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Megan Thee Stallion is arena status. The multi-time Grammy Award winner will embark on her first-ever headlining tour alongside Glorilla and will perform in some of the biggest arenas across the United States.
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Tickets for Megan’s Hot Girl Summer Tour will be available today, starting with a Citi presale. City cardmembers will have access to presale U.S. tickets from 1 p.m. EST until Thursday (March 21) at 10 p.m. local time through the Citi Entertainment program.
The Hot Girl Summer Tour will visit 31 cities and major markets, including Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and the rapper’s hometown of Houston. Megan will also enjoy an international trek beginning July 4 in Glasgow, Scotland, with future shows in England, France, Germany, and Ireland.
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The “Savage” rapper announced the tour last week with a provocative teaser poster in which she was spotted lounging on her stomach in a pool in a skimpy thong bikini, an image so hot that it was reportedly flagged by Instagram for being too sexy for public consumption. “Nooooo it’s just a lil cheek lol,” Megan reportedly commented on the news.
Megan is enjoying a strong 2024, which included hoisting a Hot 100 No. 1 single with “Hiss.” She will look to continue her fiery run with an upcoming album slated for later this year. She previewed new music last year with 41’s Kyle Richh.
As for Glorilla, she’s having a fruitful campaign this year, as well after the rise of her single “Yeah Glo!” This week, the CMG upstart visited the White House and met President Joe Biden at a Women’s History Month Reception. The meet-up with Biden comes after Glo met Pittsburg Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin late last year. Following that exchange, she received a co-sign from LeBron James for “Yeah Glo!”.
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2024 HOT GIRL SUMMER WORLD TOUR DATES
May 14 – Minneapolis, MN – Target Center^
May 17 – Chicago, IL – United Center^
May 18 – Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena^
May 21 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden^
May 22 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center^
May 24 – Napa, CA – BottleRock Napa Valley Festival*
May 26 – Boston, MA – Boston Calling Festival*
May 28 – Baltimore, MD – CFG Bank Arena^
May 30 – Memphis, TN – FedEx Forum^
Jun 1 – Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena^
Jun 4 – Raleigh, NC – PNC Arena^
June 6 – Hollywood, FL – Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino^
Jun 8 – Tampa, FL – Amalie Arena^
Jun 10 – New Orleans, LA – Smoothie King Center^
Jun 11 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center^
Jun 13 – Austin, TX – Moody Center^
Jun 14 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center^
Jun 16 – Manchester, TN – Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival*
Jun 17 – Denver, CO – Ball Arena^
Jun 19 – Phoenix, AZ – Footprint Center^
Jun 21 – Los Angeles, CA – Crypto.com Arena^
Jun 22 – Las Vegas, NV – MGM Grand Garden Arena^
Jul 4 – Glasgow, UK – OVO Hydro
Jul 5 – Manchester, UK – Co-op Live
Jul 7 – Paris, FR – Zenith
Jul 10 – Amsterdam, NL – Ziggo Dome
Jul 11 – Cologne, DE – Lanxess Arena
Jul 14 – Dublin, IE – 3Arena
Jul 16 – Birmingham, UK – Utilita Arena
Jul 17 – London, UK – The O2
Jul 27 – Washington DC – Broccoli City Festival*
^With Support From GloRilla
This year’s Hot 97 Summer Jam festival will feature headline sets from Doja Cat, Offset and Sexyy Red. The full lineup for the June 2 show at UBS Arena in Belmont Park, NY was revealed on Tuesday (March 19) and it will also include sets from old friends Method Man & Redman, as well as […]
After getting his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame earlier in the day, Dr. Dre, 59, visited Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday night (March 19) to talk legacy and drop a little news about his upcoming projects. The legendary producer was joined on the couch by longtime proteges Snoop Dogg and 50 Cent, and while the fourth leg of his gold-plated hip-hop table, Eminem, may not have been in the studio, he still managed to grab the headlines.
“Let me tell you something, let me explain something to you right now: Eminem is working on his own album which is coming out this year,” Dre said to cheers from the studio audience during his first late night appearance in 30 years. “And I actually talked to him and he said it okay for me to make that announcement right here on this show. So he has an album coming out, I’ve got songs on it and it’s fire. I’m actually gonna hear the entire album for the first time for tomorrow.”
