AllHipHop: 3 things you need in the studio to record at all times?
Mason: Food. [laughs] Maybe some nice lights, it’s a good atmosphere setting.
Yeah, some nice lights to give good vibes. Some of these were written not in the studio. It was one of them on the album that we wrote in the car, then when we got home we recorded the whole thing. Just put it down as soon as we could.
Julez: It doesn’t really matter where you are, as long as… we need the right vibe
Mason: You need energy, and you need food and water. That’s about it.
Julez: Your surroundings, good people around you, and that. I mean, you could do a song in a really fancy studio and it might not turn out as good as the one you did in the car. It’s all about the vibe and that.
AllHipHop: What do you guys like to do when you’re not doing music?
Julez: Music. [laughs] Basketball, go to the beach.
Mason: I like to play basketball, surf a little bit. See friends, family.
Julez: Footy, play some footy. That’s about it, then make music.
Mason: We do a lot of music. We do music every single day, make 2 to 3 songs a day. Especially over the last couple of years, I’ve looked on my computer and we’ve had 3 songs to last every single day for the last year.
Julez: Yeah, two years at least.
Mason: I didn’t realize it, it just happens.
AllHipHop: What artists do you listen to the most?
Mason: I love Musiq Soulchild, John Mayer, and Ed Sheeran. I have a bunch.
Julez: Lil Wayne, Beyonce, Jay Z, Rihanna.
Mason: Yeah Beyonce, I love Beyonce. A bunch of different singers.
Julez: A bunch of different varieties of different music. We listen to everything: Chainsmokers, DJs
Mason: Avicii. Just a bunch of different things really.
AllHipHop: Any goals for yourself at this point in your career?
Mason: I want to get a lot more music out, which especially helps with the album coming out. Go touring.
Julez: Go touring, yeah. Do some shows on the road. My ultimate goal is to sell out Madison Square Garden.
AllHipHop: Anything else you want to let the people know?
Julez: Stay ready for a lot more music!
Mason: Stay ready for a lot of music, yeah. The whole album’s coming out on April…
Julez: April 29thh, then “Playlist” next Friday and the music video. I also want to say thanks to all our fans, for the love on our recent single “Passion” and the video too. I’m excited!
Megan Thee Stallion’s dispute with 1501 Certified Entertainment heated up as her label filed a countersuit against her.
According to TMZ, Carl Crawford’s 1501 Certified Ent. sued the multi-platinum selling rapper over her Something For Thee Hotties project. The label insists her latest release isn’t an album and demands new recordings to fulfill her contract.
Last month, Megan Thee Stallion sued 1501 for not counting Something For Thee Hotties as an album under the terms of her contract. She claimed the project met the criteria of an album per their agreement, which allegedly stipulates a 45-minute runtime for such classification.
Something For Thee Hotties mostly features previously released songs. The label contends the project only includes 29 minutes of new Megan Thee Stallion material, so it shouldn’t be considered an album under their deal.
1501 proclaims her projects must contain at least 12 “new master recordings of studio performances” to count as an album in her contract. The label also says it needs to approve the tracks, which didn’t happen with the release of Something For Thee Hotties.
Megan Thee Stallion previously asked for a non-monetary declaratory judgment to determine Something For Thee Hotties is an album. 1501 wants the court to rule against her, which would mean the Texas native owes the label two more albums.
In addition to settling the album dispute, 1501 seeks a full accounting of Megan Thee Stallion’s revenue. The label believes it deserves a cut, which could exceed $1 million.
On Monday, Kylie uploaded a video titled “To Our Son” to her YouTube page. The almost 10-minute clip began with her displaying a positive pregnancy test and revealing the happy news to Travis.
The make-up mogul documented an ultrasound appointment, various photoshoots, and her baby shower late last year.
Interspersed with the footage were clips of Kylie’s famous siblings offering her congratulatory messages.
“I just want you to know we love you so much, we’ve got you for life, we’re family for life. I pray you love the family you are born into because we’re very special. We love you, and we can’t wait to meet you,” said Kim Kardashian.
