Month: July 2024

Drake Trash Talks Black People Around White People, Lord Jamar Speculates

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Amid Kendrick Lamar’s viral lyrical battle with Drake, he told the Toronto-born performer that he doesn’t like when he uses the n-word, calling it “cringe-worthy.” This became one of the most memorable jabs of the entire feud, as it called Drake’s role in hip-hop culture into question, stirred up “culture vulture” accusations, and more.

Now, Lord Jamar has weighed in on the debate, revealing that he agrees with Kendrick. “I’m not a Drake album fan,” he began. “I don’t like… how he turns his sh*t on and off, you know what I mean? […] It’s just like, n****a who are you?” He went on, theorizing that Drake acts a lot differently around white people, and even speaks negatively about Black people.

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Lord Jamar Claims Drake Shouldn’t Use The N-Word

“That’s not who you really are,” Lord Jamar said of Drake using the n-word. “Like I could see you going back to the white people when nobody is around and saying ‘Yeah, I say n***a in my rhymes and they don’t say anything to me. That’s because they think I’m one of them, but I’m really one of you.’” He continued, urging Drake to stop trying to play both sides. “It’s like come on man,” he explained. “You’ve got to choose a lane, bro. Choose a lane. He wants to be everything to all people it seems like, and you can’t do that. You’ve got to pick a side.”

Drake isn’t the only artist he was critical of during the interview, however. He also took aim at Sexyy Red, accusing her of being an industry plant and going after her appearance. What do you think of Lord Jamar speculating that Drake speaks poorly of Black people around white people? What about him claiming that he shouldn’t use the n-word? Do you agree with him or not? Share your thoughts in the comments section down below, and keep an eye on HNHH for more updates.

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Turk Doesn’t Understand BG’s Anger At Him Over Hot Boys Reunion

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The Hot Boys are getting fiery, especially after their “reunion” at the recent Birdman and Cash Money set at the Essence Festival only had two of the four group members on stage together. Moreover, there’s a lot of tension between group mates Turk and B.G. now, with the latter blasting the former for not making it to the Essence link-up. He fired back with equal force, doubling down on the business issues that led to this internal rift between the group. Furthermore, Turk readdressed the issue in a YouTube video on his channel posted on Wednesday (July 10), citing confusion.

“B.G. to me has been very disrespectful,” Turk remarked about his Hot Boys brethren. “If I really did anything to you, brother, I can’t see you holding back and saying what it is. I don’t know what it is, I can’t figure it out. I can’t put no light on a lie. Homie made a statement saying I know what I did last summer. I know what I did last summer. I never felt a Hot Boys reunion could be done without homie.

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Turk Speaks On B.G. Beef Once Again

“Proof of that is every time we came together,” Turk continued. “For instance, LeBron James’ party. LeBron James in the middle of his speech shouting out everybody. I’m like, ‘Hold up LeBron, free motherf***ing B.G.!’ I was doing these things because you can’t have a reunion without B.G. and I think I probably made a lot of people mad about that when I was doing it.” He finalized his remarks by saying that, when he spoke to B.G. on social media, they were all good to his knowledge, so that might be why he feels particularly blindsided now.

“You n***as want that s**t to come together because you n***as f***ed up outchea,” Turk previously said of B.G. “I ain’t f***ed up outchea. I’m blessed and highly favored by God. Y’all got me f***ed up. I’ll say f**k a Hot Boys tour, n***a. Disrespect won’t be tolerated, n***a. I don’t give a f**k who a n***a is. Ain’t no Big I’s or Lil U’s over me, mane. B.G. better sit his motherf***ing a** down somewhere, man. That n***a don’t run s**t round here. Not with me. He might run that s**t with you n***as. He don’t run that s**t with me. He ain’t doing nothing but running his motherf***ing mouth. Them wack a** raps, man. That s**t wack, n***a. All you n***as d**k-riding around here, man. That s**t wack.”

