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Boosie Badazz is in trouble once again as he’s been kicked off the Legendz of the Streetz tour headlined by Rick Ross, Jeezy, Gucci Mane and 2 Chainz.

During the second show on the tour, Friday night in Atlanta, a fight broke out on stage while Boosie was performing his second song, according to HotNewHipHop.com. The “Wipe Me Down” rapper’s set abruptly ended and he was rushed off stage.

He did not perform on the next show on the tour, Saturday night in Greensboro, NC. Boosie tweeted, “THIS IS THE MOVE THEY PULLING OFF ON THE TOUR SO U CANT GET REFUNDS.”

Last week, Badazz was suspended from Instagram and he claims it was because he asked Drake to promote his new biopic titled, My Struggle.

After being kicked off the tour, Boosie promoted his appearance on Twitter at a party Sunday night at the Euphoria nightclub in Baltimore. A man is in critical condition after a large fight and shooting at the event, according to the Baltimore Sun.

Baltimore police said officers on foot patrol around 1:38 a.m. Monday heard gunshots and found a car with numerous bullet holes and a shattered window. The shooting victim, a 27-year-old man, was shot in the upper body and head.

Anyone with information is asked to call police at 410-396-2422 or Metro Crime Stoppers at 866-7-LOCKUP.

The next stop on the Legendz of the Streetz tour, which also features special guests Fabolous, Lil Kim, and Trina, will be Friday night in New Orleans, The tour is scheduled to wrap up October 22 in Memphis.

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Following the release of his new single “Damn It Feels Good to Be Me,” Andy Grammer has announced a new tour.

The Art of Joy tour starts February 4, 2022 in Monticello, NY and is scheduled to wrap up March 3 in Napa, CA. Tickets go on sale to the general public Friday, October 8 at 12pm local time via AndyGrammer.com.

Andy’s new album, his fifth, is due out in early 2022. It’ll include “Damn It Feels Good to Be Me,” and “Lease on Life,” the latter of which was inspired by the birth of his daughter, Izzy, who arrived two weeks into lockdown last year.

 

 

 

 

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Luke Bryan speaks to the heartland of America with his new single, “Up.” 

With lyrics crafted around the word “up,” the song opens with Luke singing about rural farmers waking up at sunrise to tend to the land, followed by a verse about a young man riding around a small town in a hand-me-down truck and another verse about running up the scoreboard during a Friday night football game. 

“Up in the sky/ There’s a guy/ Looking down on us/ Looking up our whole life/ Raised up right/ In a town nobody knows/ What a way to grow up,” Luke sings with conviction over an anthemic melody. 

“‘Up’ is a song that just checks all the boxes for a country song to me. It talks about what I love and what’s dear to me. About my home and my faith,” the Georgia native explains in a statement. “Add to that the fact that the songwriters used just a simple word as ‘up,’ to create so many images is pretty special.”

“Up” is the sixth single off Luke’s most recent album, 2020’s Born Here Live Here Die Here. Each of its predecessors have reached #1 on the country charts: “Knockin’ Boots,” “What She Wants Tonight,” “One Margarita,” “Down to One” and “Waves.”

The new single will officially be released to country radio on October 11.

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To mark its 25th anniversary, the influential music website Pitchfork has put together a list of 200 artists that it deems the “most important” of its 25 years of existence, and Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande and Rihanna are among those who made the list.

The roster is split into 50 “Icons” and 150 more “Essentials” who “helped shape the last 25 years of music.”  Taylor and Rihanna are on the Icons list, as are Beyoncé, JAY-Z, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, Nicki Minaj, Outkast and Aaliyah.

Pitchfork says Taylor’s work is “is singularly perceptive while remaining keenly attuned to musical and cultural shifts — especially her own.”  As for Rihanna, Pitchfork says of her influence, “You can hear molecules of her vocal style swarming around everywhere.”

On the “Essentials” side of things, Pitchfork praises Ariana’s re-emergence following tragedy with Sweetener, noting that her music “pushed her artistry further as it asserted a magical trifecta of hope, joy, and a powerhouse voice.”

Other “Essentials” on Pitchfork‘s list include Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, Carly Rae Jepsen, Amy Winehouse, Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion, Pharrell, and The Weeknd.

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Drake‘s three-week reign at the top of the Billboard 200 album chart has ended as YoungBoy Never Broke Again is the new king with his latest release, Sincerely, Kentrell.

The 21-year-old rapper, whose legal name is Kentrell Gaulden, earned 137,000 units to debut at number one with the biggest sales week of his career. Drake’s Certified Lover Boy fell to second with 135,000 units.

YoungBoy is the first hip hop artist to have a number-one album in each of the last three years: 2021, 2020 and 2019. His previous studio album, 2020’s Top, and his respective 2020 and 2019 mixtapes, 38 Baby 2 and Al YoungBoy 2, each reached the top of the Billboard 200.

Gaulden has kicked off the Sincerely, Kentrell freestyle competition by inviting fans to rap over album instrumental tracks on a special YouTube channel. The grand prize winner will receive a free recording session with his studio engineer, Jason “Cheese” Goldberg.

As Sincerely, Kentrell sits at number one, Gaulden has been awaiting trial at the St. Martin Parish Correctional Center in Louisiana since April, after being charged with selling drugs and possession of stolen firearms. He recorded the album over the phone while incarcerated.

