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Luke Bryan has dealt with plenty of loss in his life, including the death of both his brother, Chris, and his sister, Kelly, as well as his brother-in-law, Ben. While Bryan wishes he hadn’t endured so much grief, he does say he is grateful he can use his experience to help others, including one little boy Bryan says he will never forget.

“I believe we were in North Carolina,” Bryan recalled in the Dirt Road Diaries documentary about his life. “It was a typical meet and greet. This little blond-headed boy walks up to me and says, ‘Can I ask you a question?’ I said, ‘Well, yeah, buddy,’ and I got down on one knee.”

It was what the little boy said next that Bryan still remembers to this day.

“He looked at me and goes, ‘I wanna know how you get through every day having lost your brother and your sister, because I lost my sister, and I can’t get over it. My heart’s broke,” Bryan says. “It was a big moment for me, because I understood the way I live, with a smile on my face, is important to people.”

Bryan is currently on the road on his Proud to Be Right Here Tour. His Farm Tour will kick off on September 9.

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You might think Demi Lovato would have no problem enticing a fellow celeb to go on a date with them, but in the latest episode of their podcast, the singer was embarrassingly reminded of what happened when they tried to shoot their shot with one of the stars of Schitt’s Creek.

Demi’s guest on 4D with Demi Lovato was Emily Hampshire, who played Stevie Budd in the Emmy-winning comedy series.  She asked Demi if they minded if she talked about how they first met, and then revealed that it was when Demi slid into her DMs and asked for a date.

“You said, ‘I like you on the show, we should kick it sometimes,'” Hampshire, who identifies as pansexual, recalled. “And then you said, ‘And by kick it, I mean go on a date’…like, you made it clear it was a date. And I loved that, because sometimes that’s confusing.”

Hampshire, who’s 40, then revealed that she turned down Demi, who’s 29, because she’s so much older than the singer.  According to Hampshire, Demi responded, “Think of Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor,” before backtracking and adding, “Uh, I don’t mean YOU’RE the Holland Taylor!”

Paulson, who’s 46, is in a relationship with Taylor, who’s 78.

Demi, who was in hysterics over this story, attempted to explain, “I was like, ‘No! No! I just love them together! I really do!'”  And then Hampshire added, “I thought it was the funniest thing in the whole world, because I was the Holland Taylor in that situation!”

Demi admitted that referring to the age difference wasn’t their “smoothest move,” but added, “A non-binary person can dream. And they, she — I was a ‘she’ at the time — was dreaming big!”

Long story short, the two didn’t end up dating, but became really good friends.

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Trace Adkins just released his 25-track The Way I Wanna Go album. The record, which commemorates the 25th anniversary of his debut, Dreamin’ Out Loud, features an impressive list of guest artists, including Luke Bryan, Blake Shelton, Melissa Etheridge, Keb’ Mo’, Stevie Wonder, Snoop Dogg and Pitbull.

Adkins spent much of the last year working on The Way I Wanna Go, but he says it is his wife of two years, Victoria Pratt, who deserves the credit for the ambitious project.

“I can’t even begin to explain what a difference she’s made in my life,” Adkins tells People. “She rejuvenated me and inspired me to take whatever time I have left and make the most of it…and then just make the best music that I can make.”

Adkins is currently on the road, serving as the opening act on Shelton’s Proud to Be Right Here Tour. Adkins and Shelton duet on “If I Was a Woman” from The Way I Wanna Go.

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Philly rappers Meek Mill and Lil Uzi Vert do wheelies on motorcycles and ATVs as they are tracked by a police surveillance helicopter in their new “Blues Notes 2” video, which dropped Wednesday.

Meek opens the video flowing with swagger, rapping, “I’m not in competition with my homies/ I’m whippin’ the competition and the Rollie/ I know my opposition never knew me/ They wouldn’t be opposition if they know me.”

The song is the follow-up to Meek’s 2016 track “Blue Notes,” from his DC4 mixtape. That project also featured Vert with Nicki Minaj on “Froze.”

Mill and Uzi have collaborated several times, including on “Shared Locations,” the song they released last week that also features Lil Durk.

Meek’s flurry of new music may be a sign that he’s coming soon with a fifth studio project, following his 2018 Championships album.

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After revealing the album art for his debut Montero, Lil Nas X has unveiled the album’s track list in a video posted to his socials. In the clip, a naked Nas tumbles from the sky and into the album’s paradise-like setting — and then just keeps on falling.  The titles of the tracks flash by as he falls.

Montero, which will be released on September 17, will include the previously released singles “Industry Baby” and “Sun Goes Down,” as well as the hit title track.  A wide variety of guests join the rapper on the album, including Megan Thee Stallion, Doja Cat, Miley Cyrus and Elton John.  Nas’ collaboration with Elton, “One of Me,” is also ill be included on the British pop-rock legend’s newly announced compilation album The Lockdown Sessions, due out October 22.

After posting the Montero track list, Nas took to Twitter to thank everyone for being so excited about his new music. “brooo the support all of my album content has been getting is next level,” he wrote. “i am so thankful! i really want to make you guys happy and invite you to my world.”

Here’s the full track list:

“Montero (Call Me by Your Name)”
“Dead Right Now”
“Industry Baby” (ft. Jack Harlow)
“That’s What I Want”
“The Art of Realization”
“Scoop” (ft. Doja Cat)
“One of Me” (ft. Elton John)
“Lost in the Citadel”
“Dolla Sign Slime” (ft. Megan Thee Stallion)
“Tales of Dominica”
“Sun Goes Down”
“Void”
“Don’t Want It”
“Life After Salem”
“Am I Dreaming” (ft. Miley Cyrus)

 

 

 

 

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Summer Walker is demanding that her ex-boyfriend, London on da Track, stop threatening her and her family.

London produced her 2019 platinum album, Over It, and they have a six-month-old daughter together. She said in an Instagram video, “I went on a date and the next day I get all these threats. Leave me alone.”

”So if anything happens to me it was him. Ghetto baby daddy from hell,” Summer added in an Instagram story, according to The Shade Room. “I be minding my business & NEVER call him unless it’s about the well being of my child,” the “Girls Need Lover” singer continued. “Raising your child since 2 months cause you ain’t s**t & wouldn’t help me. You need to stop threatening people & tell him thank you, f***inG weirdo.”

Summer adds she wants to return the Mercedes-Benz SUV London gave her a few months ago.

“Come get this car, I don’t want nothing from you n this s**t ain’t even paid for. I like my cars paid OFF.”

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After a tease earlier this week, Eddie Vedder‘s collaboration with Elton John has been confirmed.

The Pearl Jam frontman is set to appear on the “Rocket Man” icon’s upcoming album The Lockdown Sessions, due out October 22. As the title suggests, the compilation collects various songs John had recorded with different artists while quarantining amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The last thing I expected to do during lockdown was make an album,” Elton explains. “But, as the pandemic went on, one-off projects kept cropping up.”

“Some of the recording sessions had to be done remotely, via Zoom, which I’d obviously never done before,” he adds. “Some of the sessions were recorded under very stringent safety regulations: working with another artist, but separated by glass screens.”

Vedder’s contribution is a song called “E-Ticket.” The Lockdown Sessions also includes John’s previously released song “The Pink Phantom” with Gorillaz, as well as the all-star version of Metallica‘s “Nothing Else Matters” he recorded with Miley Cyrus, Metallica‘s Robert Trujillo, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, guitarist/producer Andrew Watt, and famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma.

Other The Lockdown Sessions contributors include Stevie Nicks, Stevie Wonder, Nicki Minaj, Brandi Carlile, Dua Lipa and Lil Nas X.

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