Kendall Jenner added: “Ky, you inspire me so much with being a mom. I’m not a mom yet myself, and I look up to you so much with how you raise Stormi and how you’re going to raise your new baby. I’m so excited, and I already love the baby so much.”
Elsewhere, Khloe Kardashian joked that she is “everyone’s favorite aunt.”
The video concluded with footage showing the 24-year-old in labor in a hospital bed with Travis, 30, and her mother, Kris Jenner, by her side.
The screen then cut to black, though Kylie Jenner and Travis’s voices could be heard in the moments that they welcomed their little boy into the world.
The Mayor of Austin, Texas, has issued a statement after four people were shot and injured at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival this weekend on Sixth Street.
According to KVUE, the ABC affiliate in Austin, Mayor Steve Adler said that there was “an abundance of officers” hired for the festival but stressed that the issue is really around gun control.
“At the end of the day, what was our most significant challenge, I understand, is we just have so many people carrying guns,” the mayor remarked.
“Used to be when you had two groups that were fighting – which is, apparently, what happened this weekend, wasn’t [a] random shooting, the public generally wasn’t in danger – was these two groups, when they, in the past times when they would get into arguments, they would get into fistfights.”
He continued saying, “Now, under state law where they’re allowed to carry guns when a fight like that breaks out, somebody is pulling out a gun.”
Around 2 A.M. on Sunday, Mar. 20th, the Austin Police Department was notified of a shooting on the 400 block of East Sixth Street.
The shooting injured four people. However, their injuries were minor and not expected to be life-threatening.
Few details have been released other than a dispute between two groups, and the gunplay was not a random act.
An Atlanta community activist says the death of Young Thug’s child’s mother, LaKevia Jackson, was connected to gang retaliation.
Journalist Georgia Chidi says that the 31-year-old’s death will most likely spark more violence, saying to FOX 5 News, “I’m really concerned this will be a catalyst for an even larger reprisal.”
“I didn’t know that was going to be the last time I talked to my baby,” LeKevia’s mother Sherina Jackson said shortly after the shooting.
“I could hear her over the phone crying and screaming, then her best friend said she’s not breathing! I lost my baby all over a bowling ball,” Jackson said.
However, Chidi does not believe that story.
Chidi said that after he went through the court documents and did his interview with friends of the victim, he was convinced that something else had happened.
Whatever it was is connected to the gang rivalry in Atlanta between “YFN” vs. “YSN.”
Young Thug and his crew are allegedly affiliated with YSN, while incarcerated rapper YFN Lucci is affiliated with the YFN gang.
“Friends of hers that were present say she was not actively involved in the argument at all which leads me to wonder why she was killed because it looked like it was a targeted killing,” he said. “I think someone was going after Young Thug in any way they can get to him.”
“It’s not just gangsters getting killed. Anyone close to them are at risk,” he stated.
Authorities have not commented on his theory. Jackson leaves behind a 14-year-old son with Young Thug.
Joining the likes of Jay-Z, Nas, and Snoop Dogg, LVitto officially jumps into the cryptocurrency-space by endorsing Aidi Finance‘s new crypto asset/utility ecosystem cleverly called the AidiVerse.
In celebration of the $Aidi coin and $VERSE token, the Durham disrupter releases the official music video for the company-centered theme song titled “#AIDIGANG.”
The drop also comes with accompanying artwork that doubles as a NFT and features a fully evolved version of the $Aidi Dog.
Directed by Drip Motion, the HD-clip finds the Family Bizness LLCCEO breaking down the blockchain-based system in front of a neon green BMW i8. Later on in the video, the NC native is seen joining some friends by a heated pool wearing Gucci slides and a matching headband, all in efforts to showcase what life could potentially be if you were to invest into Aidi.
