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As the wait for her anticipated sophomore album continues, Cardi B blasted Joe Budden for his criticism of her project rollout and made allegations of drug use against him.
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The Grammy-winning artist went ballistic against the rapper-turned-podcaster during a Twitter Spaces session on Thursday afternoon (July 18).
“Bro I gave you a lap dance two times in Starlets. You was high as f–k. High as f–k on coke, n—a… I don’t give a f–k when people talk s–t about me,” she spewed. “It’s the fact you always talk shit about me Joe Budden. Out of nowhere, you would think I did something to this n—a… For the past two years, this n—a has only talked bad things about me.”
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Cardi B doesn’t appreciate Budden allegedly pinning her against other rising women rappers.
“Every five or six months you comparing another female rapper towards me, you compare new artists, old artists, every single fucking artist with me, bro,” she said. “If you love these b—–s so much, why are you not talking about their album? You compare females to me that my worst records beat their best records. I don’t give a f–k about none of these b—–s.”
Cardi continued: “But you really want my album to come out so you can criticize it,” she said. “Cause every time I drop something you don’t like it. Every single time a b—h drops something and they doing mediocre, you say they doing better than me… What are you talking about? The s–t is in motion. Merch is in motion, the box sets is in motion. You don’t know s–t.”
On a recent podcast, Joe Budden predicted that Cardi B isn’t going to release another album in her career, which she took issue with.
“We’ll never get another album again. I am standing on it,” he said. “Cardi got something dropping with my man Rob[49] on Friday, but that’s what Cardi’s gonna be now. A single artist.”
Budden added: “I’m sure Offset wants Cardi to put an album out. Ay, fellas out there. Boyfriends, y’all know that feeling right? When you want your b—h to get a job. You in the house and your b—h won’t leave… Ain’t you got an album to do? Ain’t you got a single?”
Following Cardi’s Spaces rant, Budden pushed back against allegations of cocaine use and ever getting a lap dance from her. He also promised to “not cover a single thing this girl does for the remainder of her career.”
“I really just wanted an album from someone whose music i love,” he wrote on X and eventually apologized to the “WAP” rapper. “She cursing me smooth out but she still hilarious lol…. I’m going to bed, i apologize to @iamcardib for whatever i did and peace and love to all.”
It’s been over six years Cardi B’s Invasion of Privacy album arrived in April 2018. Her acclaimed debut topped the Billboard 200 with 255,000 album units sold in the first week and went on to win best rap album at the 2019 Grammy Awards.
While the prospects of her sophomore project remain unknown, Cardi is dishing out another fiery feature where she’ll join Rob49 for “On Dat Money” on Friday (July 19)
Find more of Budden’s response below.
She cursing me smooth out but she still hilarious lol…. I’m going to bed, i apologize to @iamcardib for whatever i did and peace and love to all.— Joe Budden (@JoeBudden) July 18, 2024
I really just wanted an album from someone whose music i love 🤦🏾— Joe Budden (@JoeBudden) July 18, 2024
I think i understand what’s going on….. this is a play…… cuz i love her 🤷🏾♂️😢— Joe Budden (@JoeBudden) July 18, 2024
I promise you and can assure you, i will not cover a single thing this girl does for the remainder of her career… Peace & love. 🫶🏽— Joe Budden (@JoeBudden) July 18, 2024
I have also never gotten a lap dance from this lady.— Joe Budden (@JoeBudden) July 18, 2024
Future celebrated the ninth anniversary of his landmark third solo album DS2 yesterday by sharing the unreleased video for “Rotation,” with a caption that reads, “Unreleased, 9years later DS2 PLUTO back.”‘ Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Directed by Rich Nyce, the video features Future at his […]
Big Sean is the latest subject of a leak after someone allegedly released a 14-track body of work that’s said to be a version of the Detroit rapper’s upcoming album. Sean Don didn’t waste any time in responding to the leak, getting on the offensive as he teased an upcoming collaboration with The Alchemist on Wednesday (July 17).
