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Latto headlined Syracuse University’s Block Party 2025 over the weekend, and she got around to posting some pictures from her time on the central New York campus on Tuesday (April 29). While she’ll always be Big Mama, Latto went by Big Daddy in Syracuse as she rocked a throwback ‘fit that went diamond in the […]
Did you know Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal were hip-hop heads?
As the two actors promote their film The Accountant 2, they sat down with Complex for their “GOAT Talk” series and the topic of Rap Mount Rushmore came up, with Ben offering up some interesting picks.
“I think Lil Wayne should be on there,” he said. “You were talking about Eazy-E today. We were talking about back when we were young. I mean, you know, a lot of talk about, ‘Well, Slick Rick.’ And then of course, there’s Kendrick right now.’”
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Ben seemed to feel put on the spot and was throwing out names off the dome, but when Jon asked him to confirm, the Armageddon actor answered, “Yeah, I mean, I kinda at random, but, yeah I’d take that Mount Rushmore. I’d take that,” before also bringing up Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg.
Bernthal essentially agreed with Ben’s picks, but replaced Slick Rick and Lil Wayne with the Notorious B.I.G. and 2Pac while also acknowledging that he liked the idea of Affleck putting Weezy on his.
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“I mean, I think you need Biggie on there. You need 2Pac on there,” The Punisher actor said. “But I’ll put Eazy on there and Kendrick, but I love that you put Lil Wayne on there.”
Ben then said that ‘Pac is probably his pick for greatest rapper ever before telling a funny story of his son asking him if he ever heard arguably the greatest diss song of all-time. “My son played me this song the other day,” he joked. “And he’s like, ‘Yo, you heard this?’ And he played me “Hit Em Up.” And I was like, ‘Have I heard this? Mothe—-er, I had a whole f—in’ life that I lived before you were born.’”
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YK Osiris says he hasn’t dropped any new music out of fear of “humiliation.” In a livestream with Lil Rodney Son on Monday (April 28), YK Osiris opened up about why he hasn’t dropped anything new, and said he’s scared of embarrassment. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and […]
Nelly shared his thoughts on President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office before stepping on stage for his Stagecoach performance. In a quick interview with Fox News Digital prior to his Stagecoach set on April 26, Nelly called himself a “glass half-full type of guy” when speaking on Trump’s first 100 days back in […]
On the heels of delivering Kush + Orange Juice 2, Wiz Khalifa is hitting the road. Wiz and Sean Paul announced the Good Vibes Only Tour on Tuesday (April 29), which will feature DaBaby as a special guest performer. The 15-date amphitheater run will go through North America this summer, kicking off on July 6 […]
So, who invented “rage” rap? Trippie Redd has an idea.
“The inventors of the rage sound is me, [XXXtentacion], Carti and Uzi,” he said in an Instagram Stories video posted April 27. “We paved the way. We popularized it. I’m not gonna let you old a– n—s say you invented something that you ain’t invent. N—s need to take they pills, man. You n—s be psychotic, like, out of they f—king mind. Your old a– ain’t invent sh—t.”
“That’s exactly why I ain’t pull up on his old a– ‘cause he always just wanna put a n—a beneath him and s—t. You ain’t really for black people. You ain’t really for your people, n—a. You be using n—as and you lost right now.”
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Trippie then added a message for younger artists to be careful who they chose to collaborate with.
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“Artists coming up — keep a hold of y’all craft, man,” the Ohio rapper warned. “Don’t give y’all s—t out to these old n—as ’cause they just wanna get around you, find out your sound, use you, and then dump you, n—a. They won’t f—k with you ever again. All these n—as cutthroat.”
And while he didn’t mention any names, Trippie may be referring to Ye’s April 26 comments during an interview with Sneako, claiming that he invented the style with his 2013 album Yeezus, and more specifically with the song “Blood on the Leaves.”
