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Playboi Carti is already taking over 2024 with new music. To kick off the new year Monday (Jan. 1), he dropped “BACKR00MS,” featuring Travis Scott, exclusively on YouTube. The nearly three-minute visual is already No. 1 on Trending, with 4.4 million views in 17 hours at the time this article was published. It’s the second […]
If Cardi B listed her relationship status on her socials, at the moment it would definitely read “it’s very complicated.” After the “Bongos” rapper revealed in early December that she was single following her split from husband Offset, she confounded the Bardigang over the weekend when she gleefully announced that the estranged couple had hooked up on the last night of 2023.
Don’t get it twisted, though, she said, that does not mean they are back together.
In a live Twitter chat on Monday (Jan. 1), Cardi seemed to confirm that she and the Migos rapper got busy on New Year’s Eve. “Was I clubbing with my baby father yesterday?” a congested Cardi said during the X event. “Yes. Did I got d—ed down yesterday? Absolutely baby… I need some d–k on New Year’s Eve.”
The rapper said she felt like she and ‘Set were “vibing” on Sunday and had a good time together.
According to social media posts, the former couple celebrated 2024’s arrival at a strip club in Miami, making it rain and dancing along with a group of friends. Both had performed earlier that night at the Fontainbleau Miami Beach, with Offset rocking LIV and Cardi playing poolside as part of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest.
And though it appeared to be a happy reunion, days earlier Cardi blasted her fans for speculating that the couple had reconciled. “I must be a lil toxic cuz I enjoyed cursing ya out today… but we not taking that into 2024. Now have a good day. No make it a bad day!” she said in a fiery X post on Friday.
Just hours before in a live X space event, Cardi reportedly told fans to “shut the f–k up” after they speculated that she’d made nice with Offset, slamming her “own f–king fan base” for “talking s–t” about her. “Did I say I was back together with somebody?” she yelled. Cardi and Offset were spotted together in New York over the Christmas holiday, leading Cardi to hit “like” on a Dec. 27 reply featuring a meme of Real Housewives of Atlanta‘s Kandi Burruss telling Porsha Williams, “you just made that up” in response to a gossip item saying “Cardi B has officially took Offset back after 12 days.”
The couple, who share two children, have been on-and-off since marrying in 2017. After Cardi filed for divorce in 2020, the couple reconciled a few months later. “I’ve been single for a minute now but I have been afraid to like — not afraid, I just don’t know how to tell the world,” she said in December after fans noticed that the couple had unfollowed each other on Instagram the week before. “But I feel like today has been a sign. The last time I got on Live, I kind of wanted to tell you guys, but I didn’t know how to tell you, so I changed my mind. But it has been like this for a minute now. I just took it as a sign.”
She also shared a cryptic post at the time about outgrowing relationships. “You know when you just out grow relationships,” she wrote. “I’m tired of protecting peoples feelings…I GOTTA PUT MYSELF FIRST!”
Nicki Minaj hit the stage at Miami’s E11EVEN on New Year’s Eve with her usual trunk full of hits. But when the first strains of her 2012 Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hit began pumping out of the speakers, Minaj informed Barbz that she is never, ever going back to the beach. A Tik Tok […]
Lil Uzi Vert has more tattoos than you can count, but there isn’t a single one that brings a smile to the rapper’s face. In a recent interview, LA Weekly asked Uzi, “What’s your favorite tattoo?” The 28-year-old musician’s reply? “None of them.” “I’m trying to get them removed,” they deadpanned. “All of them… I […]
SZA is here to settle any debate over what exactly she’s saying in her verse on Drake‘s “Rich Baby Daddy.” In a recent post on Instagram Stories, the 34-year-old hitmaker explained the reason her contribution to that collaboration with Drizzy and SexyyRed might be a little difficult for ears to pick up on, before clarifying […]
12/27/2023
To conclude hip-hop’s 50th anniversary year, Billboard ranks 25 of the genre’s most influential producers of all time.
