R&B/Hip-Hop
Page: 203
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.
Trending on Billboard
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.
Trending on Billboard
“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.
Trending on Billboard
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)
[embedded content]
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 […]
Billboard complies its first-ever Hottest Female Rappers List based on quality of records, chart success, buzz within the culture, notable business endeavors and partnerships, and touring success…
Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” has permeated different avenues of culture outside of music such as politics with a Joe Biden ad, and the Drake diss has now found its way into a weather report.
Explore
Explore
See latest videos, charts and news
See latest videos, charts and news
Houston meteorologist Adam Krueger shrewdly weaved K. Dot’s wordplay into Tuesday’s (June 4) CW39 broadcast as “Not Like Us” helped spell out the steamy temperatures in Texas, which probably threw off some of his audience.
“Let’s say you want to travel somewhere cooler. How many opps you got? If you wanna pass on this heat like John Stockton you can go into the Northwest where there’s 60s and 70s for highs today,” he said while channeling his inner-Kendrick. “So again, we got temperatures in the 90s, but it’s going to feel hotter for several days. Wop, wop, wop, wop!”
Trending on Billboard
Krueger continued: “This is not a major cold front. In fact, the general rule this time of year if it’s June and we’re talking about a cold front, it’s probably a minor.”
The meteorologist hopped into the comment section to clarify that he’s not choosing sides in the Kendrick-Drake feud. “For the record, I’m not picking sides. I want no part of this beef,” he wrote.
However, fans loved to see him leaning into “Not Like Us.” “Certified weather man,” one commenter crowned him while another envisioned the scene of an elderly person not understanding any of the references.
For his final trick, one camera panned to another which hilariously had a printed-out photo of Drake taped to it and hanging underneath the lens.
It should be known that Adam Krueger is no stranger to incorporating rap lyrics into his broadcasts. He previously went viral mixing in bars from Eminem’s “Without Me” and Lil Jon & The Eastside Boyz’s “Get Low” anthems.
K. Dot’s “Not Like Us” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in May and is still holding strong at No. 2 on the latest chart. The Mustard-produced West Coast bop also came in at No. 2 on the inaugural 2024 Songs of the Summer chart, which returned on Tuesday.
Come for the weather and stay for “Not Like Us.” Watch the fun broadcast below.
Rich the Kid sat down with Billboard News’ Catrise J to talk about the crazy year he’s had so far and his upcoming project. The rapper is capitalizing off the success of his first Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit with “Carnival” by releasing his first solo project in four years.
Explore
Explore
See latest videos, charts and news
See latest videos, charts and news
Life’s a Gamble is set to drop some time this month, and is his fourth studio album. The project features the likes of Chief Keef, Offset, Quavo, Takeoff, Ty Dolla $ign, Ye, Peso Pluma, Rob49 and Bia, and is executive produced entirely by Ye and Ty Dolla. He dropped the first single, “Band Man,” a couple weeks ago.
[embedded content]
Rich spoke on why its taken him four years to follow up 2020’s Boss Man, saying he’s been handling label drama, but he’s also been able to use the time wisely. “Really been dealing with stuff behind the scenes with labels,” he tells Billboard. “But I feel like the time that has gone by, I been able to perfect my craft.”
“I’ve been able to perfect the songs and the music and I know exactly what the sound is, what i’m shooting for,” he adds.
The rapper also talked about the Latin album he’s working on with his Dominican DJ, Ralphy Black. Rich says they’ve been trying to the let the music flow organically as they’ve been making songs on the road. Rich credits Ralphy for introducing him to Peso Pluma’s music, which made the rapper shoot the Mexican artist the DM that led to their recent song “Gimme a Second.”
When asked what was next for him, Rich ends the interview by shouting, “Life’s a Gamble! The best album of ’24! Life’s a Gamble, baby. Yeah!”
Watch Billboard News’ full interview with Rich the Kid above.
Flavor Flav is doing his part to keep Red Lobster afloat after the restaurant chain filed for bankruptcy in May.
The Public Enemy rapper showed off a spread that could feed a football team, as Flav ordered every item imaginable off the menu for his family on Monday (June 3). Flavor Flav posed with the dining table full of various seafood dishes ranging from fish and chips to popcorn shrimp and signature menu items such as the Cheddar Bay Biscuits and Bar Harbor Lobster Bake.
“Ya boy said he wuz gonna do everything to help Red Lobster and save the Cheddar Bay Biscuits,,, ordered the whole menu,” captioned a photo of his spread on Instagram, which his daughter Da’Zyna also shared.
Explore
Explore
See latest videos, charts and news
See latest videos, charts and news
Fans flooded the comments to share that they loved the kind-hearted gesture from the 65-year-old. “Yooo, Flav is going to single-handedly save Red Lobster,” one wrote while another joked, “Some heroes wear clocks!”
Trending on Billboard
The rapper’s team told TMZ that Flav went to RL with his daughter, and was returning with his son for seconds, and hopes to have a conversation with Red Lobster officials about collaborating in the future to see what could be done to help the franchise.
Flavor Flav continued spreading the love and awareness about Red Lobster on Twitter, where he promised a worried fan the chain “aint closing down just yet.”
The aint closing down just yet— FLAVOR FLAV (@FlavorFlav) June 3, 2024
Per the Associated Press, Red Lobster filed for bankruptcy protection in May after shuttering dozens of locations across the country. However, the company promised to continue operating its 600 restaurants as they look for a sale. “This restructuring is the best path forward for Red Lobster. It allows us to address several financial and operational challenges and emerge stronger and re-focused on our growth,” CEO Jonathan Tibus said at the time.
Court docs show that Red Lobster reportedly employs 36,000 people across the U.S. and Canada. Outside of the 551 U.S. restaurants and 27 Canada locations, Red Lobster has a handful of franchises in Thailand, Ecuador, Japan and Mexico.
See Flav’s Instagram post about his Red Lobster meal below: