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13 Aug 2024

Juvenile & Mannie Fresh Show Some Love to Eminem for Sampling Their Song ‘Ha’

During an appearance on Hot 97 with DJ Drewski, Juvenile and Mannie Fresh talked about Eminem sampling their classic track “Ha” on his song “Road Rage” featuring Dem Jointz & Sly Pyper from his latest album The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce.)

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“Shout out to Eminem. He just took ‘Ha,’” Juvenile said after being asked how he felt about artists sampling his records. “We can’t do nothing with these songs sitting down, right? We can’t make no money with these songs just sitting down. So, I applaud the artists — especially the artists that are real good at it that got talent. Hey, man, go take a sample. I am not trippin’. I’m not one of those cats and I love the new artists, I’m not hatin’ on none of them.”

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Drewski then asked Mannie if he still had to give his permission for acts to use songs he’s produced. “Yeah, those records still gotta be cleared through me because they was my records and I think it’s the biggest homage anybody can pay to you when it’s a credible artist,” he answered. “When somebody like Eminem uses your song or when Jay jumped on ‘Ha,’ that’s like, ‘Wow.’ It’s incredible because if you’re sitting down in a barber shop and we talking, you can stick your chest out and be like, ‘But did Eminem ever rap on any of your beats? Did Jay ever rap on any of your beats?’”

Juvenile also discussed his relationship with Eminem and how he found out the song was being used by him: “Em is my dude because when my career started, Em was one of them guys that kinda like reached out. He showed us love in the beginning, so he’s my guy,” he revealed. “But I didn’t expect that. We knew it was coming out but I didn’t hear it.”

The subject of a Hot Boys reunion was also broached and Big Juvie remains optimistic. “We’ve had conversations about it. Will it really happen? I’m hopeful,” he said. “We just all gotta be on the same page and we can’t be on the Internet going at each other’s throats. That’s gotta stop.”

Watch a clip from the interview below.

13 Aug 2024

Who Could Be the Video Vanguard Recipient at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards? Our Eight Best Guesses

The recipient of the MTV lifetime achievement award is expected to be announced later this week.

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Outside of perhaps only video of the year, no award at the MTV Video Music Awards is more revered — nor its announcement more anticipated — than the Video Vanguard.

The lifetime achievement award, which dates back to the first-ever VMAs in 1984 and has been given out annually since (with occasional gaps, most recently for the pandemic-stricken first two years of the 2020s), is given to reward “outstanding contributions” and “profound impact” on music videos and popular culture. It’s named after Michael Jackson, arguably the most outstanding artist in music video history, and has been handed out over the decades to video luminaries ranging from David Bowie and The Rolling Stones to Beyoncé and Missy Elliott. Most recently, the Video Vanguard has been awarded to rap icon Nicki Minaj (2022) and global pop superstar Shakira (2023).

Who will be the 2024 recipient? While MTV has already revealed the nominations for most of the competitive categories in this year’s VMAs, they have not yet divulged the Video Vanguard honoree — though the announcement is expected to come some time this week. Before that, we at Billboard decided to take a crack at predicting the award’s recipient this year. We started with some of the biggest and most legendary artists yet to receive the award, and filtered our list through factors like contemporary relevance, promotional considerations and the simple likelihood of the artist being willing to show up to deliver a speech and career-spanning medley performance, as has been customary of honorees for most of the past decade.

Here are our eight best guesses for this year’s Video Vanguard recipient, ranked (roughly) from least to most likely.

13 Aug 2024

NCT 127 Talk New Album & Song ‘Walk,’ Possible Tour Plans, More | Billboard News

NCT 127 stopped by the studio to share more about their sixth studio album, and the lead single from the album, “Walk,” along with the choreography and new energy that this album brings in addition to their growth. They talked about their favorite songs from the new album, their first performance at KCON in seven years, hinted at possible tour plans, and more!

So I’m happy to have you guys back. You got a new album out, new song, all titled “Walk.” So let’s talk about the song first, and how great it’s been to see the fans react in such a big way. 

It’s our sixth album, our sixth full-length album, and I think our fans are really, really liking it like we are. It’s been a while since we made a comeback in the summer, think the choreography really enhanced the charms of the song as well, seeing us perform “Walk,” and just hearing the song walk both ways, it’s really it’s bringing some good responses from the fans. So thank you very, very much.

Yeah, I mean, I was talking to some fans at KCON, and I asked them, like, if you could listen to one, NCT 127, song, what would it be? They said, “Walk.” They’re so excited about it. 

