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Charlie Wilson, aka Uncle Charlie, was the focus of a double celebration in Hollywood this week, aka Grammy Week. The singer-songwriter and former frontman of The Gap Band not only received the 2,770th star on Tinseltown’s legendary Walk of Fame on Jan. 29, he also rang in his 71st birthday that same day. Also joining Wilson for the momentous occasion were fellow music stars Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Babyface, Snoop Dogg, Kanye “Ye” West, Chanté Moore and Tyler, the Creator.
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Upping the occasion’s emotional quotient was the fact that during a very low point in his career, Wilson was an addict living on the streets of Hollywood. Now sober for 29 years, Wilson is also a prostate cancer survivor of 16 years.
“This star represents not only my journey,” said Wilson, “but the power of resilience, faith and unwavering support of those who believe in you.”
Jimmy “Jam” Harris, one-half of the Grammy-winning production/songwriting team with Terry Lewis, emceed the event, noting, “Charlie’s showmanship remains unmatched.”
Stepping up to the podium to pay additional tribute were Babyface, Snoop Dogg and Wilson’s longtime manager Michael Paran.
Kanye West, Tyler, The Creator, Terry Steven Lewis, Jimmy Jam, Babyface and Chanté Moore attend the ceremony as Charlie Wilson is honored with star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Jan. 29, 2024, in Hollywood, Calif.
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Describing the lessons that Wilson taught him about showmanship, business and family as “a treasure,” Snoop Dogg said, “To have somebody like you to stay in my life and be there for me and my family, it means the world to me, Charlie.”
Grammy-winning icon Babyface remarked, “The fact of who showed up here for Charlie shows why he needs a star because he’s got the best students in the world.”
Paran, also president/CEO of P Music Group, called Wilson “a true powerhouse whose energy comes from his pure hunger to bring joy to others.”
Alongside his late brothers/group co-founders Robert and Ronnie, Wilson scored a string of classic hits during The Gap Band’s ’70s/’80s heyday such as “Burn Rubber on Me,” “Outstanding” and “Yearning for Your Love.” Heading out on his own in 1992, Wilson has since left his own imprint on a host of R&B hits, among them “There Goes My Baby,” “I’m Blessed” featuring T.I., “Charlie, Last Name Wilson,” “One I Got” and his guest turn on Snoop Dogg’s “Beautiful.”
The 13-time Grammy nominee and indefatigable live performer recently released his latest single “Superman.”
Eminem proved he bleeds Honolulu blue, dark steel grey and white. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame rapper repeatedly showed up during the Detroit Lions run to a heartbreaking NFC Championship loss to the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, showing beyond a doubt that he is a lion for life.
Which made his X post on Tuesday (Jan. 30) about shelving a planned diss track aimed at the team’s offensive coordinator, Ben Johnson, that much funnier. After rumors floated that Johnson had turned down offers for head coaching positions in Seattle and Washington to stay in the Motor City, Slim Shady said he holstered his mic.
“Guess I should stop recording this diss track..!! Lol!!,” Eminem tweeted. “@ Ben Johnson Thank you for staying!!! We can’t break this team up ESPECIALLY since I’M on it!!! Coach Campbell we love you bro!!! Let’s run it back next year!!…I’m READY!!!! I promise you I WILL get us to the super bowl!!!”
After years of wallowing in also-ran status, the Lions had a magical season that put them on the brink of their first Super Bowl appearance. That dream was deferred, however, when they had a historic meltdown against the 49ers, blowing a 17-point lead on their way to Sunday’s 34-31 loss.
Eminem’s bit about being on the team was a callback to his earlier social media posts boosting his favorite ballers. Two weeks ago, he was spotted in a skybox when the Lions punched their first ticket to the NFC Championship game in 32 years, where the big screen flashed a September tweet from the rapper in which he wrote, “Let’s f–king go!!!! Detroit.” That got fans hyped while the stadium speakers blasted his iconic 8 Mile pump-up anthem, “Lose Yourself.”
The cameras then showed Slim Shady, decked out in Lions gear, jumping up to flex and scream before pounding his chest during the game in which the Lions topped the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. At the time, Em also responded to a meme featuring a picture of his 8 Mile character B-Rabbit driving around town with the caption, “[Lions QB Jared] Goff and the Lions pulling up to the NFC Championship game,” writing, “Can’t believe I did it again!!! @Lions.”
