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In response to his new album, CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST, earning the number one spot on the Billboard 200 chart, Tyler, The Creator trolled DJ Khaled on Twitter. A beef between the two rappers regarding album sales harkens back to 2019 when Tyler outsold Khaled with his project, IGOR.

“MYSTERIOUS MUSIC! HA!,” he tweeted, Sunday, referencing the time Khaled described his own project, Father of Asahd, as “good music” not “mysterious shit.” 

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Khaled’s anger stemmed from a heated disagreement he reportedly had with billboard regarding merch bundles and how they factor into album sales. Bundling a digital copy of an album with the purchase of merch has been a common tactic to increase an artist’s sales figures.

Reports from the time claimed that over 100,000 of Khaled’s album downloads were “disqualified” by a rule change that affected merch bundles.

Tyler later spoke about the incident in an interview with Apple Music in July 2019.

“When I put [IGOR] out and it [land at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart], and again, I don’t make shit to be first week or be radio or whatever, but for this work of art and that album cover and these videos and me doing this suit wig thing and having these progressions and this distorted this and that, and these melodies and this stuff like that, beat… and this is no disrespect to Khaled or anyone, but this n-gga had every person in the industry, everyone on that fucking album. Everyone. Everyone. Cardi B. 21 Savage. Travis Scott. Post Malone. Beyoncé. Jay. Everyone who sells billions of records and the fact that I beat him with this that isn’t parallel to all the popping music right now was fucking crazy, bro.”

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Chloe Bailey has dropped her latest, in a series of impressive cover songs, this time reworking Drake’s classic single, “Marvin’s Room,” off of Take Care. The popular track was originally released in 2011.

Throughout her cover, Bailey reworks numerous lines for her own rendition.

“You told me that there’s someone else/ You messing with my confidence/ How you make me feel unwanted/ I’m really trying not to hold a grudge/ But you didn’t send me flowers for my birthday/ And now I’m hurting in the worst way,” she sings on the cover, uploaded to Instagram, Sunday.

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She continues reworking the song: “I shouldn’t have to tell a n—- how to treat me/ You acting like you big enough but not at all/ F— that new girl that you got around/ I know she is faking it when you lay it down/ I’ma f— your homeboy that’s in my DMs/ You gon’ be left crying but you can’t say s—.”

In recent months, Bailey has released a cover of Rihanna’s “Love On the Brain,” Nina Simone’s  “Feeling Good,” and more. For her cover of Simone’s track, she performed the rendition live at ABC’s special event Juneteenth: Together We Triumph – A ’Soul of a Nation.

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A Tribe Called Quest says they never entered a partnership with Royalties Exchange for an NFT auction of their first five albums, something previously reported by Billboard, last week. The group’s co-founder, Ali Shaheed Muhammad called the reports “not Frigging True,” in a lengthy statement on Facebook.

“On June 29, 2021 Billboard wrote an article that stated ‘Royalty Exchange has partnered with A Tribe Called Quest to auction off 1.5% share of the sound recording royalties from the hip-hop group’s first five studio albums.’ At the time, Billboard knew those words were not true but worded the story in a way to gain clicks. They have now changed the article. Other ‘journalistic’ publications took the original newsfeed and ran with the misleading headline.”

He then emphasized, “No member of A Tribe Called Quest has entered into any partnership with Royalty Exchange. PERIOD!”

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The alleged parternship was said to include 1990’s People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, 1991’s The Low End Theory, 1993’s Midnight Marauders, 1996’s Beats, Rhymes and Life, and 1998’s The Love Movement. 

Muhammad says that PPX Enterprises, which owned as small percentage of their royalities, sold their share to a group that partnered with Royalities Exchange. 

“Had we known this percentage of our art was out there we would have bought it directly from PPX Enterprises as it should have never been sold by Jive Records,” he added.

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Will Smith is picking up the tab for an estimated $100,000 in fireworks set to go off over the Mississippi River, after learning that New Orleans wasn’t able to plan a 2021 show for Independence Day on the fourth of July.

“A fireworks display produced by ‘Go 4th on the River’ will take place in New Orleans along the Mississippi Riverfront at 9pm Sunday, July 4, 2021. The gift of city fireworks was made possible by actor and producer Will Smith, along with his company Westbrook,” Mayor LaToya Cantrell wrote on Twitter, this week.

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Smith is currently in the city working on his next film Emancipation, which will follow a slave named Peter, who is able to escape a Louisiana plantation and go on to fight for the Union in the Civil War. The film was originally scheduled to shoot in Georgia, but Smith moved the production after the state passed strict new laws that will hinder Americans’ access to voting.

This fourth of July is also the 25th anniversary of the release of Smith’s classic 1996 film, Independence Day. The film’s producer, Dean Devlin, recently said that Smith almost lost the iconic role out of racial bias from the studio.

