Polo G new album hits the top of the charts on the Top Rap Album chart after selling 29,000 units, according to Nielsen Music. Die A Legend is the fourth album this year to hit to No. 1 spot without having debuted there, after A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie’s Hoodie SZN, DJ Khaled’s Father of Asahd and Nipsey Hussle’s Victory Lap. If you haven’t check out the album below.
Benny Boom sat down with Too Fab and he revealed Nipsey Hussle was supposed to play Snoop Dogg in the film All Eyez On Me but was not able to due to scheduling conflicts. Benny Boom also said in the interview, Nipsey Hussle wouldn’t let anything interfere with his commitment to his community. So, they turned to Atlanta’s Lakeith Stanfield for the role as Snoop Dogg. You can read the full interview here.
Taking to social media, Iggy Azalea reveals the artwork for her upcoming album In My Defense, which hits stores next month (July 19th). It’s been more than 5 years since her Def Jam debut album The New Classic, which went platinum in the U.S. Her new album will be released independently via EMPIRE.
Last year, Meek Mill announced an upcoming six-part docuseries called Free Meek executive produced by Jay-Z, Eli Holzman, Aaron Saidman, and Paul and Isaac Solotaroff. Today we get a preview from 6 part docuseries set to premiere on Amazon Prime on August 9th.
Big K.R.I.T. is set to release his new album, K.R.I.T. IZ HERE, next month on July 12. Big K.R.I.T upcoming LP features guest appearances by J. Cole, Lil’ Wayne, Saweetie, Rico Love, Yella Beezy and more. Check out the full tracklist below.
1. “K.R.I.T. HERE”
2. “High End Country (Interlude)”
3. “Been Waitin”
4. “I Make It Easy”
5. “Addiction” (Feat. Lil Wayne & Saweetie)
6. “Energy”
7. “Obvious” (Feat. Rico Love)
8. “I Made” (Feat. Yella Beezy)
9. “Everytime” (Feat. Baby Rose)
10. “Believe”
11. “Prove It” (Feat. J. Cole)
12. “Family Matters”
13. “Blue Flame (Interlude)”
14. “Blue Flame Ballet”
15. “Learned From Texas”
16. “Outer Space”
17. “High Beams” (Feat. WOLFE de MÇHLS)
18. “Life In the Sun” (Feat. Camper)
19. “M.I.S.S.I.S.S.I.P.P.I.”
Disney’s The Lion King—starring Beyoncé and Donald Glover hits theaters next month on July 19. Today, it was announced the film’s soundtrack will hit online stores on July 11 and hard copies hit the stores on July 19. The soundtrack will feature a Beyonce and Childish Gambino rendition of “You Feel the Love Tonight”. It will also feature a new song from Elton John entitled “Never Too Late.”. Check out the full tracklisting below.
01 Lindiwe Mkhize / Lebo M: “Circle of Life / Nants’ Ingonyama”
02 Hans Zimmer: “Life’s Not Fair”
03 Hans Zimmer: “Rafiki’s Fireflies”
04 JD McCrary / Shahadi Wright Joseph / John Oliver: “I Just Can’t Wait to Be King”
05 Hans Zimmer: “Elephant Graveyard”
06 Chiwetel Ejiofor: “Be Prepared (2019 Version)”
07 Hans Zimmer: “Stampede”
08 Hans Zimmer: “Scar Takes the Throne”
09 Billy Eichner / Seth Rogen / JD McCrary / Donald Glover: “Hakuna Matata”
10 Hans Zimmer: “Simba Is Alive!”
11 Billy Eichner / Seth Rogen: “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”
12 Beyoncé / Donald Glover / Billy Eichner / Seth Rogen: “Can You Feel the Love Tonight”
13 Hans Zimmer: “Reflections of Mufasa”
14 TBA
15 Hans Zimmer: “Battle for Pride Rock”
16 Hans Zimmer: “Remember”
17 Elton John: “Never Too Late”
18 Lebo M: “He Lives in You”
19 Lebo M: “Mbube”
According to Hits Daily Double, Lil Nas X’s debut EP is on its way to debuting at number 1 on the Billboard charts, but is currently in a battle with Billie Eilish for that top spot. Lil Nas’s 7 EP and Billie Eilish’s When We All Fall Sleep, Where Do We Go? are both projected to move 70,000 units. We may have to wait a few days until we know who takes that number 1 spot. Check out both projects below.
