Fans are giving thanks this year for the release of The Weeknd’s highly-anticipated ‘Starboy’ album.
The Weeknd aburptly announced the album back in September before dropping the album artwork where he wasn’t sporting his trademark dreads. Shortly after he released the title-track “Starboy” and “False Alarm” along with the visuals.
In an interview he said ‘Starboy’ would be his “best sounding” album and shared the inspirations for the album.
“The production feels aggressive but still sexy. The Smiths, Bad Brains, Talking Heads, Prince, and DeBarge play roles. We wrote it all in Los Angeles. I think it’ll be the best-sounding album I’ve ever done. It’s hard to label the sound because, when I first came out, nobody would label it R&B. I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced,” he shared.
The 18-track LP includes contributions from Daft Punk on two songs, Kendrick Lamar, Future, and Lana Del Rey.
Press play below to stream ‘Starboy’ via Apple Music.
In other news The Weeknd hinted at a possible joint-project with Drake saying it was a possibility.
“He came in as my big bro and showed the world what I could do,” he said. “From then on, he’s always been supporting me and I’ve always been supporting him. Behind the scenes, we’re still very close but it’s cool that the world can see us doing our own thing. OVO/XO will always be there.”
Drizzy shared a special message for The Weeknd and his new album on his Instagram. See it below.
Hours before the release of his album ‘Starboy’, The Weeknd shares his short film “MANIA.”
The Grant Singer-directed, 12-minute short film appears to be an extension to The Weeknd’s “Starboy” video, where the Canadian singer along with a group of men are involved in a bank robbery that goes bad. The film begins with snippets of “All I Know” featuring Future, and “Sidewalks” featuring Kendrick Lamar.
Throughout the film a panther appears and Abel is surrounded and seduced by different women inside of a nightclub before things turn bloody and murderous.
The Weeknd’s new album ‘Starboy’ is set to drop November 25th. To celebrate the new music, the Canadian singer has announced the “Starboy: Legend of the Fall” World Tour.
As of now the world tour is scheduled to begin February 17th in Stockholm and will be followed by shows across major parts of Europe and South America, before hitting the North American leg on April 25th in Vancouver, Canada.
R&B sensation Bryson Tiller and Lil’ Uzi Vert will go along for the ride on the European leg, with more dates to be announced soon.
Tickets for the “Starboy: Legend of the Fall” World Tour go on sale tomorrow starting at 10 a.m. See all the dates below via Abel’s Instagram post.
Things get wicked in the Ilya Naishuller-directed video for The Weeknd’s “False Alarm” off his upcoming album ‘Starboy’.
The thrilling visuals take you on a first-person point of view of a violent bank robbery, which is preceded by an explosive, deadly getaway with a beautiful female hostage being the center of attention.
In the end The Weeknd is left badly hurt and has a chance to shoot the hostage but ends up letting her get away with the money from the bank robbery.
The Weeknd made waves when he announced his new album ‘Starboy’ and followed it with the title track “Starboy.” The song has received heavy radio play across both Urban and Top 40 radio stations. Today, The Weeknd is back with the visuals for the single.
Earlier today The Weeknd announced his next album will be titled ‘Starboy’ and unveiled the artwork for it, showing him without his signature dreads and sporting a new haircut. To keep the momentum going, he shared the title track of the album “Starboy” featuring Daft Punk. Listen below.
An unfortunate shooting broke out at T.I.’s concert in New York City earlier this week that lead to three shot and one murdered.
The man murdered was Ronald McPhatter, 33, a member of Troy Ave’s BSB entourage. McPhatter was an associate of Troy’s and also his personal trainer.
In a video released by the venue you can see Troy retaliating for the shooting of his deceased friend. Troy was later charged with attempted murder for shooting in an open club.
T.I. had nothing to do with the shooting and later released a statement on his socials that read:
Let’s hope senseless acts of violence like this don’t continue in the future.