“They said, ‘You cast a Black guy in this part, you’re going to kill foreign [box office],'” Devlin said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “Our argument was, ‘Well, the movie is about space aliens. It’s going to do fine foreign.’ It was a big war, and Roland really stood up for [Smith] — and we ultimately won that war.”

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Tyler, The Creator’s new album, CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST, has locked in the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 for its first week on the chart. This is the second time in a row that Tyler has completed the feat after his last project, 2019’s IGOR, received the same honor.

Billboard says that CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST earned 169,000 equivalent album units with 114,000 coming from streaming, and 55,000 from official album sales. The project, which features Lil Wayne, Lil Uzi Vert, Pharrell Williams, and more, was released on June 25.

In comparison, IGOR moved 165,000 equivalent album units in its first week available.

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Tyler recently discussed some of his biggest inspirations for the new album, in an interview with Billboard, last week.

“I just love rap so godamn much,” Tyler explained, “listening to [The] Dedication with [Lil] Wayne, and We Got It For Cheap with Clipse, they really shaped me into who I am. I think a lot of people forget that I’m a rapper because I’m so multifaceted. I just had to remind everyone, ‘Don’t let the wig get it twisted, y’all n****s can’t fuck with me.’”

Doja Cat’s Planet Her debuted at No. 2 with 109,000 equivalent album units

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Following the Atlanta Hawks playoff elimination, Saturday night, at the hands of the Milwaukee Bucks in Game 6, Trae Young spoke about just how demanding the NBA Playoffs are. He also reflected on his frustrations about not being healthy in the team’s final game.

“For me, not being able to be out there for my team for two games, and then tonight just wanting to battle and try to fight through it as much as I could and try to be out there for my team, it’s definitely frustrating not being healthy and not being able to give my full 100 percent,” Young said after the loss.

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Despite playing brilliantly throughout the Hawks playoff run, he finished with just 14 points on 4-for-17 shooting in 40 minutes for the Hawks’ final attempt to keep their Finals ambitions alive.

“This shit is hard,” Young said of the playoffs. “It’s not easy. This whole thing is about experience. You have to go through it to — I mean, you really have to go through this. You see in the West, you see [Chris Paul] has never been to the Finals in his 16 years.”

“This is hard,” he reaffirmed again. “It’s not easy. You really have to go through it. I think what he did and what he’s been through really helped the Suns team, and what this team has been through with the Bucks, they’ve been to this point a couple times. I know that feeling, they didn’t want to go home again. I think for us we’ve got that same feeling now, and it’s the same thing.”

Young did seem confident that the Hawks will be back sooner than later with an optimistic tweet after the game.

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Kid Cudi informed fans on Twitter, Saturday, that he’s in his own league when it comes to rapping. He says that he’s his own hero and is inspired by himself.

“Im inspired by myself… I look up to me… Im my own hero,” he began with a series of short tweets.

He went on to explain that his 2020 project, Man on the Moon III: The Chosen, when inspired by his own life and that alone.

“MOTM3 was inspired by my life. As all my other albums,” he wrote. “The sound of the album is my own fusion of everything Ive done thus far and some new ideas. I sound like no one else. When u hear a Cudi record, u know.”

“Tell them baby,” a fan wrote, to which Cudi replied: “I gotta let em know sometimes I be seein people talkin crazy.”

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Cudi does admit his fashion style has some outside influence. In a recent interview on LeBron James’ HBO series The Shop: Uninterrupted, Cudi said that Kurt Cobain’s style has been an inspiration for his decision to “be a disrupter.”

“The image of seeing Kurt Cobain in the dress was very Rock ‘N Roll to me, it was cool,” Cudi said. “So I already made my mind up years ago that I wanted to do this. If this is what I’m supposed to do, then so be it. I want to be a disruptor, I want to fuck shit up. And it’s cool because I’m also giving confidence to the kids and telling them to be themselves do what they want to do.”

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Quando Rondo affiliate Lul Tim says that he cannot release the full music video for his upcoming song, “Off The List,” due to “somebody telling the judge.” He discussed the dilemma on Instagram. this week.

“Damn I can’t drop the video due to somebody telling the judge,” he explained.

He added that fans can still expect new music from him shortly: “..but I’m [going] to cook some new s**t up for y’all.”

Tim originally teased a video for the track with a snippet, last week. “Wha Ya Talkin Bout,” he captioned the clip on IG. “Say Go SubScribe To My Channel I’ll Drop This Hoe…”

“Just checked a new p***y n***a off the list, quick to gun you down but check the score, b*tch, I don’t miss,” he raps on the track.

Tim was allegedly involved in the killing of King Von and even charged for the crime, but was released from jail on a $100,000 bond, earlier this year. It appears that he’s trying to turn his newfound fame in to a rap career, in the wake of the murder.

Von was shot and killed on November 6, 2020, in Atlanta, Georgia, following an altercation with rapper Quando Rondo.

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