Today, Maryland-raised rapper IDK (formerly Jay IDK) announces a new label in partnership with Warner Records. The new label, Clue, will house all of his upcoming releases, including his forthcoming debut album Is He Real that is due later this year. The partnership is the culmination of a strong run of independent releases from IDK, including five projects in the past five years.
When speaking on the partnership, Warner Records Co-chairman and Chief Executive Officer Aaron Bay-Schuck said, “IDK is at the forefront of this next generation of artists who actually have something to say. To call him just a rapper is not doing him justice. He is an artist in the truest sense of the word. His lyrical prowess is unmatched, his ideas and vision are wildly creative. He’s doing things his way and he’s making impactful and controversial statements with his music that challenge the way we look at the world. Tom Corson and I are thrilled to welcome him to the growing roster of exciting artists at Warner Records.”
Coinciding with the announcement, IDK shares a powerful new video for his latest release “Digital.” The video, directed by IDK himself, is a cautionary tale for young people of color in the United States. The black-and-white visual depicts a story unfolding on a split screen, with one side depicting the reality of the story as it unfolds and the other side depicting an outsiders’ perception of that same story unfolding. It’s a moving statement that speaks to the ongoing crisis of police brutality faced by people of color throughout the U.S. and beyond as well as the underlying issues of institutionalized racism in the country.
Watch “Digital” now and stay tuned for more from IDK and Clue coming soon.
Further proof that the D.C. area continues to make massive waves in Hip-Hop right now. This year, P.G. representers Rico Nasty and YBN Cordae following in the footsteps of Logic, Shy Glizzy and Wale by becoming the latest hometown heroes to make XXL’s coveted Freshman cover…they’re also joined by fellow Rap frontrunners Megan Thee Stallion, DaBaby, Gunna, Comethazine, Tierra Whack, Lil Mosey, Roddy Rich, Blueface and YK Osiris. Probably the strongest list we’ve seen from that magazine in a while.
Check out more video footage below, and look forward to freestyles and interviews to arrive soon. Congrats!
Meek Mill and Future announced they will be heading out on tour together alongside YG, Mustard, and Megan Thee Stallion at the end of the summer. Tickets go on sale to the general public on June 21 at Live Nation and Citi cardmembers and TIDAL subscribers will have the opportunity to access pre-sale tix early starting today. Check out the dates below.
Today marks the 1 year anniversary since Xxxtentacion was murdered outside a motorcycle dealership in Deerfield, Florida. In celebration of his life, Xxxtentacion’s manager took to Instagram today to posted a trailer for his upcoming documentary on his Instagram page with the caption Documentary coming soon.
You can read the full story at The Washington Post:
A group of D.C. lawmakers wants to make the nation’s capital the first jurisdiction to restore voting rights to felons while they’re still incarcerated.
Council member Robert C. White Jr. (D-At Large), with a majority of the 13-member body, plans to introduce legislation Tuesday to repeal language in a 1955 law that disenfranchises D.C. residents upon felony convictions. Every state except Maine and Vermont has stripped voting rights from prisoners.
“Unfortunately in the District and across the country, incarcerated people make up a sizable population of residents,” White said. “They don’t lose their citizenship when they are incarcerated, so they shouldn’t lose their right to vote.”
The District is among jurisdictions with the fewest restrictions regarding felons and voting. Felons in the District and 14 states automatically regain their voting rights when they are released from prison, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Elections officials visit the D.C. jail to help residents who are awaiting trial cast absentee ballots.
From WUSA9, where you can read the full story:
One District of Columbia councilmember wants to make go-go the official music of “Chocolate City” after at least one resident in the rapidly gentrifying Shaw neighborhood complained about the beat.
Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie wants to amend city code to enshrine go-go music as a part of the fabric of the District, he said in a news release. His 12 other colleagues on the council also are sponsors of the bill.
“To me, and so many other native Washingtonians, go-go music has become so much more than just a musical genre.” he said. “Designating go-go the official music of the city signals to those who have been here and to those who continue to move here, that this music represents the lived experiences of native Washingtonians.”
Today, along with all 12 of my colleagues, I introduced the Go-Go Official Music of the District of Columbia Designation Act of 2019. #DontMuteDC https://t.co/QtBM5BwpQ1 pic.twitter.com/XWYuTscq5h
— Kenyan McDuffie (@kenyanmcduffie) June 4, 2019
In the midst of the Don’t Mute DC movement, it’s quite disheartening to see such a big wave in violence this month — the most striking probably being that of 15-year-old Maurice Scott, who was killed in SE at the start of the week. You can read the news story below (in full here):
Maurice Scott was walking to the store – about a block away from Somerset Prep School where he went to school – when a gunman got out of the passenger’s side of a car and opened fire.
