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Black Atlass was planning to spend all summer touring Europe with The Weeknd, but COVID-19 had a slightly different agenda. Forced into semi-permanent lockdown like the rest of us during this global pandemic, XO Records’ latest signee has had no choice but to shelve most of the promo schedule for Dream Awake, his excellent third […]
Where’s 88GLAM been? Fans of the gauzy Toronto rap duo have been wondering this—and anxiety spiraling over it—for a minute. Derek Wise and 88 Camino were all set to drop Close to Heaven Far From God, the highly anticipated follow-up to their sophomore LP 88GLAM2, back in April. There was a lead single for it and everything! But it […]
Black Atlass, XO Records‘ latest signee, just dropped an album that will surely contribute to the great post-coronavirus baby boom set to take place nine months from now. Dream Awake, the London, Ontario-bred R&B visionary’s third full-length, is now available on all streaming platforms. The record, out via XO Records/Republic Records/Universal Music Canada, includes the singles “Lie To Me” and […]
The Weeknd is keeping fans fed. More than a week after releasing his After Hours album, the Toronto-born artist posted several video teasers on his social media accounts on Sunday. The clips showed Abel inside a casino, as an unreleased track played in the backdrop. One of the posts was captioned, “a few lullabies tonight”—pretty much confirming that new music was […]
Time was when the Weeknd and his XO team were literally going hungry trying to make it in the music industry. Well, things done changed. What began as an unofficial imprint through which Abel Tesfaye released his original trilogy of mixtapes in 2011 (House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence) has transmogrified into a widely […]
Long before he was a motherfuckin’ starboy, The Weeknd and his XO camp literally had to steal food to keep their dreams alive. That was one of many nuggets revealed last Friday during In-HXOUSE Conversations, the latest in a panel series by HXOUSE, XO Records’ creative incubator. “I remember when we were coming up, we […]
Drake is back with a new song titled “War.” He also dropped off a music video for the track. On the song, Drake raps about his relationship with The Weeknd and others. “OVOXO link up, man don’t drink up, me in the trailers/Hawk and Stix and Cash and Baka, Gucci, P, and Gilla/ And the boy that […]
Last year, a video surfaced of XO Records rapper Belly getting punched by security as he attempted to get backstage at Coachella. He later addressed the incident, tweeting, “20 of you pussies couldn’t take me off my feet.” Now TMZ reports that Belly is suing Coachella, blaming the festival for an attack that saw around 25 security […]
In an interview with Variety, Nav opened up on how Drake and the Weeknd laid the groundwork that helped the Bad Habits rapper become who he is today. As a fellow Toronto native, Nav credits Drizzy for being the first person from The 6ix to break into the mainstream hip-hop scene in a big way, which thereby “made shit feel like it’s possible.” “It’s crazy; he really kicked […]
Nav is back. The XO artist announced in January he would join his good friend Lil Uzi Vert in retirement. Nav kept a relatively low profile in the following months; however, that all changed last week, when XO co-founder Amir “Cash” Esmailian blessed fans with Brown Boy—a five-track EP of unreleased Nav material. Upon the project’s […]
