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Andrew Schulz isn’t backing off from Kendrick Lamar after feeling targeted by the rapper on “Wacced Out Murals” last year.
Four months after Dot rapped “Don’t let no white comedian talk about no Black woman, that’s law” on the GNX opener — a line Schulz and many fans assumed was aimed at the comedian due to his controversial quips about white men who “get slapped” by their Black girlfriends on an August episode of his Flagrant podcast — Schulz once again addressed the situation while guesting on The Breakfast Club Monday (March 10).
First, the comedian doubled down on his past remarks about wanting to “make love” to Lamar, saying in reference to the rapper’s 2025 Super Bowl Halftime Show outfit, “When I saw those jeans, I was like, ‘Bing-bop-boom-boom-boom-bop-bam,’” quoting the musician’s “peekaboo.”
Schulz had previously responded to Lamar’s apparent diss on a December episode of Flagrant by joking that he would like to have sex with the hip-hop titan, adding at the time that “the only thing [Lamar] could do is decide if it’s consensual or not.” Three months later on The Breakfast Club, he explained his intention behind the offensive comment: “People made that s–t racism so fast. I’m just saying he’s little … He’s itty bitty, so why is he telling people he’s gonna kill my friends?”
The stand-up went on to say that such jokes are fair game because, he claims, the Compton native was the one who “took it there” in the first place with his incendiary “Wacced Out Murals” lyrics. Also on the song, Lamar raps, “The n—as that c–n, the n—as that being groomed, slide on both of them,” which Schulz took to mean as Lamar inciting violence against his friends, specifically Breakfast Club host Charlamagne Tha God and Schulz’s Flagrant co-host Alexx Media.
“What does slide mean to y’all?” Schulz said on The Breakfast Club. “If you say kill my friends, everything after that is fine. You took it there … I don’t like this idea that like, I’m this big bully. You told your people to kill my friends. That’s the potential interpretation.”
For the record, Charlamagne isn’t as convinced as Schulz is that Dot was coming for them at all. “I appreciate my friend trying to stick up for me, but I don’t think he was talking about us,” the radio host responded after Schulz said his piece, laughing.
Billboard has reached out to Kendrick Lamar for comment.
The 22-time Grammy winner has never confirmed which “white comedian” he was talking about on “Wacced Out Murals.” The rapper surprise-dropped GNX in late November, and the album has spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 so far.
But while Schulz didn’t take kindly to the perceived diss — and is still talking about it months later — the comedian did put some respect on Lamar’s name on The Breakfast Club. “This whole thing got blown out of proportion,” he said. “To say [Lamar] is not fantastic at what he does is ridiculous, and I have a lot of respect for anyone who puts things out for judgement. That takes balls and I admire people that have balls.”
Watch Schulz share his thoughts on Lamar and “Wacced Out Murals” on The Breakfast Club above.
2 Chainz doesn’t plan on leaving the underground indie scene anytime soon. After shooting over to the West Coast to team up with Larry June and The Alchemist for the stellar Life Is Beautiful project, he’s planning on releasing a joint album with East Coast producer Statik Selektah. Explore See latest videos, charts and news […]
Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco are continuing the rollout of their I Said I Love You First album with another single, “Sunset Blvd.”
Gomez announced the single on Instagram on Tuesday (March 11) alongside a sweet black-and-white selfie of the couple snuggling up together. “Our first date was on Sunset Blvd, and it’s also the title of our next song together 🖤 Sunset Blvd out March 14 with @itsbennyblanco,” she captioned the post. “P.S. this is our first official photo together.”
Gomez and Blanco recently documented returning to the restaurant where they had their first date on Instagram. The duo happily cooked up fried shrimp with curry — the meal they had — at Jitlada Restaurant, an authentic Thai food joint on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, with the restaurant’s owner, Sarin “Jazz” Sing.