That tweet was the sequel to one Eminem posted the week before, telling Lions coach Dan Campbell that he was ready to suit up to help break the team’s three-decade playoff drought. “Yo, Dan, I’m reporting. I’m going to report. Third quarter,” the 5’8′, 150 pound rapper said. “I’m reporting, offensive line, eligible receiver. I’ll be the quarterback, the entire line, (the) offensive line. And the receiver, I will throw it to myself and score a touchdown. In the third quarter. Just give me a uniform. Or at least just a helmet.”
Bleeding blue clearly runs in the family, as evidenced by a family pic post from the rapper’s daughter, Hailie Jade Scott, from Sunday’s loss. Though Em was not in the shots, the 28-year-old Just a Little Shady podcaster shared pics of herself in a custom Lions jacket, as well as one of her with fiancé Evan McClintock, Em’s half-brother Nate, her sister Alaina Marie Scott and Alaina’s husband.
See Eminem’s post and the Mathers family pic below.
Guess I should stop recording this diss track..!! Lol!! @ Ben Johnson Thank you for staying!!! We can’t break this team up ESPECIALLY since I’M on it!!! Coach Campbell we love you bro!!! Let’s run it back next year!!…I’m READY!!!! I promise you I WILL get us to the super…— Marshall Mathers (@Eminem) January 30, 2024
Ice Spice is bringing new millennium freak out back. The “Think U the S— (Fart)” rapper revealed on The Today Show on Tuesday (Jan. 30) that she’s planning to release her full-length debut album, Y2K, “this year.”
“Yes, there’s gonna be an album,” the MC told co-hosts Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager. “I’m so excited,” the Bronx spitter added about the album whose title is reference to her birthday, Jan. 1, 2000. If you’re old enough to remember, in the years leading up to the calendar flip to the new millennium there was a global freakout over fears that the world’s computers and energy grids would melt down catastrophically due to a glitch in their internal calendar systems that experts feared would re-set them to 1900 instead of 2000.
Spoiler: that didn’t happen.
But Ice Spice’s album is happening, though the rapper didn’t reveal a specific release date for the record she said is “almost finished.” She also said that she has “a crazy collaboration that just got locked in, like two days ago,” again not divulging any specifics.
In November, Ice Spice posted an image of her new lower back tat with the caption “Y2K! ?/?/24.”
The debut album tease came just days after the 24-year-old rapper dropped the Miami-based video for her new single, “Think U the S— (Fart).” In the clip, Ice twerks and parties all around the city, flashing stacks of cash while cruising in luxury rides and hanging with her friends on luxury car-shaped watercraft. “B—-es be quick, but I’m quicker / B—-es be thick, but I’m thicker / She could be rich, but I’m richer,” she raps on the hook.
It’s been a busy few months for Ice, who dropped “Pretty Girl” with Afrobeats star Rema in October, which they performed during her Saturday Night Live debut. She is also up for four Grammys at the 66th annual awards — best new artist, best pop duo/group performance for “Karma” with Taylor Swift, best rap song and best song written for visual media with “Barbie World” with Nicki Minaj — which take place this Sunday (Feb. 4).
Watch Ice Spice talk about her new album on The Today Show below.
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After producing for Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Travis Scott and more for over a decade, Hit-Boy has solidified his stance as one of the best rap producers in the game.
The three-time Grammy winner is up for producer of the year, non-classical this year, and it’s the second time he’s been nominated in the category. “I didn’t have no label budget. Everything is funded by me, music by me, engineered by me, studio time by me, like literally coming out of my pocket. I feel like I already won for real,” he told Billboard News‘ Tetris Kelly. “I don’t have no big powerful manager like the rest of the producers. I’m thuggin’ this sh– by myself with a couple of my homies.”
But Hit-Boy isn’t always solo in the studio. In the last three years, Hit-Boy has executive produced six albums for Nas, with three King’s Disease and three Magic albums. Nas won his first-ever Grammy in 2021 in the best rap album category with the first King’s Disease installation.
