Polo G’s been riding high following the release of Hall Of Fame earlier this year but he’s coming through in the last quarter with even more music in the form of a deluxe edition. The rapper previously teased the release ofHall Of Fame 2.0. in October with a brand new chain before revealing that it’s only a few weeks away.
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Today (Nov. 8th), Polo announced the release date for the project in a new album trailer featuring a brand new snippet of his “Smooth Criminal”- sampling single. The trailer cuts to different footage of Polo as he narrates the difference between his projects Die A Legend,The GOAT, and Hall Of Fame. “Hall Of Fame was me beating on my chest. Coming into my own as an artist and showing that I’m here to stay,” he said in the trailer. “But before I close out this chapter, I feel like we should turn up just one more time.
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“Bad Man (Smooth Criminal)” will hit streaming services on Friday, Nov. 12th. Hall Of Fame 2.0, including fourteen new songs, is set to arrive on Dec. 3rd.
Polo G’s currently on the Hall Of Fame tour which picks back up on Nov. 19th in Kingston, RI. Check out the tour dates and trailer below.
Nov 19– Kingston, RI – Ryan Center Nov 23 – San Francisco, CA – Warfield Nov 28 – Los Angeles, CA – Novo Nov 30 – Denver, CO – Mission Dec 2 – Minneapolis, MN – The Armory Dec 3 – Chicago, IL – Aragon Ballroom Dec 6 –Detroit, MI – Fox Theatre Dec 9 – Washington, DC – Echostage Dec 10 – Bangor, ME – Cross Insurance Center Dec 19- Atlanta, GA – The Roxy
French Montana has been thriving off of the negativity lately. While French has faced his fair share of slander throughout his career, the recent narrative surrounding his contributions to the game has been doubted. It seems that he’s now ready to prove his naysayers wrong with his next studio album, They Got Amnesia — a title inspired by a meme of Squid Game asking fans to list five of Montana’s solo hits.
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With the project expected to drop on Friday, Nov. 12th, French finally dropped the tracklist for the project and he brought a slew of collaborators along to help him.
French kept his promise with a brand new collaboration alongside Drake titled, “Splash Brothers.” Rick Ross and John Legend join the Bronx rapper on “Touch The Sky.” French also has a new song with Kodak Balck that they debuted at Rolling Loud titled, “Mopstick.”
Other artists set to appear on the project are Moneybagg Yo, Saweetie, Latto, Coi Leray, Lil Durk, Pop Smoke, and more.
Check out the entire tracklist below and sound off in the comments with which song you’re anticipating the most.
Thanks to some technical difficulties during his set at the Atlanta Braves’ World Championship celebration, Ludacris was forced to perform not only clean versions (it was a family event, after all) but also do so without his instrumentals. Fortunately, the veteran rapper was more than up to the task.
After playing his hits “Welcome To Atlanta” and “Southern Hospitality” with no trouble, the beat for “Yeah” began skipping as a result of the fans’ exuberant bouncing, according to Luda’s DJ. So, he decided to perform “Yeah” and “Money Maker” totally acapella before being able to complete the set as normal, noting that a “true MC” should be able to perform under nearly any conditions and still keep the party going.
Once the sound was fixed, Luda ran through a dizzying display of fan favorites, including “Fantasy,” “Roll Out,” “Stand Up,” “How Low,” and “Move B***h,” closing out fittingly with “All I Do Is Win.” Luda’s set was preceded by another pair of hometown heroes, Big Boi and Killer Mike, who chose to perform their song “Kryptonite.” Big Boi also performed several Outkast favorites with Sleepy Brown, including “ATLiens,” “Bombs Over Baghdad,” and “Rosa Parks.” Veteran hip-hop journalist Julia Beverly was right in the front row for the whole show, posting some great videos on Instagram, which you can watch below.
Throughout their nearly four decades as an awards show, the MTV VMAs have historically been a way for musicians to experiment with their style. Lady Gaga’s 2010 raw meat dress became one of the most-recognizable pop culture moments, and who could forget Lil Kim’s purple pasties at the 1999 VMAs red carpet? As someone who thrives at the intersection of hip-hop and pop genres, Doja Cat has definitely taken a page out of Gaga and Kim’s playbooks when it comes to her own style. Whether she’s delightfully draped in chiffon or wearing an actual stool on her head as a hat, Doja toes the line between shocking and playful — proving she’s having more fun with fashion than anyone else in music.
When it comes to her style, part of Doja’s shock value success comes from her commitment to a concept. It’s been an important part of her artistry from her breakout moment and is abundantly clear from watching her music videos, performances, and eyeing her show-stopping red carpet looks. Throughout her career, Doja has leaned into cat-like looks to go along with her namesake, caught disco fever with the ‘70s-inspired outfits following the release of her No. 1 track “Say So,” and gone out of this world with a futurist approach to her ensembles surrounding the era of her latest album, Planet Her.
