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GloRilla knows the importance of proper tour prep. The “Yeah Glo!” MC posted a video on Saturday of the weight work she’s been putting in to get in shape for her upcoming opening slot on Megan Thee Stallion‘s Hot Girl Summer tour. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and […]
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Young Metro and Pluto connect for the first portion of their anticipated double-album.
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Drake leaves it all on the stage when he performs on his current Big As the What? tour. Actually, he leaves most of it on the stage, but when he goes back to his dressing room afterwards, he takes some of it with him. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, […]
After Future and Metro Boomin unleashed the first of their two collaborative albums, WE DON’T TRUST YOU, social media lit up on Friday (Mar. 22), courtesy of an explosive verse detonated by an elusive Kendrick Lamar. On the song “Like That,” Lamar throws several volleys, suggestively targeting Drake and J. Cole. Explore See latest videos, […]
Future and Metro Boomin finally dropped their long-awaited joint album We Don’t Trust You on Friday (March 22). We Don’t Trust You plays off Metro’s notorious “If Young Metro don’t trust you, I’m gon’ shoot you” producer tag that Future originally said in their 2015 track “Right Now” with Uncle Murda. Since then, the tag went […]
Call it the “braids and beads beef.” A sartorial scuffle erupted on Wednesday (March 20) after it appeared that Erykah Badu called out Beyoncé for borrowing her signature look for the cover of the upcoming Act II: Cowboy Carter album. Badu, long known for her intergalactic Afro-futuristic look, took the most subtle of shots at […]
We are definitely on the cusp of Post Malone‘s country pivot. The “Rockstar” rapper-turned-rocker/folk-singer has been teasing his move toward a twangier sound and on Wednesday (March 20) he posted a snippet of a new song that proves he’s ready to line dance to a new tune.
“Let’s go with the real mix this time @morganwallen,” Posty posted on Instagram of an untitled collaboration with chart-topping country singer Morgan Wallen after an unauthorized mix of the tune reportedly leaked out recently. In the accompanying 30-second video, Malone hangs by himself in a dark room while smoking a cig and swigging a beer as he vibes out to the bouncy country collab.
“It takes two to break a heart in two,” Wallen sings before Malone comes in with a soulful, “Baby you blame me, and baby I’ll blame you” over banjo and spare drum kicks on the mid-tempo tune. “I had some help, it ain’t like I can make this kind of mess all by myself,” the men sing together on the rousing chorus. “Don’t act like you ain’t help me pull that bottle off the shelf/ If you couldn’t tell they say teamwork makes the dream work/ Hell I had some help.”
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In the video Malone seems to be overjoyed at the sound of the track, smiling, shaking his head and slapping his leg as he blasts the song from his phone. Among the comments on the post was one from Malone’s label, Republic Records, which read, “We are so ready!!! [crying laughing emoji].”
Malone has been doing a long, slow tease of his country era, including a post last week featuring a brief snippet of a new collaboration with Luke Combs. Again with one of his ubiquitous smokes in hand, Malone energetically plays air drums and shakes his head as he sings along to a song that appears to be titled “Ain’t Got a Guy For That.”
Malone — who has long favored bedazzled Nudie-style Nashville suits alongside his avowed love of old school country singers like Hank Williams — has increasingly been leaning into his pedal steel proclivities. His forays include making his first Country Airplay chart appearance last year on a “duet” version of Joe Diffie’s “Pickup Man”, which debuted at No. 54 just after Malone teamed up with Wallen and HARDY to play the song at the 2023 CMA Awards; the track will appear on HARDY’s upcoming Hixtape Vol. 3: Difftape, due out on March 29.
He’s also recently posted covers of songs by Sturgill Simpson (“You Can Have the Crown“), paid tribute to late country icon Toby Keith, shared pics of him hanging with Combs in the studio and teased a snippet of a tear-in-yer-beer acoustic ballad called “Missing You Like This.”
At press time Malone — who can now be seen in the Jake Gyllenhaal Road House remake on Amazon Prime — had not officially announced a full country project and no additional information was available on the Wallen tune. He will, however, definitely appear on the upcoming Taylor Swift album The Tortured Poets Department (April 19) on the opening track, “Fortnight.”
Watch Malone jamming out to his Wallen collab below.
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!”.
Check out the tour dates below.
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*
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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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