Bun B Pays Tribute to George Floyd With “This World” f/ Trae tha Truth, Raheem DeVaughn, and Big K.R.I.T.

Bun B Pays Tribute to George Floyd With “This World” f/ Trae tha Truth, Raheem DeVaughn, and Big K.R.I.T.

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by | May 25, 2021 | Celebs, Featured

It has been one year since George Floyd’s life was taken from him at the hands of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. set the streets of America ablaze in the following days to fight against police violence and systemic injustices. Today Bun B has honored the life of George Floyd with the new song and accompanying visual “This World” featuring Trae tha Truth, Raheem DeVaughn, and Big K.R.I.T., with production by Cory Mo and Zaytoven.

The video itself highlighting these emotional moments that helped assemble the nation featuring imagery of the Civil Rights Movement, videos of the protest held by young Black American’s demanding justice for those who were hurt or had their lives taken due to police violence, and image of the storming of the U.S. Captial. The video concludes with the message, “Now is the time to stand up and fight against police brutality and systemic racism that plagues the United States of America. We can act now to take control of the power structures that be and destroy the system that is in place. No longer will we stand for the oppression be levied upon us by the white man.”

Bun B and Trae Tha Truth Remember George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, More on 'This World'

Bun B wrote on Instagram alongside an image of the song’s artwork, “I am honoring the memory of George Floyd with my new single ‘This World.’’ In a subsequent post, he added, “It’s been a year but what has changed? So the fight continues and we turn our pain into purpose.”

Listen to Bun B’s “This World”  featuring Trae tha Truth, Raheem DeVaughn, and Big K.R.I.T. via Spotify or watch the video up top:

 

May 25, 2021 No Comments
Sinéad Harnett New Album ‘Ready Is Always Too Late’ Now Available

Sinéad Harnett New Album ‘Ready Is Always Too Late’ Now Available

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by | May 21, 2021 | Celebs, Featured

As the follow-up to her debut album, Lessons In Love,  that released nearly two years removed ago British singer Sinéad Harnett returns with her second full-length effort, Ready Is Always Too Late, a collection of soul-searching R&B ballads and seamless collaborations that present the Thai and Irish singer as a critical new voice in the genre.

This 11-track project stays true to her own style, promotes moving on with love when it appears one’s time will be wasted. Through it all, listeners can also catch appearances from Lucky Daye, Masego, VanJess, and Earthgang’s Johnny Venus.

While this album wasn’t the original plan she started to write in January of 2020 after meeting her new team in LA, the closure of the world due to the global coronavirus pandemic kept Harnett stateside and be left to her own devices inspiration to create her sophomore release.

Sinéad Harnett — Ready Is Always Too Late

Photo Credit: Rosie Matheson

“We decided in March last year to do another album. Why not? What’s going on at the moment? There’s nothing to do but listen to music, wear pajamas every day, and feel like a teenage dirtbag,” she tells EUPHORIA. while visiting family in New Mexico.

After drawing 2020 to a close with two epic, international collabs in “Stickin” with VanJess and Masego and “Take Me Away” with EARTHGANG, UK R&B-soul Maestra Sinéad Harnett kicked off the new year with a bang, dropping off “Last Love” and announcing that a new album was on the way.

That album would be Ready Is Always Too Late, taking over a year to complete it shows fans Harnett’s growth as an artist but also a human being. Her sound has grown immeasurably since her early collaborations there is a hope fans who have followed her journey from the start will be proud of her newfound confidence while recognizing the love she now has for herself. In return, she wants listeners to feel the same way about themselves.

Sinéad Harnett Confirms New Album With “Last Love” | Complex UK

“Ready has often been an excuse, and one I didn’t want to use anymore,” Harnett says. “I wasn’t ready to be proud of the skin I was in, to find my inner confidence or to truly practice self-love. But I’m doing it now and it’s an ongoing, crazy and unpredictable journey that I’m grateful for.”

Describing her new album as “iconic,” she admits that tooting her own horn never came naturally to her. The creation of this album helped her to let go of those negative voices we all adopt. Realizing we cannot be defined by our success, we have to be defined by our passion and our heart. A singer-songwriter whose deep understanding of herself as a person, as an artist, is unshakeable. The more confident person she’s become is super refreshing to witness.