The energy was crazy. 

And tell me a little bit about the music video and creating it. You said, the choreography. I mean, you guys keep topping yourselves. So talk about filming the music video and what that process was like?

We usually have like individual scenes where we, like all have our own role. But this time it was like more with a, like a crew kind of vibe. So we mostly filmed it like all together, like everyone was on one screen throughout the whole music video. So it was like the new part of this one. 

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13 Aug 2024

Rihanna Shows Off Baby Riot Rose’s Crawling Skills in Adorable Fenty Video

Rihanna‘s youngest son Riot Rose crawled his way onto the superstar’s Instagram feed recently.

In a video posted on Sunday (Aug. 11), the one-year-old speedily crawls across the floor, pushing a miniature Target shopping cart in an adorable cameo during one of her Fenty promo posts. Rih is known for dressing Riot and 2-year-old RZA — her first-born son with partner A$AP Rocky — in trendy outfits. In this case, the baby boy’s diaper peeks out of a chic grey sweatsuit.

The “We Found Love” singer also shared a photo of her posing next to the cart filled with travel-size versions of her Fenty Beauty products. “more minis are on the way to @ultabeauty in @target,” she captioned the post.

The adorable announcement comes about a week after Rih attended the Crop Over Festival in her home country of Barbados, stunning the crowd in a bedazzled carnival outfit complete with multi-color feathered wings. Before that, she watched Manchester City’s match against AC Milan at Yankee Stadium and met star players Christian Pulisic, Jack Grealish and Yunus Musah. While there, one young fan snubbed her by asking her to take a photo of him with the soccer pros, seemingly not recognizing the billionaire nine-time Grammy winner right in front of him.

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As some fans joked after a video of the interaction went viral, the fact that Rih hasn’t released an album in eight years could very well be the reason certain kids don’t know who she is anymore. The mogul herself previously addressed the matter in a hilarious message to GloRilla, a screenshot of which the “TGIF” rapper posted on Instagram in July: “I know dis wild hypothetical, but when the album drop?”

To date, Rihanna has been coy about a release date or vibe for her untitled ninth album, the follow-up to 2016 album Anti. In June, after fans got scared by a T-shirt she sported reading “I’m Retired,” the singer promised fans, “I’m not retired. I just like that dress. I got it as a gift and I loved it. They didn’t read the second line, I’m not retired, I’m just retired from dressing up — it’s a lot of effort.” She also noted at the time that she’s “starting over” when it comes to her music.

“But I don’t want to neglect the songs that I have, so I actually want to go back and listen to stuff with new ears, with my new perspective and then see what applies and what I’m still in love with,” she said.

Watch Riot Rose crawl like a champ below.

13 Aug 2024

R&B/Hip-Hop Fresh Picks of the Week: Lexa Gates, Real Boston Richey & Leon Bridges

Nobody drew higher approval ratings than Snoop Dogg in his employee of the month campaign as a correspondent for NBC at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

The Doggfather put a bow on his Olympic debut in Paris this weekend when hitting the stage at the Closing Ceremony where he performed Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit “Drop It Like It’s Hot” and brought out his former Death Row Records running mate Dr. Dre as a special guest for “The Next Episode.”

H.E.R. sang the National Anthem at the ceremony, which served as the first transfer of power as the United States gears up to switch the scene to Los Angeles for 2028. Billie Eilish and Red Hot Chili Peppers also performed.

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Elsewhere in the hip-hop world, Ye’s No. 1 album streak came to an end when Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department held atop the Billboard 200, with West and Ty Dolla $ign’s Vultures 2 album debuting at No. 2 on the chart with 107,000 total album units moved in its first week.

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Meanwhile, Latto delivered her Sugar Honey Iced Tea album on Friday (Aug. 9), which is loaded with 17 tracks and star-studded features to go along with some more apparent shots at rival Ice Spice on the project closer. And August isn’t going to slow down for the rap world, with albums still on the way from Big Sean and A$AP Rocky later this month.

With Fresh Picks, Billboard aims to highlight some of the best and most interesting new sounds across R&B and hip-hop — from Monaleo and Rob49’s tequila-fueled block party to Real Boston Richey and GloRilla’s raunchy strip club anthem. Be sure to check out this week’s Fresh Picks in our Spotify playlist below.