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Slim Shady’s as-yet-untitled 12th studio album will be the follow up to 2020’s Music to Be Murdered By, which surprise dropped in January of that year and featured guest spots from Ed Sheeran, Juice WRLD, Q-Tip, Anderson .Paak and many more.
While he didn’t offer any additional information on what fans can expect from the reclusive MC, Dre said even he doesn’t always know what Eminem has in store, since he “holds his music close to his chest so I haven’t heard everything. I haven’t even heard everything complete that I’ve done, but I’m gonna hear it, and he’s putting out an album this year.” Dre said while he’s always very “hands on” with his music, he confessed that “there’s things that I have to mix that I’ve done, but I get the chance to hear the album in its entirety.”
The three-segment hang began with Dre talking about the honor of getting his Walk of Fame star and telling Kimmel that while he’s open to working with artists from any genre — revealing “I love Dolly Parton!” and that “Jolene” is one of his favorite songs — he prefers to stay in his beloved hip-hop lane. “Absolutely I could do that [work with Parton], but hip-hop is my love,” Dre said.
He was soon joined by longtime friend and collaborator Snoop Dogg, with the old pals discussing their work on Dre’s iconic 1992 The Chronic album and Dre revealing that he’s “never” found an artist from being handed a demo tape, except for Snoop and Eminem. While Dre and Snoop got into a playful argument about how they came up with the Chronic album title — which included Dre describing his first time smoking weed — the pair also said they’re almost done with Snoop’s upcoming Missionary album, the sequel to the only other full-length LP Dre has produced for the Doggfather since working on Snoop’s 1993 debut, Doggystyle. Snoop said that Dre is slated to start mixing Missionary in “mid-April.”
The long hang ended with 50 Cent dropping by to talk about Dre working on his debut, Get Rich or Die Tryin’, and to joke about how unpleasant it was to hang upside down for his iconic appearance during the 2002 Super Bowl halftime show. “I was like 30 pounds heavier at that point, I was not ready for that,” 50 laughed, noting he’d gained a bunch of weight for a TV role and “really didn’t think that out.” 50 also doubled-down on his earlier announcement that he’s practicing celibacy this year, saying he’s two months into his vow of abstinence and things are going great so far.
“I’m focused right now,” 50 said. “My life is better, things are a little clearer… I’m trying to make it to Lent.” For the record, Dre and Snoop do not believe 50 is holding his fire.
Watch Dre, Snoop and 50 on Kimmel below.
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Cardi B has dished out plenty of assists in her decorated career, but her upcoming collaboration holds an extra special meaning to her. The Bronx native will check another item off her bucket list when she teams up with Shakira for a collab later this month. Cardi detailed how she ended up hopping on a […]
SZA, Tyler, The Creator, blink-182, The Killers, Future X Metro Boomin will headline this summer’s Lollapalooza festival in Chicago. The August 1-4 throwdown in the Windy City will also feature headline sets from Hozier, Stray Kids, Melanie Martinez and Skrillex among the 170 bands that will perform on eight stages over four days.
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Among the other acts on the lineup announced on Tuesday (March 19) are: Deftones, Tate McRae, Laufey with the Chicago Philharmonic, Reneé Rapp, Lizzy McAlpine, Zedd, Fisher, Zeds Dead, Dominic Fike, Labrinth, Pierce the Veil, Victoria Monét, Sexyy Red, Teddy Swims, Faye Webster, Benson Boone, Jungle, Two Door Cinema Club, Killer Mike, Ive, Vince Staples, Kesha, Galantis, Kevin Abstract, Ethel Cain, Chappell Roan, Megan Mornoey, Teezo Touchdown and many more.
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Fans can sign up now for the 2024 presale, which will kick off on Thursday (March 21) from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET; the presale is the only way to guarantee the lowest price on 4-day general admission, GA+, VIP and Platinum tickets. Ticket prices will increase at 1 p.m ET when the public onsale begins; click here for ticketing information. One-day tickets and the lineup-by-day rundown will be available at a later date.
This year will mark Skrillex’s first show in a decade and K-pop boyband Stray Kids will be making their Lolla Chicago debut.