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The couple’s joint album, I Said I Love You First, is set to arrive on March 21. The project featurespreviously released singles “Scared of Loving You” and “Call Me When You Break Up” featuring Gracie Abrams.
As revealed by the Rare Beauty founder via the tracklist she shared on social media, the rest of the songs are called “I Said I Love You First,” “Younger and Hotter Than Me,” “Ojos Tristes,” “Don’t Wanna Cry,” “Sunset Blvd,” “Cowboy,” “Bluest Flame,” “How Does It Feel to Be Forgotten,” “Do You Wanna Be Perfect,” “You Said You Were Sorry”,” “I Can’t Get Enough” and “Don’t Take It Personally.”
The couple began dating in June 2023, and got engaged late last year. Gomez shared the happy news with a Dec. 11 Instagram carousel featuring her marquise-cut engagement ring, along with the caption, “forever begins now..”
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.
Listen to the entire interview with Jason Rauch using the embedded Spotify player below, or go to Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeart, Amazon Music, Podbean or Everand.
Suge Knight has continued to fire at Snoop Dogg for what he thinks is damaging the Death Row legacy with the “Gin and Juice” rapper at the helm.
Suge was interviewed by The Art of Dialogue from behind bars over the weekend, when he went off on The Doggfather after Snoop claimed Knight was just “mad” he was in control of Death Row.
“You trying to create something that Suge Knight created, but instead of making something big, you disappointed the world by making everything flops,” Knight said. “When I put out Tha Dogg Pound, they sold records. You put out Tha Dogg Pound, they sold nothing — it flopped.”
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Suge believes the essence of hip-hop culture is being destroyed, and claimed Snoop is also killing the credibility of the once-feared West Coast record label.
“You don’t got to talk tough,” he added. “We don’t got to talk about each other that gets [us] nowhere. One person or three or four people is not bigger than hip-hop. We should be trying to figure out how to make hip-hop better. Everybody destroying hip-hop — you guys are making it worse. If you have Death Row, you destroyed it. You messed up the name.”
Snoop acquired the Death Row Records brand from the Blackstone-controlled MNRK Music Group (formerly eOne Music) in a February 2022 deal. “It feels good to have ownership of the label I was part of at the beginning of my career and as one of the founding members. This is an extremely meaningful moment for me,” Snoop said in a statement at the time of the transaction. “I’m looking forward to building the next chapter of Death Row Records.”
However, Suge Knight still isn’t buying that Snoop owns Death Row Records, and demanded he show some paperwork before Suge gives him his respect on that endeavor. “Snoop, you said I’m mad because you bought Death Row,” Knight said. “What you buy? Shut me up. Show me where y’all paid the money to buy it. Show me the paperwork — show me what you own.”
Billboard has reached out to Snoop Dogg’s reps for comment.
Suge Knight remains imprisoned on a 28-year sentence for voluntary manslaughter charges that resulted in the death of businessman Terry Carter and injuries to longtime rival Cle “Bone” Sloan. The 59-year-old former rap mogul is eligible for parole in October 2034.Watch the full phone interview with Suge Knight below.
Bre Tiesi is opening up about her unorthodox relationship with Nick Cannon, whose time she has to share with four other women who’ve also welcomed kids with The Masked Singer host.
On the latest episode of Paul C. Brunson’s We Need to Talk podcast posted Tuesday (March 11), the Selling Sunset star explained why non-monogamy works for herself and Cannon, with whom she shares 2-year-old son Legendary Love. “It’s just so healthy and normal, and people think that it’s not because of the surrounding factors, but I don’t involve myself in surrounding factors,” Tiesi said matter of factly. “The kids are welcome into my life and our life, and that’s where I draw the line.”
“Nick’s always been a playboy,” she continued. “Everyone knows that.”
