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21 Savage and Summer Walker’s latest collaboration, “Prove It,” wraps a nearly five-month journey to No. 1 on Billboard’s Rhythmic Airplay chart date Nov. 2. The single, released through Slaughter Gang/Epic Records, advances from No. 2 as it became the most-played song on U.S. monitored rhythmic radio stations in the tracking week of Oct. 18 – 24, according to Luminate.
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“Prove It” jumped 7% in plays in the latest tracking week compared with the prior frame. It ousts Megan Thee Stallion’s “Mamushi,” featuring Yuki Chiba, from the top spot, with the former champ sliding to No. 4 after a 14% reduction in plays.
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In capturing the top spot on its 20th chart week, “Prove It” ties for the second-longest run to the summit on Rhythmic Airplay since the list launched in 1992. The single matches the treks of Kid Cudi’s “Day ‘N’ Nite” (2009) and Miguel’s “Sky Walker,” featuring Travis Scott (2018), while all three trail TLC’s “Waterfalls,” which needed 24 weeks to obtain the No. 1 spot in 1995.
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Thanks to “Prove It,” 21 Savage banks his eighth champ on the Rhythmic Airplay chart and third of 2024. Here’s a review of his chart-topping collection on the radio ranking:
Song Title, Artist (if other than 21 Savage), Weeks at No. 1, Date Reached No. 1
“Rockstar,” Post Malone featuring 21 Savage, six, Nov. 11, 2017
“A Lot,” two, April 20, 2019
“Jimmy Cooks,” Drake featuring 21 Savage, one, Oct. 8, 2022
“Rich Flex,” with Drake, two, Jan. 28, 2023
“Creepin’,” with Metro Boomin & The Weeknd, three, Feb. 11, 2023
“Surround Sound,” JID featuring 21 Savage & Baby Tate, one, March 9, 2024
“Redrum,” two, April 27, 2024
“Prove It,” with Summer Walker, one, Nov. 2, 2024
Walker achieves her first Rhythmic Airplay leader with her seventh visit to the list. Her previous best was also through a team-up with 21 Savage: “Good Good,” also with Usher, reached a No. 2 high in October 2023.
Elsewhere, “Prove It” slips 4-3 from its peak on the plays-based Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay following a 4% decline in weekly spins. It holds at No. 5 on the audience-based R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, after having reached No. 4, and sheds 2% in format audience to claim 11.5 million for the tracking week. Weighing the rhythmic gains with R&B/hip-hop losses, the net result is still positive: “Prove It” pushes 29-27 on the all-genre Radio Songs chart with a 1% audience gain to 22 million in weekly listenership.
“Prove It” appears on 21 Savage’s latest studio album, American Dream. The set, released in January, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, giving the rapper his fourth consecutive chart-topper.
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Fat Joe is sitting down with Democratic House Leader Hakeem Jeffries for an episode of Fat Joe Talks. A trailer was released on Tuesday (Oct. 29), which finds the Terror Squad boss preaching the importance of healthcare to the politician.
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“The health problem in America, like we’ve lost Frankie Beverly, Batman, Fat Man Scoop, Rich Homie Quan, rest in peace,” he said while citing recent musicians that have passed. “Freddie Jackson, the R&B singer, said he got kidney problems. You know, Black and Latino, man, we really got to take care of our health as much as possible.”
Jeffries believes health-related issues stem from urban communities having a lack of access to healthier food options and premium healthcare, which can lead to diseases plaguing the community.
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“We got to deal with the gun violence problem, but when you actually take a step back, there are more people dying from lack of access to healthy food, lack of access to healthcare, and then what that lack of access to a healthy diet then yields, in terms of diabetes, heart disease, respiratory illness, certain forms of cancer, and then without the access to the healthcare to deal with those chronic, debilitating conditions, you’ve got people passing away prematurely,” he stated.
Healthcare price transparency is a pertinent issue for Fat Joe as he’s continued to speak up in support of U.S. citizens while targeting the price gouging pharma companies. He previously pushed to help pass the Healthcare Accountability & Consumer Protection Act in New York.
Ahead of the 2024 election, as a spokesperson for Power to the Patients, Joe teamed up with unions and workers to launch a PSA calling on elected officials to stop the price gouging and “robbing all of us.”
“[I] also want to commend you for you know, your work in the healthcare space. Healthcare Transparency Act, incredibly important to getting us to a much better place,” Jeffries told Joe. “You have people getting access to the affordable and high quality healthcare that they need. I say often when I’m back home talking to folks about a variety of issues, that in urban America and Black and Latino communities, in particular in our communities, more people die from drive throughs than drive bys.”
The full Fat Joe Talks episode will premiere on Starz on Friday at midnight ET. Look for Babyface to appear on next week’s episode for an exclusive sit-down with The Bronx native in Los Angeles.
Watch the clip below.
Like Ice Cube was for the Los Angeles Dodgers in game two, New York Yankees fans were hoping that Fat Joe would serve as a good luck charm for the team heading into game three of the 2024 World Series on Monday (Oct. 28).
