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As the dust continues to settle a month out from the Kendrick Lamar and Drake battle, many of the diss records remain in fans’ playlist rotations. The Dallas Mavericks held practice ahead of traveling to Boston on Tuesday (June 5) for game one of the NBA finals against the Boston Celtics, and the team opted […]
The next generation of female rappers have taken the music world by storm, taking the hip-hop genre to new heights. To celebrate, Billboard compiled a list of the top 10 female rappers leading the genre at the moment, repping stars from newcomers Sexxy Red, Ice Spice and Flo Milli — whom have each clocked Hot […]
Kendrick Lamar feels like celebrating. After besting Drake in a rap battle for the ages, he’s putting on a concert for Los Angeles with the help of pgLang and Free Lunch. Lamar just announced The Pop Out: Ken and Friends slated for Juneteenth (Wednesday, July 19) at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, Calif., marking his […]
4batz is hitting the road soon for his first-ever headlining tour, Thank You, Jada Tour, which he announced Wednesday (June 5). “A n—a finally going on tour. Presale drops tomorrow hit dat link in bio to get early access. See yall on tour,” he wrote on Instagram with two bat emojis. The nine-date jaunt will […]
Denzel Curry announced on Wednesday (June 5) that he plans on dropping King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2 on July 19, and released the mixtape’s lead single “Hot One” featuring TiaCorine and A$AP Ferg. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The song, produced by FNZ and SkipOnDaBeat, was […]
Drake is doing some spring cleaning when it comes to scrubbing his social media pages before the summer arrives in Toronto. Eagle-eyed fans noticed that The 6 God recently deleted his Instagram post for his final Kendrick Lamar diss “The Heart Part 6” from his feed. As of press time, Drake’s most recent Instagram post […]
Ice Spice is hitting the road this summer in support of her debut album. On the heels of revealing Y2K‘s release date, The Bronx native announced the Y2K! World Tour.
On Wednesday (June 5), Ice unwrapped the details on her first global outing, which kicks off in Denmark on July 4. She’ll remain in Europe for a handful of shows and festival dates in Poland, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, the U.K. and more.
The “Deli” rapper then returns stateside where she’ll begin the North American leg on July 30 in Washington, D.C., with fellow New York City resident and Slizzy CEO Cash Cobain set to perform as her opening act.
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The amphitheater headlining trek will continue with dates in NYC, Boston, Detroit, Toronto, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Dallas, Houston and Atlanta, and wraps up in Miami Beach on Aug. 31.
Pre-sale tickets are currently on sale for Citi cardmembers, while the general public will have their chance starting on Friday (June 7) at 10 a.m. local time. There are also various VIP packages available, and some come with perks that include a meet-and-greet photo op with Ice Spice.
The 24-year-old made it official when she announced this morning that her highly anticipated debut album, Y2K, will be arriving on July 26. “HIIIII >.< Y2K ☆ THE ALBUM WILL BE DROPPING JULY 26TH !!!! pre-save the link in my bio now ;**,” she wrote to social media. In a salute to her NYC roots, Ice Spice also shared the graffiti-filled cover art for the project, which finds the rapper standing outside a subway station next to a fire hydrant, with Y2K spray painted in hot pink on a trash can. Ice Spice unleashed her first EP Like..? in January 2023, which received a deluxe last summer, and ended up peaking at No. 15 on the Billboard 200. Find all of the Y2K! World Tour dates below.
Janet Jackson kicked off another leg of her Together Again Tour, and she’s spiced up her intricate dance routine with Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” being mixed into her “Nasty” breakdown.
The first concert of the 35-show trek launched in Palm Springs, Calif., on Tuesday night (June 4) at the Acrisure Arena, where Nelly is serving as the tour’s opener.
A clip from show one that went viral shows Janet in a plaid dress flanked by her backup dancers while the instrumental of Kendrick’s “Not Like Us” Drake diss plays in the background as she performs her Control anthem “Nasty,” which peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1986.
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“Who’s that in that nasty car? Nasty boys/ Who’s that eatin’ that nasty fruit? Nasty boys/ Who’s jammin’ to my nasty groove? Nasty boys,” she sings over Mustard’s West Coast production.
Fans had plenty to say about Janet’s “Not Like Us” stirring the pot on X. “It’s gon be a long year for Aubrey. HBCU season still coming,” one person wrote.
Another chimed in, “Kendrick introduced a whole new generation to Janet. Of course she gon ride for him!”
K. Dot and Jackson have yet to collaborate. However, Lamar did sample the iconic singer’s “Any Time, Any Place” on “Poetic Justice.” The Good Kid, M.A.A.D City classic reached No. 26 on the Hot 100 in 2013.
A month after it’s release, “Not Like Us” is still a staple in hip-hop and permeating different areas of pop-culture. Earlier this week, a Houston meteorologist incorporated lyrics from the Drake diss into his weather report.
Janet’s 2024 Together Again Tour continues to run into the summer, with stops in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Chicago, St. Louis Cincinnati, Cleveland, Boston, Detroit, Toronto, Brooklyn, Tampa, Orlando, Atlanta and New Orleans before finishing off on July 30 in Phoenix.
Watch the clip of Janet Jackson dancing to “Not Like Us” below.
THEY NOT LIKE US QUEEN I STAN !!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/dF5LfpHEo1— ⊹₊ᴋɴᴛʀʏ ɴɪᴀʜ 𐚁₊⊹ | 𝐁𝐨𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐲 👩🏼💼 (@daydreamdlor) June 5, 2024
RM achieves his first No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Rap Albums chart as Right Place, Wrong Person starts in the summit of the list dated June 8. The project, released May 24, earned 54,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week week ending May 30, according to Luminate.
For Right Place, Wrong Person’s debut-week total, traditional album sales contribute 43,000 units, while streaming activity (SEA) provides 7,500 units, a figure that equals 10.16 million official on-demand streams of the album’s songs. Track-equivalent album (TEA) units comprise the remaining 3,500 balance.
Elsewhere, Right Place, Wrong Person opens at No. 5 on the all-genre Billboard 200, where it becomes RM’s third solo entry on the chart. His Mono. mixtape peaked at No. 26 in 2018, while Indigo reached a No. 3 best in 2022. BTS, of which RM is a member, has collected 15 charting titles on the Billboard 200, including six No. 1s.
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Thanks to Right Place, Wrong Person’s strong individual track sales – the album has the most TEA units of any title on this week’s Top Rap Albums chart – six of the project’s cuts arrive on the Rap Digital Song Sales chart. Here’s a recap:
No. 2 – “Nuts” (4,000 sold)No. 3 – “Right People, Wrong Place” (3,000)No. 4 – “Groin” (3,000)No. 5 – “Domodachi,” with Little Simz (3,000)No. 6 – “Out of Love” (3,000)No. 7 – “? (Interlude),” with DOMi & JD Beck (3,000)
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Activity surrounding Right Place, Wrong Person drives RM 55-4 to a new career high on the Billboard Artist 100, which measures artist activity across key metrics of music consumption – album and track sales, radio airplay and streaming – to provide a weekly multi-dimensional ranking of the most popular artists. As RM rockets into the top five, he outdoes his prior best showing of No. 6 from December 2022, concurrent with Indigo’s peak on the Billboard 200.
Ice Spice’s Y2K debut is one of the most anticipated albums of the year, and The Bronx native has finally revealed when fans can expect the project to land in their headphones. The 24-year-old gave the hip-hop world a jolt of energy without any coffee when she announced on Wednesday (June 5) that her debut […]