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6 days ago
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Popular 2000s hip-hop duo to release first new album in 15 years
Pusha T and No Malice have made it official that there will be a new Clipse album — the first in 15 years. The famous hip-hop duo revealed in an Instagram post Thursday that their fourth studio album will be called 'Let God Sort Em Out.' The long-awaited project will serve as a follow-up to Clipse's 2009 effort, 'Til the Casket Drops.' 'Let God Sort Em Out,' which is being produced by longtime collaborator Pharrell Williams, will be released July 11, Pitchfork reported. The album is available for pre-order on Clipse's website while its first single, 'Ace Trumpets,' drops Friday. Formed by brothers Gene 'Malice' and Terrence 'Pusha T' Thornton, Clipse is credited with establishing Virginia as one of the East Coast's strongholds in hip-hop. The brothers were discovered by Williams, a fellow Virginia Beach native, in the 1990s. Williams helped the duo get signed to Elektra Records, where Clipse recorded their 1999 album 'Exclusive Audio Footage.' However, the album was shelved and the duo was dropped. Williams then helped Clipse get signed to Arista Records, where they released their 2002 full-length project, 'Lord Willin'.' The album produced the hit singles 'Grindin',' 'When the Last Time' and 'Ma, I Don't Love Her.' It also reached the top 10 of the R&B/Hip-Hop and Billboard 200 charts and was later certified gold by the RIAA. Clipse released two more successful albums – 2006's 'Hell Hath No Fury' and 2009's 'Til the Casket Drops' — before going on hiatus in 2010. Both Pusha T and No Malice pursued solo careers and put out several projects in the interim. The brothers reunited as Clipse when they appeared on Kanye West's song 'Use This Gospel,' featured on his 2019 album, 'Jesus Is King.' Since then, Clipse has performed regularly at Primavera Sound Barcelona, Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival and elsewhere. Shakira, Jason Aldean's Fenway shows canceled due to 'unforeseen circumstances' '80s music icon says she went to Hawaii 'to die' while battling colon cancer No jail time for rock guitarist previously charged with vehicular manslaughter 'Let's not twist the message': Country music star clears up viral AMAs moment Legendary rock guitarist, Grammy-winning producer dies at 77 Read the original article on MassLive.
Yahoo
07-02-2025
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Halsey slams music executive who criticised Chappell Roan's Grammy Awards speech
Halsey has defended Chappell Roan after a music executive criticised her speech at the 2025 Grammy Awards in an opinion piece. On Wednesday, a guest column by Jeff Rabhan titled "Chappell Groan: The Misguided Rhetoric of an Instant Industry Insider" was published in The Hollywood Reporter. In the article, Rabhan claimed Roan's call for record label bosses to offer "liveable" wages and healthcare for performers during her acceptance speech for Best New Artist at the prizegiving on Sunday to be "noble but also wildly misinformed". The music executive, who previously worked at Atlantic and Elektra Records, also argued Roan is "far too green and too uninformed to be the agent of change she aspires to be". However, Halsey took to her Instagram Stories on Thursday to post a lengthy message in which she defended Chappell's speech. "Jeff Rabhan's ranting, seething tantrum is loaded with assumptions and accusations that generalize the experience of every artist to that of the most successful," the 30-year-old, who uses both she/her and they/them pronouns, began. "Our industry is comprised of thousands of voices, the elite at the very top of the class are not the example of a monolithic experience for all artists." Halsey went on to claim that music label bosses should be supporting artists anyway they can. "It's a game of investment but the investment is toward producing the materials, the person *the ORGANIC MATERIAL* that is producing that product needs access to thinks like health care. Shocking I know," they continued. "If you want to profit off someone else's art; that artist should have the basic living means to feel safe enough to create that art." Elsewhere in the rant, Halsey rejected Rabhan's notion that the Pink Pony Club singer is a "instant industry insider" but someone who has been working for over a decade to get to her position. "To compare the payoff of her actions to those of an industry titan with the power and financial leverage like Taylor Swift, when Chappell hasn't even spun the block enough times to see the residuals of her long earned but sudden success, is irresponsible for someone with your experience in the industry. Shame on you. Boot licking behavior," the Without Me hitmaker added. Neither Chappell nor Rabhan has publicly responded to Halsey's message as yet.