Freshest Find: Lexa Gates, “Provider”

On the heels of the evocative “I Just Can’t Be Alone,” Lexa Gates returns a month later with her soulful “Provider” single. While the wins stack up in her ascension, the Queens rapper-singer candidly expresses the pressure that comes with being the family bread-winner. “I’m a provider/ Pay my mama rent, pay my sister phone bill,” she divulges. “Heat, gym, and electric plus the Wi-Fi.” A teaser for the track caught SZA’s eye, who lent her stamp of approval to Lexa: “Ionno what’s going on but yes to her,” the intrigued superstar singer captioned a repost of the clip to her Instagram Story. Gates will hit the stage for a one-off concert in Los Angeles this week. 

Monaleo & Rob49, “Don Who Leo (Añejo Remix)”

Monaleo turns the Texas heat up a couple notche,s with Rob 49 torching the new Añejo Remix for her viral hit “Don Who Leo.” The 23-year-old throws a block party for the visual, which doubles as a commercial for the semi-titular premium tequila company Don Julio. Monaleo’s boisterous chorus remains the same which somehow welds 2Pac, Yu-Gi-Oh! and Judge Judy into consecutive bars. 49 flies in from New Orleans to match her freak with a steamy assist. “Ain’t gon’ lie, that p—y extra bald, look like 2Pac owned it,” he quips. The liquor-friendly video remained inside the top 30 of YouTube’s trending section all weekend. 

Real Boston Richey feat. GloRilla, “Get in There”

For artists looking for a hit record, there’s no better call to make right now than heading to Memphis and banging GloRilla’s line. Real Boston Richey hopes to make it two-for-two on the charts after “Help Me” made the Freebandz rapper’s Billboard Hot 100 debut earlier in 2024. Richey throws on his Cartier shades and lets any girl dealing with him know they gotta treat him like a king. Big Glo takes the baton to continue her hot streak while riding the gloomy production and keeping things raunchy, but still maintaining a street edge. “I be ready to get down on one knee, a n—a make me squirt,” she admits in candid fashion. It’s only right the duo made it rain dollar bills in the famed Magic City strip club for the music video. 

Lynda Dawn, “Where You Are”

Blending the worlds of soul, jazz and funk, R&B singer Lynda Dawn has opened a new portal to her artistry. The North West London native launches into a groovy era with the arrival of her luscious “Where You Are” single, where Dawn teams up with producer and co-writer Al Dobson Jr. to capture the essence of a sun-kissed summer afternoon stroll in Hyde Park alongside her soulmate. “If I lived a thousand lives, I’d never find no better,” Dawn coos. “Where You Are” will land on Lynda Dawn’s forthcoming 11th Hour EP slated to arrive on Sept. 27.

Leon Bridges, “Peaceful Place”

While much of Leon Bridge’s upcoming Leon album was recorded in Nashville, the Grammy-nominated singer packs a punch of nostalgia taking it back to Bridges’ Forth Worth roots. As evidenced by the cover art featuring Bridges hanging lakeside in the open fields, the 35-year-old is in a “Peaceful Place.” A delectable guitar riff meshes with Bridges’ honeyed vocals for a serene lead single heading into the eponymous project, which is set to land via Columbia Records on Oct. 4.

Skylar Blatt, “Hold Me Down”

Skylar Blatt is always cool, calm and collected. No matter the tempo of a track, the Cincinnati-bred artist remains in control of the steering wheel. Blatt follows up her Chris Brown-assisted “Wake Up” with the contemplative “Hold Me Down,” which finds her in cruise control while dishing out a hypnotic chorus about the power of the dollar. “You know they say that money make the world go ’round/ You know that I be up until you holding me down,” she sings.

13 Aug 2024

Charli XCX & Billie Eilish’s ‘Guess’ Blasts to No. 1 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs Chart

Charli XCX’s “Guess,” featuring Billie Eilish, soars to No. 1, from No. 16, on Billboard’s Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart (dated Aug. 17).

The song surged by 758% to 20.4 million official streams and 515% to 5,000 downloads sold in the United States Aug. 2-8, according to Luminate. It also drew 182,000 in radio audience.

“Guess” gains following the Aug. 1 arrival of its remix with Eilish, which accounted for the bulk of the song’s overall consumption in the tracking week. The cut was first released by Charli XCX solo on June 10 on her Brat and It’s the Same but There’s Three More Songs So It’s Not deluxe version of her Atlantic Records album Brat, which was originally released on June 7.

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Charli notches her second No. 1 since Hot Dance/Electronic Songs began in January 2013, after Icona Pop’s “I Love It,” on which she’s featured, led for two weeks that May. Eilish reigns with her first entry on the chart.

