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We give you an exclusive look behind the scenes of Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Pop Out’ where he sang “Not Like Us” for the first time live, brought out Dr. Dre, Mustard, YG and more! Tetris Kelly: Kendrick Lamar took over LA’s Kia Forum on Juneteenth for the ‘Pop Out’ with epic surprise guests, and five performances […]
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In a show called “The Pop Out,” Kendrick Lamar did just that and Inglewood and the culture will forever be grateful.
Billboard caught all the action from the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, and breaks-out five of the highlights.
He’s What The “Culture Feelin’”Though the crowd was not in its entirety a Black one, the spirit of Juneteenth was a big part of the evening considering the historical relevance of the holiday. From the excited vendors leading up to the venue, to the smiles on everyone’s faces once they entered the building, the feeling was unity. People of all ages and backgrounds fought off a lot of ticket resellers for the chance to experience this day together and you could feel that energy. The choice to have this show on this day was undeniable. Mustard is One of L.A.’s Best Producers The producer behind the Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 “Not Like Us” is no stranger to Hip-Hop, but when his billing said “and Friends” it meant just that. The California crowd got to see just how prolific his career has been to this point. Ty Dolla $ign, Tyler the Creator, Roddy Ricch, YG, and more joined him on hit after hit to warm the crowd up for his biggest hit yet. Kendrick Reunited Black Hippy Throughout the night, Kendrick brought up day ones and this moment was definitely for those people. He reunited his rap supergroup that formed in 2008 and consisted of ScHoolboy Q, Ab-Soul, & Jay Rock. He Brought Out Dr. Dre As if the show hadn’t packed enough punch the Kia Forum almost lost its top as Dr. Dre appeared next to Kendrick and the recognizable cords of “Still D.R.E.” grabbed the attention of the audience. The rap legend knew exactly what the people wanted and then went into “California Love”. But before he could leave the stage Kendrick asked him a favor. Dre whisper “psssss….I see dead people” and the room exploded. He Performed “Not Like Us” Five Times If there was any doubt that Kendrick would shy away from his extensive beef with Drake, that evaporated as soon as he rose from the stage and started the lyrics of “Euphoria”. Now his set didn’t stray away from his hits like “DNA”, “King Kunta”, and “Humble.” And with the occasion being Juneteenth in many ways his performance of “Alright” hit the exact cultural note that people were waiting on “Not Like Us” to deliver. But after also swinging into “6:16 in LA” the crowd went feral when “Mustard on the Beat” was heard on the speakers and “Not Like Us” began. The audience hung on every word and even extended his iconic “a-minor” line acapella. But nobody expected him to repeat the song 5 times. He continued to bring it back and the energy never dipped. The song even played as he excited the stage and the instrumental served as the soundtrack for fans exiting the venue. Not sure anybody was questioning it at this point, but he does seem to really hate Drake. What was unexpected is that a song about who he refers to as a “colonizer” has turned into what is clearly the anthem of Juneteenth. As he ended the show he stated: “It ain’t got nothing to do with no back and forth records. It’s got everything to do with this moment right here. That’s what this shit was about. To bring all of us together.”
Mustard shares what it was like to work with Kendrick Lamar on “Not Like Us” and its cultural impact. Stay tuned for the full interview!
Mustard:
You see, people like Kendrick, you just like, man, I want to get a song with Kendrick. I had gotten to a place where I was just like, you know, what, I’m just gonna send five beats a day. He never responded until like 12 at night and was like, “This is fire.”
Tetris Kelly:
Wow!
Mustard:
I didn’t know what that– I mean, he I said that about a couple other beats, but I was just like OK, cool.
Tetris Kelly:
What do you think about the cultural impact as well? Because you know, obviously with the lyrics talking about colonizers and “they not like us,” the people singing at the club, at the barbecues. I mean, it’s everywhere.
Mustard:
I’m like, shocked myself, you know? When I look and I’m seeing this is just like — how big that song is. I don’t think I even understood how big it was until it was like No. 1 [on the Billboard Hot 100], and I was like, “This is the biggest song I’ve ever had in my life.” I was more just happy to have a song with Kendrick.
Tetris Kelly:
He just wanted the Kendrick track.
