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On its face, Kendrick Lamar and Playboi Carti seemed like an unlikely duo until King Vamp recruited K. Dot for a few features on his Music album. They hit the stage together for the first time on Tuesday night (April 29) when Lamar brought out Carti as a special guest in Atlanta to perform their […]
Fresh off his viral Coachella performance and the release of his latest single, Yeat is officially bringing the bell to Australia.
The breakout rapper has announced his debut Australian tour, The Bell Down Under Tour, which will see him perform four shows across the country this October.
Presented by Live Nation, The Bell Down Under Tour kicks off on Oct. 10 at Melbourne’s Festival Hall, followed by stops at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion (Oct. 14), Brisbane’s Riverstage (Oct. 16), and Perth HPC (Oct. 18).
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Tickets go on sale Wednesday, May 7, at 11 a.m. local time via livenation.com.au. A Mastercard presale runs from Friday, May 2, at 9 a.m. local through Tuesday, May 6, at 9 a.m. local. Live Nation members can access a presale from Tuesday, May 6, at 10 a.m. through Wednesday, May 7, at 10 a.m. local.
Yeat, born Noah Smith, has skyrocketed in just a few short years. With the release of his latest album, LYFESTYLE, Yeat landed his first-ever No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 89,000 equivalent album units, following up on the No. 2 debut of his last album, 2093, bringing his total number of top 10 entries to five. He’s previously landed with Lyfë (No. 10 in 2022), 2 Alivë (No. 6 in 2022), and AftërLyfe (No. 4 in 2023).
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The 24-year-old first gained attention in 2021 when his song “Gët Busy” went viral, quickly earning co-signs from artists like Drake, Lil Uzi Vert and Young Thug. Since then, Yeat has cultivated a cult-like following that’s helped fuel his rise to streaming dominance, boasting over 16 billion global streams to date.
Yeat’s latest collaboration with Drake, “IDGAF,” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 in late 2023. With even more music on the way, The Bell Down Under Tour is set to be another defining moment in Yeat’s unstoppable momentum.
Yeat — The Bell Down Under Tour 2025 (Australia Dates)Oct. 10 – Festival Hall, MelbourneOct. 14 – Hordern Pavilion, SydneyOct. 16 – Riverstage, BrisbaneOct. 18 – Perth HPC, Perth
Ye’s (formerly Kanye West) Donda 2 album is on streaming services for the first time. West premiered the sequel in February 2022, and the project had only been available on the Stem Player until Wednesday (April 30).
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As of press time, Donda 2 is available on YouTube Music and Spotify, but is yet to hit Apple Music. The project is loaded with 18 tracks and guest appearances from XXXTENTACION, Don Toliver, Migos, Jack Harlow, Travis Scott, Playboi Carti, Baby Keem, Future and more.
Future served as the album’s executive producer and the cover art remains the same, showcasing Ye’s childhood home on fire.
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West originally premiered the album with a listening party inside Miami’s LoanDepot Park in February 2022, but many of the tracks were unfinished and never made it to streaming services as Ye focused on the Stem Player technology.
Ye also threw in cuts like “City of Gods” featuring Fivio Foreign and Alicia Keys, which arrived just prior to the Donda 2 listening party, and served as the lead single for the Brooklyn drill rapper’s B.I.B.L.E. album. The track reached No. 46 on the Billboard Hot 100.
“530” was one of the unfinished standouts on Ye and Ty Dolla $ign’s Vultures 2 album, but West felt strong enough about the cleaned-up version to include it on Donda 2‘s streaming release.
Kim Kardashian’s 2021 Saturday Night Live monologue is still included on “Sci-Fi.” “I married the best rapper of all time,” she can be heard saying to start the track. “Not only that, he is the richest Black man in America. A talented, legit genius who gave me four incredible kids.”
West has been holed up in Spain for much of April. A masked Ye hosted a live stream premiere for Donda 2 with popular streamers Digital Nas, Sneako and N3on on Tuesday night (April 29).
West has been under fire in recent months for controversial X rants filled with hate speech. On the music side, he released a visual edition of his Bully album in March.