“Guess” concurrently debuts at No. 3 on the Billboard Global 200 and No. 5 on Billboard Global Excl. U.S. On the U.S.-based, all-genre multimetric Billboard Hot 100, it opens at No. 12, marking Charli XCX’s highest rank (and first top 40 placement) since she arrived with three consecutive top 10s in 2013-14: “I Love It” (No. 7 peak, May 2013); Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy” (No. 1 for seven weeks, beginning in June 2014); and “Boom Clap” (No. 8, October 2014).

Meanwhile, Charli’s presence on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs extends beyond “Guess,” as she boasts six songs in the top 10. Only Drake and Rihanna have each logged as many or more top 10s simultaneously, led by Drake’s eight on the July 2, 2022, chart, when his LP Honestly, Nevermind launched its 20-week run at No. 1 on Top Dance/Electronic Albums.

Brat rules Top Dance/Electronic Albums for a ninth week, having led in each week on the survey since its debut. It earned 56,000 equivalent album units, up 39%, and wins the list’s Greatest Gainer award for a third consecutive week.

Eight tracks from Brat have hit the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs top 10 to date. Here’s a recap, ranked by their peak positions:

  • No. 1 (one week to date), “Guess,” feat. Billie Eilish
  • No. 2, “360”
  • No. 3, “Girl, So Confusing,” with Lorde
  • No. 4, “Apple”
  • No. 5, “Talk Talk”
  • No. 7, “Von Dutch”
  • No. 8, “365”
  • No. 10, “Sympathy Is a Knife”

Also notably, Charli has claimed at least one of the Greatest Gainer ribbons on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs in nine of the last 10 weeks, spread among five tracks from Brat: 

  • Aug. 17: “Guess,” streaming & sales; “360,” airplay
  • Aug. 10: “Guess,” streaming & sales; “360,” airplay
  • Aug. 3: “Apple,” streaming & sales
  • July 27: “Apple,” streaming
  • July 13: “360,” airplay
  • July 6: “Girl, So Confusing,” streaming & sales
  • June 29: “Guess,” streaming
  • June 22: “360,” streaming; “Von Dutch,” sales
  • June 15: “360,” streaming & sales

As “Guess” takes the week’s top headlines among Brat songs, “360” continues its climb as the set’s promoted radio single. It bounds 35-27 in its second week on the Pop Airplay chart. Charli has tallied two No. 1s on the ranking: “Fancy” and “Boom Clap” led for three weeks each in 2014.

13 Aug 2024

X Reacts To Delayed & Meandering Spaces Chat With Donald Trump & Elon Musk

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Donald Trump sat down with Elon Musk for an exclusive chat on the X platform’s Spaces section in support of his presidential campaign. In the chat, Donald Trump appeared to display slurred speech with listeners on X reacting to the meandering conversation in kind.

Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk didn’t begin their planned conversation on Monday (August 12) as expected with well over 800,000 attendees having to wait 40 minutes before the conversation started. As some observers on X noted, this was not the first time Musk has been met with a technical glitch using the Spaces feature with a presidential candidate. Musk claimed that there was a cyberattack on his platform leading to the delay.

The environment was certainly friendly to Donald Trump with Elon Musk asking safe questions that allowed the candidate to freely riff as he’s known to do without facing much in the way of pushback. Trump, displaying a familiar campaign talking point of being tough on immigration, promised at one point to enact the largest deportation in U.S. history. Trump is seizing on the fears of voters who have been sold an idea that illegal immigrants are funneling in drugs committing crime, and taking jobs from Americans.

Musk, a former critic of Trump, praised the business mogul at several intervals in the discussion. Trump also gushed over Musk supporting his reelection bid, saying that Musk’s “endorsement meant a lot.”

It was also a moment for Musk to cozy up further to Trump, suggesting at one point that a presidential commission is formed with a focus on government efficiency while boldly asking to be appointed to the commission. Trump seemed pleased by the idea.

Although his campaign heads are denying what others heard, there have been several replies on X noticing that the former president routinely slurred his speech. The same X users are noting that few major news outlets are pointing out the deficiencies in Trump’s speaking, an opposite position those outlets took when discussing President Joe Biden’s speech during the debate he held with Trump.

We did not hear the whole discussion in full as we only heard clips shared by users on X. However, what we did hear does confirm that Trump was struggling to speak clearly at points but the reasons are unknown to us.