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The Wild n’ Out star has a total of 12 children with five different women including Tiesi. He shares twins Moroccan and Monroe with superstar ex-wife Mariah Carey; Golden Sagon, Powerful Queen and Rise Messiah with Brittany Bell; Zion Mixolydian, Zillion Heir and Beautiful Zeppelin with Abby De La Rosa; Onyx Ice with LaNisha Cole; and Halo Marie with Alyssa Scott. He and Scott also had a son named Zen in 2021, but the little boy died from brain cancer just five months after he was born.
Of Cannon’s respective relationships with the other women, Tiesi explained why she doesn’t feel “threatened.” “I know what my relationship is, and I know that no matter what, you’ll never have with anyone else what you have with me,” she told Brunson. “I’m cool with a majority of the women. Obviously, there’s emotions involved, and I can’t help how other people feel.”
The model went on to share the closest she’s ever come to feeling envious of Cannon’s other relationships. “I think I’ve gotten jealous about maybe holidays,” she said. “Holidays are hard. I’ll be like, ‘If you’re gonna do this, can you take Legy?’ It’s not for me — I’m not jealous. Say they go on a trip, and I’m like, ‘Well that would’ve been nice. Couldn’t you have just brought Legy with you guys?’ I’m looking more out for him. I want him to have the relationship with his siblings.”
Tiesi also explained why she currently isn’t dating anyone besides Cannon, despite the Drumline star maintaining relationships with other women in addition to her. “It’s not that I won’t or I can’t, it’s that I choose not to,” she said. “I just really don’t want to deal with another man for a very long time. I’m happy in my relationship. I’m happy with my family unit.”
Watch Tiesi break down her relationships with Cannon and his kids’ other moms on We Need to Talk below.
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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Peter Wolf has been thinking about writing a book “for a long time.” But making a new solo album is what really prompted the former J. Geils Band frontman to get serious about it.
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Wolf is “about 80 percent” finished with the album, which will be his first since 2016’s A Cure For Loneliness. “It occurred to me that my solo recordings, a lot of them went unnoticed, and I realized that if I put this out with the way things are these days, it can turn to vapor quite easily and be another lost solo effort,” Wolf — who’s just published Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses (Little, Brown) — tells Billboard. “So I thought, ‘Well, maybe now is the time to write that book I’ve been talking about for decades.’ I think if the book connects with people it would even put the wind beneath my wings to finish the record and put it out.”
Wolf also received a meaningful push from writer Peter Guralnick, best known for his acclaimed biographies of Elvis Presley, Sam Cooke and Sun Records founder Sam Phillips. “He read some of the things I was writing,” Wolf recalls, “and he said, ‘Y’know, Pete, you better finally do this book ’cause a lot of the people you’re gonna want to have read it might not be with us at the pace you’re going.’ That was a profound statement for me.”
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While it tracks from Wolf’s childhood to the relatively present day, Waiting on the Moon is not a standard, linear memoir. Rather, it’s a collection of stories — and a fascinating, good-humored one at that — as the New York-born Wolf regales readers with his Forrest Gump-like life of encounters with the famous, starting with a chapter titled “I Slept With Marilyn Monroe,” in which Monroe literally fell asleep on a 10-year-old Wolf while both attended a screening of the Jules Dassin film He Who Must Die at a local movie theater. (Not to worry; Monroe was with then-husband Arthur Miller and Wolf’s parents were on his other side.)
From there it’s off to the races as Wolf recounts his interactions and relationships with blues heroes such as Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and John Lee Hooker (sometimes in his Boston apartment) as well as Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, the Rolling Stones, John Lennon and Harry Nilsson, Sly Stone, Aretha Franklin and more. He crosses paths with music biz luminaries such as Ahmet Ertegun, Bhaskar Menon, Jon Landau and Dee Anthony, gets on the wrong side of Alfred Hitchcock by declining an offer of an alcoholic drink and finds himself being courted for a part in Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ.
Eleanor Roosevelt, Louis Armstrong, Andy Warhol, onetime roommate David Lynch, Julia Child and Tennessee Williams are also among Wolf’s encounters in the pages.