“I invented ‘rage,’ bro. ‘Blood on the Leaves,’ Ye claimed. “I invented this whole ‘rage’ sound … Yeezus is that energy. ‘N—as in Paris’ is the first time n—as was moshin’. We got Black people moshin’, that was some white boy s—t.”
Some fans on social media have credited Kid Cudi as the rapper to introduce that specific sound and point to his Man on the Moon series of albums and the fact that he often referred to himself as “Mr. Rager.”
Yung Miami is clapping back at speculation she’s in pursuit of NFL draftee Shedeur Sanders. On Sunday (April 27), the former City Girls rapper responded to someone on X who implied she was “making it sooo obvious” that she romantically wants Sanders. “Y’all b—hes don’t know what ‘supporting your ppl’ look like!!!!” she wrote in […]
SZA crowns both the latest Billboard 200 albums chart and the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart dated May 3. While it’s customary for star acts to lead both lists simultaneously, SZA does so differently than the way that the feat is usually achieved.
As previously reported, SZA’s album SOS rebounds for a 13th week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Concurrently, Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “Luther,” from Lamar’s album GNX – not SOS – logs a milestone 10th week at No. 1 on the Hot 100.
Since the beginning of the 2020s, only three acts have led the charts simultaneously but with a Hot 100-topping song not from the album at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The two prior to SZA: GNX headed up the Billboard 200 as Lamar’s stand-alone single “Not Like Us” led the Hot 100 for a week in February and Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) was No. 1 on the Billboard 200 as the then-four-year-old “Cruel Summer” ruled the Hot 100 for a week in November 2023.
Comparatively, in a hefty 50 weeks this decade, and continuing coordination common since the ‘60s, acts have doubled up atop the Billboard 200 and Hot 100 with albums and songs from those sets. Most recently, Lamar did so twice via GNX: the LP was No. 1 on the Billboard 200 as “Luther” (March 15) and “Squabble Up” (Dec. 7, 2024) topped the Hot 100. Leading the way since 2020, Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time and its smash “Last Night” spent 11 weeks atop the Billboard 200 and Hot 100 side-by-side. (The set and song reigned for 19 and 16 total weeks, respectively.)
Prior to SZA, Lamar and Swift earning such commands, no act had scored such a divergent double-up since August 1997, when Diddy (then Puff Daddy) was No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with No Way Out (with The Family) while being featured with Mase on The Notorious B.I.G.’s Hot 100 leader “Mo Money Mo Problems.” Among artists in lead roles, none had earned the honor before SZA, Lamar and Swift since 1975, when, for two weeks that January, Elton John’s Greatest Hits led the Billboard 200 as his cover of The Beatles’ “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,” not on the collection, topped the Hot 100.
The recent relative uptick in the feat suggests that songs’ success can be less tied to album campaigns than in the past. In the case of the acts above, the reign of “Luther” aligns with the recent reissue of SOS; “Not Like Us” was re-diss-covered after Lamar performed it at the Super Bowl LIX halftime show and it won five Grammy Awards, all within an eight-day span in early February; and “Cruel Summer” was revived from Swift’s 2019 album Lover, partly from fan fervor as she performed it early in the run of her The Eras Tour.
Meanwhile, in a digital era, artists can more easily release single tracks than before, while the likes of TikTok and media synchs can more randomly spark popularity for songs not on albums that acts are simultaneously promoting.
Further tying Lamar and SZA together, GNX is No. 2 on the Billboard 200, while the stars kicked off their co-headlining Grand National Tour April 19.
When Wiz Khalifa‘s seminal mixtape Kush and Orange Juice dropped in 2009, the Pittsburgh staple brought a new sound and lifestyle that forever shifted the hip-hop landscape.
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“The mode I was in — tapped in with the fans, being on the road, buying Jordans, wearing Chucks, wearing camo shorts every day,” recalls Khalifa a decade-and-a-half later to Billboard. “[I] was literally smoking Kush and drinking orange juice, [and] putting the world onto a whole lifestyle that we were living.”
