A family in New York City wanted Young Thug for their 12 year old daughter’s Bat Mitzvah and they got it. Just when you thought Young Thug stopping a model in the middle of the VFILES runway at New York Fashion Week wasn’t enough Thugger madness, watch Vogue‘s video above, documenting the Atlanta rapper’s performance at a Bat Mitzvah in Manhattan. Look out for key outfit choices including Gucci sneakers and his signature diamond choker as he prepares for the show and tops the night off by jumping on a Bentley and pouring champagne on it.
Have you ever ditched plans ’cause you woke up looking awful and didn’t want the world to see you? Uh, I sure have. Well that’s no excuse to not leave the house come November 8—ELECTION DAY! You can be covered in slime or rocking that just-rolled-out-of-bed lewk, it doesn’t matter. What’s important is, getting your ass out of the house and your vote in.
In Funny or Die’s latest Everybody Votes campaign, Katy Perry reminds us, “This year you can look like shit when you vote!” Watch the video above, in which Katy rolls out of bed “Last Friday Night” style with a lollipop and popcorn stuck in her uncombed hair. According to her knowledge of the Constitution, there’s no law that says you have to look decent to hit the polls. While that’s probably true, the singer takes it one step further by tearing off her pajamas and going full nude, which will def get you arrested (as she does). So if you want your vote to count, show up to the polls dressed in whatever you want, just don’t go in your birthday suit.
“I USE MY BODY AS CLICK BAIT TO HELP CHANGE THE WORLD,” the pop star tweeted yesterday to tease her Funny or Die video. Let’s hope her bold, nude move inspires people to vote. While the video doesn’t campaign for a specific candidate, Katy has been outspoken about her support for Hillary Clinton, and even performed at the DNC in July.
It’s been years since we’ve received a full music project from Solange Knowles; however, that all changes at the end of the week.
On Tuesday, the 30-year-old artist announced that her next album, titled A Seat at the Table, will drop digitally this Friday. The 20-track project, which Solange has been working on since 2013, was written entirely by her and includes features by The-Dream, Lil Wayne, Sampha, Kelly Rowland, and Q-Tip.
Solange described the album in a press release as “a project on identity, empowerment, independence, grief and healing.”
The record was initially teased last week, when Solange posted a mysterious Instagram post with a caption that read: “86 of you will receive a seat at the table in the mail…..first come….first served….” The post then directed followers to her official website, where the first 86 visitors were asked to enter their name and address. Those who were able to sign up on the site received a book of poetry and photography on Monday. The project, also titled A Seat at the Table, included the Sept. 30 date, which led many people to believe a new album was on the way. Well, it turns out the theories were right.
You can check out the album art above and tracklist below:
A Seat At The Table Tracklist:
1. “Rise”
2. “Weary” (Additional Vocals blessed by Tweet)
3. “Interlude: The Glory Is In You”
4. “Cranes In The Sky”
5. “Interlude: Dad Was Mad”
6. “Mad” Ft. Lil Wayne (Additional Vocals blessed by Moses Sumney and Tweet)
7. “Don’t You Wait”
8. “Interlude: Tina Taught Me”
9. “Don’t Touch My Hair” Ft. Sampha
10. “Interlude: This Moment” (Additional vocals Devonte Hynes of Houston Texas and Lu of Carolina)
11. “Where Do We Go” (Additional vocals blessed by Sean Nicholas Savage)
12. “Interlude: For Us By Us” “F.U.B.U.” Ft. The Dream & BJ The Chicago Kid (Additional Vocals blessed by Tweet)
13. “Borderline (An Ode To Self Care)” Ft. Q-Tip
14. “Interlude: I Got So Much Magic, You Can Have It” Ft. Kelly Rowland & Nia Andrews
15. “Junie”
16. “Interlude: No Limits”
17. “Don’t Wish Me Well”
18. “Interlude: Pedestals”
19. “Scales” Ft. Kelela
?20. “Closing: The Chosen Ones”
French Montana phoned in to Funkmaster Flex’s show on Hot 97 Monday, and he decided to share a little bit more about Max B’s legal situation. “He took a plea deal so they knocked down the years from 75 to 20,” French explained, noting that Max has already been incarcerated for close to a decade. According to him, Max’s release is up to his own behavior. “What they’re saying is he can come home in as early as two years. But if he fuck it up, then he could do up to six,” French said.
Drake’s Views just scored its latest achievement by becoming the first album on Apple Music to achieve over one billion streams on the service.
” Thank you to everyone. OVO Sound to the @applemusic,” Drake captioned the post alongside Apple CEO, Tim Cook, who presented him with the plaque that he also signed with his name, thanking the rapper for his historic achievement and likely for driving such traffic to Apple Music.
Drake has been with Apple Music since it first launched back in 2015 and even took the stage at Apple’s Worldwide Developers meeting to talk to the audience about the service. He also signed a deal with the company which was rumored to be worth $19 million and it included the launch of OVO Sound Radio. Of course, Views arrived in April as an Apple Music and iTunes exclusive, so it makes sense that it achieved such monumental success on the service. The album was also certified triple platinum by the RIAA in August and earned over a billion total streams across all platforms back in June.
It’s a good time to be Drake who also dropped his Views-inspired short film, Please Forgive Me, exclusively on Apple Music. The visual was directed by the same talent behind some of those very big Apple Music ads and stars Drizzy alongside familiar faces like Popcaan and Kyla Reid, who is best known for having her song sampled by Drake on “One Dance.” For the visual, Drake reunited with his “Hotline Bling” video choreographer, Tanisha Scott.
