LIFE OF THE PARTY

Kanye West Settles Lawsuit Over BDP “South Bronx” Sample

by
Democratic National Convention Energizes Harris-Walz Campaign with Record Volunteer Engagement

Using a classic Boogie Down Productions sample without permission will no longer be an issue for Kanye West, who settled a lawsuit this week in regards to the uncleared classic.

Court records obtained by HipHopDX show a stipulation and order of voluntary dismissal of the suit was filed on Monday (August 19). Billboard reported that the only part of the settlement that was made public was that both parties would have to take responsibility for their own legal fees.

The suit was filed against Ye in 2022 by Phase One Network over the sample of Boogie Down Productions’ “South Bronx” on “Life of the Party,” the track featuring André 3000 on the Donda LP. The song was originally released on Ye’s $200 Stem Player and arrived on streaming services as a bonus song on the deluxe edition of Donda.

BDP founder KRS-One did not file the lawsuit because Phase One, who actually owns the rights to BDP’s iconic 1986 debut album Criminal Minded where South Bronx is one of the lead singles, filed the suit for the uncleared sample. Phase One claims that West’s team reached out to clear the sample, but an agreement was never reached, so according to the suit, West went on to use the sample with no clearance.

Phase One alleged “Life of the Party” helped inflate sales of the Stem Player, which moved around 11K units in its first 24 hours, amassing about $2.2 million. The company was seeking a share of the profits while blocking further use of the “South Bronx” sample.

The post Kanye West Settles Lawsuit Over BDP “South Bronx” Sample first appeared on The Source.

The post Kanye West Settles Lawsuit Over BDP “South Bronx” Sample appeared first on The Source.

Emerging Hip-Hop Star TOURE Drops Third Project, ‘Life Of The Party’

by
Emerging Hip-Hop Star TOURE Drops Third Project, 'Life Of The Party'

In a relentless display of his burgeoning talent, West Philadelphia’s TOURE has dropped his third project in just 11 months, further solidifying his spot as a formidable force in the world of hip-hop. Titled Life Of The Party, this latest release is made available through DOPE Records. It features a notable focus single, “Lifestyle Vicious,” which boasts the participation of Grammy award-winning artist Vory.

TOURE’s latest project is an enthralling journey that encompasses reflection and well-deserved celebration. Comprising 12 tracks, it showcases agile rhymes, unwavering self-belief, and songwriting versatility. The album begins with “Lost It All Before,” a track that weaves poignant narratives of his life’s journey into a compelling sonic tapestry. On “My Raff,” TOURE delves into the complexities of success and the accompanying isolation, set against a backdrop of frenetic percussion and contemplative guitar work. The focus single, “Lifestyle Vicious,” featuring Vory, highlights the artist’s vocal prowess and explores the stark contrasts between his tumultuous past and current success.

Life Of The Party features a lineup of notable collaborators, including Kie, YP Slumpboy, Yung Bleu, and Zoey Dollaz. TOURE’s strategic collaboration with Yung Bleu on “Room 303” has already made waves on streaming platforms, earning a spot on prominent playlists like Most Necessary on Spotify, New In Hip Hop on Apple Music, Brand New Music on Amazon, Trendsetters Hip Hop on Pandora, and New East Coast on Tidal.

You can hear the new release below.

The post Emerging Hip-Hop Star TOURE Drops Third Project, ‘Life Of The Party’ first appeared on The Source.

The post Emerging Hip-Hop Star TOURE Drops Third Project, ‘Life Of The Party’ appeared first on The Source.

Kanye West Gets Nostalgic In His Deepfake ‘Life Of The Party’ Video

by

Kanye West’s love for his mother is very well-documented, but he will always take any moment to pay more homage to Ms. Donda. This time, he did so through the sentimental “Life Of The Party” video which debuted on the evening of Mother’s Day. The two-minute, 39-second visual functions more as a photo album, showing photos of young Kanye in school or with his family. Instead of static photos, each shows a different iteration of the Chicago artist rapping along to the lyrics of the record via deepfake technology.

Andre 3000 and his verse are noticeably absent, perhaps due to the drama surrounding “Life Of The Party” when the world first heard it on OVO Sound Radio. While that version of the song featured a heartfelt verse from one half of Outkast, West took the opportunity to throw more jabs at his formal rival Drake.

The “Life Of The Party” video is also set to appear in the first TV commercial for Yeezy Gap Engineered by Balenciaga. According to a press release, new products from the collaboration will be shown in the commercial before being made available to purchase on May 25 through the Yeezy Gap website, as well as Farfetch, Mytheresa, and Luisa Via Roma.

