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Lil Uzi Vert landed on a hit in the form of Migos’ “Bad and Boujee.” He also boosted his visibility by collaborating with Gucci Mane on the 1017 Vs. the World project days before Thanksgiving. After notching a few accomplishments that would allow him to raise his feature price if he so desired, Vert closed out 2016 with a formal video for his track “P’s & Q’s.”
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Trey Songz presumably spent New Year’s Eve at VLive Chicago for his scheduled appearance at their “Power Fridays” series, and Fabolous held down a similar gig at Atlanta’s SL Lounge. Sometime before the ball dropped, the pair collaborated on the Trappy New Years mixtape to celebrate the arrival of 2017 and bad puns. The six-song project dropped Sunday via DatPiff.com as a free download.
Last week, Fab posted Instagram shots of himself and Trey in a Bay Area recording studio putting the final touches on the project. According to Fabolous, he changed his travel arrangements and spent an extra day recording.
Trappy New Years marks familiar territory for Trey Songz and Fabolous, as the pair previously collaborated on Trey Songz’s 2009 single “Say Aah,” an unofficial remix of Rihanna’s “Sex With Me” and the Nicki Minaj-assisted “Doin’ It Well.”
Travis Scott is a perfectionist, especially when it comes to live performances. And if La Flame doesn’t like something, he’s going to let you know about it.
Case in point: This unnamed DJ. Scott was performing at New City Gas Club in Montreal, Canada on New Year’s Eve. In the video below, you can see he was a little irritated at the DJ’s mixing, telling him to cue up his songs when it should be much more fluid. But with such long delays and awkward transitions, Scott wasn’t feeling it anymore.
Around the halfway mark, you can sense Scott’s frustration when the DJ accidently presses the wrong button during “Pick Up the Phone,” triggering loud gunshot noises after his performance. Eventually, he tells the DJ to politely leave the stage. When he does during “Goosebumps,” Scott gets behind the boards and does the mixing himself.
Soulja Boy has had more than his share of beefs lately, getting into fights with Lil Yachty, Rico Recklezz, Quavo, and even Shia LaBeouf. But this time, he claims, trouble has found him.
On Monday night, Soulja tweeted that Chris Brown took offense to Soulja liking an Instagram picture of Brown’s ex-girlfriend Karrueche Tran, and called the Atlanta rapper directly to tell him so.
After cementing his 2015 deal with FilmOn Music, 2016 saw Chief Keef significantly decrease his musical output. As expected, Keef began 2017 with the 17-track mixtape, Two Zero One Seven.
The project initially surfaced on DatPiff as a free download, with Keef manning the boards himself on 10 tracks. This follows the precedent Keef set on 2014’s Back from the Dead 2, when he began dabbling in production. After talk of a possible lead addiction and hints of retirement over the past few years, Two Zero One Seven could position Keef for another retail offering if the project doesn’t make its way to paid digital streaming services.
Young Chop, who was behind Keef’s breakout 2012 hit “I Don’t Like,” is credited with production on the track “Hit the Lotto.” Lex Luger handles production duties on a handful of other tracks, as offerings such as “Reefah” and “Dope Smokes” serve as odes to lighting up.
You can stream Chief Keef’s Two Zero One Seven below.
Any of Travis Scott’s Instagram followers whose phones support the “Stories” feature got a look inside the rapper’s family dynamic when Scott posted a series of video clips featuring him buying his family a new house. The Houston-bred Scott said he hid the new residence from his unsuspecting family for two months while construction was completed.
He called it “a present I been working on my whole life.”
Judging from the views, which include a huge pool, at least two stories, and Scott’s boast that the family “walks on marble now,” he went all out on the purchase.
“Alright, so I’m about to surprise my fam with one of the most craziest gifts of all fuckin’ time,” Scott said, documenting the event via Instagram. “It’s actually too big to put a fuckin’ bow around. I can’t wait to see these motherfuckers’ reaction. I’ma ’Gram the whole shit.”
He did just that as visibly excited members of Scott’s family ran around the property and mobbed the G.O.O.D. Music member with hugs.
It looks like Scott made sure to grab himself a holiday treat as well, as he narrated a portion of the video from his new Lamborghini.
Travis Scott bought his family a house for Christmas pic.twitter.com/lMvCmv1pnN
— Rodeo ?? (@RodeoTheAlbum) December 25, 2016