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Over the weekend, Ye and Ty Dolla $ign celebrated the release of their second collaborative album, Vultures 2 — and during a private party, they played an unreleased track featuring Skepta.

Footage captured from the event shows Ye manning the ones and twos as his and Big Smoke’s vocals can be heard blaring through the speakers. “What n—a you mad ’bout? He a pimp, he’ll tell ’em ‘fore you assed out/I hear that they take all the cash out, I’m cashed out/Guess you could say my spirit animal’s a cash cow,” Ye could be heard rapping what sounds like the chorus.

In another video that cuts off before his verse ends, the British MC raps, “How we livin’?/I’m never quittin’/Feel like whippin’/Rollie ain’t tickin’/818 sippin’/Sauce spillin’.”

Last week, Ye and Ty Dolla released a Vultures 2 deluxe edition with three new songs featuring Peso Pluma, Kid Cudi and Kodak Black, which helped them debut at No. 2 on the Billboard 200.

There’s no word if “Cash Cow” will be included as another Vultures 2 bonus or if it will make an appearance on the last installment of the trilogy, Vultures 3.

While linked through music, fashion and Virgil Abloh for years, Skepta and Ye have never officially released a song together. Their most notable collab was when Skepta and his friends — dressed in all black — mobbed on stage as Ye, Allan Kingdom and Theophilus London performed “All Day” during the 2015 Brit Awards. That epic performance also featured the viral meme of Taylor Swift dancing.

De La Soul announced plans for a New York City concert at the top of 2025, and they’re taking an atypical approach to ticketing options for the show.

The Grammy-winning crew has employed a “Choose-What-You-Pay” model for fans looking to purchase tickets to the Jan. 17 show at Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall. According to the Lincoln Center’s website, fans are suggested to pay $35 per ticket, but will have options to pay more and less depending on what they want to do.

“To make the arts more accessible, tickets are available on a Choose-What-You-Pay basis,” the website reads. “There is a suggested ticket price of $35.00, as well as options to pay more or less.”

Per Brooklyn Vegan, it’s De La Soul’s first NYC show in 16 months. Pre-sale tickets will go on sale starting on Sept. 5 with the general public having their chance on Sept. 12.

Before returning home to New York in January, De La has a handful of festival dates that will take the Long Island-bred group to the West Coast and north of the border as well as across the pond for shows in the U.K., France, Belgium and more.

2023 proved to be an emotional rollercoaster of a year with the passing of co-founder Trugoy the Dove (born David Jolicoeur) at the age of 54. Following years of internal conflicts and label issues, De La Soul’s first six studio albums hit streaming services for the first time in March 2023.

The crew made a splash with their streaming debut while registering 12.5 million official on-demand U.S. song streams in the week ending March 9 and sold 28,000 albums, according to Luminate.

During an appearance on Hot 97 with DJ Drewski, Juvenile and Mannie Fresh talked about Eminem sampling their classic track “Ha” on his song “Road Rage” featuring Dem Jointz & Sly Pyper from his latest album The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce.)

“Shout out to Eminem. He just took ‘Ha,’” Juvenile said after being asked how he felt about artists sampling his records. “We can’t do nothing with these songs sitting down, right? We can’t make no money with these songs just sitting down. So, I applaud the artists — especially the artists that are real good at it that got talent. Hey, man, go take a sample. I am not trippin’. I’m not one of those cats and I love the new artists, I’m not hatin’ on none of them.”

Drewski then asked Mannie if he still had to give his permission for acts to use songs he’s produced. “Yeah, those records still gotta be cleared through me because they was my records and I think it’s the biggest homage anybody can pay to you when it’s a credible artist,” he answered. “When somebody like Eminem uses your song or when Jay jumped on ‘Ha,’ that’s like, ‘Wow.’ It’s incredible because if you’re sitting down in a barber shop and we talking, you can stick your chest out and be like, ‘But did Eminem ever rap on any of your beats? Did Jay ever rap on any of your beats?’”

Juvenile also discussed his relationship with Eminem and how he found out the song was being used by him: “Em is my dude because when my career started, Em was one of them guys that kinda like reached out. He showed us love in the beginning, so he’s my guy,” he revealed. “But I didn’t expect that. We knew it was coming out but I didn’t hear it.”

The subject of a Hot Boys reunion was also broached and Big Juvie remains optimistic. “We’ve had conversations about it. Will it really happen? I’m hopeful,” he said. “We just all gotta be on the same page and we can’t be on the Internet going at each other’s throats. That’s gotta stop.”

Watch a clip from the interview below.