Last summer’s event featured headlining sets from Billie Eilish, Lana Del Rey, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kendrick Lamar, Odesza, Karol G, TOMORROW X TOGETHER and The 1975. The four-day extravaganza that sets up in Grant Park in downtown Chicago draws more than 400,000 fans to the massive party near Lake Michigan.
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Megan Thee Stallion definitely made some waves with the poster announcing the dates for her upcoming 2024 Hot Girl Summer tour. The poster for the outing featured a magazine cover-like image of the rapper laying on her stomach in a shallow pool while wearing a silver thong bikini.
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According to HipHopDX, the provocative image got flagged by Instagram, which reportedly suggested the pic was a bit too sexy for public consumption. “HOTTIESSS GET READY TO COME HAVE SOME FUN WITH ME AT THEE HOT GIRL SUMMER TOUR,” read the caption on the original post, which urged hotties to get their “outfits ready nowww!”
In a subsequent Insta Story, Meg posted a screenshot of a warning she reportedly got from Instagram informing her that the cheeky shot may have run afoul of the social media company’s guidelines, which could lead to limits on her account.
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“Nooooo it’s just a lil cheek lol,” Megan reportedly commented. At press time a spokesperson for Instagram could not be reached for comment.
At the time, Meg only announced the cities on the tour, with the venues and final dates slated for reveal on Wednesday (March 20). What we do know for now is that the tour is slated to kick off in Minneapolis and hit Chicago, Detroit, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Memphis, Atlanta, Raleigh, Hollywood and Tampa, FL, New Orleans, Dallas, Austin, Houston, Denver, Phoenix, Los Angeles and Las Vegas before hopping overseas for a run of European shows.
Meg’s tour will come on the heels of her scoring her first solo No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Hiss” in February. “Hiss” is still hanging around the chart, where it sits at No. 94 this week. Though at press time there was no announcement, fans have been hoping that the MC could drop a new album before hitting the road, which would mark her first LP since 2022’s Traumazine.
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A first Thursday night (March 14) show spotlighting a special Vultures performance by ¥$ (Ye + Ty Dolla $ign), plus North West making her debut festival performance, were among the highlights and surprises for fans attending 2024 Rolling Loud California. Holding court for an unprecedented four nights (March 14-17) at Inglewood, Calif.’s Hollywood Park, the annual festival’s stacked deck of headliners also included Nicki Minaj, Post Malone and Future x Metro Boomin.Just as buzzworthy, however, were the additional acts rounding out Rolling Loud’s three full days of programming. Among them: Bryson Tiller, Sexyy Red, Summer Walker, Flo Milli, PartyNextDoor, Don Toliver and Big Sean, as well as Los Angeles rap legends YG and Tyga in a joint performance.
The first Rolling Loud event of 2024 also presented a wide-ranging collection of merchandise inspired by L.A. sports teams, street art, racing culture, anime, skateboarding and more. Curated by Rolling Loud’s director of merchandise Ray Guilbauilt and primarily designed by Prism Works Group, the merch offerings also included collaborations with YG, marking the rapper’s 10th anniversary of his classic album My Krazy Life; Chief Keef’s Glo Gang; a Rolling Loud co-branded belt by BB Simon; and the fest’s continued partnership with Forever 21 for the popular merch activation Bunny’s Bae Bar.
Those unable to attend in person could tune in each day to Rolling Loud’s livestream on its YouTube channel. Presented by Sprite, the fest’s official livestream was hosted by Jazzy of Jazzy’s World (with whom 10-year-old North West, aka Miss Westie, did her first on-camera interview about her forthcoming debut album Elementary School Dropout), Tallie Spencer, Speedy Morman, Bootleg Kev and Hakeem Rowe, among other personalities.
Approaching its 10th anniversary in 2025, Rolling Loud — co-founded by Matt Zingler and Tariq Cherif — is heading next to Europe this summer (July 5-7, 2024, near Vienna, Austria), coming back Stateside for Rolling Loud Miami (July 19-21) and then returning to Asia with Rolling Loud Thailand (Nov. 22-24).
Below, check out the photo gallery of memorable moments from Rolling Loud California.
North West
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North West performs onstage during the “Vultures 1” playback concert during Rolling Loud 2024 the at Hollywood Park Grounds on March 14, 2024 in Inglewood, Calif.