Born and raised in “Bull City,” more commonly known as Durham, North Carolina, Carlos “LVitto” O’Briant has always had a passion for art and music. Known for his witty wordplay as well as his hard hitting punchlines, he began dropping mixtapes while in high school, and soon after established entertainment company Family Bizness LLC.
With his business in order, LVitto released his debut album ‘Black Frame.’ Including politically charged single “Banana Pudding,” the project attracted fans with a mixture of gut-checking lyrics over jazzy instrumentation that embodied the ‘Golden Era’ of Hip Hop.
Will Aidi be the next Shiba Inu? Only time will tell, in the meantime watch the visual for “#ADIGANG” below.
Recently, Timothy “Baby Cino” Starks, 20, was shot dead. Sadly, this devastating event transpires shortly following his released from jail. In fact, the dire incident occurred last Wednesday (March 16), this according to the Miami Herald.
Generally speaking, the Miami musician was working to share his waxed perspective. As a matter of fact, the Neighborhood Hope Dealer is synonymous with BC. Although, his catalogue is concise, his lyrics demonstrate his entrenched perspective.
However, life still happens. On that fateful day, the emerging entertainer actually received bond on an unrelated gun charge. Mere minutes before the shooting, he left the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in a red Nissan. While merging, onto the Palmetto Expressway, the vehicle in which he was riding was brazenly fired upon.
Regardless of the daylight hour, a shooter in another car carried out the tragic attack. Unfortunately, the young rapper succumbs to his fatal injuries. Moreover, local authorities believe that the assailant fired “at least 40 times,” reports the Miami Herald.
Fortunately, Dante’ Collins Banks — the young man who was driving — actually escaped Death’s grip. In the attack, he is shot, but is expected to make a full physical recovery. Of course, local authorities are alleging that the rising artist had gang ties.
Be that as it may, an unconfirmed source is blathering that Baby Cino is a “Boss Life” gang member. This organization hails from the Little Haiti area of Miami. In spite of everything, a tremendous amount of people are mourning his death.
So, as disheartening as it may seem, the late rhymer may still earn posthumous fame. At the top of the year, his song “Big Haiti Shottas” dropped. Ironically, this serves as a lyrical tribute to Gary “Melo” Laguerre. Sadly, Melo, too was murdered in a drive-by shooting.
Rapper Soulja Boy may have to change his name to Soulja Dad.
The Atlanta rapper, whom the world has known since he was a kid, is now about to have a Lil Soulja boy of his own.
The rapper shared the news with his fans during a gender reveal ceremony on Instagram. The white ball revealed that he and his girlfriend would be having a little son.
The caption read, “It’s a boy ‼️👶🏾🙏🏾🥺😝🥳”
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This will be the first child for Soulja Boy.
The “Crank That” chart-topper, whose real name is DeAndre Cortez Way, was overjoyed as the blue powder and confetti filled the air.
But nothing was warmer than when Soulja Boy grabbed the mother-to-be and hugged her tightly before snuggling with a little kiss in celebration of the good news.
There is not much information surrounding his child’s mother. TMZ revealed that her name is Jackie Martinez.
She is a celebrity hairstylist in Los Angeles, whose client list includes J-Lo, Kim Kardashian, Nicki Minaj, Brandy, French Montana, Cordae, Rich the Kidd, Ty Dolla $ign and more.
In a post on her own Instagram feed, Jackilyn expressed her excitement too.
“We are blessed with a baby boy,” she added. “Can’t wait to see you.”
However, fans were shocked that he seems to have settled down with one lady after years of linking him to big names in the industry like Rubi Rose, Rosa Acosta, and Teddy Riley’s daughter, Nia.
Nia Riley and Big Draco had an entire storyline around their love life on a few reality series, including Love and Hip Hop: Hollywood and Marriage Boot Camp.
Los Angeles, California hosted the 2022 Smokin Grooves on March 19. Hip Hop, R&B, and Jazz artists performed on two different stages for the 11-hour festival.
