Rae Sremmurd recently dropped a new track titled “T’d Up” from off their upcoming full-length album, SR3MM . If you haven’t heard this Swae Lee co-produced hit with Metro Boomin and Darrel Jackson on the beat you slacking. Stay tuned for this triple album that will be featuring one disc for Jxmmi, one for Swae, and a third for Rae Sremmurd.
Listen to the track here.
On February 3rd, Bruno Mars announced that he will be going on a world tour via Instagram. The tour will be in twelve cities across the United States and Canada. He will be including Cardi B as his opening act, which is a perfect combination after their extremely popular remix of “Finesse,” which already has almost 200 million views just in the first month. Overall, we are certainly trippin’ about this concert.
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The tickets go up for sale on February 16, so make sure you have saved up enough money to purchase them. I expect the Brooklyn show will be sold out in a matter of minutes. Not just because New York is one of the most popular venues, but because it is Cardi B’s hometown which she reps every chance she gets. I expect high energy, amazing choreography, and great stage effects. Who knows, maybe the opener will be better than the main act?
The Weeknd & Kendrick Lamar hopped on a new track together titled “Pray For M.”
Stream it below.
Detroit’s Tee Grizzley delivered a new Helluva Beats-produced hit to his fans yesterday titled “Colors.” You can stream the banger on Apple Music, Spotify, etc.
Listen to the banger below.
Watch her early music videos here:
Candy has been compared to Gwen Stefani, Lady Gaga, CupcakKe and Nicki Minaj. These comparisons make sense due to her larger than life fashion style and her illusionary image. Her wigs and fashion add to the superstar quality in her voice. She has a “fuck off” attitude that translates into her music and her sound.
In 2016, she released music that has a more pop sound to it, and I am certainly not a fan. A highlight of her new sound is in her song, “Happy Days” but that was the only song I found enjoyable. Her look seems to have changed to more of a simplistic style. I used to take pride knowing about such a small up and coming artist, but now sometime seems off.
Check out one of her better pop songs, “Happy Days”:
She also released a song with Sia, entitled “Living Out Loud” which I think is complete crap. It sounds like every Sia song that has ever existed and has really strong similarities to her hit song “Chandelier.” Also, the chorus is extremely cliche and has almost no originality. It seems that everything that Brooke Candy got famous for, she turned her back on. It’s really surprising to see but once you get signed to a label, things can take a turn, and sometimes drastically.
Just listen to the train wreck of a song “Living Out Loud”:
So check out Brooke Candy, but only her earlier stuff. Hopefully, she ditches the pop scene and goes back to her true talent: rap.
Grimes, the indie electro-pop love child, just put out a statement that she was releasing her new album in 2018. For those who don’t know Grimes, she is a Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and music video director. She is an extremely talented artist that does all her visuals for her own music videos and has really branded herself into a steady rise to stardom.
She got her start from writing experimental music while attending McGill University in Montreal. Although it was experimental, it combined all her talents to create something that has never been done before. It’s hard to put her in a genre since she is she is so original. She never loses sight of what made her big and continues to put out music that is true to herself but also music that tops what she is previously done. She really got her big break with her 2012 album release Visions which included songs like “Genesis,” “Oblivion,” and “Be A Body.” Not only did she make all the beats, sang all the vocals, played all the instruments and drew all the album artwork, she only did it in under a month with GarageBand, Adderall, and food her friends brought to her. Rolling Stone even called her, “The Triumph of a Self-Made Oddball.”
Check out the music video that started it all:
She gained a lot of popularity from her video, “Genesis” which was released August 22nd, 2012. She started off small but gained her audience from being completely out of the ordinary and setting a standard for popular electro-pop. Her video current day now has 50 million views. She is also a popular festival headliner.
Just check out this one-woman show in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIkurD710ZE
It took three years after her album Visions to release her 2015 release, Art Angels which produced one of the best music videos of 2017 featuring Janelle Monáe. The video originally premiered on Tidal, but then shortly made its way to YouTube. Thank God because I can’t afford Tidal, but this video tempted me to put my credit card information in.
Check it out here:
Other highlights from her album included, “Flesh without Blood” and “Kill V. Maim.” So what can we expect from her next album? She states that she is venturing into “unexplored sonic landscapes” as she writes new music. I would expect her to do something crazy weird with this album, like maybe even put a punk element in it. Her 2015 album was so great because she got even weirder with her music, so I expect this album to be something we would never expect, but with the same level of creative genius, we all know she has, and what we are all secretly jealous of.