12/27/2023
Just two days after The Color Purple broke a slew of records upon its Christmas Day debut, Usher and H.E.R. have released the steamy new music video for “Risk It All,” their acclaimed collaboration off The Color Purple (Music From and Inspired By).
With Usher sporting nothing but a pair of skin-tight black boxer briefs, the “Good Good” singer effortlessly reminds us of his sex symbol status as H.E.R. matches his energy and equally embraces her sensuality on screen while wearing a low-cut black corset paired with black shorts. The two Grammy winners lip sync to their respective verses as they join background dancers performing modern dance choreography set to the somber, piano-backed ballad. “Sometimes it’s tragic, so problematic / People are cryin’ for it, people are dyin’ for it / Always the reason, we still believe it / Somethin’ that leaves us hurtin’ is worth it,” they croon.
Co-written and produced by H.E.R. — who also stars in the blockbuster movie musical — and Oscar and Grammy winner Jimmy Napes, “Risk It All” embodies the narratives of love, survival, determination and liberation that course through The Color Purple. The song appears on The Color Purple (Music From and Inspired By), which also includes new music from the likes of Fantasia, Halle Bailey, Megan Thee Stallion, Mary J. Blige, Jennifer Hudson, Coco Jones, Alicia Keys, Missy Elliott, Black Thought, October London, Shenseea, Mary Mary, Jorja Smith, Keyshia Cole and more.
The Color Purple opened in theatres on Dec. 25, 2023. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the movie — which is a film adaptation of the 2005 Tony-winning Broadway musical based on the 1985 Steven Spielberg-helmed film and Alice Walker’s 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel — outpaced expectations and pulled in over $18 million in North America alone. That marks the largest Christmas Day opening for a film since Sherlock Holmes in 2009, as well as the second-largest Christmas Day opening of all time.
Starting on Dec. 27 at 11:00 a.m. ET/8:00 a.m. PT, the Dave Meyers-directed video will premiere on MTV and air every hour on MTVU, MTV Live & MTV Biggest Pop. “Risk It All” will also be included on Usher’s Coming Home, his forthcoming ninth studio album, which is set to arrive the same day he graces the Super Bowl Halftime stage (Feb. 11).
Watch the racy new “Risk It All” music video above.
12/22/2023
Turns out it wasn’t a bad year after all…
12/22/2023
2023 may have featured massive releases from artists such as Taylor Swift (Taylor’s Versions of Speak Now and 1989), Drake (For All the Dogs and its Scary Hours edition), Bad Bunny (Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana), Nicki Minaj (Pink Friday 2), Morgan Wallen (One Thing at a Time) and many others, but […]
Travis Scott‘s Dec. 19 concert at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center was a memorable one, and not just because he collided with a giant head replica on stage.
A different moment from rapper’s set at Barclays went viral because he performed his Playboy Carti-assisted track “FE!N” 10 times during the show. But according to Scott, who dished on his latest concert during his Thursday (Dec. 21) appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, it was all intentional and happened because he was feeding off of his audience’s energy.
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“Man, I have the best fans in the world and I go off the energy they give me, and they were wild that night, and so I just got even wilder,” he explained. “Tonight I plan on going even crazier at Madison Square Garden.”
“FE!N” hails from Scott’s latest album, Utopia. The set, which boasts star-studded features from Drake, Beyoncé, SZA, Bad Bunny, The Weeknd and more, is up for best rap album at the Grammys next year. During the 32-year-old’s Fallon appearance, he recalled the moment he found out about his latest nomination, and showed some love to the Recording Academy for the recognition.
“I was on tour and I was about to go to the venue and my guy, my partner in everything I do, David, he called me, he was like, ‘Yo, we’re nominated again for the Grammys,’ and I was like, ‘Yes, OK. This time we got to bring it home,’ you know?” he told the host. “I love music and I love the Academy.”
Watch Travis Scott’s appearance on Fallon in the video above.