From heartfelt R&B tracks to tribute albums and club anthems, check out this week’s New Music Friday for the culture’s latest & greatest in music. —Quavo, Rocket Power — The Migos member’s second solo project, and first since Takeoff‘s death, is an 18-track tribute to his late nephew, with features from Atlanta rappers Future and Hunxho. —Rod Wave, “Call Your Friends” — The Florida…
RadicalMedia/(SME) Premium Content/Columbia Records/Museum & Crane Lil Nas X, in partnership with Sony Music Entertainment, announced his documentary Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival next month. Shot over the course of two months, the film follows Lil Nas as he embarks on his first-ever global tour, providing viewers an inside…
Davido Music Worldwide/Sony Music Entertainment UK International superstar Davido joins forces with Grammy-nominated rapper Latto for the remix of “Unavailable.” The new collaboration serves as the second installment in a series of remixes of Davido’s original version of “Unavailable,” released earlier this year. He dropped off the Major Lazer remix on August 11. “I am so excited to see how far…
Scott Dudelson/Getty Images Chicago rapper Polo G says he might be through with rapping. He took to X, formerly known as Twitter, with his thoughts about quitting, writing to his 3.4 million followers that he “appreciates everybody” who supported him throughout his short career. “Honestly after my hood poet album I’m considering retiring from music,” he said. “So I…
Beauty Marks Entertainment, Inc. Ciara returns with her EP CiCi, the latest project by her media company, Beauty Marks Entertainment. Along with the album’s release, Ciara dropped off “Forever,” a brand new song and video featuring rapper Lil Baby. The Atlanta natives joined forces in their hometown for the visual, which sees retired NFL player A.J. Green and his wife, Miranda Brooke, as a wedded…
Mpu Dinani / ESPN Images Harper’s Bazaar has announced its 2023 Icons, a group of the next generation of artists, athletes and activists whose contributions have an impact on the industry, naming Teyana Taylor as one of the coveted list’s cover stars. In speaking with the magazine about her music and entertainment career, Taylor opened up about pivoting from making her own…
Beauty Marks Entertainment, Inc. In the latest Ciara news, the “Level Up” singer is dropping more music on Friday, August 18. In a teaser shared to Instagram, she links up with rapper Lil Baby in the music video for their new song, “Forever.” “If it ain’t forever, it’s whatever,” she captioned her post of the short clip. “Forever” follows the singer’s most recent song…
ABC Lenny Kravitz could potentially be competing for an Oscar next year. The rocker is contributing the new song “Road To Freedom” to the upcoming film Rustin, about gay activist Bayard Rustin. The tune will feature musician Trombone Shorty, thanks to a request by director George C. Wolfe to include trombones in the song. “Ever since Branford Marsalis introduced me to a recording of the holy…
Live Nation/Production Simple Jack Harlow is going on tour — a very, very limited tour. The rapper has announced No Place Like Home: The Kentucky Tour, which will see him visiting several cities in his home state of Kentucky. The six-city tour starts November 24 in Owensboro and wraps up in Lexington on December 3. The…
Paras Griffin/Getty Images for BET Paramount has decided to pull the plug on the sale of BET Media Group. The decision not to sell comes after at least five months of deliberations, according to The Hollywood Reporter, and after the company received bids for a majority stake in the company from top Hollywood names like Shaquille O’Neal, Diddy and Tyler Perry. A…