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Patti LaBelle turned 80 years old last week (May 24) and her close friend Whoopi Goldberg threw the music icon a surprise party attended by the likes of Gayle King, Fat Joe, Tamron Hall and more.
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Entertainment Tonight caught up with LaBelle at the party, where she revealed plans for her next album and a possible collaboration on the horizon with Cardi B.
The “On My Own” singer hailed the Bronx bombshell as her “new best friend” and said she loves the idea of working with the Grammy-winning rapper. “Why not,” she said of teaming up with Cardi B. “[Cardi’s] like one of my new best friends. And to know that she was into Patti LaBelle, she’s like my new buddy.”
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Patti LaBelle added that her upcoming album should arrive in 2024, and the title is inspired by her age combined with the amount of time she’s spent working in the music industry.
“It should be out at the end of this year, and it’s called 8065,” she said. “I’m 80 years young and 65 years in show business.”
If they do hit the studio, it won’t be the first time Cardi and LaBelle linked up. The pair joined forces last Thanksgiving to combine their products for a delectable holiday side dish. Cardi B brought her pumpkin-flavored Whip Shots Vodka to Patti’s house to mix with her Good Life Pies for a sweet snack.
“Being with Ms Patti and her family was such a honor,” Cardi said of the experience with LaBelle on Instagram. “The way she speaks with such gentleness, calmness, and grace is soooo soothing.. I kept asking her questions just to hear her talk and one hug from her was so warm it makes you just feel welcome and like you knew her forever!”
She continued: “So charming and so sweet but at the same time you can tell she can get real Philly on ya ass if she needs to! Thank you so much @mspattilabelle you are everything and I’m coming over for dinner every chance I get!!!
While Cardi’s sophomore album is still in limbo, she remains in-demand when it comes to her features. She’s dropping another guest verse as part of the “Wanna Be” remix with Megan Thee Stallion and GloRilla on Friday (May 31).
As for Patti LaBelle, her last project to make the Billboard 200 came in 2007 with her holiday-themed Miss Patti’s Christmas, which reached No. 174.
Watch Patti LaBelle talk about Cardi B and her new album below.
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Detroit’s Veeze is back with his first single and video of 2024. Directed by Jimmy Whisperz, “Pop Yo Shit” finds the young rapper on road in London floating over Basskid and Ddot production in his signature hazy flow. “I got some money so d–n old, I built the pyramids,” Veeze spits while wearing a Davy […]
It’s been a turbulent last five years for Megan Thee Stallion. While her star power has grown, she suffered the losses of her mother and grandmother and had to deal with the fallout and trauma that came with the 2020 Tory Lanez shooting and subsequent trial.
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In her bout with depression, Meg turned to alternatives such as therapy to improve her mental health as she dealt with a hate train that her feeling like people were continuing to kick her while she was down.
The Houston Hottie opened up in her new L’OFFICIEL cover story about her mental health battle and the cathartic release that came with dropping her fiery “Hiss” single earlier this year, which topped the Billboard Hot 100.
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“I felt so awful every day,” Meg shared. “It was such a hard place to get out of. I don’t even want to care who hates me, really. What I should be focusing on is the love that I do receive. That’s what I’m trying to get better about now. Everything is not going to be great all the time. If I’m going to be here for the cheers, I got to be here for the boos.”
Thee Stallion claims she didn’t know there would be such a visceral response to “Hiss.” Although, the 29-year-old was happy to get the weight off her shoulders after people had so much to say about her in the recent years.
“I absolutely did not know it was going to do all of that! I had no clue that was going to happen,” Megan added. “I had been holding in feelings for a while. I felt like everybody was kicking me when I was down.
She continued: “It felt good to finally be able to just talk my talk because I was in a place where I was so down, and I didn’t want to do anything to disrupt any kind of peace. I felt like, ‘Oh, Megan Thee Stallion, everybody hates you right now. Don’t you say a word. Just be quiet.’”
“Hiss” arrived in the last week of January and bowed in at the top spot to give Megan her third No. 1 Hot 100 hit and first solo entry at the apex. The track launched with 29.2 million first-week streams, 2.9 million radio airplay audience impressions and 104,000 downloads sold Jan. 26-Feb. 1, according to Luminate.
Megan Thee Stallion’s rebirth-themed album is slated to arrive this summer. She says fans can expect a full cycle of emotions and different sounds throughout the LP.
“This is music I would like if I wasn’t Megan Thee Stallion. I don’t want to say I’m tapping into other genres. I’m just tapping into other sounds. But it’s still very much Megan Thee Stallion. It won’t feel like I went so left. It’ll feel true to me,” she said. “You’ll almost be like, ‘I wouldn’t have thought she would’ve rapped over that, but this sounds great.’”
Meg is currently on the road as part of her Hot Girl Summer Tour, which will rumble through Memphis and Atlanta this week.