“My goal was to make a book of short stories, treat each chapter like its own short story,” explains Wolf, who was an art student and radio DJ in Boston as well as a musician — first with the Hallucinations, then with the J. Geils Band starting in 1967. He fronted the latter to multi-platinum worldwide fame with Freeze-Frame in 1981, which topped the Billboard 200 in 1982 and produced the six-week Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 “Centerfold” that same year. After being asked to leave the group in 1983, Wolf kicked off a solo career with 1984’s Lights Out (its title track hit No. 12 on the Hot 100). “There was no timeline. I wasn’t concerned, in a way, about the beginning, middle and end; each story has its own beginning, middle and end. And I didn’t want this to be a kiss-and-tell book; I just wanted to write about these incredible people that I had the privilege to meet and to get to know to certain degrees and capture that.”
Wolf adds that “the two subjects I didn’t want to write about was my marriage to Faye Dunaway and the J. Geils Band,” but both are there — particularly the former, whom Wolf has been loath to discuss in this kind of detail during and after their marriage from 1974-79. “Faye was this very determined, talented person and we loved each other,” Wolf says. “I was just trying to bring her, and our relationship, somewhat to life and all the adventures we shared in it. I didn’t talk about it (before) because I would talk about my music, talk about the records, and all the other stuff was kind of private. But I was writing about the adventures in my life, and certainly she and I shared many of them. I was very surprised how quickly the stories came out.
“Of course there’s regrets; one has regrets and wishes they could do things differently, and I think I’ve expressed that in all the chapters. Some were silly, stupidities that I’ve made, and I don’t try to disguise those. It all flowed through naturally once I got into the crux of it.”
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The J. Geils Band, meanwhile, is treated as a through-line in the book until a later chapter in which Wolf writes about explicitly about how it came apart at the peak of its career.
“It was a great shock to me, and it was a sea change for me,” says Wolf, who was part of Geils reunion tours from 1999-2015. The book also includes a vivid retelling of him being beaten up in a London pub while on his way to the band’s performance at the 1989 Pinkpop Festival in the Netherlands. “I tried to write honestly about it, my experience of it all and how I felt. I was committed to the band; it was my life, and even with my marriage to Faye our careers always came first. In other chapters you can see how hard I tried working to keep the band relevant and moving ahead, so of course when things did fall apart it was a very painful thing for me. What I didn’t add in the book that I was asked to leave the band in 1968 because they felt my vocal abilities were holding back the band.”
Wolf has recorded an audio version of Waiting On the Moon and has a handful of author appearances planned this month, starting Tuesday (March 11) at the Harvard Bookstore in Cambridge, Mass., and including stops in New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Philadelphia and Connecticut. He did, however, cancel a planned March 21 stop at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. “due to the egregious firing of staff by the new administration.”
Wolf is also planning to get to work on the album, working with “the same cast of characters” who helped with his last few albums. “I think it’s got some really memorable songs, and I took a long time in putting it together,” he says, adding that he foresees a return to performing as well. “Yeah, that’s what I do. But the book really required a sabbatical. It’s like making a really good record that you’ve got to hunker down and commit to.” A reissue of the J. Geils Band’s 1972 concert album “Live” Full House is also slated for this year, according to Wolf.
Also on the future docket may be an induction in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, which has eluded the J. Geils Band over the course of five nominations between 2005-2018. Wolf has inducted Jackie Wilson and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band at previous ceremonies, and while he notes that “it’s a situation I have no control over” he makes it clear that it’s something he’d like to see happen, eventually.
“Yes, it would be a nice honor,” Wolf says. “I do feel the Geils Band contributed a lot in the AOR period of rock n’ roll. Not unlike the Stones we introduced a lot of people to (artists) like the Contours and Otis Rush and Muddy Waters and doo-wop… yet the Geils band has been looked over. I think we worked very hard for 17 and a half years, and I think we made some kind of contribution. But, to quote a Johnny Mathis song, ‘it’s not for me to say.’”