Queen of Neo-Soul Erykah Badu headlined the Smokin Grooves stage lineup. Nas, The Roots, Jhené Aiko, Miguel, The Internet, SiR, India.Arie, Musiq Soulchild, and other musicians also presented sets on the same stage.
Erykah Badu ran through some of her biggest hits like “On and On” and “Window Seat.” Hip Hop icon Nas rapped his classics like “Made You Look” and “NY State of Mind.”
The legendary Roots Crew executed tracks like “The Next Movement” and “Here I Come.” Jhené Aiko took the stage for the first time in three years. The R&B songstress performed live renditions of songs like “Tryna Smoke ”and “The Worst.”
The Jupiter Stage included performances by acts such as Flying Lotus, Talib Kweli, Dead Prez, Slum Village, Free Nationals, Blu & Exile, and more. Jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington closed out the night for the Jupiter crowd.
Smokin Grooves 2022 took place at the Los Angeles Historic Park. Beginning in 1996, Smokin Grooves became the first large-scale Hip Hop festival to travel across North America.
“Dream come true,” tweeted Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye on March 16. The Weeknd shared that positive reflection in response to the official The Simpsons account confirming the recording artist would make a cameo on the long-running show.
Sunday saw The Weeknd appear on the Fox animated sitcom as Slipreme skate brand owner Orion Hughes. The “Bart the Cool Kid” episode from season 33 features Orion becoming friends with Bart Simpson.
“Thank you, Matt!! Let’s make Orion Hughes and Bart’s friendship a re-occurring thing 😉,” read a quote-tweet from The Weeknd. The Sunday night post was a reply to The Simpsons executive producer Matt Selman.
The Weeknd is still best known for his musical output. He released Dawn FM on January 9. That studio LP followed his previous projects such as 2015’s Beauty Behind the Madness, 2016’s Starboy, and 2020’s After Hours.
Many television fans consider HBO’s The Sopranos one of the best TV shows of all time. Donald Glover believes his Emmy-winning dramedy Atlanta fits on that list right next to the celebrated 2000s-era crime drama.
In November 2020, Glover tweeted, “While I’m here: ‘Atlanta’ s3+s4 are going to be some of the best television ever made. Sopranos only ones who can touch us.” The rapper/actor deleted that Twitter post but he continues to stand by the sentiment.
Season three of Atlanta premiered at this year’s South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.Varietypublished some of Donald Glover’s quotes from the red-carpet event which included the former Community star doubling down on his Sopranos take.
“I talk my s### on the internet,” said Donald Glover. “I said Sopranos and s###. I’m not backing down from that s###. I’m holding my nuts out on that s###. I just want [audiences] to know this s### is good. It’s high-quality s###. I hope you can have cursing [in your story].”
The Atlanta cast features Donald Glover, Brian Tyree Henry, Lakeith Stanfield, and Zazie Beetz. Glover revealed Jaden Smith nearly appeared on one show but the fellow rapper/actor was too busy at the time.
Back in 2018, Glover disclosed that Tiny Toon Adventures inspired season 2 of Atlanta. Apparently, the Grammy-winning recording artist, also known as Childish Gambino, drew inspiration from folklore for the latest batch of Atlanta episodes.
“We just wanted to make a black fairytale,” stated Donald Glover. “I remember sitting in the writers’ room and being like, ‘What do we write about?’ We just wanted to do short stories. Something I would want to watch.”
It appears Kanye West will not perform at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards in Las Vegas on April 3. According to reports, The Recording Academy pulled Ye from the event due to his “concerning online behavior.”
“I said counsel Kanye not cancel Kanye,” tweeted Trevor Noah on Sunday, seemingly in response to the rumors he backed the removal of Kanye West from the upcoming Grammy broadcast. Noah’s Twitter post garnered over 5,000 retweets and more than 52,000 likes.
For several weeks, Kanye West used his social media accounts to antagonize his estranged wife Kim Kardashian, her current boyfriend Pete Davidson, and others. Trevor Noah was among the public figures to comment on West’s actions.