Doja’s videos make it clear she has stayed true to an aesthetic from the very beginning. She fully leaned into the title of her song “Moo!” in a video that became her first viral moment. The green screen-backed visual saw the singer dressed head-to-toe in a cow-print outfit and sipping on a strawberry milkshake while she shouts, “B*tch, I’m a cow.” Her outfits in the video to “Bottom B*tch,” a song which samples Blink-182’s “What’s My Age Again?,” brought pop-punk into a new decade by taking style elements from Spencer’s-obsessed teens like mesh tops and neon beanies while adding a modern twist with stringy corset tops and a patterned two-piece set. Fast-forward a few years and most of her videos to the tracks from Planet Her now revolve around an extraterrestrial theme. She and SZA were giant femme fetal space dwellers in “Kiss Me More,” while Doja transformed into a seductive, green, metropolis-living alien in her “Need To Know” video.
Doja’s conceptual style also plays a major role in her live performances. She played up the feline-lover origins of her moniker with her Vevo Lift performance of “Say So” in 2020, which added campy elements to distinctly classic styles. Her wig was bobbed and curled in the style of Marilyn Monroe, while its hot pink color and fuzzy cat ears made it her own. Her accompanying outfit was a Garo Sparo bodice with a sweetheart neckline cut to mimic the Playboy bunny cocktail waitress outfits-turned popular Halloween costumes. But instead of being made from satin, Doja’s outfit was cut from hot pink furry cloth, once again nodding to her cat-like look. “There’s something mysterious about the concept of a ‘crazy cat lady,’” she said in an interview alongside the performance. “I took that symbol and applied it to my character, Doja Cat.” When it came to her recent 2021 performance at the Balmain Fashion Show in Paris, her concept was a bit more open-ended. Rather than formatting her look after an animal, the singer said she wanted her look to give the energy of “sexy garlic.”
Doja has long positioned herself as a fashion boundary-pusher, so she is always right at home on the red carpet. In fact, some of the singer’s most experimental looks happened at award shows. When it comes to the VMAs, Doja hasn’t held anything back. When she took the virtual stage in 2020, the singer showed up in an ensemble that can only be described as a sexy fish, complete with lit-up genitalia. A year later while hosting the ceremony, the singer accepted a VMA award in a head-to-toe padded quilt dress designed by Thom Browne that Doja compared to a colorful worm. “I never thought I’d be dressed as a worm while accepting an award,” she said.
Her “sexy fish” VMAs outfit is, to no one’s surprise, not the only look Doja has worn that draws attention to her… nether regions. At the 2020 AVN Awards, aka the “Oscars of porn,” the singer showed up in a skin-tight mesh bodysuit that sparsely covered her crotch in rhinestones. The look expertly combined the disco-inspired era “Say So” with the theme of the night, an outfit her stylist would later call her “Cher moment.”
Whether she’s posing in a glittery merkin, accepting an award dressed as a neon worm, clomping around in massive chicken claw-like shoes, many of her wildest outfits have one thing in common: they were designed in collaboration with her stylist, Brett Alan Nelson. While Doja has always had her own style, there’s no denying that Nelson has helped take her fashion to the next, sometimes bizarre, level. As a central part of Doja’s team since 2019, Nelson is drawn to over-the-top, theatrical styles. “She and I get each other so well,” Nelson said about his work with Doja in an interview with Vogue. “We bicker like brother and sister, but I know her, sometimes better than she knows herself. She’s down to have fun, take risks, and she trusts me, which in my industry, that is the best thing a creative could ever ask for.”
It’s no secret that Leonardo DiCaprio is considered something of a “ladies man” in Hollywood and beyond, but he won’t be able to keep up his antics for long if Jeff Bezos has his way. Over the weekend The Great Gatsby actor began trending across the internet after a video of him chatting up the billionaire’s new girlfriend started making rounds.
In the clip, DiCaprio can be seen chumming it up with Lauren Sanchez, who gazes up at him with a loving look in her eyes. Standing right next to her, with her hand in his is Bezos, who also looks up at the actor, but far less lovingly. The moment happened at the star-studded LACMA Art + Film Gala, and has earned plenty of laughs from viewers.
Earlier today, November 8th, the 57-year-old entrepreneur decided to poke fun at the video and his famous friend. “Leo, come over here, I want to show you something… @LeoDiCaprio,” the New Mexico native captioned his tweet, which also includes a photo of him hanging out in nature, behind a sign that reads, “Danger! Steep cliff fatal drop.” Clearly the look in Sanchez’s eyes struck some fear in Bezos’ heart, even if he played it off in the moment.
The replies are full of hilarious comments from Twitter users, some of whom meme’d photos of DiCaprio from some of his most iconic roles, including Rick Dalton in Quentin Taratino’s Once Upon A Time…in Hollywood. “Leo when his Amazon account stops working,” one person wrote above a photo of the LA-born star holding a beer and pointing ahead with a concerned look on his face. “I can’t believe this site is free,” another reply reads.