Mustard:
You come from California and you from here, like I’m born and raised in Los Angeles, Compton is right up the street, it’s not far.
Tetris Kelly:
And then let’s talk about like West Coast Legends, you and Kendrick, and Juneteenth? Like this show at The Forum, man that’s gonna be crazy.
Mustard:
It’s like in my backyard. This is gonna be a cakewalk. This is gonna be like one of them things, this feels like wow. Like finally, at the height of my career, at the height of, you know, this success with the song and you get to do it at the Staples Center and The Forum? It’s like in between Compton and Los Angeles is… I don’t even know how to describe it.
Feid secures his fifth top 10 on Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs chart as “Sorry 4 That Much” debuts at No. 4 on the June 22-dated chart. The new single becomes his first solo, unaccompanied by any other artist, top 10 entry on the tally, and fifth top 10 overall. His first top 10 came in March of 2023.
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“Sorry 4 That Much” was released June 7, the first day of the tracking week, via Universal Music Latino/UMLE. It starts at No. 4 on the multi-metric tally on the strength of streaming activity and radio airplay. The song registered 4.7 million official U.S. streams during the June 7-13 tracking week, according to Luminate. That sum yields a No. 5 start on the Latin Streaming Songs survey.
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On the radio front, “Sorry 4 That Much” logged 4.2 million audience impressions, enough for a top 20 launch on the overall Latin Airplay list, at No. 19. It snatches double honors as the Hot Shot debut of the week and the Greatest Gainer of the week. “Sorry” concurrently opens at No. 5 on Latin Rhythm Airplay.
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Streaming and radio activity surrounding “Sorry,” drives Feid to his first solo top 10 entry on Latin Airplay among five career top 10s. Here’s his collection of top 10 achievements:
Peak Position, Title, Artist, Peak DateNo. 10, “Hey Mor,” with Ozuna, March 4, 2023No. 6, “Yandel 150,” with Yandel, March 25, 2023No. 2, “Perro Negro,” with Bad Bunny, Nov. 4, 2023No. 7, “Luna,” with ATL Jacob, May 11No. 4, “Sorry 4 That Much,” June 22
“Sorry 4 That Much,” produced by Jowan, Wain and Rolo, joins another song by the 31-year-old Feid in the Hot Latin Songs’ top 10: “Luna,” with ATL Jacob, which rebounds to No. 9 after peaking at No. 7 on the May 11-dated tally.
On a global scale, “Sorry” arrives at No. 83 on the Billboard Global 200, for Feid’s 21st chart visit. Meanwhile, it percolates at No. 74 on the Global Excl. U.S. ranking.
Feid’s new accolade hits as the Colombian travels the U.S. for his ongoing FERXXOCALIPSIS World Tour which continues in full force, wrapping up the U.S. leg of the trek on July 8 at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, and his recent performance announcement at the 2024 CONMEBOL Copa América U.S. opening ceremony at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on June 20.
Kevin Costner has poured cold water all over those rumors of a romance with Jewel. The Yellowstone star stopped by SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show on Tuesday (June 18) to promote his new movie Horizon: An American Saga – and break his silence on that dating chatter.
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He’s not hooked up, not in in love right now. “Jewel and I are friends. We’ve never gone out,” he tells Stern. “She’s special, and I don’t want these rumors to ruin our friendship because that’s what we have.”The pair apparently bonded when they were hosted on Necker Island, Virgin Group founder Richard Branson’s private hideaway. “I got on a plane with nine people — Jewel was one of them,” he explains. “She was somebody I just had some tremendous conversations with.”
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The gossip columns took notice when the singer, 50, and actor, 69, appeared together at a tennis fundraiser last December in the British Virgin Islands. Later, in April, Elle magazine published an interview in which Jewel gave her own response on the two-time Oscar winner, declaring him “a great person,” adding, “the public fascination is intense for sure.” And that was all.
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Costner enjoyed a hot streak in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s as the lead in The Untouchables, No Way Out, Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, Dances With Wolves and The Bodyguard, in which he played the titular character alongside the late superstar artist Whitney Houston. Conversation moved on to Houston, who, by making her silver screen debut as Rachel Marron and landing a massive, global hit with the film’s soundtrack, become one of the biggest stars of them all. “It could have been Michelle Pfeiffer, it could have been Julia Roberts,” remarks Costner, “but when I looked at it, I thought, ‘No, it should be Whitney Houston’”. He recounts, “for me, it was so easy to go, ‘Well this is the most beautiful girl, this is the one who can sing … this is the girl.’”