Nicki Minaj
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Nicki Minaj at Rolling Loud 2024.
Post Malone
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Post Malone performs onstage during day 2 of The Rolling Loud Festival at Hollywood Park Grounds on March 16, 2024 in Inglewood, Calif.
Sexyy Red
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Sexyy Red perform onstage during the Rolling Loud Festival at Hollywood Park Grounds on March 15, 2024 in Inglewood, Calif.
PARTYNEXTDOOR
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PARTYNEXTDOOR at Rolling Loud 2024.
Flo Milli
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Flo Milli performs onstage during day 2 of The Rolling Loud Festival at Hollywood Park Grounds on March 16, 2024 in Inglewood, Calif.
Summer Walker
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Summer Walker at Rolling Loud 2024.
Future and Metro Boomin
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Future and Metro Boomin at Rolling Loud 2024.
Ye
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Ye performs onstage during the “Vultures 1” playback concert during Rolling Loud 2024 the at Hollywood Park Grounds on March 14, 2024 in Inglewood, Calif.
NLE Choppa
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NLE Choppa at Rolling Loud 2024.
Don Toliver
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Don Toliver at Rolling Loud 2024.
TYGA
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TYGA at Rolling Loud 2024.
YG
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YG at Rolling Loud 2024.
Travis Scott & Don Toliver
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Travis Scott and Don Toliver perform onstage during day 3 of Rolling Loud at Hollywood Park Grounds on March 17, 2024 in Inglewood, Calif.
Ty Dolla $ign
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Ty Dolla $ign performs onstage during day 3 of Rolling Loud at Hollywood Park Grounds on March 17, 2024 in Inglewood, Calif.
RAE SREMMURD
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RAE SREMMURD at Roilling Loud 2024.
Sexyy Red & Chief Keef
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Sexyy Red and Chief Keef at Rolling Loud 2024.
A triad of star-studded events dominated the worlds of hip-hop and R&B over the past week — the 55th NAACP Image Awards, Rolling Loud California and the final weekend of SXSW. At the NAACP Image Awards — which was hosted by Grammy-winning Kennedy Center honoree Queen Latifah — Chris Brown dominated with three wins, including two trophies for “Sensational,” his hit collaboration with Davido and Lojay. Victoria Monét followed with two wins — outstanding album for Jaguar II and best new artist — while Usher took home outstanding male artist, entertainer of the year and the President’s Award. Of course, The Color Purple movie musical cleaned up with a staggering 12 wins, including outstanding motion picture, outstanding soundtrack/compilation album and four individual acting awards.
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Outside of the awards circuit, hip-hop and R&B had impressive showings at both of March’s marquee music festivals. At SXSW (March 14), PARTYNETDOOR launched his new single “Real Woman,” the first taste from his forthcoming LP, PartyNexxtDoor4, whose release date (April 26) he revealed during his headlining performance at Billboard’s annual THE STAGE at SXSW concert series. A few states over in California, Nicki Minaj turned Inglewood into Gag City, Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign performed some Vultures cuts without actually performing at all and Metro Boomin and Future previewed some exciting new tracks from their two forthcoming joint albums.
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With Fresh Picks, Billboard aims to highlight some of the best and most interesting new sounds across R&B and hip-hop — from Sexyy Red‘s latest head-banging anthem to Maxo Kream‘s reflective tribute to his late father. Be sure to check out this week’s Fresh Picks in our Spotify playlist below.
Freshest Find: Rapsody, “Stand Tall”
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As she continues to gear up for the release of her forthcoming fourth studio album, Please Don’t Cry, Rapsody is taking some time to address those who are obsessed with the details of her personal life. “Judgment’s on me, they wondering if I’m a ‘Eat the c—chie’ fan/ All because I choose to style in sneakers and some baggy pants/ Used to make me aggy, wanna black out like the Aggie fans,” she spits over a contemplative Eric G-helmed production that’s delicately tempered with twinkling piano keys.
The hat trick of “Stand Tall,” however, is that Rap isn’t giving the messiest people among us the satisfaction of seeing her dedicate an entire song to their speculation. Instead, she flips the script and uses “Stand Tall” to recenter the conversation around the sanctity of family, learning to live with anxiety and a cheeky reminder to read up on the architects of Black political thought. “Navigating through this business, tryna find some decency/ But you only wonder if I eat c—chie or like some d—k in me/ Y’all need to read Dick Gregory, b—tches,” she rhymes before launching into a chorus that has the charming quality of a letter postscript.