Kid Cudi shared shared the release date and full tracklist (as well as a photo that may be the cover art) for his upcoming album Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin’ on Twitter Monday. The 18-song project will include appearances from Travis Scott, Willow Smith, and two guest spots each from Pharrell and André 3000. It’s slated to drop on Sept. 30.
"Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin"
Sept. 30th pic.twitter.com/CQaeCfevBz
— The Chosen One (@KidCudi) September 26, 2016
Passion, Pain, & Demon Slayin’ will be Kid Cudi’s fifth studio album—sixth if you include WZRD—and represents a watershed moment for the rapper’s career. Although his early work has been praised for its game-changing influence in hip-hop, his recent albums have been met with a more mixed reception. This was particularly true of Speedin’ Bullet 2 Heaven, which also saw uncharacteristically weak sales numbers when it dropped at the end of 2015. However, recent tracks like “All In” and “The Frequency” have been met with praise, and Cudi promised publicly to “let the music speak” from here. Many are eagerly awaiting what he has in store for the new project.
You can check out the whole tracklist below.
— The Chosen One (@KidCudi) September 26, 2016
It looks like the judge is siding with Lil Wayne on this one. A new report from TMZ claims the judge in Wayne and Birdman’s lawsuit has ordered Birdman to detail how exactly the $100 million advance was spent. Birdman will have 30 days to get the receipts together for the missing $70 million of the $100 million advance that was to be split between the two, and he’ll then have to turn the information over to the judge and Lil Wayne’s legal team. According to the report, Birdman’s record keeping of the money has been extremely shady thus far, and the 20,000 pages of documents he’s turned over have been mostly useless. We’ll have to see if this new order forces him to get things together and reveal the truth about where all the money went.
It looks like Future and Young Thug are definitely working on something. The two rappers took to Snapchat Thursday night to share videos of themselves hanging out in the studio.
Future posted up a very quick clip of the two kicking back with music playing in the background and a bunch of wave emojis crossing the screen, which must’ve been a hint at how they were feeling as he bounced the phone back and forth on beat. Meanwhile, Thugger had been going at his Snapchat all day Thursday—we highly recommend you check for a quick stream of Thug trying out pretty much every face filter—but also posted up another brief video of the two hanging out and lighting up as music turned up in the background.
It only makes sense that two of Atlanta’s best would come together to create something special for us all and we are definitely here for whatever they have to offer. There is no official word yet on what the snaps could mean, but we’ll definitely keep it locked for any new information.
It’s been a big month for Young Thug who dropped his Jeffery project, debuting at No. 8 on the Billboard 200. Meanwhile, Future just finished up the Summer Sixteen Tour and is now gearing up for the release of his Beast Mode 16 mixtape that is set to drop in the coming weeks. Thanks to Future’s collaborator, Zaytoven, we know the first single will be dropping even sooner and will feature Drake. What a time. Watch the clips from the studio below.
Future and Young Thug in the studio pic.twitter.com/LLcPVh6I21
— HIP HOP FACTS (@iDailyRapFacts) September 23, 2016
Lil Wayne will release his first ever autobiography on Oct. 11. Titled Gone ‘Til November, the book chronicles Weezy’s life as an inmate at Riker’s Island for most of 2010.
A representative for Penguin told the New York Times back in June that Gone ‘Til November was sourced directly from the journal that Wayne kept while he was incarcerated, and that it “reveals the true story of what happened while he was at Rikers Island, exploring everything from his daily rituals to his interactions with other inmates to how he was able to keep himself motivated and grateful.”
Page Six reportedly got their hands on an advance copy and have shared a number of revelations from the book, including the fact that Weezy officiated over a gay wedding for two other inmates. The reception was understandably low-key, and all those involved toasted the couple with 13 bottles of Gatorade. “Gatorade is liquid gold in this bitch,” Wayne wrote. “Imagine seeing grown-ass men in jail hanging tissue for wedding decorations. AND one of them is Lil Wayne. Crazy.”
Weezy describes getting visits from Kanye West and Puff Daddy, but admits to feeling depressed when Drake admitted to him that he slept with one of his past girlfriends. “Finding out that she [bleeped] Drake was the absolute worst thing I could have found out,” he writes in the book. “Drizzy came to see me, he was like, ‘Yeah, it’s true.’ Damn! This is the type of [bleep] a man never wants to find out while he is locked up.”
The tangled web that is the feud between Meek Mill and The Game seems to be growing more complicated by the day. Recently, Beanie Sigel called into a radio show and discussed his involvement in Meek’s diss of the L.A. rapper. “He didn’t say nothin’ to get me on the track,” Sigel said when asked how he ended up lending a hand on Meek’s “Ooouuu” remix. “I just happened to come in the studio, so I just was helping him out with some lyrics, and the situation kind of played out like it did. It’s really no beef, especially between me and Game.”
There’s a couple of things amiss about this revelation. For one, it’s kind of odd for Meek to be utilizing another person’s pen after going so hard at Drake about a similar practice for the last year. Two, it seems that Sigel is trying to distance himself from Meek, especially given that later in the interview he praises The Game, saying that they have a great relationship.
Further complicating the situation, The Game recently posted up a photo to Instagram that alleges that Meek’s crew beat Sigel up after Puff Daddy’s Bad Boy Reunion tour rolled into Philadelphia on Sept. 23. The reason he gave was specifically this interview where Sigel dropped the bomb about his involvement writing for Meek. “[N]ow you mad cause Sigel told @persianicole that he wrote y’all shit on the diss song so y’all jumped y’all own man at the Puffy concert,” The Game wrote.