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Houston, whose life and premature death in 2012 at the age of 48 is retold in the 2018 documentary Whitney, was initially out of her comfort zone in The Bodyguard.She “didn’t really know how to do [her character’s first] line and I said, ‘We have to find the acid in you … the kind of diva moment in you,’” Costner explains. “I said, ‘If you’re uncertain about things, Whitney, just look at me and tell me and we will drift off into the corner and I’ll make this right for you.’”It was Costner’s idea for Houston to kick off her cover of Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You” a cappella, he reckons. “If she’s going to sing a song, the way she can really show that she really loved me was she would do it without a single note and that would prove how brave she is,’” he claims. And in a bolt from the blue, Costner confirmed he had planned on making a sequel to The Bodyguard, with Princess Diana in a co-starring role. “She was very sweet,” Costner says of the late member of royalty, who died 1997, aged 36. “I never made that movie because I could not replace Princess Di,” he says. Was a kissing scene written into the script? “I wasn’t going to make the full romance about her,” he admits, “but there was going to be a moment.”
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Costner returns to the wild west for chapter one of Horizon, due out June 28, for which he stars and directs. Ahead of release, Costner dropped a different kind of project – “Mountainside Mocha Latte,” a coffee collaboration with Green Mountain Coffee Roasters.
El Fantasma tastes his first leader on Billboard’s Latin Airplay chart (dated June 22) with “Sabor a Michelada.” With the cumbia and banda-blended song, the singer-songwriter rules after logging 10 previous top 10s on the overall radio ranking.
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The single rallies 14-1 in its fifth week with 8.5 million audience impressions, up 71%, in the U.S. in the tracking week ending June 13, according to Luminate. KFLZ-FM San Antonio, Texas, leads all reporters to the chart, with over 430 plays of the song to date. Meanwhile, WOJO-FM Chicago had the most audience – 1.3 million – among chart reporters for the song in the tracking week.
Though “Sabor a Michelada” takes El Fantasma to his first Latin Airplay champ, the AfinArte-released track earns him a seventh ruler on Regional Mexican Airplay -and second this year- where the song climbs 6-1 with the Greatest Gainer honors, awarded weekly to the song with the largest surge in audience.
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Here’s a recap of El Fantasma’s collection on No. 1s on Regional Mexican Airplay dating back to his first in 2019:
Peak, Title, Artist, Weeks At No. 1June 1, 2019, “Encantadora,” fourAug. 14, 2021, “Soy Buen Amigo,” oneSept. 25, 2021, “Tus Desprecios,” with Pepe Aguilar, oneOct. 1, 2022, “Soldado Caído,” oneSept. 9, 2023, “La Vida Cara,” oneMarch 16, “El Exitoso,” oneJune 22, “Sabor A Michelada,” one
Thanks to “Michelada,” released March 15 through AfinArte, the indie label returns to No. 1 on Latin Airplay for the first time in almost a decade. Voz de Mando’s “Levantando Polvodera” was the label’s first and last leader, for one week in charge in Feb. 2019.
In addition to its Latin Airplay and Regional Mexican Airplay wins, “Michelada” debuts at No. 50 on the airplay-, streaming- and digital-blended Hot Latin Songs chart, for El Fantasma’s 22nd career entries there.
The new achievements land amidst E Fantasma’s Se Activó La Chavalada 2024 tour, which launched Feb. 17 in Texas and continues through Nov. 27 in Chicago.
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Natti Natasha Debuts on Tropical Airplay: Elsewhere on the Latin charts, Natti Natasha picks up her sixth top 10 on Tropical Airplay -and third as a soloist, unaccompanied by any other act-as “Quiéreme Menos” debuts at No. 5.
The Romeo Santos-produced bachata starts with 2.3 million audience impressions logged in the U.S. during the tracking period.
The song, a love letter for husband Ralphy Pina who was released from prison on May 24, concurrently earns the Dominican singer her 22nd top 10 on Latin Digital Song Sales, with a No. 7 debut.
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