Take a look at her L’OFFICIEL cover below.
The late Notorious B.I.G.‘s mom, Voletta Wallace, was one of many people who was disturbed after a video of Sean “Diddy” Combs physically assaulting then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in 2016 surfaced earlier this month. And in a new interview published Thursday (May 30), the Biggie’s mother told Rolling Stone that the clip — compounded with the […]
Many rappers remixed Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter III banger “A Milli,” but now, Weezy himself is tweaking the six-times platinum anthem. With Wayne partnering with Uber Eats in honor of its new union with Domino’s pizza, “A Milli” is growing to “10 Milli.” Domino’s is celebrating coming to the Uber Eats app by gifting customers […]
After succeeding Lay Bankz’s “Tell Ur Girlfriend,” a three-week No. 1 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50, Tommy Richman’s “Million Dollar Baby” also strings together its third frame atop the tally, ranking at No. 1 on the June 1-dated survey.
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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 May 20-26. Activity on TikTok is not included in Billboard charts except for the TikTok Billboard Top 50.
“Million Dollar Baby” is the fifth song with at least three weeks at No. 1 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 since its September 2023 inception. Mitski’s “My Love Mine All Mine” is the all-time leader with a six-week reign.
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“Million Dollar Baby” concurrently ranks at No. 3 on the multimetric Billboard Hot 100 via 55.9 million official U.S. streams, 15.2 million radio audience impressions and 7,000 downloads in the week ending May 23, according to Luminate.
Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” which spent its first week in the top five of the TikTok Billboard Top 50 dated May 25, jumps to a new peak of No. 2 on the latest list, followed by Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather,” which debuts at No. 3.
As for “Birds of a Feather,” the song marks the second week of debuts from Eilish’s newly released album, Hit Me Hard and Soft. “Blue” led the pack on the May 25 tally with a No. 13 bow, with “Chihiro” also appearing at No. 49.
More songs from Hit Me Hard and Soft populate the June 1 list, but “Birds of a Feather” is far and away the top performer so far with its No. 3 debut. The song’s main trend features friends posting videos together, either past or present, highlighting their friendship. Eilish’s “birds of a feather/ we should stick together” chorus soundtracks the footage.
“Birds of a Feather” concurrently bows at No. 13 on the Hot 100 thanks to 25.3 million streams and 3,000 downloads. The album’s top-performing tune on the Hot 100, “Lunch” (No. 5), is one of the other Eilish tunes to reach the TikTok Billboard Top 50, starting at No. 13, led mostly by lip-synch content.
Below “Birds of a Feather,” Lay Bankz’s “Tell Ur Girlfriend” and Future, Metro Boomin, Playboi Carti and Travis Scott’s “Type Shit” rounds out the top five.
“Birds of a Feather” isn’t the only song to hit the top 10 for the first time. Tinashe’s “Nasty” leaps from No. 12 to No. 7, and Cayo’s “Close” shoots 28-9 while Luis R Conriquez and Neton Vega’s “Si No Quieres No” jumps 18-10.
“Nasty,” originally released April 12, has accelerated in recent weeks thanks to a dance trend on TikTok, as has “Close,” premiered in March. While “Nasty” has a few additional appearance on the Billboard charts under its belt, paced by a No. 10 debut on the Hot R&B Songs ranking dated June 1 (2.9 million streams), the TikTok Billboard Top 50 is the only chart appearance so far for “Close,” though it enjoys a 104% jump in streams to 385,000 in the week ending May 23.
As for “Si No Quieres No,” the duet’s TikTok rise (soundtracking a variety of content with no major throughline trend) coincides with a continued spike on other streaming services, rising 10% to 9.6 million streams.
See the full TikTok Billboard Top 50 here. 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.
Usher will be the BET Awards’ 2024 Lifetime Achievement honoree. The R&B veteran is also nominated for four BET Awards at this year’s ceremony – album of the year for Coming Home, best collaboration and video of the year for “Good Good” and best male R&B/pop artist. Usher won in the latter category last year […]
Shaboozey is ready to blow out what has already been an epic year so far. The 29-year-old Virginia country rapper who was featured on two songs from Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter album (“Spaghetti” and “Sweet Honey Buckin’”) is riding high with his solo single “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” — which hit No. 3 on the Billboard […]
They told you it was coming and now it’s almost here. Just days after Megan Thee Stallion, Cardi B and GloRilla teamed up on stage during Meg’s Madison Square Garden Hot Girl Summer show in New York last week, Cardi revealed that a remix of “Wanna Be” will drop on Friday (May 31). Unlike the […]
Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers is always putting on for California. It’s no secret the legendary rock star is a huge Kobe Bryant and Lakers fan, but now we know he’s a fan of Vince Staples as well. Like a lot of us, Flea took the weekend to really get into the Long […]