Over 75,000 people have signed a Change.org petition asking President Joe Biden to release Youngboy.

 

 

 

 

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Maybe don’t hold your breath for new Rage Against the Machine music.

Speaking with NME, guitarist Tom Morello remains noncommittal about the prospect of the rap-metal titans’ reunion tour possibly leading to fresh material.

“There are no plans beyond starting rehearsals in January,” Morello says.

Rage’s tour, which will mark the first time the “Killing in the Name” outfit has shared the live stage together since 2011, was originally scheduled to kick off in 2020 before being postponed to a March 2022 launch because of the COVID-19 pandemic. While they’ve had to wait a bit, Morello says the fire is still there.

“From day one, Rage has had that sound and that fury,” he says. “It felt like that on day one and it felt like that in rehearsals two years ago.”

Morello, meanwhile, is gearing up to release a new solo album, The Atlas Underground Fire, on October 15. The record, Morello’s second under his own name, features guest spots from Pearl Jam‘s Eddie Vedder, Bruce Springsteen, Bring Me the Horizon, Phantogram and grandson.

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Drummers including Chad Smith of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam‘s Matt Cameron, and viral sensation Nandi Bushell have joined Ringo Starr for a stacked charity cover of The Beatles‘ “Come Together.”

Dubbed “Drum Together,” the performance supports the organization WhyHunger and its mission to end global hunger.

“We all can agree that no kid should be hungry, and everyone should have access to nutritious food,” Starr says in a statement. “This is a great cause that I’ve supported in the past and a great track — one of my favorite Beatles songs.”

The more than 100 participants also include Korn‘s Ray Luzier, current and former Dream Theater  drummers Mike Mangini and Mike Portnoy, and frequent Jack White touring drummer Daru Jones.

Ninety cents from every dollar raised by the Drum Together campaign will go toward WhyHunger programs that focus on community-led initiatives, the goal of which is to provide nutritious food to those who need it across the U.S. and the globe.

You can check out an official video for the song that features composite footage of all of the participants performing individually on the WhyHunger YouTube channel.

A list of all the participating musicians has been posted on WhyHunger.org.

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As Old Dominion prepares to release their new album, Time, Tequila & Therapy, they’re reflecting on the creative process that went into it. 

In a video filmed at the studio, lead singer Matthew Ramsey touches on how, by removing outside forces and collectively focusing on the artistic vision, he knew it would lead them to the project they were meant to make.  

“I just knew that if we came here and we were together with nothing else to do but be creative, then something great would happen, whether that be one great song or 20 great songs,” Matt shares in the video that includes  clips of the band working in the studio. 

Time, Tequila & Therapy drops on Friday. The band will performing on Jimmy Kimmel Live! tonight on ABC. Their current single, “I Was on a Boat That Day,” is currently in the top 10 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart.

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Tell the truth: Do you pee in front of your spouse? What about…you know, the other thing?  Well, Meghan Trainor does, and she’s happy to let everyone know about it.

Appearing on Nicole Byer‘s the podcast Why Won’t You Date Me?, Meghan explained that when she and her husband, actor Daryl Sabara, were building their new house, she asked the contractor to add another toilet to the master bathroom, so there’d be two of them, side by side.

“A lot of time in the middle of the night when we’re with the baby, we’ve got to pee at the same time. So I was like, ‘Can we please have two toilets next to each other?’” Meghan said.  The contractor thought she was joking at first, but then fulfilled her strange request.

“We got two toilets sitting next to each other, and we’ve only pooped together twice,” she said, adding, “We pee at the same time a lot.”

Meghan then goes into more detail than frankly anyone would ever need about her and her husband’s toilet habits — and we mean waaaay more detail. You’ve heard of TMI? This is T, T, TMI.

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Ringo Starr and dozens of other well-known drummers have teamed up for a new version of the 1969 Beatles classic “Come Together” to raise money to support the WhyHunger charity’s mission to end global hunger.

Dubbed “Drum Together,” the recording also features the E Street Band‘s Max Weinberg, The Police‘s Stewart Copeland, Red Hot Chili Peppers‘ Chad Smith, Yes‘ Alan White, The Bangles‘ Debbi Peterson, Bad Company‘s Simon Kirke, ex-Chicago drummer Danny Seraphine, Vanilla Fudge‘s Carmine Appice, Rolling Stones touring drummer Steve Jordan, Santana‘s Cindy Blackman Santana, Styx‘s Todd Sucherman and famed session musician Jim Keltner. More than 100 drummers in total lent their talents to the song.

“We all can agree that no kid should be hungry, and everyone should have access to nutritious food,” says Ringo in a statement. “This is a great cause that I’ve supported in the past and a great track — one of my favorite Beatles songs. So when Jim Keltner asked me to join all these other drummers I was happy to. Peace and love.”

A variety of non-drummers also contributed to the track, including singer Jen Chapin — daughter of late WhyHunger co-founder Harry Chapin — and such acclaimed session musicians as bassists Lee Sklar, Will Lee and Nathan East.

Ninety cents from every dollar raised by the Drum Together campaign will go toward WhyHunger programs that focus on community-led initiatives, the goal of which is to provide nutritious food to those who need it across the U.S. and the globe.

You can check out an official video for the song that features composite footage of all of the participants performing individually on the WhyHunger YouTube channel.

A list of all the participating musicians has been posted on WhyHunger.org.

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