OVO Sound boss Drake and Lil Wayne have Barbies feeling like the Young Money movement is back in full effect. The hip-hop duo helped ignite a mighty music comeback for Nicki Minaj by appearing on the first-ever streaming release of her 2009 Beam Me Up Scotty mixtape. Drake + Lil Wayne help Nicki Minaj’s return […]
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“Took years to get this form. The Off-Season,” J. Cole tweeted just as his album made its way to streaming services at the stroke of midnight on Friday (May 14). The leader of Dreamville began rolling out the album a little over a week ago after teasing the project for months. Cole spent the better part of 2020 moving in silence, for the most part, and only recently has it been revealed that aside from running a record label and penning a new album, he was getting his sports career on track with the Africa League.
The Off-Season in its entirety is a stand-out and there are more than enough options for tracks to highlight, but we’re going to start off with “a p p l y i n g . p r e s s u r e.” It would be easy to call this “boastful bars,” but J. Cole isn’t necessarily spending the entirety of the record bragging as much as he plays observer and commentator of Rap culture. The track also shares the same name as Cole’s recently released documentary.
Stream “a p p l y i n g . p r e s s u r e” and let us know what you think of this The Off-Season cut.
Quotable Lyrics
Verses hit hard, never pitched hard or played the streets
These n*ggas whips are behind closed doors, can’t pay the lease
Ain’t nothin’ wrong with livin’ check to check ’cause most have to (I ain’t sayin’ that)
Instead of cappin’, why don’t you talk about being a broke rapper? (I ain’t sayin’ that)
That’s a perspective I respect because it’s real
What it’s like to be nice as f*ck, but got to stress to pay the bills
Fans everywhere are rejoicing over J. Cole’s new project The Off-Season, which arrived more than three years after his last solo effort. While some believed the project would drop without features, it turns out its guests — 21 Savage, Cam’ron, Lil Baby, and more — were just unlisted on the tracklist. As listeners continue to take in the new album, one of its tracks is causing many to take a trip down memory lane, one that brings them back to the summer of 2013.
On “Let Go Of My Hand,” J. Cole raps, “My last scrap was with Puff Daddy, who would’ve thought it? / I bought that n**** album in seventh grade and played it so much / You would’ve thought my favorite rapper was Puff.” This, of course, confirms a rumored fight that Cole had with Diddy at an after-party event for the MTV VMAs. Diddy himself appears on the outro of the song to deliver one of his signature prayers, “Lord, please guide our steps / Watch us, cover us / So that every move we make is in alignment with your will.”
I can’t lie this J Cole’s album is pretty good nothing really sounds forced but the streets need the Diddy and J Cole fight to leak. pic.twitter.com/SvKp3m2ShV
— Ahmed
/I Did Shit With Mariah (@big_business_) May 14, 2021
While the cause of the fight was never confirmed, rumor has it that it started when Diddy, who was heavily intoxicated, began an argument with Kendrick Lamar at the party about his infamous “Control” verse and the TDE rapper’s claim that he was the “King of New York.” Diddy eventually tried to pour a drink on Kendrick, an action that upset Cole, a close friend of Kendrick. As a result, Cole allegedly took it upon himself to fight Diddy for trying to douse Kendrick, which led to their respective crews going at it. Nearly eight years later, it’s good to see that they’ve patched things up.
Press play on “Let Go Of My Hand” above to hear the line yourself.
The Off-Season is out now via Dreamville/Roc Nation. Get it here.
She teased that she had something big coming on Friday (May 14), and Nicki Minaj wasn’t kidding. The beloved New York rapper has been taking a break from social media to tend to more pressing concerns like becoming a new mother, but there has been much more on the rapper’s agenda. Her Barbz have been anxiously awaiting news about her next album, a follow-up to Queen that was shared back in 2018. Minaj has been reluctant with sharing information about the project, but her Friday drop will keep her fans occupied in the meantime.
Just ahead of midnight, Nicki Minaj surprised her fans on Instagram Live and revealed that her 2009 mixtape Beam Me Up Scotty would hit streaming services. The DJ Holiday-hosted record is hailed as Nicki’s breakout project that helped put her on the mainstream map, so it makes sense that it should make an appearance on streaming services.
However, fans will find the tracklist has been amended and some songs weren’t included, like Nicki’s Rihanna, Busta Rhymes, and Brinx-assisted track “Mind on My Money.” Three unreleased songs lead the tracklist, including “Seeing Green,” a song that finds Minaj reuniting with her YMCMB family, Drake and Lil Wayne. While on Livestream, Drake made a rare appearance when he shared a screen with Minaj and revealed that he was the one who sent her the record.
“What made you think that I would sound good on that?” Nicki asked Drizzy. He answers with a smile, “I mean, it was just…can I say who else is on it or no?” Nicki said she wanted to keep it a surprise. “Okay, alright. Well, it’d just been a really long time since—it was just, it didn’t feel right with you not being on it,” said Drake. “That’s the best way I could put it. Like, it was fun the other way, but it’s epic this way.”
