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6lack Announced The ‘Since I Have A Lover Tour’ In North America And Europe With Mereba And More

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Today, 6lack announced a massive global Since I Have A Lover Tour, in support of his recent album under the same title.

Kicking off in North America this October before heading to Europe in early 2024, he will be joined by Mereba, Spinall, Sadboi, and another special surprise guest throughout select dates.

Tickets for 6lack’s new tour go on sale this Friday (April 28) at 10 a.m. There are also several presales happening before that, earlier throughout this week, and VIP packages available. Find more information here and a complete list of dates below.

10/01/2023 — Portland, OR @ Alaska Airlines’ Theater of the Clouds **
10/04/2023 — Vancouver, BC @ PNE Forum **
10/05/2023 — Seattle, WA @ WAMU Theater **
10/07/2023 — San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic **
10/10/2023 — Los Angeles, CA @ YouTube Theater **
10/12/2023 — San Diego, CA @ SOMA **
10/13/2023 — Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren **
10/15/2023 — Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex **
10/17/2023 — Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium **
10/19/2023 — St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant *
10/21/2023 — Dallas, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory *
10/22/2023 — Austin, TX @ Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater *
10/25/2023 — Houston, TX @ Bayou Music Center *
10/26/2023 — New Orleans, LA @ The Fillmore New Orleans *
10/31/2023 — Minneapolis, MN @ The Fillmore Minneapolis *
11/01/2023 — Chicago, IL @ Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom *
11/02/2023 — Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore Detroit *
11/05/2023 — New York, NY @ Manhattan Center Hammerstein Ballroom *
11/06/2023 — Brooklyn, NY @ Great Hall – Avant Gardner *
11/08/2023 — Washington, DC @ The Anthem *
11/10/2023 — Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway *
11/11/2023 — Montreal, QC @ MTELUS *
11/13/2023 — Toronto, ON @ HISTORY *
11/16/2023 — Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore Philadelphia *
11/18/2023 — Raleigh, NC @ The Ritz *
11/19/2023 — Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore Charlotte *
11/21/2023 — Orlando, FL @ Hard Rock Live Orlando *
11/22/2023 — Miami, FL @ Kaseya Center *
11/24/2023 — Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena *
02/12/2024 — Dublin, Ireland @ 3Olympia Theatre #
02/14/2024 — Glasgow, United Kingdom @ O2 ­­Academy Glasgow #
02/15/2024 — Manchester, United Kingdom @ O2 Apollo #
02/17/2024 — Birmingham, United Kingdom @ O2 Academy Birmingham #
02/18/2024 — London, United Kingdom @ Eventim Apollo #
02/20/2024 — Paris, France @ Bataclan #
02/21/2024 — Cologne, Germany @ Live Music Hall #
02/22/2024 — Brussels, Belgium @ Ancienne Belgique #
02/252024 — Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Melkweg #
02/27/2024 — Berlin, Germany @ Huxley’s Neue Welt #
02/29/2024 — Copenhagen, Denmark @ Amager Bio #
03/01/2024 — Stockholm, Sweden @ Berns #
03/03/2024 — Oslo, Norway @ Rockefeller Music Hall #

* special guest
** Mereba
# Spinall and Sadboi

Ari Lennox, Noname, Mereba Announces for AFROPUNK Live: Minneapolis

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Planet AFROPUNK Live: Minneapolis, the first-ever AFROPUNK live experience in the Midwest, has announced its roster. On the second day, the live experience will shift to a celebration of life, music, food, and culture, which will begin with a series of panel discussions aimed at exploring the connection between art and activism and promoting community healing. Planet AFROPUNK Live: Minneapolis takes place on June 18th and 19th, with performances by Ari Lennox, Noname, Mereba, Sango, Dreamer Isioma, Pink Siifu, and some of the best rising acts in the Twin Cities. There will be panels and events all over the city on June 18th, and performances in Sheridan Memorial Park on June 19th.