DC Police said the shooter shot four people in total. Council member Trayon White heard the shots ring out and ran to the scene. He said the three other females who were shot were all relatives, including a mother and her 9-year-old daughter. They were shot in the legs and feet and are expected to survive.
“It was a horrifying scene, clothes on the ground, people screaming,” White said. White represents Ward 8 and says in the past nine months alone, 18 children have been shot there. He is fed up with the violence, as 7 other people were shot Monday, following WUSA9’s interview with the councilman.
Police are still looking for the shooter who they say was in a light colored, four door sedan. They are also reviewing security camera footage from nearby stores. It happened on the 3500 block of Wheeler Avenue in Southeast DC.
Scott, 15, was the only one who did not survive the shooting.
CM White also revealed that there will be a community meeting at Malcolm X and MLK (Congress Heights) at 6:30pm this Friday. It always seems like the Summer brings death, and it’s only hopeful that we as a community can come together to find a proper solution.
The title says it all. Shy didn’t take too kindly to Jose’s diss and it looks like they publicly aired it out around 37th Street.
From Billboard, where you can read the full story…a full stream of the album is below:
Logic notches his third No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as Confessions of a Dangerous Mind debuts atop the tally.
The set starts with 80,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending May 16, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 24,000 were in album sales. Confessions was released on May 10 via Visionary/Def Jam Recordings.
Logic previously led the list with Bobby Tarantino II (in 2018) and Everybody (2017). Logic made his Billboard 200 debut in 2014 with Under Pressure, which peaked at No. 4 — his first of six top 10 albums (including Confessions).
Confessions’ debut frame was largely powered by streaming activity, as the set racked up 54,000 SEA units (of its total 80,000 overall units). That 54,000 SEA number equates to 73.93 million on-demand audio streams for its tracks in the album’s debut frame, which also made it the most streamed album of the week.
This is a day I’m still trying to process, in all honesty: city leaders like Tony Lewis, Jr., Angel Gregorio and others have delivered a rallying cry in light of the rampant gentrification that’s pushing long-time D.C. residents out, laying destruction to the city’s culture en masse.
As a first generation D.C. resident (born in raised in Petworth, Uptown), it has definitely been surreal, to say the least…from seeing a new subway station planted in your neighborhood to watching your neighbors get evicted from a rowhouse I thought they owned (and witnessing many others follow), watching a corner restaurant go through a variety of changes (it’s currently a rock-and-roll venue, which is hilariously jarring to me) to seeing longtime Go-Go spots like the Black Hole disappear into just that…this run-on sentence could go on forever. And then to see your peers — shout-out to Yaddiya and Byrd as well — pushing back against a growing group of ignorant, entitled people who have no concern for tradition, you definitely hope that the awareness raised could kick-start a permanent shift that will ensure that D.C.’s best bits can co-exist with the new.
Yesterday saw the second big D.C. native photoshoot, a year after the first one was sparked by whatever the hell the Washingtonian thought it was doing, which went down at the Union District Oyster Bar; you can check out video and pics from what went down below. You can also click here to see what else the creators of this holiday have planned for the rest of the week.
Now that I reside in Congress Heights in SE (which feels like Zion from The Matrix right now and is on the verge of a big influx in its own right), I sit here wide-eyed to what will come from D.C. Natives day in the future, ready to contribute whatever my two hands can create to keep it moving forward.
So much love for #OurCity as we came together to celebrate on the eve of the first #DCNativesDay — May 20, 2019!
Thanks to @mrtonylewisjr, @TheSpiceSuite, @kenyanmcduffie and all who made this celebration of people, culture, & unity possible. #DCorNothing pic.twitter.com/i9bOQsYDDB
— Markus Batchelor (@MarkusBatchelor) May 20, 2019
Happy #DCNativesDay !! pic.twitter.com/bzUHpREnwf
— SUNNI (@SunniAndTheCity) May 20, 2019
Happy #DCNativesDay to all of my peeps from the D dot C!!! I love my people and our culture. We are from here. We have been here. We’re here to stay. #WeAintGoingNowhere #WeGoingToBeRightHere #GetUpDC
(Shoutout to @mrtonylewisjr and Angel for getting it done #ForTheCulture) pic.twitter.com/fiYCZwLAWB
— Michael Quander WUSA (@MikeQReports) May 20, 2019
From TMZ:
John Singleton, the first African American nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director — whose decorated career spanned nearly three decades in Hollywood — has died … TMZ has learned.