Tune into the new album above, visit Sinéad Harnett’s Instagram, and Twitter to stay updated on new releases and tour announcements, also check out the Ready Is Always Too Late trailer below :

May 21, 2021 No Comments
DJ Khaled Drop Official Music Video ‘Body In Motion’

DJ Khaled Drop Official Music Video ‘Body In Motion’

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by | May 18, 2021 | Featured

DJ Khaled has given us another one, after releasing his 12th Studio album, Khaled Khaled opened at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, marking the third time he’s notched the top spot on the chart. Featuring some of the biggest names in Hip-Hop and R&B six tracks off the album have gotten accompanying video, and today fans get another one from the We The Best DJ as Body In Motion featuring Bryson Tiller, Lil Baby, and Roddy Ricch is the latest video to drop.

The new arrival follows the video for “Let It Go” featuring 21 Savage and Justin Bieber, which paid tribute to Adam Sandler’s Happy Gilmore.  As the beat would suggest this is song give you a feeling of living luxury as the visual finds the four artists on a yacht, surrounded by beautiful women as the drinks keep flowing. As the song title and the hook that’s carried by Mr. Trappsoul himself state that there is an allure of watching a beautiful woman’s body in motion.

Khaled Khaled has become Khaled’s sixth No. 1 on the Top Rap Albums Chart and fourth No. 1 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Chart. Check out the video for “Body In Motion” below ( Warning video is *NSFW*)

 

May 18, 2021 No Comments
Internet Money Drops Video for ‘His &Hers’ With Don Toliver, Gunna, And Lil Uzi Vert

Internet Money Drops Video for ‘His &Hers’ With Don Toliver, Gunna, And Lil Uzi Vert

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by | May 17, 2021 | Celebs, Featured

The production duo–Nick Mira and Taz Taylor as Internet Money is back, and follow last years successful hit  “Lemonade” that went double-platinum. Thier latest single “His & Hers” features a melodic hook from Don Toliver, and Gunna and Uzi add their signature swag while trading verses just in time for summer.

“’Lemonade’ was the first one where I was like, ‘Man, this is doing like two million streams a day. This is crazy,’” Taylor told Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe about the making of “His & Hers.” “So at that point, I was like, ‘All right, well they want me to go make the biggest records. They want me to go get the biggest artists on the songs. That’s what they want.’ So I was just searching for the biggest songs that I heard. And then ‘His & Hers,’ I heard a demo with a different guitar and it was way slow. It was like 127 BPM. And I was just like, ‘This is it. I got to do it.’ So August 15th was the first day of this song. I started working on it and I just finished it.”

Internet Money réunit Don Toliver, Gunna et Lil Uzi Vert sur "His & Hers"

Taz was inspired to make “His & Hers” after the success of “Lemonade” knowing that you could combine  the crazy good verses from Gunna and add the epic hooks of  Don is just like peanut butter and jelly a crazy combo but it works. Dropping“ JETSKI” featuring Lil Mosey and Lil Tecca back in March, Internet Money now gearing up to release a new album this summer, the follow-up to their 2020 debut album, B4 the Storm, which opened at No. 10 on the Billboard 200.

“I want it to be one of the moments,” he also told Lowe, when asked about what’s next. “I like having people debate, ‘Oh, so-and-so killed it.’ Or ‘so-and-so did better than this person.’ Or ‘This is way better.’ I just want to make songs that I can show my influences.”

The group is also slated to perform DJ sets at Lyrical Lemonade’s Summer Smash Festival in Chicago on Aug. 21 and Milwaukee’s Summerfest event on Sept. 14. Check out Internet Money single “His & Hers” video presents Lyrical Lemonade and directed by Cole Bennet.

 

May 17, 2021 No Comments
J. Cole Drops New Music Video for ‘a m a r i’

J. Cole Drops New Music Video for ‘a m a r i’

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by | May 17, 2021 | Celebs, Featured

“Hold on to your inner child”

Following the release of his highly anticipating project in The Off-Season Jermaine…Cole,  made his professional debut in the Basketball Africa League after signing a contract with the Rwandan Patriots BBC, and the gifts keep on coming for his fans after dropping a video for ‘a m a r i ‘ earlier today (May 17, 2021).

Directed by Mez for Heirs, who also helmed 2019’s ‘Middle Child.’ The video opens with  Dreamville helicopter flies overhead with the city of New York as the backdrop. Over the following two and a half minutes, we see Cole dressed up in a suit and fedora and head back to his college years at St. John’s University, eating ramen noodles in his dorm room while the many platinum plaques line his walls. In the end, a young Cole is seen trying to save his older self from falling off a ledge. The video ends with the powerful message above.

 “This was the 1st thing I ever directed. Bro helped me start another side of my career,” tweeted Mez.

The Off-Season is expected to debut at No. 1 on next week’s Billboard 200 with 280-310,000 equivalent album units.

Watch J. Cole’s new music video for ‘a m a r i’ below:

May 17, 2021 No Comments