Sexyy Red, “Get It Sexyy”
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For most of 2024 so far, Sexyy has been laying low. Outside of a few shows, she’s been enjoying time with her new baby and the continued success of her smash SZA-assisted Drake collab “Rich Baby Daddy.” With “Get It Sexyy,” Sexxy Red SZN is officially in full effect: Over a characteristically rapturous head-knocking beat — courtesy of go-to collaborator Tay Keith and Jake Fridkis — Sexyy delivers a familiar barrage of irresistible catchy couplets (“Booty shorts, c—chie swole/ Thong all up my booty hole”), hilarious background ad-libs (“I’m his favorite hoe!”) and an ingenious interpolation of the “Little Sally Walker” nursery rhyme — “Little miss Sexyy walkin’ down the street/ I don’t know what to do ’cause the n—as after me/ I’m so f—kin’ sexy, yeah, my skin is bustin’ it/ Diamonds hittin’ hard, n—as wanna drive my tank.”
Maxo Kream, “No Then You a Hoe”
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“No Then You a Hoe” is yet another strong addition to Maxo’s recent stream of standalone singles, but it’s also using that position to mask it being a loving tribute to his late father. “Papa Maxo was a soldier and through me forever livin’,” he proclaims in the song’s final line, but not before a pair of harrowing verses that recount the cyclical nature of the dynamic between family and mortality. Across an incredibly sparse Nascent-produced beat, Maxo spits, “Got a call the other day big brother diagnosed with Lupus / He told me he might die soon, I told him, ‘B—ch, you stupid’/ Cause real gangsters live forever.” Maxo’s delivery is caked in grief, the kind that bubbles under the surface while the person it resides in tries their best to hold themselves together. Equal parts reflective and healing, “No Then You a Hoe” is a home run for Maxo.
MaKenzie & TA Thomas, “Maybe”
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For her first official release under Warner Records, MaKenzie taps TA Thomas for a rousing duet that embodies the hallmarks of ’90s and ’00s R&B vocal collaborations without feeling trapped in a corny pastiche of those eras. “Why can’t you look at me in my eyes?/ Believe me, swear that I’m never gon’ make you cry/ Lately, you keepin’ me up at night/ Runnin’, runnin’ through my mind,” they croon harmoniously in the second verse. Their joint affinity for dizzying descending riffs pairs well with the Rob Knox- and Darryl Pearson-crafted beat, which incorporate warped strings and subtle, grounding percussion.
Elmiene, “Crystal Tears”
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Marking his first new single of 2024, Elmiene’s “Crystal Tears” is a winning collaboration with Grammy-winning R&B savant D’Mile. “I apologize for leaving, and I know that/ If I curse my ways/ Won’t mean you might stay,” he croons in his trademark honeyed tone. The British R&B breakout artist’s voice sounds right at home over D’Mile’s sultry guitar-centric arrangement; he dips into his delicate falsetto to convey the most painful parts of his introspection before bringing in his immersive background harmonies to pair with the introduction of twinkling synths and earthy drums. “My dreams are dragged on/ Dеspite of my home/ I might be alonе,” he sings.
Chief Keef & Mike WiLL Made-It Feat. 2 Chainz, “PULL UP GHOST-CLAN”
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The Trap-A-Holics tags pack Chief Keef and Mike WiLL Made-It’s Dirty Nachos with a dose of 2000s mixtape nostalgia that’s lacking in today’s rap landscape. Sosa pours up and slithers in for a syrupy verse on standout track “PULL-UP GHOST-CLAN” before adding a lean PSA for listeners. “N—as drinking brown lean, actin’ like a sipper/ Be careful, ’cause that s–t will probably f–king kill you,” he contests. 2 Chainz invades the party as the perfect guest star, utilizing elementary rhymes that just wouldn’t work if they were spit by just about any other rapper outside of the Drench God. “Don’t try to compare, I’m in a whole ‘nother category/ Everybody know, my flow is nastier than a lavatory/ I’m straight out the laboratory,” he boasts. Dirty Nachos sets the stage for what should be a banner year for both Mike Will and Sosa.