GUCCI MANE RELEASED
For months hip-hop fans tweeted and sported shirts that read “Free Gucci.” This week the Atlanta rapper was released from a federal correctional facility in Terre Haute, Indiana, after serving roughly 39 months on weapons charges.
Guwop is known to be a workhorse and wasted no time getting back to work. In less than 24 hours of being free, he released a track titled “First Day Out Tha Feds,” which was followed up with a mixtape.
‘First Day Out Tha Feds’ the mixtape dropped last night at fittingly, 10:17 p.m. — an homage to the rapper’s 1017 Bricksquad label.
In just one day the mixtape was streamed over a million times! Good to see Gucci back out here. Stream the full mixtape below:
THE WEEKND & BELLY CANCEL APPEARANCE ON KIMMEL
Apparently YG and Nipsey Hussle aren’t the only two names in hip-hop that feel a certain way about Donald Trump. The Weeknd and Belly recently canceled their scheduled performance on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ because they didn’t want to be associated with the Republican delegate according to The Associated Press.
Both XO artists were in LA this week to record their performance for the song “Might Not” before learning Trump was going to be on the same episode causing them to pull out. Read Belly’s statement below:
“I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world — from religion to race,” Belly said in a statement. “I just didn’t want to feel like I was a part of a celebration for somebody who has beliefs that majority of us don’t agree with.”
“I’m here on a campaign of positivity and love and to contribute what I can to music,” Belly continued. “I create songs people go to sleep and wake up to, songs that they fall in love to. For me, being Muslim and being somebody that appreciates my access here in America, I love the fact that I’m able to be here. To play my part in this business is a privilege and a beautiful thing. The fact that I could lose that ability through the actions of someone such as Donald Trump isn’t right to me. At all.”
Nice to see artists with their stature take a stance.
ALL THE WAY UP REMIXES
One of the hottest songs of the year is Fat Joe & Remy Ma’s “All The Way Up,” produced by Cool & Dre.
When a song is as hot as “All The Way Up” everyone wants to hop on the remix or spit something to it. This week Jay-Z dropped some solid bars over the instrumental for the “official remix.”
Jigga wasn’t the only one to spit bars over the cold beat as Meek Mill and Fabolous also had a remix of their own, followed by Jadakiss.
Listen to all the remixes below and tell us in the comments which one you think is best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_IXMnhYbww
L.A. TO HOST SUPERBOWL
The last time the Superbowl was hosted in L.A. was 1980! This week it was announced that the city will be hosting the event in 2021.
That’s a major victory for a city that finally got a NFL team after a drought of over 20 years. It came as no surprise tho with L.A. being a major market and a very attractive city.
Can’t wait to take part in all the festivities and the full experience. It’s gonna be litty!
Apparently YG and Nipsey Hussle aren’t the only two names in hip-hop that feel a certain way about Donald Trump. The Weeknd and Belly recently canceled their scheduled performance on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ because they didn’t want to be associated with the Republican delegate according to The Associated Press.
Both XO artists were in LA last night to record their performance for the song “Might Not” before learning Trump was going to be on the same episode causing them to pull out. Read Belly’s statement below:
“I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world — from religion to race,” Belly said in a statement. “I just didn’t want to feel like I was a part of a celebration for somebody who has beliefs that majority of us don’t agree with.”
“I’m here on a campaign of positivity and love and to contribute what I can to music,” Belly continued. “I create songs people go to sleep and wake up to, songs that they fall in love to. For me, being Muslim and being somebody that appreciates my access here in America, I love the fact that I’m able to be here. To play my part in this business is a privilege and a beautiful thing. The fact that I could lose that ability through the actions of someone such as Donald Trump isn’t right to me. At all.”
Belly is currently making runs to promote his upcoming project, ‘Another Day in Paradise’ dropping May 27th.
The Weeknd performed on ‘SNL’ last night and brought out Nicki Minaj, they gave a live debut of their new remix. Afterward, XO lit up the stage with “Can’t Feel My Face”.
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