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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.”
Vice President Kamala Harris and rapper Fat Joe led a White House discussion Friday (March 15) on easing marijuana penalties, with Harris saying it’s “absurd” that the federal government classifies marijuana as more dangerous than fentanyl, the synthetic opioid blamed for tens of thousands of deaths annually the United States.
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Harris, a former state prosecutor in California, also criticized the federal classification of cannabis as “patently unfair.” The government currently is reviewing how it classifies marijuana, and Harris urged that the process be wrapped up as quickly as possible.
Fat Joe, a Grammy-nominated artist and philanthropist whose real name is Joseph Cartagena, moderated a subsequent closed-door discussion that included Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear and individuals who received pardons for prior marijuana convictions.
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President Joe Biden has issued pardons to thousands of people for federal marijuana possession and commuted long sentences handed down for nonviolent drug offenses. In 2022, he urged governors to pardon state offenses. Beshear then invited people convicted of simple marijuana possession to apply for pardons in Kentucky. Biden launched the process to review how marijuana is classified in 2022.
A full seven in 10 U.S. adults favor legalizing marijuana, according to Gallup polling. Support for legalization is closer to eight in 10 among 18- to 34-year-olds, a demographic whose support for Biden, who is seeking reelection, has softened since he took office.
“I cannot emphasize enough that they need to get to it as quickly as possible and we need to have a resolution based on their findings and their assessment,” Harris said of the Departments of Health and Human Services and Justice, which are handling the review.
“But this issue is stark when one considers the fact that on the schedule currently marijuana is considered as dangerous as heroin,” she said during the public portion of the meeting. “Marijuana is considered as dangerous as heroin and more dangerous than fentanyl, which is absurd. Not to mention patently unfair.”
“So I’m sure DEA is working as quickly as possible and will continue to do so and we look forward to the product of their work,” the vice president said, referring to the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid blamed for tens of thousands of deaths annually in America.
U.S. regulators are studying reclassifying marijuana shifting it from a drug that has “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse,” known as “Schedule I,” to the less tightly regulated “Schedule III.”
Biden mentioned the marijuana classification review during his State of the Union address earlier this month. He said during a campaign appearance in Milwaukee this week that “no one should be jailed for marijuana.”
“If you’re just using, you should have that wiped off your record,” Biden said.
Cartagena opened the roundtable by saying he’s hot on the issue of price transparency in health care “but, today, when the vice president calls me, I stop everything.”
He got a little ahead of himself when he proceeded to dismiss journalists so the closed-door discussion could begin, prompting Harris to tell him to “hold on” because she had a statement to make, too.
Ye and Ty Dolla $ign sat down with Big Boy to talk all things Vultures for an exclusive interview. They touched on a variety of topics, ranging from the duos chemistry, Ye trying to convince Ty Dolla to make a “clean” album with no profanity, how their No. 1 song “Carnival” came about, and family. But the clip that stood out was the one in which Ye claimed he “invented every style of music of the past 20 years,” essentially saying he birthed the careers of The Weeknd, Drake, Future, and Young Thug.
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“I done invented every style of music of the past 20 years, I created this genre. I created Weeknd’s genre, Trav, Drake…I’m gonna go ‘head and say it, with all love, Future and Thug also, because of the autotune album if you think about it,” Ye said to Big Boy.”
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Ye speaks on inventing every style of music in the last 20 years.He names Drake, The Weeknd, Travis Scott, Future and Young Thug. pic.twitter.com/mcQwQwAEnl— Ye Updates (Fan Account) (@KanyeUpdated) March 15, 2024
Now, that is certainly an interesting take. Some may agree while others would be right to bring up T-Pain when it comes the question of who popularized autotune. We all know those two have a rocky history, so maybe it’s not all that surprising Ye would conveniently forget to mention the influential Florida artist.
It’s also interesting that Ye did not give Kid Cudi the credit many believe he deserves for ushering in a new style of melodic hip-hop. After all, it’s well known that Cudi heavily influenced Ye’s 2008 album 808s & Heartbreak. That’s the “autotune album” he’s referring to in the interview. It’s also the album many believe paved the way for an artist like Drake to flourish.
Elsewhere in the interview, Ye explained that the reason he decided to go on this album run with Ty is due to the fact that Ty stood by him when “a million people told him to not stand beside me.” He also compared the singer/songwriter to another longtime collaborator, producer Mike Dean, saying, “you can give him something, even just like a murmur or something, and he could bring it back with the words; he can fix all the notes on it; he can bring the drums, the music.”
Also interesting is the origin of the Vultures duo. Ty said the idea for the group and the album originated when the two met up in a studio while in Japan. He asked Ye if he would executive produce his next album and Ye agreed. The first song they made after that was the Band of Thieves-sampling “Burn” which lead them to say “f**k it, let’s just do a whole [album]!”
Released on February 10 after months of false starts and delays, Vultures 1 debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 200 albums chart. The album’s third single, “Carnival,” featuring Rich the Kid and Playboi Carti recently hit number one on the Hot 100 chart, marking Ye’s fifth chart topper and Ty’s second.
The full sitdown with the legendary Big Boy clocks in at around an hour and 20 minutes. You can watch the entire thing below.
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Bhad Bhabie is a mom. The 20-year-old “cash me outside” rapper posted a sweet birth announcement on Friday (March 15) that seemed to confirm that her first-born bhabie girl is here. The silent, 10 second clip consisted of a black and white image of what appeared to be a newborn sleeping under a blanket, with their face covered and a striped cap on their head.
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At press time the “Gucci Flip Flops” MC not revealed any additional information about her newborn, including her name and the child’s birth date. Last month Bhabie (born Daneille Bregoli), told People that haters who were saying she was too young and inexperienced to bring a child into the world should mind their own business.
“I even see people saying, ‘Oh, I don’t think she’s ready. I don’t think she’s ready,’” Bhabie told the magazine. “It’s like, ‘How can you, from your computer screen, determine if I’m ready to be a mother or not?’ I don’t even be on [social media], so how can you determine that? You know? It’s just kind of off.”
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Bregoli announced in December that she was pregnant with a girl that she planned to name Kali Rose; she also said the child’s father is the rapper’s boyfriend, Le Vaughn. At the time, Bregoli suspected that the seeming public nervousness about her becoming a mother at 20 could be chalked up to the 2016 viral reality TV moment that made her (in)famous when she yelled, “Catch me outside, how ’bout that?!’”
“Do you think if people went back and looked at them when they were 13 and 14 and judged them off that time that they would have that job and be held so high?” she said. “They’re kids, they’re teenagers. But mine happened to be broadcasted all over the Internet, all over public television.” Since then, Bhabie has had some success as a music act, landing at NO. 68 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2017 with the single “Hi Bich”; she has not released any new music sinc 2022’s “Vibe Check.”
Bhabie has been chronicling her pregnancy on Instagram, including a series of Demi Moore-style pics with a very visible baby bump and another series in early February from what looked like her elaborate, all-pink-everything baby shower for Kali.