Check out more of the comedic responses to Jeff Bezos’ tweet below.
Giannis Antetokounmpo is one of the best players in the entire NBA and he certainly knows how to put the team on his back and win big games. In fact, that is exactly what happened last season as the Milwaukee Bucks won the NBA title against the Phoenix Suns. Giannis was crowned Finals MVP, and the Bucks run is still considered to be one of the better ones in recent memory.
TMZ was at the event to greet players as they made their way to the White House, and one of the cameramen decided to go up to Giannis and ask him to show off his ring. The Bucks superstar happily obliged and showcased a gorgeous diamond-encrusted piece that has the Bucks logo right in the middle. These championship rings keep getting better and better, and Giannis certainly has some hardware that he will remember for the rest of his life.
You can check out what the piece looks like, in the video down below. Also, stay tuned to HNHH for more updates from around the basketball world.
Brooklyn rap legend and 1/4 of Slaughterhouse, Joell Ortiz, has been lining up heat in the lead up to his forthcoming album, Autograph. The rapper already blessed fans with a slew of singles including, “One Day.” Now, he follows it up with a new collaboration alongside The LOX’s Sheek Louch. The two MCs set Heatmakerz’s soulful production ablaze with lyrical warfare, detailing their longevity and their determination for recognition in the game.
“A Joell Ortiz Autograph would be incomplete without a stroke of street ink,” Ortiz said in a statement. “I called my brother, the legendary Sheek Louch, and he answered the call just as he’s done for me every time I ever rang.”
Joell Ortiz’s Autograph includes appearances from KXNG Crooked, CyHi The Prynce, and more, as well as production from Heatmakerz, Apollo Brown, and Namir Blade.
Peep the latest from Ortiz below.
Quotable Lyrics And that was just cans, I got hands too, let’s slap box They called me Lil Quik in that sandbox Case the newer fans wanted the drop on me, I just gave y’all the backdrop Now fast forward, boy be in that black drop
On Sunday, November 7th, Love & Hip-Hop stars Yung Joc and Kendra Robinson exchanged their vows, beginning their life together as a married couple. Joc proposed to his beloved back in 2019, and never anticipated that his engagement would last this long.
“[COVID-19] definitely threw out the wedding planning. It pushed us into a whole new mental capacity. We said we weren’t going to be the couple that was engaged forever. We want to get engaged and get married right away,” he told Page Six back in February. “A perfect wedding would just be able to look into each other’s eyes knowing that we worked and fought hard for this very day and to just be able to share our love unconditionally in front of the world.”
Videos from the special day uploaded to The Shade Room show Robinson in her luxurious wedding dress, looking as beautiful as ever. The venue also appeared to be perfectly decorated, with the sparking chandeliers only adding ambiance to the wedding ceremony.
Love & Hip-Hop co-stars Erica Mena and Safaree were some of the first attendees so share footage of the bridge walking down the aisle, making her way towards her beau while being serenaded. “Joc is getting married y’all, it’s official,” Mena can be heard saying in one of the clips. “He is off the market ladies. That’s right Kendra!”
Over on his Instagram page, Joc shared a funny skit featuring some of his friends showing up to the big day, but they clearly didn’t get the dress code memo. “When Drip goes to Yung Joc wedding goes wrong,” he captioned the clip.
Those who have kept up with the reality series over the years know how incredibly special this moment is for the newlyweds. If you haven’t yet seen the pair’s love story unfold on Love & Hip-Hop, there’s no time like the present to do some binge watching.
Congratulations to Yung Joc and Kendra Robinson on their beautiful union.
Recently, a report surfaced that claimed Logan Paul may very well go up against Mike Tyson in a boxing match next year. This glitch in the matrix news was made that much weirder when you realize how Tyson is 55 and Logan is 26. This age gap is truly heinous, it makes no sense for Tyson to step in the ring with a guy who is less than half of his age.
With that being said, Logan seems to be excited about the fight as he told Fight Hub TV that he is easily going to win against the former Heavyweight champion. As Paul reveals, the age factor is ultimately what will allow him to win.
“He’s too old,” Paul said. “He’s aging. Father time takes a toll on everyone. I got the reflexes of a cat. Like a young, quick feline, brother.”
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Paul went on to cite his fight against Floyd Mayweather, noting that his ability to survive the fight is a testament to how good he is in the ring. Of course, many fans will roll their eyes at this, however, Logan does not seem to care one bit.
“We saw with Floyd, dude,” Paul said. “There’s no f***ing reason that I should have been able to last — not just last, Floyd’s on my highlight reel dog. There’s no reason that should be possible.”
Let us know who you think would win between Paul and Tyson, in the comments down below.
