Drake seems to be competing himself nowadays. Less than a week after his Certified Lover Boy album arrives, the album has sold over 500K units in the U.S, making it the first album to achieve this feat, this year.
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Jackboy, 24, had a recent visit to Haiti. Seeing patients forced to sleep outside because there wasn’t enough room in the hospital triggered him to want to do more, as he described what he saw in his Instagram story, Complex reports.
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“I just walked through a hospital in Haiti & all the patients sleeping outside,” Jackboy wrote. “I personally handed every single last 1 of them an envelope full of money but fr fr I feel like that ain’t enough…Who want to go half with me & get a hospital built it’s not really that much especially if we using dollars.”
Lil Baby DM’d Jackboy about the post and said he wants to build “something special.” The two will join forces to build a hospital for the country.
As reported by HitsDailyDouble, the OVO head honcho is projected to pull in 575-625K units in his first week for CLB album. So far, the album has over 650 million streams.
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Watch Drake’s first video from the album, Way 2 Sexy, featuring Future and Young Thug below:
Lil Tecca has been teasing the release of his We Love You Tecca 2 album for some time now. The second installment will be dropping Friday (August 27).
The album features Lil Yachty, Chief Keef, Gunna, Trippie Redd, and Ian Dior.
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The first installment was released on August 20, 2019, as a mixtape. Two years later, and the 18-year-old rapper is ready to share his talent, once again.
Check out the first single from the album, “Money On Me,” with visuals directed by Cole Bennett.
Kanye West is a man of many nicknames: Yeezy, Mr. West, Yeezus (self-proclaimed), and Ye — amongst many more. Reportedly, according to TMZ, Kanye has filed legal documents in Los Angeles, California, to change his name to “Ye.”
Kanye has asked the court to change his name from Kanye Amari West to the simple name of Ye. The context of this request is straight to the point. If the judge signs off on the document, then Kanye will officially be granted his name change.
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TMZ notes that unless fraud or other malicious intentions come behind the request, it’s more than likely that the judge will sign off on this.
In the meantime, fans are still awaiting the arrival of Kanye’s studio album, DONDA.
On June 1, 2018, Kanye dropped his album, ye.
Earlier, in the month of July, dvsn and Ty Dolla Sign released a new single titled “I Believe It.” The single features the late Mac Miller and will be featured on dvsn and Ty Dolla Sign’s joint album, Cheers to the Memories, set to drop on August 20.
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The album will be released via OVO Sound. Both dvsn (composed of Daniel Daley and Nineteen85) and Ty Dolla Sign have already released albums fairly recently, if you want to count October for Ty’s Featuring Ty Dolla Sign album as “fairly recently.”
Check out “I Believe It” below, featuring Mac Miller:
The go-to guy for the hooks and the hits in the mid-to-late 2000s was T-Pain. 2006-2007 spawned the hits “Shawty” with Plies and “Low” with Flo Rida.
On a recent episode of Drink Champs podcast, T-pain talked about the history of these songs, and how he wrote both hooks in the same session, on the same night.
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In his most recent interview with GQ Magazine, the pop star we’ve grown to know as The Weeknd, has shed some light on his new body of work.
There’s no release date and it’s not complete, but he has a direction for the art. He played a couple tracks for GQ and he appears to be rather excited for this body of work to be released to the public — when it’s finally completed.
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“It’s the album I’ve always wanted to make,” said The Weeknd, also known by his government name of Abel.
The Weeknd also spoke about his debut studio album, Kiss Land, which fell short of expectations but defined exactly where he was in his life with an honest tone behind the music.
“If it wasn’t for Kiss Land, I wouldn’t have been able to make this new album. That song that you just heard? That’s Kiss Land, man. It’s just me understanding how to use Kiss Land now, in my craft. But it’s definitely my most honest record. I was the most naked. Most vulnerable. And it is what it is.“
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