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Kanye West & Jay-Z’s Creative Processes Are Drastically Different, Malik Yusef Reveals

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It’s no secret that Jay-Z and Kanye West are some of the most iconic hip-hop artists of their generation. According to one of their frequent collaborators, however, they each have drastically different approaches to making music. During a recent appearance on the TFU Podcast, Malik Yusef detailed their creative processes, noting that he sees them as equal despite the stark contrast.

“Hov works the least amount of hard on his music than anybody else I’ve ever met,” he began. “Like with Kanye, we’ll stay up for 36 hours, go to sleep for four and come back and do another 30. Hov — he just too good. Hov’s ridiculous. I mean, Kanye and Hov for me is [equal]; they just have different approaches.”

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Malik Yusef Says Jay-Z Works Faster Than Ye

“Hov be like, ‘Can you get to the studio at 6?’ By 10, we got three songs done,” Yusef continued. “Kanye, he’ll have three months and have no songs done. Kanye will take a whole album and be like, ‘We have some good stuff on here. Aight, let’s start the album for real now.’” Perhaps this could explain why it took so long for fans to hear Vultures 1, though this could also have something to do with Ye’s apparent retirement plans.

Earlier this week, he told Rich The Kid that he was quitting music for good, adding that he’s “not sure what else to do.” Of course, fans are skeptical of the announcement, though they’re still eager to know what this means for Vultures 2 with Ty Dolla Sign. What do you think of Malik Yusef revealing that while Jay-Z works fast, Kanye West spends days at a time working on his music? Are you surprised that their creative processes are so different? Share your thoughts in the comments section down below, and keep an eye on HNHH for more updates.

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Cardi B & Offset Celebrate Kulture’s Sixth Birthday With Adorable Photo Tributes

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It goes without saying that it’s been a busy few months for Cardi B and Offset. Aside from some ups and downs on the relationship front, they’ve both also been hard at work on new music. Regardless, they each took the time to celebrate their daughter Kulture’s sixth birthday earlier this week, sharing some adorable tributes with their social media followers.

Cardi took to X with a side-by-side of Kulture as an infant, and now as a child, all dressed up in what appears to be her extravagant birthday look. “My baby really six,” she captioned the post alongside two teary-eyed emojis. “Like how?” Offset later hopped on Instagram with a similar message, revealing that they both are blown away by how fast their daughter seems to be growing up.

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Cardi B Shares Throwback Photo For Kulture’s Sixth Birthday

“Happy birthday my princess kulture,” the former Migos member began. “My special angel big 6 so fast I couldn’t believe it I love you so much happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday !!!!!” To go along with his heartfelt message, he also shared a shot of the birthday girl dressed to the nines, as well as a couple of photos of her in her father’s arms.

Of course, social media users can’t get enough of the parents’ sweet posts. They’re sharing their own birthday messages to Kulture, praising her mother and father for their parenting skills, and noting how much the elementary schooler looks like both of them. “Enjoy your special day,” one fan tells Kulture in Offset’s comments section. “Your kid really your clone!!” someone else writes in Cardi’s replies.

Offset Wishes Kulture A Happy Birthday

What do you think of Cardi B and Offset celebrating their daughter Kulture’s sixth birthday? What about their adorable social media tributes? Share your thoughts in the comments section down below and keep an eye on HNHH for more updates.

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Spotify Could Be The Next Big Social Media Platform

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Picture this: It’s late Thursday night, minutes away from Friday. In a few moments, this week’s wave of new music releases will hit Spotify. Somebody inevitably goes for Drake’s throat on a new song again. Once fans get their first listen of the diss track, they’ll flock to X (formerly Twitter) to talk about Drizzy’s latest L. Topics related to new music are regularly X’s top trending topics on Friday morning, and it’s where much of the online conversation about what’s new in music happens.

So, here’s a thought: Spotify has more users than X, it appears, with a reported 615 million active monthly users versus 368 million for X. Why couldn’t all these music conversations happen on Spotify instead?

