Some fans have been connecting several possible hints and concluded that a Drake and Taylor Swift collab is on the way. The first comes from the latest cover of Entertainment Weekly magazine, in which Taylor wears a denim jacket that has stickers of artists figures have inspired her for her upcoming album. A picture of Drake from his Hotline Bling music video is next to a sticker that reads “Track 5”, perhaps meaning that Drake is featured on the fifth track of Taylor’s album. In the magazine, Taylor was quoted complimenting Drake’s clever one-liners on tracks “Nonstop” and “Summer Games”.
There were numerous Game of Thrones stickers on the jacket of the characters Arya Stark, Sansa Stark, and Daenerys Targaryen. Drake also praised Arya Stark recently at the Billboard Music Awards, which might mean that the collaboration could be Game of Thrones-inspired.
Though I’m not a big fan of Taylor Swift’s music, I don’t actively dislike it, and I acknowledge it’s catchiness. A collaboration between her and Drake is sure to stick in my head days after I first hear it.
In a teaser clip of an upcoming episode of The Shop: Uninterrupted, Travis Scott and Pharrell Williams are seen discussing the influence of the streaming service, SoundCloud. Pharrell started off by calling millennials “gifts to the species” because they grew up online and are “all about sharing”. Travis then made the connection with SoundCloud, a streaming service widely used by millennials, and praised the immediate upload nature of the site.
He said, “I was doing this interview, man, for Playboy, right? And the interview guy was like, he was saying my generation was SoundCloud rappers, and I was like, ‘Wait, pause.’ I had to tell him, like, you got it twisted. SoundCloud was there for us because SoundCloud understood, like, we wanna drop a song right now. We’re not trying to wait for any load-up”. Travis then went on to say that this dramatically increased the speed of recording and that even the step of recording notes on paper or iPhones was bypassed and that the songs came “off the brain”.
Pharrell added on to that last point and said that “feeling is your GPS, first and foremost. If it doesn’t feel right, I ain’t give a fuck what you’re saying, or what you’re talking about. Right, it’s your spirit, and people can see that”.
It seems that both Pharrell and Travis are praising the spontaneity of the instant uploading that happens on SoundCloud. However, I still wonder though if trial and error still holds value in this world. After all, humans are prone to mistakes so somebody’s spontaneous reaction might in fact not be as powerful as the second or third reaction. To compromise, an artist shouldn’t shy away from his or her gut reaction, but just make sure it’s the best one.
Kodak Black has been in the news often recently, mostly for the wrong reason. Now he seems to be turning things around, as TMZ reports that the rapper is helping Paige Cook’s campaign to donate 7,600 notebooks and 60,000 pencils to students in the Cleburne Independent School District in Texas. Many in that district come from low-income families and could really use the help.
Cook’s goal was originally only 40,000 pencils but this year raised the goal by adding notebooks and 20,000 pencils. Bradford Cohen, Kodak Black’s lawyer, told TMZ that Kodak picked up the tab for the notebooks, by donating $12,500.
Kodak has done some positive philanthropy in the past, such as donating $10,000 to a children’s hospital in Florida. But like I said, Kodak has had some image problems recently, with the inappropriate flirting with Lauren London, beefing with Lil Wayne, and being busted at the border for carrying weapons in his tour bus.
I’m not sure exactly what Kodak’s motivations are and even if he really doesn’t care about charity and is only donating to save face, people in need are still getting the money. I wonder if Kodak would have done this if he had not had such negative press recently.
Post Malone is reportedly getting into the weed game. According to TMZ, Post is set to launch his own marijuana brand called “Shaboink”. The public was introduced to the company at Hall of Flowers, a cannabis trade show in Santa Rosa, California. Various products will be sold by Shaboink such as flower, grinders, pre-rolls, vapes, and rolling papers. The weed will be grown in California by weed brand Hemper.
I was actually surprised to hear this news because I remembered reading in 2017 that Post Malone had quit smoking weed because of a bad reaction to a laced joint. Despite this, Posty has publicly endorsed the worldwide legalization of marijuana and even told TMZ in 2016, “Weed is good for everybody. Ain’t nobody die for that shit. People die from drinking and driving every fucking day.“
Shaboink will launch on July 4, on Post Malone’s 24th birthday. As of now, the brand will only be available at California-based dispensaries.
Logic and Eminem just dropped a new collaboration called “Homicide”. It will be the third single off Logic’s upcoming album Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, which was announced by Logic earlier this week.
The structure of the song is two verses and a chorus by Logic, a long, prolific verse by Slim Shady, and an outro by Chris D’Elia. Both Logic and Eminem spit their bars incredibly fast and as stated on Genius.com, the whole thing sounds like a playground for the two to exhibit their MC prowess.
There are multiple stand-out bars in this song with some of them going up to seven instances of the same rhyme. For example, my favorite bit in the song comes from Eminem, when he raps: “With so many foul lines, you think I’m a free throw/Figured it was about time for people to eat crow/You about to get out-rhymed, how could I be dethroned?/I stay on my toes like the repo, a behemoth in sheep clothes/From the East Coast to the West, I’m the ethos and I’m the G.O.A.T/Who the best, I don’t gotta say a fuckin’ thing, though”. Shady has always had a large vocabulary and here raps “dethroned”, “behemoth”, and “ethos”. He likely did well on the SAT.
Check this track out, and let me know what you think in the comments.
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