Monday marked a milestone in the career of up and coming singer Joji. He made his TV debut last night (March 2) on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
Joji took the stage to close the show with the performance of his new single “Run.” Dressed in an all black suit, Joji was engulfed in red lights while he gave one of his best vocal performances to date.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvvTBdBPfcE
The 88 Rising singer is best known for his single “Slow Dancing in the Dark,” from his 2018 album Ballads 1. Since ballads Joji has released single “Sanctuary” back in June, and “Run,” in February. We can only hope that this means a new album is in the works. Check out the music video for “Run” below.
You know what they say, “Like father like daughter.” North West stole the show this weekend at her father’s Yeezy Season 8 Fashion Show in Paris yesterday (March 2), with an adorable musical performance.
It’s been nearly four years since Kanye West has held a runway show for the label. He surprised the fashion industry this weekend by sending out last minute invites for the Yeezy Season 8 Fashion Show.
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As models strutted down the runway, the 6-year-old grabbed the microphone and began rapping lines like “I will never do bad things,” “Cool, cute, cool, cute, yeah,” and “What are those? These are clothes.” She later t gave her cousin Penelope Disick a shoutout, “I love you Penelope,” and then proceeded to end by screaming into the mic. Kanye quickly joined her onstage with a wide smile.
Mom Kim Kardashian-West later gave credit to 5-year-old Youtube star ZaZa for the song North remixed. She stated that North finds ZaZa as an inspiration.
Rapper and Hip-Hop legend 50 Cent, has announced via his Instagram that he will be executive producing and completing slain rapper Pop Smoke‘s posthumous debut album.
“I’m on the move to listening to Pop Smoke, I decided I’m gonna executive produce and finish his album for him,” he said in his photo caption from March 1.
Image Via 50 Cent’s Instagram.
He later made a series of posts requesting help from famous friends like Roddy Rich, Drake, and Chris Brown. Within minutes Roddy Rich responded that he was on deck to help out.
Image via 50 Cent’s Instagram.Image Via 50 Cent’s Instagram.Image via 50 Cent’s Instagram.
Pop Smoke, born Bashar Jackson, was shot and killed last month on Feb. 19 at a Los Angeles residence. Before his death, the 20-year-old Brooklyn rapper had released his new project Meet the Woo 2, which debuted in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200.
50 cent was on of the first celebrities to share their condolences on social media. “No such things as success with out jealousy, treachery comes from those who are close. R.I.P.”
The 20-year-old rapper’s death remains under investigation. Authorities are still trying to figure out whether Pop was a victim of a random robbery, or if the incident was a targeted hit.
A deluxe edition of Mac Miller‘s posthumous album, Circles, will be released this Friday (March 6.) with the addition of two new songs, “Right” and “Floating.” Miller’s family made the announcement yesterday morning (March 2.) in a press release.
The Circles deluxe edition,will be released on CD this Friday, and will be available for streaming on March 20, and a vinyl edition will be available on April 17.
Miller had just released his album Swimming, a month before he died of a fatal over dose in September 2018. At the time of his death, Miller had been working on the album Circles, which served as a companion album to Swimming. The concept behind the two albums was “Swimming in Circles.”
Miller had been working with producer Jon Brion, who decided to finish Circles based on conversations he had with Miller before his death.
In a post on Miller’s instagram in January, his family said, “This is a complicated process that has no right answer. No clear path. We simply know that it was important to Malcolm for the world to hear it. One of the most difficult decisions in the process is how best to let people know about it– how to communicate meaningfully while keeping sacred what should be kept sacred.” This was the first post on Miller’s instagram since his death.
Post via Mac Miller’s Instagram.
On January 9. his family released a music video for the single “Good News.” The video features archival footage of Miller.
“He (Mac) had this whole aquatic theme that came out of something we’d talked about while working on Swimming,” Brion told The New York Times in an interview. “I’d noticed he mentioned water a few times in the lyrics, and then that grew into all these discussions about water and what it sounds like that became kind of a running joke.”
Brion also revealed that Swimming and Circles were meant to be apart of a trilogy, and explained how they were supposed to roll out. “There were supposed to be three albums: the first, Swimming, was sort of a hybridization of going between hip-hop and song form,” Brion stated. “The second, which he’d already decided would be Circles, would be song-based. And I believe the third one would have been just a pure hip-hop record. I think he wanted to tell people, ‘I still love this, I still do this.'”
Listen to Mac Miller’s Circles here:
Watch Mac Miller’s NPR Tiny Desk segment, which premiered a month before his death.
Justin Timberlake and SZA just released a song that serves as the first single off the upcoming soundtrack for the Trolls World Tour movie. While that may not seem very hype, the single, “The Other Side,” is actually great.
The track is an up-beat and funky one written by Timberlake, and produced by Ludwig Göransson. Timberlake has written and performed the new music on the soundtrack with appearances from artists such as George Clinton, Kelly Clarkson, Mary J. Blige, Anna Kendrick, Anderson .Paak, Haim and more.
The 90s Hip-Hop Hype-Williams inspired video dropped Wednesday and stars JT and SZA. The two sing into a fish-eye lens, while dressed in silver bodysuits in sci-fi industrial rooms, and JT of course performs some of his signature dance moves.
“I was so thrilled to be invited to participate in this project with Justin,” SZA said in a statement. “The Creative Process of working with him and the team was filled with such excitement. It’s an energy you can feel in both the song and music video. I can’t wait for people to check it out.”
Timberlake and Kendrick will reprise their roles, and star in Trolls World Star, which will be out in theaters April 17.
If you use TikTok then there’s no way you haven’t heard Doja Cat‘s single “Say So,” and the dance that accompanies it. Almost every single the singer/rapper has put out has gone viral on the app, making her the queen of TikTok.
On Thursday (Feb. 27) Doja premiered a 70s inspired disco themed music video for the single. Not only is she the queen of TikTok, but she’s now the queen of disco.
The video takes us to sunny 70s L.A. where we find Doja in a glittered mansion filled with vinyls and a gorgeous view of the city. She’s sporting a variety of short glittered backless dresses throughout the music video. We see Doja thirsting over a repair man who has come to fix her record player, and she challenges him to “keep it focused.” The two meet again later that night at a discotheque, where Doja walks in with a tiger on a leash.
The pest part of the video is when we see Doja and her back up dancers, perform the infamous TikTok Dance that made the song go viral. She even invited Haley Sharpe, the TikToker who came up with the dance to perform in the video.
her names haley sharpe!! she’s a very sweet and genuine girl who makes cute dances for anyone to do! please hype her up!! https://t.co/HhMKQ43zq2
The music video came a few hours after Doja appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to perform the single. The performance kept with the throwback disco theme, as the stage was transformed into a hot pink disco club, with disco balls all over the stage. We see Doja dressed in a fluffy hot pink robe accompanied by two back up dancers. She eventually drops the rope to reveal a Swarovski embellished jumpsuit.
“Say So” is the first single off Doja Cat’s 2019 sophomore album Hot Pink, which includes other singles like “Juicy” and “Rules.” She has also just released the dates for her upcoming tour.