The obvious reason is that Spotify isn’t a social media platform. But, Spotify execs have perhaps also gone through the thought process I just laid out.

Earlier this week, Spotify introduced the ability to leave comments on podcast episodes. In the announcement post, Spotify notes, “Our new Comments feature expands on the Q&A and polls functionality we introduced in 2021 as a way to bring interactivity into the podcasting industry for the first time. And interactivity is a feature that already has listeners and creators buzzing: More than 9 million unique Spotify listeners have interacted with a Q&A or poll just this year, and there’s been 80% year-over-year growth in the number of total Q&A responses and votes from listeners.”

So, Spotify has the users and at least a portion of them have expressed interest in more interactive ways to use the platform. Perhaps introducing commenting to podcasts is a way for Spotify to test and soft-launch a new era: Spotify as music-based social media platform, where users can listen to and discuss music in the same place.

If that is their plan, though, and they already have a framework for comment functionality, why not just roll it out big-time and let users comment on songs and albums now?

Well, being a giant internet company doesn’t mean a social media expansion will be an automatic success. We saw this happen with Google: They launched Google+ (which you probably forgot about, or perhaps never heard of) in 2011. The Facebook clone failed to gain significant traction and ceased operations a few years later. That’s not to say that Google rushed into it, but this does illustrate that nothing is guaranteed, no matter how dominant you are in other areas.

So, trying to pivot into social media is a big swing, and it’s smart of Spotify to take some practice cuts in the on-deck circle before stepping up to the plate. After all, if full-fledged social media is on Spotify’s agenda, there are still so many factors to consider. Would the platform be purely comments-based, or could users make their own posts? Will there be a way to see the best posts and users across the entire platform, or will each song’s/album’s comments section be its own beast? Will there be appropriate moderation in place to stop Neil Young from spamming comments about audio quality? That’s just a sampling of the major questions Spotify would have to work out ahead of a launch of this scale.

The opportunity appears to be there, though: Spotify is the world’s biggest music streaming platform and it continues to grow. Public opinion of X has waned ever since Elon Musk took over. (That’s not to say Spotify is without its controversies, though.) Many social media users would seemingly embrace a new forum for discussing music, especially one that lets them do it without switching out of the app they’re already listening in. It could certainly be a major value proposition for Spotify to help increase the gap between them and streaming competitors like Apple Music. It would also make them a unique presence in the social media landscape.

This is all assuming that Spotify even wants this — that they actually aim to expand comments beyond podcasts. We don’t know that for sure, but if that is the path they’re on, our Thursday nights and Friday mornings could look very different in the future.

Did Kanye West & Ty Dolla Sign’s ‘Vultures 1’ Get Removed From Spotify?

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Kanye West (who legally changed his name to Ye in 2021) and Ty Dolla Sign made a mess of their Vultures 1 rollout, with an oft-delayed release and canceled listening events. It was supposed to be a trilogy, but Vultures 2 has yet to arrive.

But can you even listen to Vultures 1 anymore?

Did Kanye West & Ty Dolla Sign’s Vultures 1 Get Removed From Spotify?

It would appear that Vultures 1 is no longer available to stream on Spotify.

As of this writing, it can still be played on Apple Music, but that is subject to change, especially because Vultures 1 was previously removed from Apple Music shortly after its February 10 release due to a dispute with the album’s distributor.

Despite obstacles to listen to Vultures 1, it still debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart dated February 24 — becoming West’s 11th-career No. 1 album and Ty Dolla Sign’s first. Vultures 1 accumulated 148,000 equivalent album units in the United States during its first week, according to Billboard and its Luminate data service.

Whether Vultures 2 will ever see the light of day remains a mystery. Earlier this week, Rich The Kid posted an alleged text from West claiming he was “retiring from professional music,” but Rich The Kid later posted that West would be a featured artist on his Life’s A Gamble album due out on Friday, July 19.