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Express Tribune
05-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
DJ Akademiks hits back at Charlamagne Tha God over Drake, iHeartMedia, and UMG Lawsuit
DJ Akademiks has hit back at Charlamagne Tha God after The Breakfast Club host mocked his coverage of Drake's legal dispute with iHeartMedia and Universal Music Group (UMG). The exchange follows reports that Drake and iHeart reached an "amicable resolution" regarding allegations of payola in favor of Kendrick Lamar's diss track, "Not Like Us." Charlamagne addressed the situation on The Breakfast Club, poking fun at Akademiks' dedication to covering the case. In response, Akademiks watched the clip on his livestream, calling out Charlamagne and The Breakfast Club for being owned by iHeartMedia and dismissing the idea that Drake's petition lacked merit. "It's absolutely untrue that Drake dropped the petition because there was nothing there," Akademiks stated. "The reality is Drake was asking iHeart for information, documents, and possible payments that could prove they were getting paid by Universal." He also pointed out that the FCC's probe into iHeartMedia for alleged payola practices played a role in the decision. Dj Akademiks responds to charlamagne tha god after he said Ak should report the news that drake dismissed the iheartmedia lawsuit because they did nothing wrong .Ak says they dropped it because the company is being probed by the FCC that's what they didn't mention 👀👀👀 — joebuddenclips/fanpage (@Chatnigga101) March 4, 2025 Drake's legal battle with Universal Music Group (UMG) remains ongoing. The rapper has accused UMG of boosting Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" to damage his brand amid contract negotiations, a claim the label has denied. Beyond legal issues, Drake has also faced a tough week on the charts. His tracks "Gimme a Hug" and "Nokia" have dropped out of the Billboard Hot 100's top 10, while Kendrick Lamar's "Luther" continues to hold the No. 1 spot. Akademiks blamed a lack of radio airplay and label support for Drake's declining chart positions. As the Drake vs. UMG saga unfolds, Akademiks remains vocal about what he sees as industry manipulation, while Charlamagne continues to push back on his takes.
Express Tribune
01-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
DJ Akademiks says Drake and PARTYNEXTDOOR's $$$4U gets no radio play due to Drake's UMG feud
Hip-hop commentator DJ Akademiks has sparked debate by claiming that Drake and PARTYNEXTDOOR's latest album, 'Some $exy $ongs 4 U', is receiving little to no radio play due to Drake's ongoing issues with Universal Music Group (UMG). In a post on X on February 28, 2025, Akademiks wrote, 'The reason why $$$4U by Drake and Partynextdoor received no radio play so far is because of Drake's issues at UMG.' He explained that the album was released under two labels—Republic Records, a UMG subsidiary, and Santa Anna Group—and that a deal had to be negotiated to resolve promotion conflicts. 'Only 2 songs from the album will be promoted on radio... Labels have deals with radio stations and a deal between the two had to be negotiated before Drake received any airplay. This is how everybody gets to eat off Drake,' Akademiks concluded. The reason why $$$4U by Drake and Partynextdoor received no radio play so far is because of Drakes issues at UMG and how the album was released under 2 labels Republic (which is UMG who Drake is suing) and Santa Anna Group and which labels get to promote the singles. A deal has… — Akademiks TV (@AkademiksTV) February 28, 2025 The tension between Drake and UMG stems from a 2024 lawsuit in which the rapper accused the label of unlawfully promoting Kendrick Lamar's song 'Not Like Us'. Akademiks suggested that this rift has impacted the promotion of 'Some $exy $ongs 4 U', with only two tracks, 'Gimme a Hug' and 'Somebody Loves Me', being pushed by Republic Records and Santa Anna Group, respectively. Despite the limited radio play, Akademiks praised the album, particularly the track 'Nokia', which he predicted would be a Top 5 hit. However, after the song dropped to #13 on the Billboard charts, he accused UMG of manipulation, stating, 'If this song don't go top 5, that's UMG.' As of now, neither Drake nor UMG has publicly addressed Akademiks' claims, leaving fans and industry insiders speculating about the true impact of the legal battle on the album's success.