“So, we just…you know I had some real heart-to-hearts with you lately, just about the fact that it’s like, it’s just your world. Nobody does this sh*t better than you,” he added, mentioning that he gets that right now her priority is her son. “When you’re gone, I’m not gon’ lie, I’m trying to speak for everybody. We really miss you. We really miss your presence. We miss the bars. We miss the excitement that you bring.”
Drake continued to say that he’s been putting a bit of pressure on Nicki to get back to her pen game, and she admitted that he helped get her out of her writer’s block. They will apparently see each other face-to-face this weekend when he visits her at her home. Check out Nicki Minaj’s Live below and watch her exchange with Drake near the end.
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Rowdy Rebel has been making the most of his time as a free man. After serving six years behind bars, the rapper was released from prison back in December. He was quick to hit the studio and has shown up on tracks like “Re-Route” with Funkmaster Flex and the remix to CJ’s “Whoopty” where he and French Montana made appearances.
On Friday (May 14), fans received “9 Bridge,” a single that finds Rowdy linking up with A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie. The pair share the spotlight on the track but the song is rumored to be featured on the latter’s forthcoming album, A Boogie vs. Artist. The project is the follow-up to A Boogie’s 2020 Valentine’s Day release Artist 2.0, a record that landed at the No. 1 spot on Billboard‘s U.S. Rap Chart.
Fans are loving “9 Bridge,” so check it out and let us know what you think of this pairing.
Quotable Lyrics
They catch me drippin’ in front the Barclay
Catch me flying down the Parkway
Smokin’ backpack, broccoli
It’s just me and Boogie, back-to-back
In a Maybach, n*gga, pardon me
Got my feet up with my heat tucked
If them woo n*ggas start me, but it’s
We’re over five months deep into 2021 and Migos finally shared their first collective single. They’ve each made their own appearances elsewhere, but fans have been waiting on more news regarding Culture III, an album that Migos have been teasing for some time. Last month, the group shared behind-the-scenes footage of them in the studio, leaving the world to believe that Culture III will arrive sooner than later. Not long before that footage hit social media, Quavo offered an update about the album.
“Going Into Mixing,” the newly single rapper tweeted at the time. On Friday (May 14), Migos popped up with a new single, “Straightenin,” a track that arrived with a visual to match. In the clip, viewers will find Quavo, Offset, and Takeoff with a few friends as they show off their ultra-exclusive rides while flashing a bit of cash. The trio is known for their love of fast, expensive cars, so check out Migos flexing their cash flow in the visual to their new single, “Straightenin.”
Quotable Lyrics
Put that sh*t on
I bought two whips and I put my b*tch on
She put this wrist on
She factory set it with Richard Mille prongs
Turned a pandemic into a bandemic
You know that’s the sh*t that we on
Almost six months into the new year and more than a year removed from her last single, Nicki Minaj made her grand return tonight with a re-upload of her beloved Beam Me Up Scotty mixtape. The project’s appearance on DSPs arrived with three new songs, one of them being “Seeing Green” with Drake and Lil Wayne, the trio’s first track together in almost three years. Another track that’s housed on the mixtape is “Fractions,” a solo effort that finds Nicki showing off the lyricism her fans fell in love with. However, the track did not arrive without controversy as a certain line on the song is causing some to believe it references her husband’s accuser.
On*k* is smart. She did a nostalgia release to push past the fact that she literally has a bar in a new track implying that her husbands survivor is lying on her and folks will eat it up.
— Comorienne
(@_ShamGod) May 14, 2021
Y’all can’t even say she didn’t say it either. She literally said “accusations on them blogs and they all fictitious.”
— Comorienne
After a brief intro on the song, Nicki raps, “Ayo, I’m the one who run the city where they armed and vicious / Accusations on them blogs and they all fictitious.” In the short time that’s passed since the song was released, listeners have already taken to Twitter to share their thoughts about the line. One Twitter user pointed out the controversial aspect of the song in a pair of tweets. “On*k* is smart,” they wrote. “She did a nostalgia release to push past the fact that she literally has a bar in a new track implying that her husbands survivor is lying on her and folks will eat it up.” They added, “Y’all can’t even say she didn’t say it either. She literally said ‘accusations on them blogs and they all fictitious.’”
Damn Nick sick for that https://t.co/9TWmu0Mmth
— Almighty Santana (@_WE_AINT_SHIT) May 14, 2021
i just can’t imagine ruining ma legacy/empire for an abusive man. prayers to the victim fr. https://t.co/meFckfqlMy
—
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(@spoiIedcap) May 14, 2021
The tweet sparked a number of replies with many replying in agreement to the line’s poor taste. One person replied, “Damn Nick sick for that” while another said, “i just can’t imagine ruining ma legacy/empire for an abusive man. prayers to the victim fr.”
You can listen to “Fractions” above and read more reactions to the line below.