Wolf’s author appearance schedule for Waiting On the Moon includes:
Tuesday, March 11th: Harvard Bookstore at the First Parrish Church, Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, March 12th: The Strand, New York, NY
Thursday, March 13th: Bookends Bookstore, Ridgewood, NJ
Tuesday, March 18th: Writers on a New England Stage at The Music Hall, Portsmouth, NH
Thursday, March 27th: Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Tuesday, April 8th: RJ Julia Booksellers, Madison, CT
Warner Chappell continued to dominate the Country Airplay chart for a fifth consecutive quarter in Q4 of 2024 with a strong 33.67% market share and 71 songs on the chart. This includes the quarter’s No. 1 song “I Am Not Okay” by Jelly Roll, which was co-written by WCM Nashville/Tape Room Music’s Casey Brown and Taylor Phillips.
Sony Music Publishing comes in second with 19.57% market share, thanks to its 53 songs on the chart, also including “I Am Not Okay,” which was co-written by SMP talent, Ashley Gorley. Gorley, a longtime hitmaker in Nashville, is this quarter’s top songwriter too.
Universal Music Publishing Group holds the third spot, just as it did in the last quarter, with a 9.81% share of the chart and 26 ranked songs. Among its many Country Airplay hits is “Pour Me A Drink” by genre-bending star Post Malone which ranked as the second biggest song on the chart this quarter.
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Kobalt came in fourth place with a 6.83% market share and 19 songs on the chart. BMG arrives in fifth, up one spot from Q3 thanks to its share of songs like “I Am Not Okay.” In total, the Berlin-based company has shares of 14 songs on the Q4’s Country Airplay chart.
Concord, the fifth largest publisher on the Country Airplay chart, significantly grew its market share this quarter, from 2.51% in Q3 to 4.17% in Q4. Among its 13 songs on the chart is “Lies Lies Lies” by Morgan Wallen, the fourth biggest song of the quarter.
“Lies Lies Lies” was also a major contributor to Big Machine Music’s 3.53% market share this quarter, ranking them at No. 7. Reservoir Media came in eighth for Q4 with “Gonna Love You” by Parmalee bolstering its 1.85% share of the chart.
Pulse is a newcomer to the Country Airplay ranking this quarter at No. 9. Its top song was “High Road” by East Texas favorite Koe Wetzel, marking its official entrance to the upper echelon of Nashville publishers.
Finally, Hipgnosis rounds out the list at No. 10 with a 1.53% market share and 3 songs on the chart, including “4x4xu” by Lainey Wilson.
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The defending NBA champs, Boston Celtics, will face off against the Western Conference juggernauts Oklahoma City Thunder in a must-watch clash of titans. Tipping off at TD Garden in Boston on March 12, Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown will defend their home court against the season MVP frontrunner, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. Starting at 7:30 p.m. ET/4:30 p.m. PT, don’t miss this potential NBA Finals matchup airing live on ESPN and streaming on Fubo, Sling TV and ESPN+.
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Gilgeous-Alexander, who’s currently favored to win MVP, is having quite the season. He’s leading the league in scoring (32.7 points per game) while dominating teams on defense by accumulating the second highest average in steals (1.8 steals per game). The OKC Thunder are sitting atop the Western Conference with a comfortable 11 game lead over the second place Denver Nuggets, and are favored to make their first appearance in the NBA Finals since 2012. Shai and the Thunder look to ride this momentum into TD Garden to face their biggest Eastern Conference threat.
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On the other hand, the Celtics haven’t shown any signs of slowing down since winning the NBA Finals last season. Tatum and Brown continue to prove that they’re one of the best duo’s in league history, alongside an extensive roster of weapons including Derrick White, Jrue Holiday, Kristaps Porziņģis, and veteran Al Horford. Behind the three-point line, there’s no team better than the Celtics right now. They have the most team threes in the season with 1,157 so far, and hold the record for most threes made in a game with 29.
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