Check out the reactions to Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s chat below,

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13 Aug 2024

Jack White’s ‘No Name’ Nabs Top 10 Debut on Album Sales Chart

Jack White scores his seventh solo top 10-charting set on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart as his latest release, No Name, debuts at No. 8 on the chart dated Aug. 17. The effort was initially secretly released on July 19 as a free, unlabeled vinyl to unsuspecting customers at Third Man Records stores in Detroit, Nashville and London. It was then commercially released on Thursday, Aug. 1 as a blue-colored vinyl LP, exclusive to independent record stores, and then widely as a digital download album on August 2.

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In the tracking week of Aug. 2-8 (all Billboard album charts reflect a Friday-Thursday tracking week), No Name sold 7,000 copies – with nearly 4,500 on vinyl. (In the week ending Aug. 1, the album sold about 1,000 copies – all on vinyl.)

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No Name will garner a wider release on Sept. 13 when a standard black vinyl and a CD are due out.

Also in the top 10 of the new Top Album Sales chart, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department returns to No. 1 for a seventh nonconsecutive week, Ye (formerly Kanye West) and Ty Dolla $ign’s Vultures 2 debuts at No. 2, Red Velvet’s Cosmic starts at No. 6, Orville Peck’s Stampede gallops in at No. 9 and X’s Smoke & Fiction launches at No. 10.

Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

The Tortured Poets Department jumps 6-1 on Top Album Sales with a 606% gain to 84,000 copies sold. The set’s sales were bolstered by a number of drivers during the tracking week. It was released in five new digital album variants via Swift’s official webstore for a limited time, each containing the standard album’s 16 songs, along with one exclusive bonus track for $4.99 each (one album contained a “first draft phone memo” version of “My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys,” while the other four contained one live track each from recent stops during her The Eras Tour). In addition, for a limited time, the store restocked three previously available digital album variants with exclusive bonus cuts, and a signed CD edition. Her store also staged a brief sale pricing promotion, whereby 16 previously available physical variants of the album were all discounted by 13% (as 13 is Swift’s favorite number).

At No. 2 on Top Album Sales, Ye and Ty Dolla $ign’s delayed Vultures 2 lands with 60,500 sold in its first week. The set’s opening-week sales were aided by its availability across a widely available standard explicit edition, and a late-in-the-week-released clean edition (on Aug. 8), but no physical formats. Vultures 2 was originally slated for release on March 8, but was released with little advance warning on Saturday, Aug. 3.

Ye’s official webstore also issued five additional explicit digital album variants of Vultures 2 on Wednesday (Aug. 7) and Thursday (Aug. 8), each containing the standard album’s 16 tracks, along with one exclusive studio bonus track per album. All digital albums on Ye’s webstore sold for $5 each. The Vultures 2 album, both clean and explicit, was also discounted to $4.99 in the iTunes Store in the tracking week.

Stray Kids’ ATE falls 1-3 on Top Album Sales in its third week after spending its first two weeks atop the chart. ATE sold a little more than 26,000 copies in the latest tracking frame (down 41%). ENHYPEN’s Romance: Untold is a non-mover at No. 4 with just over 12,000 sold (down 20%).

Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft climbs 11-5 with nearly 10,500 sold and a 35% increase – the set’s first weekly sales gain in its 12 weeks of release. (The gain is largely owed to sales generated by non-traditional retailers, inclusive of Internet-based sellers like Eilish’s official webstore.)

Red Velvet claims its first top 10-charting effort on Top Album Sales as Cosmic debuts at No. 6 with 8,500 sold – the group’s best sales week yet. The Korean pop ensemble previously got as high as No. 40 in 2020 with The Reve Festival: Finale. Cosmic was released as a digital download album, and through streaming services, on June 24. Its physical release, across five CDs, came on Aug. 2. The CD variants include collectible paper ephemera, including a photocard, sticker and a poster (some randomized).

Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess returns to the top 10 after three weeks, as the album bolts 17-7 with nearly 8,500 (up 34%). The album’s ascent comes after Roan’s rousing reception at Lollapalooza on Aug. 1.

Orville Peck notches his second top 10 on Top Album Sales as his new studio effort Stampede bows at No. 9 with 6,500 sold in its first week. The set’s sales were bolstered by its availability across eight vinyl variants, which collectively sold nearly 4,500 – enabling its debut at No. 4 on the Vinyl Albums chart.

