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Despite the turbulent times, American-born, Nigerian artist Davido has managed to remain both hopeful and optimistic. The 27-year-old Afrobeats star demonstrated this in his third studio album appropriately titled A Better Time. The 17-track project—the follow-up to 2019’s A Good Time—includes the Napji-produced protest anthem “Fem” as well as guest appearances by U.S. and African artists. We’re talking heavy-hitters like Lil Baby, Nicki […]
Octavian has been dropped by his record label in wake of domestic abuse allegations levied by his ex-girlfriend. The British imprint Black Butter Records confirmed the move in a statement to the Guardian on Thursday, just hours before Octavian was scheduled to release his debut album ALPHA. “We at Black Butter have taken the decision not to continue working with […]
Virginia-born multi-instrumentalist, DJ and producer Stimulator Jones is a rare talent. His music feels set apart from the tireless ebb and flow of trends and therefore timeless. As heard on his debut album, 2018’s Exotic Worlds And Masterful Treasures, that comes largely from his broad spectrum of influences that stretch across the decades and through just about […]
For Hackney’s Bree Runway, the past couple of years have been the most dramatic example of the “how it started vs. how it’s going” meme. Seemingly capable of making things happen by speaking them into existence, in March, she tweeted hip-hop superstar Missy Elliott asking her jump on a remix to one of her songs, and just […]
Fresh off the release of a new song from Marvel‘s Spider-Man: Miles Morales soundtrack, Jaden Smith joined Ebro Darden and Peter Rosenberg for a 30-minute chat on Hot 97 early Wednesday. The everlasting influence of Kid Cudi, who recently teased the impending arrival of the third entry in the Man on the Moon album series, was among […]
Brazilian-born, Paris-based singer, songwriter and cellist Dom La Nena (who also counts herself as one half of Birds On A Wire alongside singer Rosemary Standley) is just about ready to release her new solo album, Tempo, her first since 2015’s Soyo. As you might have gathered from the title, the new project is centred around the concept of […]
Britney Spears, according to her attorney, fears her father and has no intention of performing again should he remain in charge of her career. Still, a judge has declined to suspend the singer’s father—James Spears—from his role in the court conservatorship that has remained in place for 12 years. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Los […]
For the better part of a decade, South London MC and producer Jon E Clayface has been giving us regular doses of his long-running “Mayhem” saga, beginning with the first edition back in 2013. Today he returns with the 10th edition, subtitled ‘Ronin’ and co-produced alongside Morris Beats. Nodding to his passion for martial arts, Jon leans […]
YG and Nipsey Hussle‘s “FDT” was the soundtrack for Saturday’s celebrations. The politically charged protest song, which stands for “Fuck Donald Trump,” reached No. 1 on the iTunes charts just hour after Joe Biden was declared the country’s next president. Streams of the 2016 record soared over the past week as Americans headed to the polls. The song reportedly experienced a 221 […]
A Breezy and Drizzy collaborative album may have seemed far-fetched once upon a time, but in 2020, it sounds like it could happen. On Friday night, Chris Brown appeared on Fat Joe‘s Instagram Live series where he was asked about a potential project with his former foe. “Will there ever be a Drake-Chris Brown album?” the titular host asked. “… […]