YE Releases “Life of the Party” Music Video Featuring a Look at Forthcoming Gap/Balenciaga Pieces

by
YE Releases "Life of the Party" Music Video Featuring a Look at Forthcoming Gap/Balenciaga Pieces

YE has officially released his “Life of the Party” music video. The new release is from the deluxe edition of the 2021 album DONDA.

The new release brings in moments of Ye’s past and future, including images from his childhood and pieces of his forthcoming collection with Gap that is engineered by Balenciaga creative.

The new YeezyGap collection will be available on YeezyGap.com and the Balenciaga online partners.

You can see the various images and watch the entire video below.

The post YE Releases “Life of the Party” Music Video Featuring a Look at Forthcoming Gap/Balenciaga Pieces appeared first on The Source.

Kanye West’s Video For ‘Life Of The Party’ Will Premiere In An Ad For Yeezy Gap Engineered By Balenciaga

by
Kanye West 2022 New York
Getty Image / Gotham

As 2022 got underway, it appeared that Kanye West would shift his attention to his eleventh album Donda 2. The project eventually arrived in February, but not in the traditional way that we might have expected. He decided that the album would be housed exclusively on his Stem Player website, and to this day, he’s yet to upload the project to streaming services. However, since releasing Donda last summer, Kanye has continued to share content from the album. He dropped a visual for “Hurricane,” the Grammy-winning standout from the album and now he’s announced that a visual for “Life Of The Party” is on the way.

The track, which features Andre 3000 and finds both rappers speaking about their mothers, will have a matching visual for it released later today. With today being Mother’s Day, it’s a perfect day to share the video for the song. The visual will be available to view on all streaming platforms starting at 9:45pm EST later tonight.

A press release for the video’s announcement also revealed that the visual will appear in the first TV commercial for Yeezy Gap Engineered By Balenciaga. New pieces from the collaboration, which has been described as a “creative exploration,” will debut in the commercial. The items will be available for release on May 25 at 9am EST/6pm PST on Yeezy Gap’s website as well as sites for Balenciaga’s online partners: Farfetch, Mytheresa, and Luisa Via Roma.

Later tonight, you can click here to watch the video for “Life Of The Party.”

Ye Drops The Deluxe Version Of ‘Donda’ With Five New Songs Including ‘Life Of The Party’ With Andre 3000

by
kanye-west.jpeg
Getty Image

For a little over a week, Ye has been teasing the release of a deluxe version for his tenth album, Donda. He recently spoke about it during an appearance on the Drink Champs podcast, and while exact details behind the deluxe were not revealed, but luckily for those who were excited to press play on the updated album, it’s finally here. On Sunday evening, Ye released the deluxe version of Donda complete with five new songs that extends the already-lengthy album to a total of 32 songs.

The new additions include the previously-leaked “Life Of The Party” with Andre 3000, which features a new verse from Ye. The track also features audio from a beloved video featuring the late DMX which sees him comforting his daughter while they ride a rollercoaster together. Ye also added sequels to “Remote Control,” which features Kid Cudi in addition to Young Thug, and “Keep My Spirit Alive,” which brings in KayCyy to join Conway The Machine and Westside Gunn. The last two additions to the deluxe version of Donda are “Never Abandon Your Family” and “Up From The Ashes.”

The new release comes after a number of Ye clones were spotted in New York City. The clones mimicked Ye’s Donda-era look by rocking black pants, black bomber jackets, a black baseball cap, and a beige prosthetic mask.

Donda (Deluxe) is out now via GOOD Music/Def Jam. Get it here.

Young Thug is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Kanye West’s ‘Donda’ Stem Player Is Finally Being Released And Comes With Three Additional Songs

by
kanye-west.jpeg
Getty Image

Just days before Kanye West finally released his tenth album Donda, it was revealed that the rapper would be packaging purchases of the album with a stem player that allows its users to “customize any song.” The product’s features let users control vocals, drums, bass, and samples, isolate certain parts of a song, and add effects. It also supports Bluetooth capabilities and features a headphone jack, volume buttons, speakers, a haptic engine, and 8GB of storage. Two months after it was made available, the stem player is finally being delivered and it appears that the device certainly lives up to the hype. Furthermore, Kanye uploaded three more songs, in addition to the entirety of Donda, to the stem player.

The first song that was added is a censored version of “Life Of The Party,” featuring Andre 3000. For those who remember, the song was thrown into the middle of West and Drake’s beef after the latter leaked it during a late-night radio broadcast. Andre spoke out about the song being leaked in a statement, writing, “It’s unfortunate that it was released in this way and two artists that I love are going back and forth.”

The other two songs that were added are the official version of “Up From The Ashes” — a track that was a last-minute scratch from West 2019 album Jesus Is King, according to HipHopNMore — and a final and complete version of “Never Abandon Your Family.” Additionally, Kid Cudi appears on “Remote” with Young Thug after he was removed from the digital version of the track.