The quotes to this show shy i say stan culture is a plague to humanity. Blind devotion is some scary and sad shit https://t.co/8r9s2ZSeFv
— Silkk The Maca aka Burt Macarach (@chaosghost) May 14, 2021
Man, fuckin what?!?? I can’t even—the famous people want me to live miserably. https://t.co/7X6KWsvNbF
— y’know, just here. (@aatshimanga) May 14, 2021
Number one reason I’ll never get behind her.. the way people just brush over the fact that she has so many pedophiles and rapists in her life is incredible to me. Y’all have fun though.. https://t.co/YbtZOSORXV
— ً (@JaeminsLibidO) May 14, 2021
what is wrong with her bruh all she does is surround herself with sick freakish men like 69 and now this man https://t.co/Sv6ekDgTC4
— fufu (@crisatonic) May 14, 2021
celebrities, especially rappers, won’t keep their “problematic” (read: harmful) behavior out of their work because they know and understand that will keep them from accountability. They know this keeps stans+media on their side, supporting their career, no matter what they do. https://t.co/BNrP8wWPNM
— Juwan Holmes, Writer/INTOmore is back (@juwanthewriter) May 14, 2021
whole thing is so sad and the fact that no one will ever call her out https://t.co/zcvMqeZmvV
— non-binary strawberry lemonade lover (@villainandeve) May 14, 2021
caught that bar immediately. super nasty https://t.co/5zcvuoZF9Y
— z (@zxjxl) May 14, 2021
Beam Me Up Scotty can be found on all DSPs here.
You know you’re iconic when you sample your own song 14 years later. Many of us witnessed T-Pain lament over his Instagram DM request folder and how he only recently discovered it existed. The music veteran shared a sneak peek at the hundreds of conversation requests from his fellow celebrities, many of them being artists that hit him up for a potential collaboration. Earlier this week, T-Pain hopped on Instagram Live to chat with a few of those people and even tapped Mark Zuckerberg to discuss a better way of filtering DMs.
During the Livestream, T-Pain also shared a split-screen with Kehlani and revealed that thanks to discovering those messages, they were able to connect for a collaboration, “I Like Dat.” The pair of hitmakers previewed their single and on Friday (May 14), “I Like Dat” made its arrival. The single finds T-Pain reimagining his 2007 classic “Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin’)” and proves that his hitmaking skills are still on point. Kehlani remarked that linking up with T-Pain was on her bucket list.
Stream “I Like Dat” featuring Kehlani and let us know what you think.
Quotable Lyrics
She don’t do 9 to 5
Hundred thousand viewers on her IG live (Oh)
Huh (Huh), she do it (Do it)
Make a toast to it
You ain’t never heard of that and the Birkin bag stupid
You ain’t never heard her brag or say that she goin’ through it
I just wanna tap it, tap it, boop, boop it one times
Ooh (Ooh), just give me one night, I can make her mine
You know you’re iconic when you sample your own song 14 years later. Many of us witnessed T-Pain lament over his Instagram DM request folder and how he only recently discovered it existed. The music veteran shared a sneak peek at the hundreds of conversation requests from his fellow celebrities, many of them being artists that hit him up for a potential collaboration. Earlier this week, T-Pain hopped on Instagram Live to chat with a few of those people and even tapped Mark Zuckerberg to discuss a better way of filtering DMs.
During the Livestream, T-Pain also shared a split-screen with Kehlani and revealed that thanks to discovering those messages, they were able to connect for a collaboration, “I Like Dat.” The pair of hitmakers previewed their single and on Friday (May 14), “I Like Dat” made its arrival. The single finds T-Pain reimagining his 2007 classic “Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin’)” and proves that his hitmaking skills are still on point. Kehlani remarked that linking up with T-Pain was on her bucket list.
Stream “I Like Dat” featuring Kehlani and let us know what you think.
Quotable Lyrics
She don’t do 9 to 5
Hundred thousand viewers on her IG live (Oh)
Huh (Huh), she do it (Do it)
Make a toast to it
You ain’t never heard of that and the Birkin bag stupid
You ain’t never heard her brag or say that she goin’ through it
I just wanna tap it, tap it, boop, boop it one times
Ooh (Ooh), just give me one night, I can make her mine
You know you’re iconic when you sample your own song 14 years later. Many of us witnessed T-Pain lament over his Instagram DM request folder and how he only recently discovered it existed. The music veteran shared a sneak peek at the hundreds of conversation requests from his fellow celebrities, many of them being artists that hit him up for a potential collaboration. Earlier this week, T-Pain hopped on Instagram Live to chat with a few of those people and even tapped Mark Zuckerberg to discuss a better way of filtering DMs.
During the Livestream, T-Pain also shared a split-screen with Kehlani and revealed that thanks to discovering those messages, they were able to connect for a collaboration, “I Like Dat.” The pair of hitmakers previewed their single and on Friday (May 14), “I Like Dat” made its arrival. The single finds T-Pain reimagining his 2007 classic “Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin’)” and proves that his hitmaking skills are still on point. Kehlani remarked that linking up with T-Pain was on her bucket list.
Stream “I Like Dat” featuring Kehlani and let us know what you think.
Quotable Lyrics
She don’t do 9 to 5
Hundred thousand viewers on her IG live (Oh)
Huh (Huh), she do it (Do it)
Make a toast to it
You ain’t never heard of that and the Birkin bag stupid
You ain’t never heard her brag or say that she goin’ through it
I just wanna tap it, tap it, boop, boop it one times
Ooh (Ooh), just give me one night, I can make her mine