A Singleton family rep says he passed “peacefully, surrounded by his family and friends.” The news comes more than a week after the famed director suffered a massive stroke. As we first reported … John’s mom, Shelia Ward, filed legal docs asking the judge to appoint her temporary conservator because he was “unable to properly provide for his personal needs for physical health, food, clothing, or shelter.” He had been in a coma in ICU at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in L.A.
The “Boyz n the Hood” director suffered the stroke 12 days ago after returning from Costa Rica and experiencing problems with his legs. He checked himself into Cedars where he suffered a stroke on April 17 in his hospital room.
Recent reports have came out that Howard University Students feel disrespected by residents using the yard as a dog park 🐕 but this resident thinks the campus should be moved 😮😡 pic.twitter.com/stxHUWtu2X
— Angie Ange In The Morning (@AngieAngeAM) April 19, 2019
D.C. just recently found themselves fighting back about playing music in an area that’s been doing so long before the gentrifiers decided to show up. Now, here’s the latest in colonizer bulls***, as seen on NewsOne:
Now, some students at Howard University are upset about local residents using their campus as a dog park. The solution? One colonizer says “move the campus.”
Fox 5 spoke to Malakhi Briggs, a sophomore at Howard, who said, “‘The Yard’ is for the students and although everyone loves pets, I feel like it’s disrespectful to have the pets just running around, especially when there are several parks around here, If they come on ‘The Yard’ and they’re just walking through, I don’t necessarily have a problem with that, but I still feel like there are other ways to get around D.C. without having to cut through a college campus.”
Sean Grubbs-Robishaw, a local resident, admits to cutting through “The Yard” with his dog and said, “So, they’re in part of D.C. so they have to work within D.C. If they don’t want to be within D.C. then they can move the campus. I think we just need to work together and I don’t think it should be a he or there or here… It’s our community and that’s how it should be.”
Wait–what??
Dropped April 19th. You can check out the artwork below…Shy also spoke on the new album in a recent interview with HipHopDX, which you can check out here.
MY DEBUT PROJECT IS TITLED : “THE LOST BOY” …. that is all
— Cordae' (@YbnCordae) April 15, 2019
As can be seen above, DMV-reppin’ YBN Cordae has announced that his official debut will be titled The Lost Boy…when that project makes landfall is yet to be seen.
Also added below are upcoming dates for his first official headlining tour of the same name. While he will be at Broccoli City Fest, it’s pretty hard not to notice that there aren’t any D.C. area dates…
Naturally, I'm also SUPER excited to announce my VERY first headline tour ! Cant wait to perform my project for y'all 🖤🖤. Presale starts tomorrow and General Tickets go on sale FRIDAY. pic.twitter.com/iiP85KI8eH
— Cordae' (@YbnCordae) April 15, 2019
GoldLink Accuses Lil Uzi Vert Of Stealing “DMV Flow” On New Song “Free Uzi” https://t.co/QpcWoCbPuo pic.twitter.com/RVENY7ok1f
— HolyKey1 (@Holy_key1) March 29, 2019
The specific case-in-point is Lil Uzi Vert’s recent single “Free Uzi,” which you can play below. Did he steal the D.C. area’s rapping style?
No words for this one. SMMFH.
Grammy-nominated rapper Nipsey Hussle died after a shooting in Los Angeles near a clothing store he owned, according to a high-ranking law enforcement official with the Los Angeles Police Department.
The Soundtrack to my debut Novel Supermarket is out! Kick back relax and just enjoy it!https://t.co/a7XmwePOqI pic.twitter.com/waI7kxvlCb
— Bobby Bestseller (@Logic301) March 26, 2019
Check out Logic’s latest, which will accompany his upcoming novel, along with a synopsis of said novel for better understanding:
“Flynn is stuck—depressed, recently dumped, and living at his mom’s house. The supermarket was supposed to change all that. An ordinary job and a steady check. Work isn’t work when it’s saving you from yourself. But things aren’t quite as they seem in these aisles. Arriving to work one day to a crime scene, Flynn’s world collapses as the secrets of his tortured mind are revealed. And Flynn doesn’t want to go looking for answers at the supermarket. Because something there seems to be looking for him. A darkly funny psychological thriller, Supermarket is a gripping exploration into madness and creativity. Who knew you could find sex, drugs, and murder all in aisle nine?”