“Nas empowers me to be the best producer I can and allows me to grow through my production process. When he comes [to] lay two, three verses and a hook, and [he’s] like, ‘Yo, do what you do.’ I’m doing breakdowns, I’m adding additional keys, I’m doing things to just keep the production interesting. And when he comes back to the studio, he like, ‘Yo! I didn’t expect this. My mind is blown. What made you think to put this sound and it matches what I’m saying?’” he says. “We got mutual, super respect. He allows me to be me and grow through this, and I allow him to be him. He’s one of the greatest, period. I just try to keep my ear open, my eyes open. That’s how you got 80 songs in three years — you got to leave ego out the room.”
The 36-year-old producer hitmaker (real name Chauncey Alexander Hollis Jr.) recently worked with another superstar, Jennifer Lopez, on her first single of the year, “Can’t Get Enough.” The song, which Latto recently hopped on for the remix, arrives ahead of J.Lo’s ninth studio album This Is Me… Now, due Feb. 16 via Nuyorican Productions and BMG. And it’s not the first time Hit-Boy has ever worked with her: His first official beat placement was on Lopez’s “Forever” from her 2007 album Brave.
But the most special collaborator he’s ever worked with is his father Big Hit, who recently finished serving nine years of a 12 year-sentence after being found guilty and convicted of a hit-and-run in L.A. resulting in great bodily injury in 2014. After being released from prison, Big Hit went straight to the studio and started getting back to work. The father-son duo released Surf or Down, Vol. 2 just in time for Father’s Day last year. Then Hit-Boy executive produced his father’s highly anticipated debut album The Truth Is In My Eyes, which was released on December 16, 2023, exclusively on Big Hit’s Bandcamp. Two weeks later, at the top of this year, Hit-Boy, Big Hit and The Game joined forces on the 9-track project Paisley Dreams.
“It’s a dream come true…. Sitting and just laying in the bunker in the cell, surrounded by all the concrete and all the noise, all the bullsh–, trying to block it out, I just told myself, ‘One day, I’mma be in the mansion. I’ll focus on the vision.’ And I stayed focused,” said Big Hit. And that focus doesn’t go unnoticed by his own son. “[I’m] getting to know different parts of myself through him and seeing his work ethic. Since I was a teenager, people be like, ‘All you do is work. You locked in all the time.’ I got that hustle in my blood, you know what I mean? Seeing him record 300 songs in seven months, I’m trying to keep up with him now!” Hit-Boy added.
Watch Hit-Boy’s full Billboard News interview above.
Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def) made headlines when he jabbed Drake by comparing the 6 God’s discography to the music played while shopping at stores like Target.
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Mos felt the backlash and clarified his comments with a 25-minute clip that he posted to his Instagram on Monday (Jan. 29) in a halfway apology to Drizzy.
“First of all, I don’t hate anyone,” Bey began. “My opinion is mine. It’s legal in all states, as far as I’m aware. It was not an opportunity to try to slander him or to clown on him. I have reached out to him. I have no responses yet.
“I’m not keen to talk about people or to them through a screen, I prefer to talk to people directly. But I will say this: The young man is very talented. He’s been able to be very successful with that talent, and I have no issue with his success or anything that he’s been able to achieve as a result of his talent.”
Mos didn’t want to be grouped in with those who have unfairly critiqued Drake throughout his career and opened the door to having a direct conversation with the OVO boss, if that’s what he wanted.
“I do feel that some of the criticism that he’s received in the past has been mean-spirited or unfair. So I don’t want to participate in that,” he continued. “I’ve never had no issue with you personally — I don’t know you well enough to have any sort of issue with you in that regard. Nonetheless, it’s not sacrilegious to have a critique or opinion of a public figure, particularly one of that magnitude in current, modern culture.”
Bey contacted Dave Chappelle in hopes of having the legendary comic serve as a mediator in extending the olive branch.
“Drake, if you would like to speak to me directly, you can at any point,” he added. “I reached out to Chappelle, asked him to reach out to you. I DM’d you. You are a very talented MC. But for me, I require more of myself and others than just talent or charm or charisma — particularly in times of urgent crisis.”
Ultimately, the Black Star rapper wants more substance from artists of today in hopes of seeing them connect further with the audience than the club.