The Daily Show host spoke about the Kanye West/Kim Kardashian/Pete Davidson controversy on his late-night comedy program. Noah accused West of harassing Kardashian.
Kanye West earned five nominations for this year’s Grammys. The 44-year-old billionaire’s Donda project from 2021 is up for Album Of The Year and Best Rap Album. “Jail” scored a Best Rap Song nomination. “Hurricane” made it into the Best Melodic Rap Performance category.
Lil Durk presently has the most popular album in America. The Chicago-raised rap star’s 7220 opened at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart this week.
7220 brought in 120,500 first-week equivalent album units. That haul was enough to end the eight-consecutive-week run of the Encanto soundtrack. The Disney movie has spent nine total weeks in the top spot before slipping to #3 on the chart.
In addition, 7220 becomes Lil Durk’s first solo #1 on the Billboard 200. He previously led the tally with the joint project, The Voice of the Heroes, with Atlanta’s Lil Baby.
7220 is Lil Durk’s fifth Top 5 entry. He made it into that region in the past with 2019’s Love Songs 4 the Streets2, 2020’s Just Cause Y’all Waited 2, 2020’s The Voice, and 2021’s The Voice of the Heroes.
The 120,500 opening week numbers for 7220 are the third most for 2022 behind Gunna’s DS4Ever (150,300 units) and The Weeknd’s Dawn FM (148,000 units). Durk’s seventh studio LP amassed around 164 million on-demand streams which equal 117,500 units.
Elsewhere on the latest Billboard 200, The Weeknd’s The Highlights compilation remained at #6. Gunna’s DS4Ever dipped to #8. Drake’s Certified Lover Boy held onto #9. Doja Cat’s Planet Her rounds out the Top 10 at #10.
Growing up in North Conway, NH, Henny Hermes always dreamed of creating his own music. He lived in a musical household which is ultimately where he got introduced to music. His parents were constantly playing Green Day and Train around the house, and his uncle was a popular guitarist in Sweden.
When he was 14 years old Henny Hermes pooled together the money, he had saved from working summer jobs and bought himself musical equipment. He became infatuated with the process of creating music and would study how to properly produce and write a song. Henny Hermes fell in love with how music gave him an outlet to express himself.
Henny Hermes creates music that is inspiring and extremely upbeat. He channels the energy from artists he grew up listening to like The Beatles, Coldplay, Usher, and Eminem in order to create his own unique sound. When listening to his music Henny Hermes intends for his fans “to take away whatever the message is. All of my songs have a different message, and if at least a few people can truly connect with that message, I am happy.” Recently, Henny Hermes signed a record deal with Knxwn Sounds.
Knxwn Sounds will be giving Henny Hermes the platform and resources necessary to help him create himself into a global sensation. Henny Hermes has deep impactful music that will help many people out in their lives. His music is filled with life lessons he is noticed his journey in life that has the potential to help anybody out who is currently struggling.2022 is going to be a massive year for this young artist.
He has been working overtime with his producers Angel and TC in order to release a plethora of new music for his fans. Currently, Henny Hermes has a multitude of projects released on Spotify to check out while he gears up to release his next project. Also make sure to check out his Instagram for announcements regarding his next body of work.
From behind the bandana swept carefully under his signature L.A. cap, $atori Zoom is shrouded in the mystery and intrigue that comes with an artist on a rapid rise. As you peel back the layers on the West Coast hitmaker, it becomes apparent that you have unearthed a hidden gem treasured by his cult-like following. His viral knockout “BUSTER” encapsulates the hypnotic allure of $atori’s core-shaking beats and unapologetic lyricism.While this ethos serves as the foundation of his work, he hardly confines his imagination to a singular style.
By approaching his art from a state of catharsis, his sound becomes as colorful as his daily range of emotions. While music began as a hobby for $atori in 2017, it escalated into his life’s calling in just two short years. A steady output of gripping singles eventually gave way to his 2022 full-length ATTICA!When it came to choosing his creative alias, he took a page from Kurt Cobain by extending his reach to Buddhist teachings.
