Kanye West and Ty Dolla Sign were supposed to drop Vultures 2 months ago. However, the release date came and went with no music, whatsoever. Although there has been snippets here and there, the status of Vultures 2 is up in the air. Kanye himself has been pretty MIA while Ty doesn’t seem to know what’s happening. In fact, all fans have had to go off of is the occasional preview here and there from influencers like Adin Ross.
Last night, Adin Ross came through with a preview of a new song called “Promotion.” Overall, this is a track that features Future, and it seems like the Hendrixx is a centerpiece of the track. Although there is little information to go off of, there is no telling that this snippet is an exciting prospect for fans. After all, it could very well serve as a sign that Ye and Ty Dolla Sign are ready to drop the second installment in their Vultures series.
On the flipside of that, this could also just be a bit of a false alarm. Ye has had entire albums leak and more of than not, it has led to even less music. Having said that, Kanye fans should exercise some caution here before getting too ahead of themselves. Otherwise, they could be setting themselves up for a world of disappointment.
Let us know what you think of this new song snippet, in the comments section down below. Do you believe that Kanye and Ty Dolla Sign will be dropping Vultures 2 anytime soon? Are you even excited for the album at this point? Additionally, stay tuned to HNHH for the latest news and updates from around the music world. We will continue to keep you informed on all of your favorite artists and their upcoming projects.
Cardi B is seemingly always under fire for something, and this time she is having to speak out against the idea that she is homophobic. According to AllHipHop, this stems from a video that is making the rounds on X (formerly Twitter) of a male “fan” spitting on Cardi B’s wax figure. As you can see from the screenshot below, this guy follows the New York rapper on Instagram, so that in and of itself is odd behavior. In the video you can also hear him say, “They don’t have you in a dark shadow for no reason, b****. Nobody likes you”. A Cardi B fan account reshared the video and the MC came across it and replied to it with, “But when I said be a BOY”.
This set some people off, leading to even more heated fan interactions. For example, this user shamed the “I Like It” songwriter for being against the gay community. “You are becoming so comfortable being homophobic and it’s disgusting”. Again, this prompted Cardi B to respond and she made sure to get her point across. “Stop wit the fake homophobia bulls***. Im not homophobic I don’t care wtf you like to f*** and suck and eat on but be a f***in BOY you a grown a** man spitting at a wax figure of me. I wouldn’t allow no straight man buck on me ever! If you suck dick like me you not buckin on me neither and that’s just that!”.
Later on, the “hawk tuah” dude shared a separate post, this time posing next to the statue of Cardi’s rival, Nicki Minaj. He then captioned it, “Be a Mother Be a Wife. Worried about me being a boy When your Husband is Messing with Ladies With Sticks @NICKIMINAJ Nicki Is Better #Barbz @BarbzFeedx”. If you are wondering why the one X user was calling Cardi B homophobic, it’s because she was put on blast a couple of weeks ago. She used the “be a boy” phrase in another Twitter spat revolving around her rumored pregnancy.
Here’s Where “Be A Boy” Comes From
What are your thoughts on Cardi B denying the homophobic allegations once again? How do you feel about this supposed Cardi fan spitting on her wax statue? Is the hate for the rapper going too far in your estimation, why or why not? We would like to hear what you have to say, so leave your thoughts in the comments. Additionally, always keep it locked in with HNHH for all of the latest news surrounding Cardi B. Finally, stay with us for everything else going on in the music world.
Drake has returned fire at Soulja Boy on a new song with Lil Yachty after the ‘Crank That’ rapper criticized his rap battle performance against Kendrick Lamar.
Drake seems to be putting his feud with Kendrick Lamar behind him. Since dropping “Family Matters,” currently his final contribution to the diss track swap, Drake has linked up with Sexyy Red on “U My Everything” and Camila Cabello on a couple new tracks. Now, the story continues via a new Lil Yachty collab.
Streaming icon Kai Cenat previewed an unreleased Drake/Yachty track on his stream last night (July 23). The song doesn’t have an official title, but some have dubbed it “Supersoak” or “Super Soaked”
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Drake sings on the chorus (per Genius), “I’m watching the moves and playin’ it close / S.O.D. (Stacks on deck), super soaked / Rainy days isn’t hers, matchin’ coat / Jet so big, it feel like a boat, stayin’ afloat / I’m watching the moves and playin’ it close / S.O.D., super soaked / She was a hoe, but I ain’t gon’ judge, ’cause that was way before.”
Drake isn’t the only one who’s kept busy in 2024. Yachty started the year by dropping his psychedelic album Let’s Start Here in January. In June, he linked up with James Blake for a joint project, Bad Cameo. Beyond Blake, he also collaborated with everybody from Faye Webster to McDonald’s.
50 Cent once again trolled his longtime rival Irv Gotti on Instagram on Tuesday, sharing a report that the Murder Inc. Records co-founder is jealous of Nelly and Ashanti’s relationship. While he’s since deleted the post, 50 originally captioned it: “LOL I HAD TO SHARE THIS LMAO.” Gotti previously claimed he and Ashanti dated for a stretch of time during an interview on Drink Champs in 2022.
