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Billboard caught up with fans after WWE’s Monday Night RAW, and they shared their hot takes of who had the best heel turn, who they’d pick between Bad Bunny and Travis Scott, and whether they want to see Kendrick Lamar and Drake in the ring.
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Carl Lamarre:Get a wrestler back.
Rich the Kid:Resurrection. I’d have to go with Travis.
Fan 1:We’re Boricuas, we gotta go Bad Bunny. Way to go, Bad Bunny.
Fan 2:Greatest heel turn of all time? John Cena, not Hulk Hogan.
Tetris Kelly:Billboard‘s resident WWE expert Carl Lamarre went to Monday Night RAW at Madison Square Garden to check on the fans after an eventful few weeks, and we take you there [with] Billboard All Access. As people lined up to head into the venue, we stopped to ask them a few questions.
Carl Lamarre:John Cena or Cody Rhodes?
Fan 3: Well, I think he will beat him in Wrestlemania.
Fan 4:John Cena can never do me wrong, man — that’s my childhood hero.
Fan 1:Gotta go Cena, gotta go Cena.
Carl Lamarre:Shout-out, Cena.
Fan 4:He could turn on anybody, and at the end of the day, I’m gonna stick by his side.
Fan 5:Man, that’s a tough question. I think I gotta go with Cody Rhodes now. I love John Cena. I feel like it’s time for a change.
Fan 6:I got Cena, man. I gotta ride with him, man.
Fan 7:John Cena, all day, come on, man. The day he turned heel. Next day, I felt different. I woke up feeling different. Do you feel me?
Fan 2:I’m sorry, guys. Cody Rhodes, you can’t see him.
Rich the Kid:John Cena.
Tetris Kelly:Now, if you know, you know, so after his massive debut in the ring last week, we had to ask.
Carl Lamarre:What about Travis Scott or Bad Bunny?
Fan 1:Bunny, what Bad Bunny? We’re Boricuas, we gotta go Bad Bunny. Way to go, Bad Bunny.
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New Breaking Benjamin material is on the way — but the band hasn’t been in a rush. “We still have the attitude [that] you’re only as good as your next album,” guitarist Jasen Rauch tells Billboard’s Behind the Setlist podcast. “We’re still trying to dodge the sophomore slump going into record [No.] 7.”
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It’s been a long break since record No. 6. Breaking Benjamin’s last album of new material, Ember, came out in 2018; Aurora, an album with new versions of old material, came out in 2020. At this point in the band’s two-decade-plus career, Rauch says, they can take their time to get things right.
The recently released song “Awaken” is a case study in Breaking Benjamin’s deliberate pace. Rauch says the first demo for “Awaken,” released in October 2024, was recorded in either 2020 or 2021. The lyrics were changed “three or four times.” The song’s key changed. The band tried out different tempos. And the verses were written twice. “Sometimes you’ve got to put brakes on it and be like, ‘It’s just not ready. It’s not there,’” he explains.
As for a new full-length album, Rauch says a new Breaking Benjamin album will be released in 2025. After six albums for Hollywood Records, the next album will be released through BMG, just as the band’s recent single, “Awaken,” came out through Benjamin Burnley Recording — Burnley is the band’s founder and singer — and was licensed to BMG.
Working with BMG has also given the band the freedom to not rush through writing and recording new material. And with three platinum and two gold albums since 2002, Breaking Benjamin is at a point in its career where it doesn’t need a label to invest the kind of resources required for a younger, developing band. “They’re already walking into an established product,” says Rauch. “They’re helping us get to the next step — whatever that is — with new music. And that’s been a cool, refreshing experience for us.”
Breaking Benjamin is co-headlinging the Awaken the Fallen Tour with Staind from April 26 to June 1. The band will also perform this summer at Rocklahoma in Prior, Okla., on Aug. 30, and Louder Than Life in Louisville, Ky., on Sept. 19.
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Kidd Voodoo shares his experience of being on the panel for Viña Del Mar, how he went from making rock music to reggaeton, why he chose Kidd Voodoo as his stage name, his feelings about Chilean music starting to spread, defining Chilean slang and more!
Leila Cobo:David, welcome to Billboard!
Kidd Voodoo:Thank you.
Well, for the people that don’t know, David is Kidd Voodoo. So here in Chile, you guys know him by his artistic name, Kidd Voodoo. He’s one of the biggest trap rappers in Chile at this moment, but his real name is David León. In other words, why Kidd Voodoo?
Because I needed to start releasing music and I wanted to give myself a name. In that moment in Chile, it was really trendy to put a prefix like it was in the United States, putting “Lil” or “Kid,” too. So I preferred to put “Kid” because there were a couple of artists that I really liked that had it and I needed to upload the song in that moment because I had already announced it.
So you didn’t have a lot of time to think about this?
No, I thought about it a lot, but I said, “If I never get this song out, I’m never going to start this.” So I said, “OK let’s go through with this,” and I looked at the pedals of the guitar and someone said, “Kidd Voodoo — it doesn’t sound too bad.”
So because of a guitar pedal that had nothing to do with rap, truthfully–
Exactly.
Well, it was a song about what? Was it rock, or was it rap?
Rap. It was a rap song, trap. Yep, and from there the name stuck and now I’m here.
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