Earlier this month, Khalifa kept the Kush and Orange Juice legacy alive when he released the sequel to his magnum opus. He enlisted familiar faces such as Taylor Gang affiliates Ty Dolla $ign, Juicy J and Chevy Woods while linking up with new characters including LaRussell, Don Toliver and Larry June, making this 23-track ride memorable. The album’s standout tracks, such as the swagger-filled “Pimps n Hustlers” and the Curren$y-featured “Jet Taylor,” showcase the same gusto that made Kush and Orange Juice a classic.
“I wasn’t nervous at all,” Khalifa confidently states when facing the arduous task of following up his 2009 classic. “It was something that I felt I could challenge myself to do. And I would also know if it was it or wasn’t it. There were a couple of times during the process where I would get to maybe I’m done, maybe I figured it out, and I did, but the fans would always let me know what direction to shift it. When I finally got to the end of it, I was 100% confident. So, it wasn’t scary. It was fun trying to figure it out.”
Wiz Khalifa, the spry MC who emerged as the cornerstone of stoner rap in the early 2010s, has transcended past being a caliber MC from the Blog Era. He has become a Billboard Hot 100 contender, courtesy of his rap bona fides. His journey from songs such as “Black & Yellow,” “We Dem Boyz” and “Work Hard, Play Hard” to the melancholic anthem “See You Again” placed him in the venerable territory, hitting Diamond status and accruing 12 weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100, is a testament to his evolution. This growth, from his stoner rap roots to becoming a Hot 100 contender, is something that his fans can take pride in. Despite these milestones, Khalifa’s love for hip-hop runs deep in his blood, as proven by his latest freestyles over J. Cole’s “Clouds” and Kendrick Lamar’s “Squabble Up.”
“I did it strategically,” says Khalifa, revealing a key aspect of his creative process. “I started working on the album and removed myself from social media for a bit. It was about four months, and I didn’t scroll or digest anything. It was on purpose because I had to find myself and figure out what I was going to do regardless of what was going on around me.”
Watch Khalifa’s full Billboard News In Conversation interview above, during which he spoke about his love for Snoop Dogg, linking up with J. Cole and more.
Wiz Khalifa just dropped Kush & Orange Juice 2 on April 18, and the rapper shares why he chose to make a follow-up album to the original Kush & Orange Juice. He discusses performing at Coachella, working with J. Cole and Gunna, what fans can expect from his tour, his thoughts on being compared to Snoop Dogg, not realizing Blacc Hollywood went No. 1, his role in the legalization of marijuana in New York and more!
What do you think of Kush & Orange Juice 2? Let us know in the comments below!
Carl Lamarre:Yo, yo. What’s going on y’all? I am Billboard deputy director of R&B/hip-hop, Mr. Carl Lamarre. Today for Billboard In Conversation, we got the man, the myth, the legend — Mr. Kush & OJ, Wiz Khalifa.
Wiz Khalifa:What’s up, brother?
Khalifa, man, you know, we’re gonna talk everything from the new album, Kush & OJ, the world tour, if you still got that gym regimen going, still f–king up them weights.
Mhm.
Say less we might my do a bet, a little weight competition.
Push ups. Do functional push-ups.
I would say you lost me to functional push-ups. I don’t know what the s–t is. What’s a functional push-up?
It’s like a three way, like you do scap, you do scap half, and then you do scap full.
You see you throwing words out there I never heard of before, bro.
Like, we gonna stick to this.
It’s some ROTP s–t you hit me with right there, but no real talk. Man, congratulations. This is the 15th anniversary of Kush & Orange Juice, man. Tell me some of your fondest memories making that classic.
Really just like the mode that I was in, like tapped in with the fans being on the road, buying Jordans, wearing chucks, wearing camo shorts every day, literally, like smoking kush and drinking orange juice and just, you know, putting the world onto a whole lifestyle that we were living.
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