A few months later, Ashanti spoke with Angie Martinez on the IRL podcast and flat-out denied the story. “Let’s clear this up, we dealt with each other, but was Irv my boyfriend? Was I his girlfriend? Never,” she said at the time. “Irv had several girlfriends, so I’m a little confused by the label and the description.”
Tuesday isn’t the first time 50 has trolled Gotti this month. He recently called out the music executive for facing a sexual assault lawsuit in Miami. “Oh no,” he wrote over that report. “In a lawsuit filed in Miami-Dade on July 11, a women accuses 54-year-old Gotti (born Irving Domingo Lorenzo) of sexually assaulting and abusing her on several occasions from 2020 to 2022 in Saint Martin, Miami, and Atlanta. The suit seeks a trial by jury. (The legal fee’s are gonna break his ass in half, he ain’t got no money). Welp that all folks.” The lawsuit was filed by an anonymous Jane Doe who claims she “has suffered severe emotional and psychological harm for which she had to be committed to a psychiatric ward.” She also accused Gotti of “slandering her to his vast social network in and around Los Angeles.”
50 Cent Calls Out Irv Gotti Over Sexual Assault Lawsuit
Gotti’s rep. denied the allegations in a statement to TMZ. “The lawsuit contains a single page of ‘facts’ which are unsworn to, sparse by any measure, and which Mr. Gotti categorically denies,” it read. Be on the lookout for further updates on 50 Cent and Irv Gotti on HotNewHipHop.
In November 2011, co-star of NBC’s Community Donald Glover sat down to interview his alter ego, fledgling rapper Childish Gambino in a segment for Rolling Stone. Gambino was just over a week away from releasing his debut album, Camp. The interview goes well until Glover asks Gambino “why he raps like sh*t.” Gambino responds by saying that his voice is annoying, but also that he’s read comparisons of himself to Lil Wayne and Kanye West. On its face, it sounds like Gambino is poking fun at himself. To an extent, he is. But, those comparisons also lend themselves to a greater idea: Donald Glover thinks very highly of himself. More accurately, Donald Glover thinks very highly of his artistry.
It’s easy to look back on something from 2011 and say it didn’t age well through a 2024 lens. Much of Camp aged poorly as soon as it hit iTunes. The charm of his earlier work, namely 2010’s Culdesac, was gone, and in its place was “corny.” The punchlines were clunky. The bars about women became bars about Asian women that were misguided at best and racist at worst. The albumwent over even worse than a wet fart, a failure on all fronts. Even when Gambino released Because The Internet in 2013, a surprisingly introspective follow-up to his disastrous debut, he couldn’t shake two ways that people viewed him. One, that he was the guy from Community trying to start a serious music career. And, even more damning, that he was the guy who made that album.
Donald Glover spent the rest of the 2010s trying to convince people that he was a capital-A Artist. It worked. He released “Awaken, My Love!” in 2016, shaking the stigma that came with being Childish Gambino. Glover also reworked his public persona. Gone were the eye-roll-inducing punchlines. In was a man who believed his own hype. He shrouded himself in mystery and released an honest-to-God commercial funk album in the 2010s. In 2018, he released “This Is America,” the controversial multi-platinum single. It became his first song to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Somehow, after years of ridicule, Glover had the last laugh.
“Awaken, My Love!” was a sharp turn from hip-hop that led to 3.15.20 nearly four years later. 3.15.20 was an ambitious surprise release. Gambino experimented greatly and pushed hip-hop to its limit. And now, on Bando Stone And The New World, Donald Glover’s last album as Childish Gambino and the soundtrack to his upcoming film of the same name, he nearly fully realizes his musical vision. It’s a sprawling work that often threatens to buckle under the weight of Gambino’s ego. The back half nearly does. The early quality gives way to tepid pop-punk and tepid pop-pop when he begins to make his exit. Despite that, the highs are undeniable. Pop, R&B, and trap sensibilities produced primarily by Glover himself, make up much of Bando Stone. It is an eclectic soundscape that results in some of the most dynamic music of his career.
Childish Gambino Is A Dynamic Artist On Bando Stone
The dynamism is apparent early. “Lithonia,” the second track on the album, is a pop-rock ballad that tells the story of Cody LaRae, Bando Stone’s main character, learning that the world “doesn’t give a f*ck” about him. The next two tracks, “Survive” and “Steps Beach,” lean more towards R&B. “Steps Beach” in particular sounds a lot like the type of atmospheric tracks that Frank Ocean specializes in. “In The Night,” with Jorja Smith and Amaarae, is a catchy, lustful track with Smith delivering an especially great vocal performance. She sounds like someone Gambino should have collaborated with a lot earlier.