Closing out the top 10 on the new Top Album Sales chart is X’s new studio album Smoke & Fiction, debuting at No. 10 with the veteran band’s best sales week in the modern era (since 1991, when Luminate began tracking sales), nearly 6,500 sold. It’s also the first top 10 for the act on the Top Album Sales chart. The new set is promoted as the final studio album from the band, which first dented a Billboard chart in 1981 when Wild Gift reached No. 165 in June of that year on the Billboard 200. Smoke & Fiction’s first-week sales were aided by the set’s availability across five vinyl variants, which collectively sold a little over 4,000 copies (enabling its debut at No. 6 on the Vinyl Albums chart).

13 Aug 2024

Dr. Dre Says Wants to Tryout for USA Archery Team at 2028 Olympics: ‘I Feel Like I Could Do Anything’

Dr. Dre wants to represent the USA when the Olympics come to Los Angeles in 2028 and he’s looking for a tryout on the archery team.

Speaking with Entertainment Tonight, Dre revealed his history with archery goes back to junior high school and he’s continued to hone his skills with target practice in his backyard.

“I’m trying to try out for the Olympics in 2028… Archery. I’m dead-a– serious,” he pleaded when the interviewer said she didn’t believe him. “I actually started playing around with archery in junior high. I stopped for a while and my son bought me a set-up I don’t know if it was for my birthday or father’s day or something like that, so I have it set-up in my backyard. And I heard qualifying for the Olympics is 77 feet and I practice at 90 [feet].”

Dre continued of the feat: “Yeah, wouldn’t that be interesting to go, especially with it being here in L.A. and win the gold medal… I feel like I could do anything.”

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With Snoop Dogg stealing the show at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, it’s only right Dr. Dre gets his shot in ’28 in his backyard. Dre and Snoop reunited on stage with a performance of “The Next Episode” as part of the Olympics’ Closing Ceremony on Sunday (Aug. 11) when Paris handed over the baton to LA28 to begin the hype train for the Games’ anticipated City of Angels threepeat.

However, Dr. Dre admitted he “doesn’t even feel comfortable performing without Snoop.” “I rarely do it,” he said of performing without Snoop Dogg. “I’ve done it with Kendrick and Eminem, and those are my brothers, but something about the synergy me and Snoop has is really interesting.”

Snoop and Dre are reuniting for their first album since the Long Beach icon’s Doggystyle debut. Dre confirmed that Missionary is in the mixing stages and is on track for a November release with either 14 or 16 tracks.

With breakdancing making its debut in Paris, Dr. Dre added that he believes the IOC needs to get back to the drawing board when it comes to breaking as a medal sport; the newest addition to the Olympics roster won’t be a competition at the 2028 Games. “I did not like that. It’s so many great breakdancers, I don’t know why they had this particular person doing that,” he said in seeming reference to Australian breaker Raygun, who became a global meme after her unintentionally laughable battle moves netted a total of zero points. “It was funny, I got some laughs out of it, but what the f–k? There are incredible breakdancers out right now — I don’t know how that happened.”

Watch the full interview below.



13 Aug 2024

Joe Jonas Says New Solo Album Is ‘Packed’ With Features: ‘I Wanted To Have Other Narratives and Other Voices’

Joe Jonas‘ next project is a solo album, but that doesn’t mean he worked on it by himself.

In a new clip from an interview with Entertainment Weekly posted Tuesday (Aug. 13), the 34-year-old musician confirmed Music For People Who Believe In Love is filled with collaborations. “We packed it with features,” Jonas said. “I was reaching out to a lot of different people because I felt like I wanted to have other narratives and other voices and a lot of duets.”

He added, “I felt like some of the songs lyrically needed somebody else’s voice. A lot of this album is speaking in third person or having a conversation with a fictional version of myself, or a fictional person in my life. Being able to have that [other] voice create that was really special.”

The Camp Rock star hasn’t released a solo album in over a decade. His 2011 effort Fastlife, which reached No. 15 on the Billboard 200, is the only other time he’s dropped an LP independent from the Jonas Brothers and his DNCE side project.

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In another recent interview, Jonas said he got approval from brothers Nick and Kevin before taking the leap. “I asked my brothers’ blessings,” he said on Jake Shane’s Therapuss. “I want to go do something on my own, and I don’t feel like it’s DNCE, and I need to go just express some stuff for myself. And they’re like, ‘Go for it.’ Nick booked a movie. Kevin was going to do another season of Claim To Fame, and so I had a window of time, and I locked myself away.”

According to Jonas, the upcoming album’s collaborators include Alexander 23, Muna’s Josette Maskin, Jason Evigan, Tommy English and Paris Carney. Lead single “Work it Out” arrived in July.

Music for People Who Believe in Love is slated for Oct. 18. Watch the interview clip below.