In the Japanese tradition, “satori” is synonymous with awakening — a philosophical state he strives to continuously share. When asked about what he has in store for the future, $atori’s answer is humble in its simplicity.”My only plans are to help affect as many lives as possible,” he explains. “I want to leave a lasting impact on the youth [by] reminding them that they are so much more important in this world than think.”
Great music, regardless of its genre, era, or artist, has one unifying and universal factor that transcends language barriers, cultures, and generations to speak to something in our very souls. And that elusive and magical factor is pure, unbridled emotion.
From Beethoven to The Beatles, from Elvis to Eminem, and from Muddy Waters to Madonna, the willingness to put it all on the line in a song and expose your deepest, most innermost self to the world touches a chord with us all and is a sound indicator of true talent.
The need for every artist, at some point in their career, is to channel their emotions in order to upgrade their talent and become a world-beating force. This is something that young musical sensation Calvin Spiethfel has been busy tapping into and feels incredibly passionate about.
“Growing up, I always found in music an escape from reality because it offered me an alternative universe where I could be myself and experience my true emotions without censure or criticism,” stated Calvin Spiethfel.
He continued, “Music gave me an intense, rewarding, and meaningful inner life. It also made me feel that I could achieve and do anything. In short, it gave me wings. There was no doubt in my mind it was what I wanted to dedicate every ounce of my being to, and I also wanted to be able to express my emotions in a way I knew that only the most talented could.”
Calvin Spiethfel has been a versatile musician from an early age. He is equally at home on the violin as the piano and a variety of other instruments. As his recorded output to date will testify, he has all the technical ability in the world. But what Calvin Spiethfel, like all true artists, craves is the emotional authenticity to make the whole world take notice. He explained, “Anyone can knock out a novelty tune that’ll make them famous for 15 minutes.
However, I’m not interested in being a gimmick. I want to create something that’ll stand the test of time and mean something for generations to come. Channeling your innermost emotions to create music has a habit of making you a better artist. Yet, more importantly, if I can create something that connects with others the same way music once connected with me and set me upon the path I’m on, then I’d consider that my greatest homage to my art.”
More life and blessings to this young musical artist. We hope he finds great success in his career as a musician.
During the conversation, Cudi revealed that the first scary movie he watched with his 11-year-old daughter Vada was 2017’s “It.”
“I said, ‘Okay, I think you’re old enough to watch something.’ I think It came out at that time,” he said, causing members of the audience to gasp.
While Kid Cudi monitored Vada’s reaction to “Pennywise the Dancing Clown,” he was amazed by her perspective.
“She’s just like, ‘Why they following that clown?’ I love sitting with her,” he said. “She has these commentaries during the movies, and she says the realest stuff. It’s like, ‘I feel you, kid.'”
“X,” starring Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega, and Martin Henderson, hit cinemas on Friday (March 18th).
In related news, director Ti West revealed he secretly shot a prequel to “X.”
The filmmaker revealed the prequel when he shared a teaser of the project during “X’s” premiere at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival. “X” follows an amateur filmmaking team shooting a p### movie in rural Texas, before they’re interrupted by a murderous elderly couple who live on the land.
The prequel, titled “Pearl,” tells the backstory of the elderly woman.
West explained to IndieWire that he decided to shoot both films back-to-back while the cast and crew were already on set in New Zealand.
“I came out of quarantine, and I was like, ‘We’re already building all of this stuff, it’s COVID, and we’re on the one place on Earth where it’s safe to make a movie. We have the whole crew from ‘Avatar 2’ who’s on break. We should make two movies,'” he shared. “The miracle of ‘A24’ was that they thought this was actually a good idea.”
He added that ‘Pearl’ will feel like a very different movie to ‘X,’ saying, “They’re super different and very out-of-nowhere. You won’t need to see one to see the other but they do complement each other.”
West also revealed that he’s writing the third film in the franchise, which will explore another filmmaking era.