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“I’m a just start droppin this new music before they leak it all BIG SEAN x THE ALCHEMIST soon,” he captioned an Instagram post.
The accompanying clip finds Sean rhyming over Alchemist’s soulful production, and they appear to have a visual ready to go with the rapper and producer kicking it in the grass fields.
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“Pushin the V and it’s not for vendetta/ I’m hungry as ever but somehow I’m fed up/ A smooth operator I could connect ya/ I only love a few I gotta protect ya,” he raps.
Big Sean caused a stir on social media with subliminal bars from his “On the Radar Freestyle” on Wednesday,which some believed to be shots at Kendrick Lamar, while others such as DJ Hed insinuated he was sniping at Ye (formerly known as Kanye West).
“I talked to Sean. The bar was ‘I got better things to do then find someone to beef with’ And it was not for Dot,” Hed tweeted. “Bar was directed at a different Gemini.” (Ye’s June 8 birthday makes him a Gemini.)
Big Sean had been signed to Ye’s G.O.O.D. Music label for 14 years before announcing his departure in October 2021. The move came just prior to when West called signing Sean “the worst thing I’ve ever done” during a Drink Champs interview in November 2021.
A person online going by the handle Bigseandon811 didn’t appear to appreciate what they perceived to be disrespect of Ye in the freestyle, and took it upon themself to allegedly leak the album. Billboard has reached out to reps for Big Sean.
“Since he wanna disrespect Ye so much, here’s the album, f–k him and his whole team,” the leaker wrote, according to Variety.
Variety also found the leaked files, and reported that a track titled “Nintendo Switch Superstar” features the same Willie Hutch sample that Usher used on “Superstar.” Other guest appearances reportedly include Charlie Wilson and Brent Faiyaz.
Big Sean notched three consecutive No. 1 albums atop the Billboard 200 with 2020’s Detroit 2 serving as the last LP. He made his return earlier this year with “Precision,” and appeared as a guest on tracks with Eminem and Jessie Reyez.
The 36-year-old will be able to call himself an author come October when his Go Higher book promoting mental wellness arrives. As far as his untitled upcoming album, the project remains without a firm release date, but might be bumped up due to the recent leaks.
ScHoolboy Q voiced his displeasure about the first show of his Blue Lips Weekend tour getting canceled, and he thinks the Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef has something to do with it.
The tour was set to kick off Thursday (July 18) with a sold-out show at History in Toronto, Canada, but Wednesday night, the TDE rapper alleged that the show was scrapped due to safety concerns. “They just cancelled my show in Toronto,” he tweeted Wednesday. “Canadian police don’t want nobody from TDE performing.”
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THey just cancelled my sHow in TORONTO 😂… CANADIAN POLICE DONT WANT NOBODY FROM TDE PERFORMING..— ScHoolboy Q (@ScHoolboyQ) July 18, 2024
Q also mentioned Kendrick’s camp has been keeping things on wax while alluding Drake — who is from Toronto — and OVO had something to do with the situation. He pointed out his label boss Top Dawg met up with Lil Wayne and Baby at the YouTube Leaders & Legends Gala, and that OVO artist Partynextdoor had just performed at the Hollywood Palladium. “TOP was just wit Wayne & Baby smH,” he tweeted. “Partynextdoor just had a show at the palladium. If we wanted to get y’all we would’ve just did it.. now when somebody gets hurt don’t cry.”
TOP was just wit Wayne & Baby smH partynextdoor just Had a sHow @ tHe palladium 🤦🏾♂️ if we wanted to get yall we would’ve just did it.. now wHen sumbody get Hurt don’t cry…— ScHoolboy Q (@ScHoolboyQ) July 18, 2024
He quickly got over it, though, and laughed at the irony and ridiculousness of it all. “Actually I get it,” he tweeted. “Nevermind, this s—t is lowkey hilarious. I don’t know why Dot put me in that f—ing video.”