Don Toliver, “Deep in the Water”
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Building off the success of “Bandit,” Don Toliver delivered the woozy “Deep in the Water” in the middle of the week to stand out from the clutter of New Music Friday. The Cactus Jack artist dives headfirst into an emotional kaleidoscope on “Deep in the Water,” which finds him getting candid about his intimacy with girlfriend Kali Uchis as he attempts to curb the vices throwing hurdles into their relationship. “You said you wanna take control of me but I got all the answers/ You want me done with the strip club, you know I’m done with them dancers,” he croons. An accompanying blue-tinted music video gives fans a first glimpse at Toliver in dad mode; Uchis gave birth to the couple’s first child – a baby boy – earlier this year.
North West was interviewed about her debut album, Elementary School Dropout, at Rolling Loud 2024.
North is the 10-year-old daughter of Ye — formerly known as Kanye West — and Kim Kardashian. Ye took the stage on opening night (Thursday, Mar. 14) of the festival at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, Calif., with North and friends joining him at one point during the set.
In a clip shared by Rolling Loud on Instagram on Saturday, North is seen spending a few minutes with young reporter Jazlyn, aka Jazzy, the 13-year-old behind Jazzys World TV.
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The interview was short and sweet.
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First, North was asked how she was doing, to which she politely replied, “Good, how are you?”
The next question posed was about Elementary School Dropout — specifically, how the young artist feels about releasing an album, and what people should expect from it.
“It’s gonna be great,” North said.
When will Elementary School Dropout be released? Well, that’s apparently still up in the air.
“Like… I don’t know,” said North.
And when asked whether the project would have any collaborations with Ye, North continued to keep things cryptic: “Maybe! We don’t know yet!”
“Thank you Ms. @kimkardashian for helping out,” Jazzy captioned the video. In another post, she shared photos with both North and Kim.
North announced her album during a Vultures listening party in Phoenix on March 10, joining her dad on stage for “Talking,” the Vultures track on which she’s featured. “Talking” debuted at No. 30 on the Hot 100 with 12.33 million official U.S. streams in its first week of tracking; the Hot 100 entry made her one of the youngest artists to ever appear on the chart.
“I’ve been working on an album,” she shared with the crowd. “And it’s called Elementary School Dropout.”
Elementary School Dropout is an homage to her father’s 2004 album The College Dropout.
Watch North’s brief interview from Rolling Loud below.
Dr. Dre opened up about his 2021 brain aneurysm during his recent visit to SiriusXM’s The Life of Mine With James Corden, saying that he had multiple strokes while in the hospital.
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“It’s just something that you can’t control that just happens and during those two weeks,” Dre said to Corden on Thursday (March 14) while speaking of his hospitalization, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “I had three strokes.”
Dre recalled going to the hospital after he woke up with a feeling behind his right ear that turned into “the worst pain.”
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“I got up and I went on about my day, and I thought that I could just lay down and take a nap,” he said. “My son had a female friend that was there and was like, ‘No, we need to take you to the hospital.’ So they took me to urgent care.”
He continued, “Next thing you know, I’m blacking out. I’m in and out of consciousness, and I ended up in the ICU. I was there for two weeks. I’m hearing the doctors coming in and saying, ‘You don’t know how lucky you are.’”
The music mogul received treatment at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He thanked his medical team for providing “excellent care” in a statement in 2021.
Although Dre asked doctors what he could’ve done to prevent the aneurysm, “nobody could give me an answer,” he said. “I had no idea that I had high blood pressure or anything like that because I’m on my health s—. I’m lifting weights, I’m running, I’m doing everything I can to keep myself healthy.”
“High blood pressure in Black men, that’s just what it is. They call it the silent killer. You just have no idea, so you know, you have to keep your s— checked,” said Dre.
Dre said his experience “definitely makes you appreciate being alive, that’s for sure.”
The full The Life of Mine With James Corden episode with Dr. Dre is available on SiriusXM. As previously reported, Dre also chatted about Eminem, calling him “the best emcee ever. Point blank, period. Of course, there are going to be arguments about that because he’s a white guy. I don’t think anyone that’s rapping can touch Eminem on that microphone.”