“What I would like to see, in terms of creators or creative people in the world as it relates to our culture, is for people to connect with us beyond the jukebox or the dance floor,” the 50-year-old opined. “A fair-weather friend can hardly be called a friend at all. The people that party with you, that’s cool, but will they show up if you at the triage, or you in a crisis situation?”
The Brooklyn rap dignitary made the controversial comments swiping at Drake during an appearance on The Cutting Room Floor podcast earlier this month.
“Drake is pop to me,” he said when asked if he looked at Drake as hip-hop. “In the sense like if I was in Target in Houston and I heard a Drake song… It feels like a lot of his music is compatible with shopping… You know, shopping with an edge in certain instances.”
The “Nice for What” rapper has yet to respond directly to Bey’s latest comments on social media but did post a video of Method Man describing his definition of what hip-hop is following Yasiin’s “shopping” remarks.
Drake responds to Yasiin Bey / Mos Def saying Drake is Pop not Hip Hop, he references the Mos Def song “Umi Says,” (Umi means mother) and he posted this older interview by Method Man explaining what Hip Hop is”Hip Hop is the culture, way of life, way you dress, way you talk…” pic.twitter.com/lVyA2xWepA— SOUND (@itsavibe) January 16, 2024
“What Umi say again? Lemme shine my light king, don’t change up now,” Drake captioned the repost to his IG Story earlier in January.
Drake has mentioned the backpack rapper on a couple of occasions within the last year. Bey caught a stray jab from Drizzy when describing the target audience of his Titles Ruin Everything poetry book.
“Can you do an article now where the baddest Instagram girls in the world review my poetry book, not the head of the Mos Def fan club… Thanks,” he wrote in a comment to Complex over the summer.
Rumors have swirled about SZA potentially teaming up with Paramore in the past, and the SOS artist confirmed that a collaboration is indeed “in the works.”
SZA sat down for a fan Q&A with Apple Music on Tuesday (Jan. 30), and one of the rapid-fire questions asked about the status of the “Snooze” singer working with the rock band.
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“Yeah. Soon, soon,” she replied. “It’s in the works.”
Seconds later, SZA revealed that the pop-punk-leaning “F2F” became her favorite song to perform on the SOS Tour. There’s a Paramore connection to the track, as SZA sought out Hayley Williams’ approval on her switching lanes prior to the SOS deep cut’s arrival.
“I was like, ‘Does this suck?’” she recalled messaging the Paramore lead vocalist in an interview with the Los Angeles Times last year. “‘Because you actually do this for a living.’ [Williams] said, ‘This is great.’”
Paramore has long shown love to SZA, as they performed a mash-up of the band’s “Grow Up” with SZA’s “20 Something” at a 2018 concert in Paris. Years ago, Hayley Williams even posted a brief clip to social media singing along to SZA’s Ctrl standout “Garden.”
Don’t be surprised if Paramore is listed as a feature on SZA’s upcoming Lana project, which is said to double as the deluxe edition of the Grammy-winning singer’s chart-topping SOS effort.
Earlier in January, SZA voiced her frustration and lashed out at anonymous leakers for releasing her music without her permission.
“LEAKING MY MUSIC IS STEALING . THIS IS MY JOB . THIS IS MY LIFE AND MY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. YOU ARE A FUCKING THIEF AND I PROMISE TO PUT MAXIMUM ENERGY INTO HOLDING EVERYONE ACCOUNTABLE TO THE FULL EXTENT OF THE LAW . I AM TIRED,” SZA wrote on Twitter.
SZA previously addressed song leaks in a November interview with Variety: “When people leak my songs, they ruin them,” she declared. “Then it’s not mine anymore; it’s actually yours. It’s something unfinished that you decided was ready to be shared.”
Watch SZA’s Q&A with Apple Music below.
As she preps her as-yet-untitled third album, Megan Thee Stallion is also getting ready to do something she’s never done before: hit the road for a full-on solo summer tour. Speaking to Good Morning America on Tuesday (Jan. 30), the “Hiss” rapper revealed that she’s planning to come to your town this summer. “Oh, we’ve […]
6LACK remains a prominent face in the R&B world due to his unapologetic candor and adept storytelling abilities — so much so that he has the opportunity to win his first Grammy Award this weekend (Feb. 4) for his latest album, Since I Have A Lover. A departure from his dreary, melancholic releases, SIHAL showcases 6LACK’s healthier exploration of relationships and, more importantly, himself.