One fan replied to that tweet with a screenshot of ScHoolboy standing stoically in the “Not Like Us” video, to which the rapper poked fun at himself, tweeting, “Cancelled is all I could think about.”
History — the venue ScHoolboy was set to perform in — is owned by Live Nation in collaboration with Drake.
Billboard has reached out to Drake, History as well as Toronto law enforcement for comment.
Rick Ross was attacked after a show June 30 in Vancouver, B.C., as he walked off the stage with “Not Like Us” playing in the background. Back in 2018, Pusha T was also attacked while he was performing in Toronto.
Major rainfall and flooding have hit Toronto hard in recent days, leaving 100,000 residents without power. Drake posted a video of himself trying to control the flooding in his mansion to no avail.
Q’s next tour stop is in Chicago this Saturday (July 20).
In the 10th episode of Billboard Unfiltered, Billboard staffers Carl Lamarre, Trevor Anderson, Damien Scott and Kyle Denis rate and review Eminem’s The Death of Slim Shady, discuss how older rappers stay fresh versus newer ones, Big Sean’s career and more!Carl Lamarre: The album came out on Friday.
Damien Scott: Slim Shady.
Carl Lamarre: Slim Shady.
Trevor Anderson: The Death of Slim Shady.
Carl Lamarre: The Death of Slim Shady.
Kyle Denis: Certainly, a death.
Carl Lamarre: It was …
Damien Scott: All right.
Trevor Anderson: I think that’s crazy for someone who spent their whole life, you know, all these kids have been doing it since they were teenagers maybe even before that to say when you hit a certain age, stop.
Damien Scott: If you just wrote on a piece of paper, what Big Sean’s career is, all of that equals superstar.
Carl Lamarre: Let’s get into it because we got a lot to talk about. Eminem! Album came out on Friday.
Damien Scott: Slim Shady.
Carl Lamarre: Slim Shady.
Trevor Anderson: The Death of Slim Shady.
Carl Lamarre: The Death of Slim Shady.
Kyle Denis: Certainly, a death.
Carl Lamarre: It was …
Damien Scott: All right. I see how this is going to go now! All right. All right.
Carl Lamarre: In case you guys missed the memo, The Death of Slim Shady, previously released singles “Houdini,” “Tobey” featuring BabyTron, Big Sean. Album loaded with features: Jelly Roll, Skylar Grey — familiar face, you know, known for cooking up big records with Em.
Damien Scott: Came back.
Carl Lamarre: Yup.
Kyle Denis: It was a welcomed voice.
Carl Lamarre: A lot of Dr. Dre production. I think freakin Ex Mil, that’s the artists signed to Shady, he was on the record as well. First impressions of this album … thoughts?
Damien Scott: I like it. We’re talking about this in the office. My favorite, I guess, later stage Eminem album is Kamikaze. It’s 12 tracks, it’s very focused. He’s talking about his detractors, some personal things in his life, like the breakup of D12. And he’s like, putting the final thoughts on his relationship with I believe his baby mother. Great, amazing rapping, good features. Watch the full video above!
Megan Thee Stallion‘s first-ever headlining tour concluded with a special surprise in London Wednesday night (July 17), with Yuki Chiba joining the rapper on stage for their debut live performance of “Mamushi.” In clips taken by fans at the O2 Arena in England, Meg and the Japanese musician feed off of each other’s energy while […]
Donald Glover is preparing for Childish Gambino’s final act, and before Bando Stone & The New World arrives, the multi-hyphenate put his taste buds to the test on Hot Ones Thursday (July 18).
Glover has experimented with hallucinogenics such as ayahuasca, but didn’t realize eating spicy chicken wings would be a comparable experience. “This does feel shamanic,” he told host Sean Evans. “It feels pretty intense already. I feel like I’m about to do ayahuasca.”