You can check out previews of the added songs as well as how the stem player works all together in the videos above.

Young Thug is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Tyler The Creator Loved Kanye West’s Original ‘Life Of The Party’ Before It Was A Drake Diss

by

In case you missed it, Drake and Kanye West don’t currently have a thriving interpersonal relationship. The pair is beefing at the moment, and as part of that, Drake premiered an unreleased West song while guest-hosting Sound 42, his SiriusXM radio show on the OVO Sound channel. Furthermore, the track, titled “Life Of The Party,” included some shots at Drake.

The song apparently existed in other forms before it became targeted at the Toronto rapper, since Tyler The Creator says he heard an earlier version of the song. He was a big fan of it, too, as he exalted it on Twitter yesterday, writing, “man i heard life of the party a few months back and lost my mind. song is beautiful man i want to eat it. very anita baker styled progression. original verse was so warm and true. pretty.”

It appears the song has had free real estate in Tyler’s head for the past few days: Last weekend, he quoted some lines for it on Twitter and showed love to Andre 3000’s performance on the track. The admiration is mutual, as Andre wrote in a statement about the song after it leaked, “I just want to work with people that inspire me. Hopefully I can work with Kendrick [Lamar] on his album. I’d love to work with Lil’ Baby, Tyler and Jay-Z. I respect them all.”

Tyler The Creator Shows Love To Andre 3000 After Hearing ‘Life Of The Party’

by
Getty Image

Days after Kanye West previewed “Life Of The Party,” his unreleased collaboration with Andre 3000, Drake somehow got a hold of the record and premiere it in its entirety during a recent broadcast on OVO Sound’s radio show on Sirius XM. The decision to play the leaked song was the latest chess move from Drake in his lengthy beef with West. However, putting the rappers’ differences aside, many who listened to the song were impressed with Andre 3000’s verse as it was dedicated to his mother and father who died in 2013 and 2014, respectively.

One of the people who praised Andre and the song was Tyler The Creator as he took to Twitter to share a pair of lines from it and give a nod to the Outkast counterpart. “Straight from Shibuya,” he wrote in one tweet, referencing West’s hook from the song, before pulling from Andre’s verse for a second tweet, writing, “Hey keep rollin.’” Lastly, Tyler showed love to Andre in a final post that read, “sir 3000* [pink hearts emoji].”

Tyler’s message comes after Andre listed him as one of the rappers he’d love to work with in the future.

“I just want to work with people that inspire me,” Andre wrote in a statement that was released after Drake leaked “Life Of The Party.” He added, “Hopefully I can work with Kendrick on his album. I’d love to work with Lil’ Baby, Tyler and Jay-Z. I respect them all.”

Andre 3000 Issues A Statement About Appearing On Kanye West’s ‘Life Of The Party’ After Drake Leaked It

by
Getty Image

Just days after Kanye West released Donda to the world, the rapper gave his first interview during a trip to Berlin. While speaking to the German tabloid Bild, the rapper previewed a collaboration between him and Andre 3000 titled “Life Of The Party.” Days later, it would be this same track that Drake played in full during a recent broadcast on Sirius XM’s OVO Sound radio show. It’s unknown how Drake got a hold of the full version of the song, but it’s one that found West delivering a few disses in the direction of the Toronto rapper.

Not wanting to be in the middle of Drake and West’s beef, Andre 3000 issued a statement about “Life Of The Party.” First, the Outkast counterpart spoke about how the collaboration came together.

“A few weeks ago Kanye reached out about me being a part of the Donda album,” Andre wrote. “I was inspired by his idea to make a musical tribute to his mom. It felt appropriate to me to support the Donda concept by referencing my own mother, who passed away in 2013. We both share that loss.” He then revealed why the song was left off Donda.

“I thought it was a beautiful choice to make a clean album but, unfortunately, I didn’t know that was the plan before I wrote and recorded my verse,” he added. “It was clear to me that an edited ‘clean’ format of the verse would not work without having the raw, original also available. So, sadly, I had to be omitted from the original album release.”

To conclude his statement, Andre noted that the version of “Life Of The Party” he received did not have a “diss verse” on it. He also expressed his desire to work with the likes of Kendrick Lamar, Lil Baby, Tyler The Creator, and Jay-Z.

The track I received and wrote to didn’t have the diss verse on it and we were hoping to make a more focused offering for the Donda album but I guess things happen like they are supposed to. It’s unfortunate that it was released in this way and two artists that I love are going back and forth. I wanted to be on Certified Lover Boy too. I just want to work with people that inspire me. Hopefully I can work with Kendrick on his album. I’d love to work with Lil’ Baby, Tyler and Jay-Z. I respect them all.