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“For this one, it feels really good because it’s an album not really rooted in things people see as cool, which is like growing up, trial and error, maturity, and being in healthier relationships with yourself and the people around you,” 6LACK tells Billboard News after notching his Grammy nod for best progressive R&B album. “To get the nom for it is the icing on the cake.”
For 6LACK, he underwent a five-year layoff between projects and used that time off to recalibrate his psyche. “Working on those last two albums and doing those tours, I think I got into a motion of creating from a specific place and not healing up whatever those stories were,” he says. “So I would make something, promote it, perform it, live through it, and move on to whatever the next thing was. The next time I finished both of those tours, it felt like I had a lot of baggage and extra stress that I didn’t even need to have anymore.”
He adds: “So if we’re performing Free 6LACK, we don’t need to be stressed about anything from that era. If we’re performing East Atlanta Love Letter, we don’t need to have anything with us from those eras. So, when I stopped touring and was looking around at everything, it just felt like I was in a room full of clutter — just mentally. That was the main thing that made me feel like I needed some time off.”
The true eye-opener came while touring last year, which allowed 6LACK to see the calming effect his music had on people in real time.
“The tour has been the number one thing that’s shown me the effects of the album because when you make it, it’s one thing, and you can feel how you feel about it, but when you see it in real life, it’s like, ‘Ah.’ People are here crying, they’re laughing, they’re saying, ‘This is the best night of my life. This is the best show I’ve ever been to.’ It’s just really fulfilling to do something rooted in positivity and see the effect it has on other people.”
Watch 6LACK’s Billboard News in full above.
01/29/2024
It’s no longer a “Hot Girl Summer” as Minaj fired back at Megan with her “Big Foot” single.
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Looks like January is the month of beef — and we’re not just talking about Katt Williams unloading the clip on Club Shay Shay, the lively dancehall clash between Jada Kingdom and Stefflon Don, or the comparatively brief showdown between Teejay and Valiant. From Friday onwards (Jan. 26), no two artists dominated the conversation more than rap titans Megan Thee Stallion and Nicki Minaj.
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With release of “Hiss” — her first solo single of the year — Thee Stallion ripped into a slew of high-profile opps, some of which fans think include Minaj, Drake, Pardison Fontaine, and Tory Lanez. In response, following a near-48-hour spiral across several social media platforms, Minaj unleashed “Big Foot” — one part diss track and one part unhinged spoken word monologue. Naturally, this all sent social media into a tizzy, with both artists’ respective fan bases rallying around their faves while more casual listeners picked their sides.
As the beef continues to simmer, the worlds of hip-hop and R&B kept turning. Mary J. Blige pulled the ultimate finesse and got a higher billing on the jam-packed Lovers & Friends lineup (May 4), Ice Spice put her foot on the gas with “Think U the Shit (Fart),” and Snoop Dogg revealed that he’s been prepping a new LP with contributions from Dr. Dre.
With Fresh Picks, Billboard aims to highlight some of the best and most interesting new sounds across R&B and hip-hop — from Megan Thee Stallion’s blistering “Hiss” to SiR’s moody return to R&B’s mainstage. Be sure to check out this week’s Fresh Picks in our Spotify playlist below.
Freshest Find: Megan Thee Stallion, “HISS”
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Tina Snow is not to be played with. On this blistering address to the scores of slick talk and rumors that have hounded her since the turn of the decade, Megan Thee Stallion delivers a masterclass in Dirty South s–t-talking realness. Over an ominous beat crafted by Bankroll Got It, LilJuMadeDaBeat and Shawn Jarrett, the H-Town Hottie relishes in her courtroom victories (“I’m the Teflon Don in the courtroom/ They be throwin’ that dirt, don’t s–t stick”) and calls out the hypocrisy some men operate it when it comes to cosmetic surgery (“These n—as hate on BBLs and be walkin’ ’round with the same scars”). With flows switching at the drop of a dime and a cadence that effortlessly shifts from threatening to unbothered, Meg pulls off the difficult hat trick of delivering a hard-hitting diss track that is genuinely an enjoyable song, irrespective of its intended purpose.