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In the midst of chowing down on some spicy wings, the 40-year-old put a bow on his Childish Gambino moniker. “A collaborator of mine, fam and I, we talked about the death of Superman a lot … I always knew Childish Gambino was like a character, and on some level I wanted it to end,” he explained. “I almost feel like Childish Gambino is like the boss from The Office, like, ‘That stuff worked 10 years ago.’ All that stuff worked, but now it’s like a different thing. It’s like, ‘Oh it’s a little sad, but its like, wow, the cycle kinda continues, which is great, I think.’”
A quick history lesson: Childish Gambino discovered the name of his alter ego when messing around with a Wu-Tang Clan name generator in college. At the end of the episode, Glover revealed what RZA told him about what the name meant.
“The Childish Gambino story from the Wu-Tang Clan RZA told me it’s a story of a child turning into a boss,” said the actor-musician, who earned his fifth Primetime Emmy nomination for acting July 17. “This last sunset walk is for the fans. This is for you.”
Glover also continued to offer unhappy fans a refund at his upcoming show, which is sure to upset his attorneys. “If this isn’t the best live show you’ve seen — after the first song if you’re like, ‘I gotta go,’ you can leave and I’ll give you your money back,” he promised. “That’s how much I care about all of this. That’s not a joke. My lawyers will be like, ‘It’s a joke,’ but it’s not a joke. I will set it up so you can go.”
The “This Is America” rapper hits the road for a world tour, which kicks off in Oklahoma City on Aug. 11 with support from Willow and Amaarae.
After powering through the hot wings, Glover credited his Community co-star Joel McHale for helping build up his hot-sauce tolerance.
“Joel was literally, like, only eating espressos and eggs because he had a shirt-off scene. He was like, ‘Hot sauce, it’s the only flavor.’ So I started putting hot sauce on everything and then we started getting into a thing with each other,” he added in the post credits. “I realized, ‘Oh yeah, that must’ve boosted my tolerance.’”
Bando Stone & The New World hits streaming services on Friday (July 19). Gambino’s last album is a genre-blending effort featuring guest appearances from Jorja Smith, Flo Milli, Yeat, Steve Lacy and more.
Watch Donald Glover on Hot Ones below.
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Tommy Richman’s “Million Dollar Baby” spends its 10th week at No. 1 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart dated July 20, becoming the first song to reach the 10-week milestone since the list’s September 2023 inception.
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The TikTok Billboard Top 50 is a weekly ranking of the most popular songs on TikTok in the United States based on creations, video views and user engagement. The latest chart reflects activity July 8-14. Activity on TikTok is not included in Billboard charts except for the TikTok Billboard Top 50.
All but one week of the 11-week history of “Million Dollar Baby” on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 have been spent at No. 1; the song debuted at No. 2 on the May 11 survey and has led since its coronation the following week.
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Its TikTok Billboard Top 50 rule has coincided with success on the multimetric Billboard Hot 100; it debuted at No. 2 on the May 11 tally and has fallen no lower than No. 6 since, appearing at No. 4 on the July 20 list via 65.4 million radio audience impressions, 28.5 million official U.S. streams and 4,000 downloads sold in the week ending July 11, according to Luminate.
“Million Dollar Baby” initially reigned thanks to pent-up demand for the song following a snippet of the track that was uploaded to Richman’s TikTok account on April 13, prior to its April 26 premiere in full. A variety of trends using the tune have followed, paced by dance challenges.
BlackMayo’s “Jus’ Know” holds at its No. 2 best on the TikTok Billboard Top 50, while Ian’s “Magic Johnson” lifts one spot to No. 3. “Jus’ Know” remains dominated by a dance trend first popularized by basketball player Jared McCain and Twitch star Kai Cenat, and “Magic Johnson” has found recent success thanks to a mashup that adds the countdown of Chappell Roan’s “Hot to Go!” to the sound. LeoStayTrill and Mr Reload It’s “Pink Lemonade (Str8 Reload)” vaults from its No. 8 debut July 13 to a new peak of No. 4 thanks to lip-synch uploads.
