New Music

Kid Cudi and Nigo Team Up on ‘Want It Bad’

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Amid his heated exchange with Kanye West, Kid Cudi gets back to the music.

The Cleveland rapper teams up with Japanese cultural and fashion icon Nigo on their futuristic bop “Want It Bad,” produced by Pharrell.

“I want it bad, yeah / I’m finally on the up and up / Cannot stop, can’t have enough,” Cudi sings through a vocoder.

“Want It Bad” follows “Arya” with A$AP Rocky, which are both set to appear on Nigo’s upcoming album I Know Nigo, his first musical body of work in nearly two decades, set for release on March 25.

Earlier this week, Cudi revealed that he was struggling with mental health and asked for prayers.

“God…please watch over me and keep my mind sane,” he wrote. “I could use it right now. To anyone who feels alone, im with you and I love you.”

Jack Harlow Returns with New Single ‘Nail Tech’

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Harlow’s back.

Jack Harlow returns with his first release of the year, “Nail Tech.” Produced by Boi-1da, the horn-heavy track

He knew instantly that this was the song once Boi-1da played him the beat in the studio. “This is one of those ones,” he told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe. “As soon as I heard it, those horns have something epic about them, but as soon as those kicks come in…”

“I went in the booth and I just laid a verse. And I remember, I went back to Atlanta a little while later and I played Don Cannon a bunch of my music just to show him where I was at. And I was playing stuff, and then at the very end, I played him this verse that was on ‘Nail Tech.’ He’s like, ‘Yo, what is that?’ I was like, ‘Oh, you like that?’ He was like, ‘Yeah, you need to finish that.’ So I got it together, man.”

Along with the song, he has dropped a video starring his crush Yung Miami of City Girls.

“Nail Tech” marks the beginning of a new era for Harlow, whose debut album Thats What They All Say dropped in December 2020. “We’re getting close, we’re getting close,” he teased. “I got to take my time and make sure everything’s right. But this is going to be the start of something.”

And he promises the music will be worth the wait. “I feel like I haven’t had a chance to lay on the world just how passionate and how studious I am and just how capable I am,” he said. “So I think my new music will let people know just how locked in I am.”