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Joey Crack took the field in a pair of signature brown Timberland boots to warm up the 40,000-plus fans at Yankee Stadium. Rocking a Yankees letterman jacket and a matching NYY x Terror Squad fitted cap, the Bronx native tweaked some of the lyrics to his hits to go with the baseball theme and rep for his hometown squad. Joe kicked off the set with his “Lean Back” anthem before moving into Ja Rule’s “New York” and closing out with “All the Way Up.”
As he performed, Fat Joe headed to the pitcher’s mound — which had to give the grounds crew members a collective heart attack — where he named some Yankee legends after Derek Jeter threw out the honorary first pitch to have the fans ready to roar for game three.
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“Even when Fat Joe came out, the body language from the fans was like, ‘Damn!’ I was like, ‘What’s going on here?’ Are we in a funeral already?” MLB Fox Sports analyst and former Boston Red Sox player David Ortiz said.
Many fans seemed to be perplexed by the performance, as many remained seated. Others roasted Joe and the Yankees on social media. “Fat Joe opening up for the Yankees might be one of the worst things I’ve ever witnessed,” one person tweeted.
Another chimed in: “I’m not a hater, BUT Fat Joe opening up for the Yankees might be one of the worst things I’ve ever seen. I think they got him on SALE 50% OFF.”
Even diehard Yankees fan Desus Nice was displeased, tweeting, “good morning to everyone except fat Joe and his trump sneakers!”
Some wondered why they couldn’t get fellow New York rappers such as Jay-Z or 50 Cent to pull up. Hov previously performed “Empire State of Mind” at Yankee Stadium ahead of game two of the 2009 World Series, which is the last time NYY appeared in the Fall Classic.
But it wasn’t all bad news for the rapper. Some fans chimed in to show their support on social media. “We won no matter the outcome as far as I’m concerned @fatjoe,” one fan wrote on Instagram over a photo of the performer on the field.
“BIG Bronx showed up!” another added over a snap of Big Joe performing, adding a “100” and fist-bump emojis.
Unfortunately, Joe’s performance wasn’t able to help power the Yankees to a win, as the team now faces a 0-3 deficit to the Dodgers. The Yankees’ bats largely went quiet into the night with Monday night bringing on a 4-2 defeat.
Fat Joe and the NYY will look to avoid a sweep at the hands of the Dodgers on Tuesday evening (Oct. 29) in game four. No performances are scheduled for pre-game.
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French Montana‘s story is an “Unforgettable” one. Now, it’s getting the documentary treatment.
The French Montana Story: For Khadija is headed to Paramount+ on Tuesday, Nov. 19, and Billboard has the exclusive first look at the trailer for the new feature.
“I’m a real immigrant, fresh off the boat. No access to nothing to become this dream I always dreamed about,” the three-time Grammy-nominated rapper says in the trailer. “They sell you the dream, they don’t show you the nightmare. The power of music and art … the story for a lot of immigrants out there is sacrifice — to better themselves, to better their family.”
Featuring appearances from Drake, Fat Joe, Jim Jones, Max B, Rick Ross, Harry Fraud, Funkmaster Flex, CokeBoy Zack and Chinx, The French Montana Story surveys the rise of French Montana, a Moroccan-born rapper with billions of streams to his name. From the moment his father abandoned his family — leaving his mother to raise three young sons in the Bronx on her own — to his own unique immigrant journey that took him through the streets of New York to the Billboard charts, French Montana’s tenacity, verve and grit are on full display in his new documentary.
“This is the best project I’ve ever worked on in my life,” Montana said in a press release. “It’s the first blueprint of an immigrant’s music dream, proving that anything is possible and it’s not about the awards, it’s about what we learn from the losses and sacrifices.”
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The French Montana Story is directed by Mandon Lovett and executive produced by Karim “French Montana” Kharbouch for Montana Entertainment, alongside Live Nation Productions’ Michael Rapino and Ryan Kroft for MTV Entertainment Studios. Additional executive producers include Drake and Sean “Diddy” Combs. In 2023, the feature-length documentary had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.
The new documentary isn’t Montana’s first major release in 2024. In February, he released his 23rd mixtape, Mac & Cheese 5, which reached No. 14 on the Billboard 200 and housed collaborations with countless hip-hop heavyweights, including Meek Mill, Westside Gunn, 41, JID, Lil Durk, Lil Baby, Lil Wayne and Ye (the artist formerly known as Kanye West).
French Montana has landed eight projects on the Billboard 200, including 2013’s Excuse My French (No. 4) and 2017’s Jungle Rules (No. 3). On the Billboard Hot 100, he has scored 18 career entries, including the top 10 hits “Unforgettable” (No. 3, with Swae Lee) and “Loyal” (No. 9, with Chris Brown & Lil Wayne).