Nos. 5 and 6, meanwhile, are new to the top 10: Blood Orange’s “Champagne Coast,” which jumps 21-5, and Megan Thee Stallion’s Yuki Chiba-featuring “Mamushi,” which leaps 12-6.
“Champagne Coast,” a nearly 13-year-old song released on Blood Orange’s 2011 album Coastal Grooves, has risen to prominence on TikTok in recent weeks thanks mostly to a trend with the prompt “did we get rich?” or “did we win the lottery?,” usually talking to their younger selves. Another trend talks about how they’ll stay single until someone looks them in the eyes and the result sounds like “Champagne Coast.”
“Champagne Coast” did not make a Billboard chart upon its initial release (nor has parent album Coastal Grooves). The song boasts a 65% jump in official U.S. streams to 3.9 million in the week ending July 11.
“Mamushi” is comparatively a much newer song, released June 28 on Megan Thee Stallion’s new album Megan. It sports a 40% gain in its second week (ending July 11) to 10.3 million chart-eligible streams, spurring a 68-45 leap on the Hot 100.
Its No. 6 rank on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 is helped by a dance trend that highlights the chorus, featuring alternating verses from Chiba and Megan Thee Stallion.
As for the chart’s top debut of the week, that honor goes to El Alfa and Nfasis, whose “Este” starts at No. 11. Released July 4, the Spanish-language tune is mostly driven by lip-synch videos to its chorus.
See the full TikTok Billboard Top 50 on Billboard.com. You can also tune in each Friday to SiriusXM’s TikTok Radio (channel 4) to hear the premiere of the chart’s top 10 countdown at 3 p.m. ET, with reruns heard throughout the week.
A couple of weeks before Dr. Dre whispered “I see dead people” to introduce the first-ever live performance of “Not Like Us” and send the Kia Forum crowd into a frenzy, an early June phone call from an old friend got the wheels churning to bring Kendrick Lamar’s Pop Out concert to Amazon Music.
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Tim Hinshaw spent five years as Amazon Music’s head of hip-hop and R&B before leaving his post in 2023 to launch the Free Lunch agency. Free Lunch teamed up with Lamar to seek out a livestreaming partner for the Pop Out & Friends concert, and Hinshaw made it a family affair when turning to his former employer.
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Two of the individuals tasked with bringing the Juneteenth concert to fruition were Sierra Lever, who succeeded Hinshaw’s role at Amazon and now leads the company’s R&B and hip-hop brand Rotation, along with the company’s global head of content and artist marketing Kirdis Postelle.
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Before eventually landing at Amazon, Postelle spent 17 years as general manager of Dr. Dre’s record label Aftermath Entertainment. Amazon Music also served as the streaming home of K. Dot’s The Big Steppers Tour stop in Paris in October 2022, so the familiarity from all parties was already established, and a reunion made sense.
“Having worked for Dre for so long [and] Kendrick has worked with me in the past — they know my bar for excellence is really high,” she confidently boasts. “They knew we were gonna deliver exactly what [Kendrick] wanted.”
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The plan came together in a matter of days, and things were quickly put into motion with all teams involved working in symbiosis when it came to the global livestream.
“Moving Amazon, these are big wheels to make turn – to get everybody on board,” Postelle asserts. “I feel like we had 10 days to turn this around. Get the marketing on point, Prime Video on point, to get [Amazon’s livestreaming partner] Twitch on point. To get all these teams rallied behind this one thing.”
While refusing to pull back the curtain on fires that had to be put out in the days leading up to the concert, Postelle allows that “there were some really late nights and some really early mornings trying to get this done.”