SiR, “No Evil”
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For his first official single since 2022, SiR dives head first in to a grittier, more jagged approach to R&B Soundscapes. The Inglewood crooner finds solace in his lover, despite the unsettling things he finds when he looks inwards. “Pardon my superstition/ But with my supervision/ I see so much of myself/ My past, my pain, my pride and my ego,” he sings in the first verse. Taylor Hill’s brooding, dynamic production blends stuttering hi-hats with sultry guitars, making for an instrumental every bit as immersive as Sir’s lead vocal.
Breez Kennedy, “Who’s Been On Your Mind”
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Breez Kennedy — a 17-year-old rising R&B star by way of New Jersey and Florida — just might be next up if “Who’s Been on Your Mind” is anything to go by. Out via Standard Records/Def Jam Recordings, the guitar-anchored single finds Breez living almost exclusively in his falsetto as he questions his lover about who is truly on their mind. “Would be so hard if you replace me/ Only concerned ’cause you been changin’ on me/ Girl, did I not do enough?/ Do people change when they say they’re in love?” he posits. Conveying a level of ache and forlornness far beyond his years, Breez is laying a sturdy foundation for his burgeoning career.
Kimani Jackson, “Good Man”
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Having already experienced viral success thanks to his show-stopping MTA performances in New York City, Kimani Jackson is ready for his next act. On “Good Man,” a booming, standout track from his Icebreaker EP, Jackson dips into a soulful blend of bluesy R&B with hints of gospel and jazz to soundtrack his quest to be, well, a good man. In the same bombastic sonic vein as towering classics like “Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child” and “It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World,” “Good Man” is a big swing — one that Jackson pulls off, thanks in no small part to his soaring vocals and pristine vocal control.
YoungBoy Never Broke Again, “Act a Donkey”
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“You invited, ayy, tell Charlamange he invited to Grave Digger Mountain/ All he gotta do is pull up on me, n—a, and talk to me face to face.” That’s certainly one way to open a track!
Although the Megan v. Nicki battle has taken up most of the last week’s conversation, a certain Baton Rogue rapper had a bone to pick with one Breakfast Club host Charlamagne tha God. Over a bouncy Hitmann-helmed beat, NBA YoungBoy unloads the clip on Charlamagne, who recently crowned him “Donkey of the Day” for his less-than-sunny outlook on fatherhood. “Look, I love them graves, we tote them Ks, got Glocks with switch, they tear you up/ I’m 4KTrey, I bang for Dave, enforcement can’t do s—t with us/ Came inside this game and b—h, I f—d it up, I’m a donkey/ And I keep it on me, plenty money, b—h, don’t speak up on me,” he spits.
Lyrical Lemonade feat. Teezo Touchdown, Juicy J, Cochise, Denzel Curry & Lil B, “First Night”
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Already one of the year’s best posse cuts, this cross-regional link-up thrives on juxtaposition. The song — taken from Lyrical Lemonade’s star-studded All Is Yellow project — opens with a somber piano-backed ballad courtesy of Teezo Touchdown. “Somebody help me sing / Somebody help me sing about me,” he coos in a pitch-perfect tongue-in-cheek tone. The track then morphs into a “Black and Yellow”-evoking beat over which Juicy J employs his Memphis-bred cadence to chant, “Let a n—a hit it on the first night/ I just wanna f—k, I’m not tryna fall in love/ Gon’ let a n—a hit it on the first night/ I’m a real n—a, you know I would never judge.” Indeed, Juicy. Indeed.
Maxo Kream, “Bang the Bus”
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Maxo Kream in general is always a treat. Maxo Kream dirty macking over an EvilgIAne beat? Now we’re cooking with gas. A hilariously horny track, “Bang the Bus” fits nicely in betwen the “Slut Me Outs” and “Pound Towns” of the past year: “Redbone, slim, petite, drop it pop it Megan knees/ I need a pound town brown ratchet ghetto bitch for me/ The police kick my door down, you gotta take these pounds from me,” he spits. Evilgaine’s beat never quite settles into a steady groove thanks to that smartly warped sample, but those idiosyncracies offer a nice balance to the general contemplative vibe of the track.