Minneapolis has a long history as a Midwest center for music and culture. Prince, the prominent figure of a vibrant culture memorialized in his song “Uptown,” was born in the city, as were funk colossuses like Jam & Lewis, Morris Day, and many others. Planet AFROPUNK Presents: Planet AFROPUNK Presents: Planet AFROPU Minneapolis intends to honor and promote the city’s vibrant community of Black creators and activists, as well as to recognize and support a community still grieving from heartbreaking loss. The people of Minneapolis stand up in the face of oppression, and AFROPUNK is dedicated to producing a joyful and celebratory event while also addressing and fostering discourse about the community’s issues.

In connection with the live performance, AFROPUNK announces a collaboration with High School For Recording Arts, a local high school known as “Hip Hop High” and formed by former Prince band member David T.C. Ellis to nurture the next generation of musical talent. During the first day, students from the school will have the opportunity to present panels and showcase their abilities at a special showcase.

You can learn more about this year’s AFROPUNK Live: Minneapolis here.

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Saba Recruits 6lack, Smino, G Herbo, Black Thought, And More For His Third Album ‘Few Good Things’

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This April marks four years since Saba released his last album, Care For Me. Luckily the Chicago rapper will release his third at the beginning of next month. Called Few Good Things, it’s locked in for a February 4 release date, and so far, he’s shared three singles: “Stop That,” “Fearmonger” with Daoud, and “Come My Way” with Krayzie Bone. With a little over a week left until the album arrives, Saba unveils its full tracklist and artwork.

The cover for Few Good Things depicts a middle-aged man posed in front of a fence with light pink flowers slightly covering parts of his body. As for the tracklist, it includes featurs from 6lack, Smino, G Herbo, Black Thought, Mereba, Foushee, Eryn Allen Kane, Benjamin Earl Turner, Pivot Gang, Cheflee, Daoud, and Day Wave.

You can view the cover art for Few Good Things above and check out its tracklist below.

1. “Free Samples” Feat. Cheflee
2. “One Way Or Every N**** With A Budget”
3. “Survivor’s Guilt” Feat. G Herbo
4. “An Interlude Called ‘Circus’” Feat. Eryn Allen Kane
5. “Fearmonger” Feat. Daoud
6. “Come My Way” Feat. Krayzie Bone
7. “Still” Feat. 6lack & Smino
8. “A Simpler Time” Feat. Mereba
9. “Soldier” Feat. Pivot Gang
10. “If I Had A Dollar” Feat. Benjamin Earl Turner
11. “Stop That”
12. “Make Believe” Feat. Foushee
13. “2012” Feat. Day Wave
14. “Few Good Things” Feat. Black Thought & Eryn Allen Kane

Few Good Things is due 2/4 via Pivot Gang, LLC. You can pre-save here.

Fans Are Going To Miss The Music Of ‘Insecure’ As Much As The Show Itself

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One of the highlights of Issa Rae’s hit HBO show Insecure was always the soundtrack, curated by Issa herself and featuring some of hip-hop and R&B’s rising stars. Fans reveled in both hearing longtime faves and getting put onto newcomers with every episode, with the show’s team sharing each episode’s tracklist as part of a growing playlist on streaming services. On Sunday night, the series finale aired, bringing the show to a close that fans are still discussing and debating on Twitter.

And while the touching finale may have sparked diverging opinions on the resolution of its lead character’s complicated love life, one thing many fans seem to agree on is that the music helped make the show. Scrolling through the “Insecure” trending topic on Twitter, you’re just as likely to see messages praising the show’s musical curation as you are ones debating various plot points throughout its five-season run.

Many of the artists featured on the soundtrack also chimed in with both praise and thanks for Issa Rae’s fan-favorite series, which many say helped introduce them to new audiences — a sentiment that fans echoed wholeheartedly. Issa herself, who always live-tweets the show right along with fans, offering background information from the writer’s room and her inspirations for the show’s setting, plot, and its plethora of jokes, even noted how some of the finale’s songs found their way into touching pivotal scenes.