Watch Billboard‘s exclusive first look at the trailer for The French Montana Story: For Khadija below:
Donald Trump apparently wanted 50 Cent in da club. The Grammy-winning rapper appeared on The Breakfast Club on Tuesday (Oct. 29), and shared that he was offered $3 million to appear at Trump’s recent New York City rally held at Madison Square Garden.
During their chat, DJ Envy asked 50, “Is it true Donald Trump tried to give you money to endorse him one time?”
The rapper told his hosts that he got a call from the twice-impeached former president about “Sunday” (Oct. 27), with Jess Hilarious clarifying by asking whether he was talking about MSG, which 50 confirmed.
“They wanted you to perform ‘Many Men’ at the RNC too, right?” Charlamagne Tha God then asked. (The Get Rich or Die Tryin’ track soundtracked Trump’s entrance to Adin Ross’ stream in August.)
“Yeah. They offered me $3 million!” the “In Da Club” rapper shared. A surprised Charlamagne then asked if it was for the event at Madison Square Garden or the RNC, with 50 replying that it was indeed for the MSG rally. He also replied in the affirmative when Charlamagne asked whether he was offered payment as well for the Republican National Convention.
50 — who did not appear at the RNC in July nor at Trump’s NYC rally — went on to explain why he rejected the offers. “I didn’t even go far,” he told the three hosts of the offers. “I’m afraid of politics, you understand? I do not like it. … It’s because when you do get involved in it, no matter how you feel, somebody passionately disagrees with you. Look, if you say ‘I stay away from religion,’ I stay away from politics. Religion, that’s the formula for the confusion that it sent Kanye to Japan. He said something about both of those things and now he can only go to Japan. So you know I’m like I don’t want to get in that, man.”
Billboard has reached out to Trump’s campaign for comment.
In recent years, Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) has supported Trump, before declaring on July 4, 2020, that he was running for president as well. (He did not get far in his efforts, missing South Carolina’s July 20 deadline that year to get on the ballot.) Then beginning in October 2022, the rapper repeatedly made antisemitic hate speech, which resulted in him facing consequences that included losing brand deals, declines of airplay of his music catalog and more.
In 2020, 50 Cent supported Trump — who in May was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records — before retracting his endorsement after former girlfriend Chelsea Handler called him out. “F–k Donald Trump, I never liked him,” the rapper later said when retweeting a video of the comedian — who preveriously referred the rapper as her favorite ex — on The Tonight Show in which she criticized her ex for his support of the business mogul.
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Beyoncé said on Tuesday (Oct. 29) that she is bursting with pride after her mom, Tina Knowles, announced that she is prepping a memoir for spring 2025. “Mama, I couldn’t be prouder. My love for you goes beyond what I can say,” the singer wrote on Instagram in a post featuring the colorful, gilded cover the the book entitled Matriarch: A Memoir, which is due out in stores on April 22.
“You put your heart into this book. I’m happy for you to share some of the stories that shaped you into who you are. To know you is to love you. But please don’t spill too much Mama Tea,” Bey wrote.
The post came after Tina Knowles announced the book on her Insta feed, revealing the cover that features the family matriarch seated in a flower-filled background in a yellow skirt and black top inside a gold picture frame.
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“I have always been a storyteller, and it’s something I learned from my mother. When I had a family of my own, I believed that my daughters needed to know where they came from in order to know where they were going,” Knowles wrote. “I’m now ready to share my story with all of you, so that we can all celebrate these themes of strength, motherhood, Black pride, and identity.”
Knowles — mother of Bey and her younger sister, singer Solange — said she called the book Matriarch because among things that inspire her are the “wisdom that women pass on to each other, generation to generation — and the inner wisdom we long to uncover in ourselves. Even at 70 I am still learning valuable lessons — revelations that I wish that I would have had at 40 or even 20,” she wrote. “I want to share this knowledge now, one to one with the reader, as we laugh and sometimes cry together through all the stages of our lives.”
A description of the book from Penguin Random House describes a memoir that will take the reader on a journey to meet Knowles from when she was a “precocious, if unruly, little girl growing up in 1950s Galveston, the youngest of seven. She is in love with her world, with extended family on every other porch and the sounds of Motown and the lapping beach always within earshot. But as the realities of race and the limitations of girlhood set in, she begins to dream of the world beyond. Her instincts and impulsive nature drive her far beyond the shores of Texas to discover the life awaiting her on the other side of childhood.”
It continues, “that life’s journey — through grief and tragedy, creative and romantic risks and turmoil, the nurturing of superstar offspring and of her own special gifts — is the remarkable story she shares with readers here. This is a page-turning chronicle of family love and heartbreak, of loss and perseverance, and of the kind of creativity, audacity, and will it takes for a girl from Galveston to change the world. It’s one brilliant woman’s intimate and revealing story, and a multigenerational family saga that carries within it the story of America — and the wisdom that women pass on to each other, mothers to daughters, across generations.”
Knowles and Beyoncé co-founded the clothing line House of Deréon and the spin-off brand Miss Tina and earlier this year the former hair salon owner helped create Cécred, Bey’s haircare line.