June 19 quickly approached, and while most of corporate America had Juneteenth off, it was showtime for Amazon Music and Kendrick Lamar at Kia Forum. Postelle anxiously watched along at home with millions of fans as her Oregon State University alum colleague was on site outside the Inglewood arena, calling plays overseeing the operation from the trucks.
K. Dot had the culture in the palm of his hand as he ran through the live debuts of his Drake psychoanalysis shakedown “Euphoria,” his atomic guest verse on Future & Metro Boomin’s “Like That” and, of course, his climactic “Not Like Us” killshot”– running back that last one an additional four times.
Dr. Dre’s arrival brought upon the biggest surprise of the night, with Dot welcoming his mentor to the stage for a mini-set of ‘90s classics “Still D.R.E.” and “California Love,” before Dre returned the favor and introduced “Not Like Us.”
Seeing the pair of Compton deities on stage together especially hit home for Postelle, an Aftermath Entertainment alum. “I got that pang of nostalgia,” she admits. “I couldn’t have asked for a better hip-hop history moment for myself.”
Kendrick’s victory lap reportedly broke Amazon Music’s streaming record when it comes to live events. Without putting a specific figure on it, the team confirmed there were “millions and millions of people watching,” as the live broadcast posted the most minutes watched of any Amazon Music production ever on Twitch and Prime Video.
And yes, Postelle and Lever – along with the Amazon Music team – saw some of the viral memes joking about how Amazon executives didn’t understand exactly what they signed up for, with Pirus, Crips and various gang sets linking up on stage together, alongside other L.A. luminaries.
“We talked about it a little bit,” Postelle admits. “I saw some meme, ‘Amazon executives didn’t know what they were getting themselves into’ and we laughed about it because the truth is we’re the executives.”
Lever adds: “People would be surprised who some of the executives are at Amazon Music. The reason we’re able to make quick decisions is because we have people who are experts in the genre.”
The phone continues to ring as Amazon looks for its next cultural moment in the live streaming sector. However, they’re not worried about working with Kendrick on the Pop Out potentially severing their relationship with Drake, whom they previously collaborated with on the Larry Hoover Benefit concert alongside Ye in December 2021. ”This was about culture for us,” Postelle says. “ I don’t think that [feuding element] even came into it. We don’t take sides.”
While Amazon released HD footage of Kendrick’s epic debut of “Not Like Us,” the entire live stream is still missing in an official capacity for fans hoping to rewatch the historic show. Somehow, Amazon didn’t foresee the craze surrounding the concert and is now working toward releasing the concert’s livestream in its entirety on their platform.
“We didn’t anticipate, and neither did Kendrick, this kind of outpouring for the video on demand,” Postelle explains. “We hadn’t planned for it. Everyone is actively — between Kendrick’s team and our team — figuring out what it’s going to take to get this up.”
With weeks to look back on the concert, Lever hailed the Pop Out experience as the “biggest cultural moment this year,” while Postelle championed being part of it as one of the “top five amazing things” she’s accomplished in her decorated career.
“Not Like Us” isn’t going anywhere either, as the Drake diss returned to top the Billboard Hot 100 and is a bona fide song of the summer candidate. The Pop Out concert served as the perfect playground for Kendrick’s championship parade while promoting West coast unity with his love letter to Black culture. With concert ticket prices sky-rocketing across the industry, livestreaming shows and bringing fans intimate experiences from thousands of miles away is providing a more important service than ever.
“When you think of underserved communities that don’t necessarily have the capability to go to a show in person, this is an outlet for fans to continue to dive deeper into having these moments with their favorite artists,” Lever asserts. And Postelle guarantees: “The strength of livestreaming is going to continue to grow.”
Travis Scott‘s Cactus Jack Foundation hosted an emergency Hurricane Beryl relief drive in Missouri City, TX on Tuesday (July 176) to aid the thousands of Texans who are still struggling in the wake of the devastation left behind by Hurricane Beryl last week. According to a release announcing the effort undertaken in partnership with the […]