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Don Toliver and Doja Cat are dropping their new collaboration “Lose My Mind” from the F1 movie soundtrack this week. The two are heard harmonizing on the hook “So why don’t we just lose my mind?” in the hi-tech video clip that was shared on Instagram by the Formula 1, F1 movie and F1 album […]
Latto headlined Syracuse University’s Block Party 2025 over the weekend, and she got around to posting some pictures from her time on the central New York campus on Tuesday (April 29). While she’ll always be Big Mama, Latto went by Big Daddy in Syracuse as she rocked a throwback ‘fit that went diamond in the […]
Did you know Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal were hip-hop heads?
As the two actors promote their film The Accountant 2, they sat down with Complex for their “GOAT Talk” series and the topic of Rap Mount Rushmore came up, with Ben offering up some interesting picks.
“I think Lil Wayne should be on there,” he said. “You were talking about Eazy-E today. We were talking about back when we were young. I mean, you know, a lot of talk about, ‘Well, Slick Rick.’ And then of course, there’s Kendrick right now.’”
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Ben seemed to feel put on the spot and was throwing out names off the dome, but when Jon asked him to confirm, the Armageddon actor answered, “Yeah, I mean, I kinda at random, but, yeah I’d take that Mount Rushmore. I’d take that,” before also bringing up Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg.
Bernthal essentially agreed with Ben’s picks, but replaced Slick Rick and Lil Wayne with the Notorious B.I.G. and 2Pac while also acknowledging that he liked the idea of Affleck putting Weezy on his.
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“I mean, I think you need Biggie on there. You need 2Pac on there,” The Punisher actor said. “But I’ll put Eazy on there and Kendrick, but I love that you put Lil Wayne on there.”
Ben then said that ‘Pac is probably his pick for greatest rapper ever before telling a funny story of his son asking him if he ever heard arguably the greatest diss song of all-time. “My son played me this song the other day,” he joked. “And he’s like, ‘Yo, you heard this?’ And he played me “Hit Em Up.” And I was like, ‘Have I heard this? Mothe—-er, I had a whole f—in’ life that I lived before you were born.’”
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YK Osiris says he hasn’t dropped any new music out of fear of “humiliation.” In a livestream with Lil Rodney Son on Monday (April 28), YK Osiris opened up about why he hasn’t dropped anything new, and said he’s scared of embarrassment. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and […]
Nelly shared his thoughts on President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office before stepping on stage for his Stagecoach performance. In a quick interview with Fox News Digital prior to his Stagecoach set on April 26, Nelly called himself a “glass half-full type of guy” when speaking on Trump’s first 100 days back in […]
On the heels of delivering Kush + Orange Juice 2, Wiz Khalifa is hitting the road. Wiz and Sean Paul announced the Good Vibes Only Tour on Tuesday (April 29), which will feature DaBaby as a special guest performer. The 15-date amphitheater run will go through North America this summer, kicking off on July 6 […]
So, who invented “rage” rap? Trippie Redd has an idea.
“The inventors of the rage sound is me, [XXXtentacion], Carti and Uzi,” he said in an Instagram Stories video posted April 27. “We paved the way. We popularized it. I’m not gonna let you old a– n—s say you invented something that you ain’t invent. N—s need to take they pills, man. You n—s be psychotic, like, out of they f—king mind. Your old a– ain’t invent sh—t.”
“That’s exactly why I ain’t pull up on his old a– ‘cause he always just wanna put a n—a beneath him and s—t. You ain’t really for black people. You ain’t really for your people, n—a. You be using n—as and you lost right now.”
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Trippie then added a message for younger artists to be careful who they chose to collaborate with.
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“Artists coming up — keep a hold of y’all craft, man,” the Ohio rapper warned. “Don’t give y’all s—t out to these old n—as ’cause they just wanna get around you, find out your sound, use you, and then dump you, n—a. They won’t f—k with you ever again. All these n—as cutthroat.”
And while he didn’t mention any names, Trippie may be referring to Ye’s April 26 comments during an interview with Sneako, claiming that he invented the style with his 2013 album Yeezus, and more specifically with the song “Blood on the Leaves.”
“I invented ‘rage,’ bro. ‘Blood on the Leaves,’ Ye claimed. “I invented this whole ‘rage’ sound … Yeezus is that energy. ‘N—as in Paris’ is the first time n—as was moshin’. We got Black people moshin’, that was some white boy s—t.”
Some fans on social media have credited Kid Cudi as the rapper to introduce that specific sound and point to his Man on the Moon series of albums and the fact that he often referred to himself as “Mr. Rager.”