The album’s mission statement arrives about halfway through, on the song “Yoshinoya.” Gambino raps in the triplet flow in the first half over a beat reminiscent of Migos’ “Deadz.” Appropriately, he pays tribute to the city that raised him, Atlanta, by rapping in the most popular to come from that scene. One that has often been falsely attributed to a certain Canadian child actor-turned-pop music dynasty. The same dynasty whom he may have sneak dissed later in the track. “This is a code red for old heads / who never liked my short shorts and Pro-KEDs,” he raps to open the second verse. After hip-hop rejected him early, he’s coming back around to show off a bit, mainly because he has a lot more to show off now. The Amaarae and Flo Milli-assisted “Talk My Sh*t” is a similarly flex-heavy song. Gambino raps over a bass-heavy trap beat, showing that he’s added new wrinkles to his game over the years.
The album begins to lose steam by the end, but Gambino does stick the landing. “We Are God” is a level of self-indulgence on par with some of the worst that Yeezus has to offer. The pop-punk of “Running Around” (featuring Fousheé) evokes the same empty feeling one gets from listening to MGK’s attempts at the sound. The Khruangbin-featuring “Happy Survival” is an instrumental that, while pleasant, feels out of place after the preceding fifteen tracks. Luckily, “Dadvocate” is a sweet, albeit brief, meditation on fatherhood and the idea of being a man. The album closes with “A Place Where Love Goes,” a track co-produced by pop titan Max Martin, that deftly blends hip-hop and electronic music. It may even find its way into some DJ mixes in the near future.
Bando Stone And The New World is a good album. It’s hard to call it great, let alone one of the best albums of the year, considering its uneven ending. But, the scope of its ambition makes it a worthwhile listen and a very worthy farewell to the Childish Gambino moniker. Donald Glover’s musical growth has been painstakingly documented at every turn. Now, he’s actually good enough to earn the praise he believes he should’ve received all those years ago. Regardless of what’s next for Glover musically, he has earned enough cache for people to want to listen to what he has to say. Until then, listen to this one.
ScHoolboy Q arguably has the album of the year so far with Blue Lips. This is an album that a lot of fans were looking forward to. Overall, it did not disappoint in the last. There were some phenomenal songs on here, including the track “Blueslides” which has proven to be among some of the most popular on the entire album. However, if you have heard the song, you know that Q alludes to a canceled rapper whom he believes has been treated unfairly.
Q has not revealed who that artist is, however, speculation shows that it is Kanye West. Well, according to Reddit user u/TheMisiak, ScHoolboy Q confirmed that it is, indeed, Kanye that is being talked about “When Q performed Blueslides he didn’t censor himself like he did on the track itself. Just thought it was interesting that he waited until the tour to reveal who he was referencing,” the user wrote. “While doing his interview with Nadeska he wouldn’t elaborate on what that line meant or who he was talking about. Also if there are still tickets available in your city for his show I cannot recommend going enough. Best concert of my life.”
Some fans on Reddit expressed disappointment with ScHoolboy Q for continuously showing love to Kanye. Moreover, other fans disagreed that A) Kanye has been canceled and that B) it’s unfair. After all, Ye was espousing Nazi talking points while also engaging in White Nationalism. Either way, Q’s defense of Kanye will remain controversial, regardless of the context.
Let us know what you think about all of this, in the comments section down below. Do you believe that ScHoolboy Q and Kanye West will drop a song together in the future? How do you feel about Kanye after everything that has happened these past few years? Additionally, stay tuned to HNHH for the latest news and updates from around the music world. We will continue to keep you informed on all of your favorite artists and their upcoming projects.
Last night, multi-platinum artist and Grammy-nominated fashion icon Coi Leray attended an exclusive dinner hosted by V Magazine at New York City’s renowned Casa Cipriani. The event celebrated the magazine’s newest issue release and featured a high-profile guest list, including Kate Upton, Isabeli Fontana, Daiane Sodre, and Maria Klaumann.
Coi Leray dazzled attendees in an I Am Gia dress paired with Jimmy Choo heels and an Alexander Wang bag, perfectly embodying the black-and-white tie theme. The evening I highlighted Leray’s impeccable fashion sense and growing influence as a style icon.
Ahead of the USA Men’s Basketball team getting ready to work toward adding another gold medal to their illustrious history, a Dream Team medal is going up for sale.
According to TMZ Sports, Clyde Drexler’s 1992 Dream Team medal is going up for auction. Placed at Goldin Auctions on Monday, the medal begins with a starting bid of $250,000.
In April, Drexler filled out a letter of authenticity stating he would never attempt to have the medal reproduced. Drexler won the medal alongside Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, and Magic Johnson over Croatia in the finale of the 92 Games. The “Dream Team” won all eight matchups in blowouts.
Lupe Fiasco is hitting the road this Fall with his Samurai Tour, promoting his highly praised album, which was released in June on the 1st and 15th.
The tour will commence on Oct.3rd at Terminal 5 in New York City and span 19 cities, culminating in Los Angeles at Novo on Nov. 24th.
Notable stops include Atlanta’s Variety Playhouse on Nov. 14th and a special homecoming show in Chicago at Salt Shed on Nov. 10th. Following the album’s critical success, the tour promises fans an opportunity to experience Fiasco’s new material live.
Tickets for the Samurai Tour will go on sale Friday, July 26th, at 10 a.m. local time, allowing fans to secure their spots early. The tour will showcase Fiasco’s dynamic live performance style, blending his latest work with fan favorites.