As of the date of this writing, Gucci Mane now holds the title for the most releases from an Atlanta rapper ever. With the release of his latest album ‘Delusions of Grandeur’, which was his second album in six months, Gucci Mane has now released 100 albums/mixtapes since 2005, the most from any Atlanta rapper in history.
Here are some of the reactions to this news.
J. Cole played the violin from 5th to 12th grade. In 2009 he was the first chair violinist at his high school Terry Sandford Orchestra, he played theme songs from “Mission Impossible” and “Batman”.
Unfortunately there are no footage of J. Cole playing the violin back at Terry Sanford High School auditorium back in October 26, 1999.
J. Cole is also a skilled guitar player, he played bass and guitar on five songs off his 2016 album ‘4 Your Eyez Only’.
Read: 11 facts you didn’t know about J. Cole
Watch J. Cole play the piano below.
Under his first rap name, $ir Cartier, also known today as Playboi Carti released his very first song. Playboi Carti recorded “Cry” the summer after his freshman year by the age of 15.
Playboi Carti’s blood cousin UnoTheActivist can be seen in the music video at 0:29. The beat to Playboi Carti’s ‘Cry’ is from French Montana’s ‘So High’ ft. Curren$y and samples “Lotus Blossom” by Michael Franks.
Read: 11 facts you didn’t know about Playboi Carti.
Watch the music video for Playboi Carti’s ‘Cry’ below.
Drake has added another achievement to his long list of accolades. The Canadian rapper has now earned his 35th Billboard Top 10 with ”Money in the Grave” featuring Rick Ross.
The song released shortly after the Toronto Raptors became the NBA 2019 Champions and that boosted Drake, making him only 3 records away from having the most Top 10 records ever. The title for most Top 10 placements on Billboard’s Hot 100 within the long six decades of Billboard’s archival work is currently being held by Madonna who has 38 Top 10 placements.
Update, march 6, 2020: Lil Uzi Vert has finally released Eternal Atake.
After letting fans know his album Eternal Atake was dropping in 3 weeks, 3 weeks ago and after the release of TM88’s “Slayer” ft. Lil Uzi Vert himself, it now appears Lil Uzi Vert doesn’t know when his fans are going to be listening to his highly anticipated album.
Read: 5 facts about Lil Uzi Vert’s album ‘Eternal Atake’
Read: 11 facts you didn’t know about Lil Uzi Vert
Read: Lil Uzi Vert still doesn’t know when “Eternal Atake” is dropping
A fan caught up with Lil Uzi Vert and asked “When Eternal Atake dropping,” Lil Uzi vert looking confused says “Um, I don’t know, honestly.” Not an exciting video to watch as it doesn’t give any hope for Uzi’s second full-length studio album ‘Eternal Atake’. The album is starting to feel like Detox, lets hope we get to hear it this year.
Uzi Vert fans will just have to be patient and listen to ‘That’s A Rack’ and ‘Sanguine Paradise’ on repeat till we receive a confirmed date.
Travis Scott is now in the cereal business. La Flame fans will soon be able to purchase Travis Scott’s customized boxes of Reese’s Puffs cereal after he announced he’s teaming up with General Mills to release special-edition boxes of Reese’s Puffs.
Travis Scott is a huge fan of the breakfast food inspired by the popular chocolate and peanut butter candy. Designed by Travis himself, the cereal box features a cactus behind the bowl of cereal familiar to fans of his Cactus Jack label imprint and Astroworld album visuals and lightning in the background with hand-drawn clouds and stars. The cereal inside will remain unchanged.
To celebrate the release of the cereal, a pop-up is scheduled on Tuesday (June 25) during Paris Fashion Week and will be open to the public. Fans who aren’t in Paris will be able to cop them starting this Friday on Travis’ website TravisScott.com for $50 a box, making it more of a collectible than a casual breakfast as it does comes in an acrylic box.
Before Dwayne Michael Carter Jr was known as Lil Wayne, Weezy, or Tunechi, he was known as Shrimp Daddy (1992-94).
During a 2011 interview with Nardwuar: The Human Serviette, Lil Wayne revealed that he didn’t always go by his famed moniker ‘Lil Wayne’. Weezy confirmed his first rap name was ‘Shrimp Daddy’ after being inspired by former Cash Money artist Pimp Daddy.
“Shrimp Daddy. And I named myself because I was short, so I took the shrimp and I wanted to be like this guy right here, Pimp Daddy.” – Lil Wayne.
Lil Wayne was then known as Baby D, the D from his name Dwayne. There are currently no Shrimp Daddy archives on the internet.
Read: Lil Wayne left 24 seconds of silence at the end of ‘Bing James’ to honor Kobe Bryant
During a 2012 interview with WGCI’s “The Morning Riot”, Kendrick Lamar revealed seeing Tupac and Dr. Dre shoot the music video for ‘California Love’ in Compton inspired the then 7-year-old K. Dot to pursue a career in hip-hop.
The music video for Tupac and Dr Dre‘s collaboration ‘California Love’ was shot near Kendrick Lamar’s house.
“I was in Compton and they were shooting the first version of it,” he said. “They stopped right in front of the middle of the street. My pops had seen them and came back to the house and got me. My father went to the house to get me and put me on his shoulders to watch them shoot.” Kendrick Lamar said.
Watch the full interview
Read: Kendrick Lamar made Rich The Kid remove other featured artists from “New Freezer”
Kendrick also tells the story to the Recording Academy
“I was about eight years old, they was shooting a video in my neighborhood in compton. My father see them, went two blocks down and got me, by the time he got me everybody was out there it was pandemonium, he put me on his shoulders and there they was, Dr Dre and Tupac right there…”
“I think it was a white bentley… that moment right there, whether I knew it or not, branched me off to what i’m doing now, it was already designed in destiny. 15 years later i meet Dr Dre and i explained that story to him and he remembered that same exact moment and he remember them kids that was out there and i said Dre, I was one of them kids that was there, it’s a crazy feeling.” Kendrick Lamar says.
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