Saweetie, Thundercat, Mereba, And More Will Appear On The Soundtrack For The Fifth Season Of ‘Insecure’

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Issa Rae’s trademark television show Insecure has grown to be one the country’s most-watched shows through its four and a half seasons. In recent years, Insecure took home the award for Outstanding Comedy Series at 2021’s NAACP Image Awards. The show also earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Comedy Series last year. In addition to its storyline and its characters, the soundtrack for Insecure is also another aspect viewers love about the show. Now in its fifth and final season, Issa Rae unveils the tracklist for this season’s soundtrack and it looks like a good one.

The soundtrack for the fifth season of Insecure features familiar names like Saweetie, They., Jesse Boykins III, Ambre, Duckwrth, Thundercat, Mereba, and Teamarr. Elsewhere, ESTA, Mack Keane, Akeem Ali, 27Delly, Jorge Amadeus, B.K. Habermehl, Nnena, Josh Levi, Mikhala Jené, Amindi, 27Delly, Kiah Victoria, and Ace Henderson can also be found on the soundtrack. The full project arrives this Friday, December 3.

“Music has always been an essential part of every project I do and working with emerging talent is a personal passion,” Rae said about the upcoming tracklist to Variety. “Raedio allows me to continue that work within the music industry and audio entertainment space. The Atlantic Records team are innovators in terms of shifting and shaping culture. I’m excited to join forces with them to discover new artists.”

You can view the full tracklist for Insecure: Music From The HBO Original Series, Season 5 below.

1. Saweetie — “Get It Girl”
2. They. — “Snoring”
3. Jesse Boykins III, Duckwrth, Ambré, ESTA, and Mack Keane — “Seein Ya”
4. Akeem Ali, 27Delly, and Jorge Amadeus — “50 Lem Hunnits”
5. B.K. Habermehl — “Time Off”
6. Nnena — “Fun”
7. Josh Levi — “What’s the Use”
8. Thundercat — “Satellite” Feat. Louis Cole & Genevieve Artadi
9. Mikhala Jené — “Mad Bitches” – Feat. Ro James
10. Mereba — “Glock Peaceful”
11. TeaMarrr — “Pipe Dreams”
12. Amindi, 27Delly, Kiah Victoria, and Ace Henderson — “Fantasy”

Insecure: Music From The HBO Original Series, Season 5 is out 12/3 via Raedio/Atlantic.

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Mereba Celebrates A Limitless Love In The Sun-Drenched ‘Rider’ Video

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After contributing to the group success of Spillage Village’s spiritual 2020 album Spilligion, mystic crooner Mereba is preparing for the release of her EP AZEB. Today, she released the video for the lead single, “Rider,” in which she describes the search for a limitless but meaningful love — someone who will be there through thick and thin, ie., a “rider.” The video is a sun-washed representation of such a love, with couples dancing in the desert as Mereba sings before a picturesque sunset.

Although Mereba is likely still best known for her contributions to Spillage Village songs like “Hapi” and her recent appearance on Reason’s “Westside,” she’s a more than accomplished artist in her own right. Her 2019 debut album The Jungle Is The Only Way Out was hailed by those in the know, and with R&B’s increased prominence in the pop culture landscape, it’s only a matter of time until she receives commensurate notice for her solo talents.

In a recent interview with Vince Staples, with whom she collaborated on the Queen & Slim soundtrack song “Yo Love,” she described the process of recording the upcoming EP:

It’s called Azeb, which is my middle name, and the name that my father called me. It’s an Ethiopian name… People passing through a town or village and asking, “How do I get to this region of Ethiopia?”—they’ll use the word “azeb” and point to a place in the sky. I felt as I was writing songs last year that they were helping me figure out and sort through the things I was feeling about what was happening in the world. They started being my guide. I was also inspired by Nina Simone, who said, “It’s an artist’s duty to reflect the times.” I always end up putting current events, or things that are happening in the world, into my music. But this project also encompasses the more universal parts of human existence, like being in love and being hopeful in the midst of whatever else is going on, because that’s a survival tactic, to have hope and faith that things are going to get better.

Watch Mereba’s “Rider” video above.