Yahoo
26-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Viral ‘Hostile Government Takeover' TikTok Gets Turned Into Best-Selling Dance Banger
Welcome to Billboard Pro's newsletter, where we take a closer look at the songs, artists, curiosities and trends that have caught the music industry's attention. Some have come out of nowhere, others have taken months to catch on, and all of them could become ubiquitous in the blink of a TikTok clip. This week: A viral TikTok is remixed into a best-selling protest song, an indie rock institution is introduced to younger fans (again) through a big movie synch and Philadelphia gets to celebrate yet another February win via a breakout rap hit. More from Billboard Drake's 'Nokia' Becomes His Midweek '$exy $ongs' Breakout Hit, 'Gimme a Hug' Leads to Aaron Hall Gains Kendrick Lamar's Catalog Up 154% in Streams Following Super Bowl Performance Huge Grammy Gains for Doechii, Beyoncé, Chappell Roan and Other Winners & Performers A few weeks after Donald Trump returned to the White House and started dismantling norms left and right, the TikTok user AGiftFromTodd recorded a 30-second video of himself getting ready to leave his house while crooning an original song that began with the line, 'We're in the middle of a hostile government takeover/ I wanna talk about it, but I'll be late for work.' Todd's soulful alarmism went viral, with thousands of likes and shares on TikTok upon its Feb. 4 upload, and while he posted a few new versions of the song in the following weeks, the one that's crossed off to streaming services in a major way is an EDM remix that pairs hopelessness with a club thump, courtesy of producer Vinny Marchi. 'Hostile Government Takeover' by AGiftFromTodd & Vinny Marchi spent a good chunk of last weekend at No. 1 on iTunes, selling 4,800 downloads from Feb. 21-24, according to initial data provided by Luminate. Meanwhile, its streams keep climbing — the dance remix earned 597,000 official U.S. on-demand streams over that four-day span, up from 153,000 streams from the previous Friday-to-Monday tracking period. As the song debuts at No. 13 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs this week — plus No. 2 on Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales and No. 12 on Digital Song Sales — and continues to spread, the good news for Todd Givens Jr. is that the next four years will offer plenty of new material to riff on for follow-ups. – JASON LIPSHUTZ If there's one rock act from 20 years ago that doesn't especially need any more bumps from newfound Gen Z virality, it's probably New York's the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. The trio, which reunited in 2022 for its first album together in nearly a decade, spent a stunning eight weeks atop the Billboard TikTok Top 50 chart last year for signature 2003 power ballad 'Maps,' racking up millions of streams a week for the revitalized (and re-viralized) hit. Now, the group is surging again with a catalog hit – though this time, it's not with another decades-old song, but rather a song from that reunion album. 'Spitting Off the Edge of the World,' which was the lead single of 2022's Cool It Down and featured an assist from acclaimed alt-pop singer-songwriter Perfume Genius, has gotten a big look in Apple TV's original movie The Gorge, released on Valentine's Day. The song plays during a pivotal love scene between the film's co-leads – played by film stars Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy – and it shot to near the top of the Shazam charts almost immediately after the film's release, still sticking around there a week later, as folks scrambled to find out what the doomy song playing in the action romance was. A whole lot of those Shazamers undoubtedly ended up streaming 'Spitting' as well – as the song racked up 629,000 official on-demand U.S. streams for the tracking week ending Feb. 20, a 375% gain for the song from the previous week, according to Luminate. And many ended up purchasing the song, too: 'Spitting' sold nearly 3,000 copies in that week, a massive gain from the just-over-100 it moved the week before, and good enough for a No. 15 debut on the Digital Song Sales chart – the group's first-ever appearance on that listing. – ANDREW UNTERBERGER Last fall (Sept. 9, 2024), a nameless TikTok account uploaded a snippet of a then-unreleased Skrilla song titled 'Doot Doot.' The snippet quickly rent viral due to his rambling opening verse, 1ellis' gritty production and his memorable delivery of the phrase 'six, seven.' Since September, the snippet has been used in over 126,000 TikTok posts, eventually giving way to an official DSP release on Feb. 7, 2024. As the 'Doot Doot' snippet continued to make the rounds on TikTok going into 2025, the song earned an unforeseen supporter in Taylor 'TK' Kinney, a basketball star for RWE of the Overtime Elite league. Hailing from Newport, Kentucky, the baller has found a way to say 'six, seven' in Skrilla's cadence in nearly every interview from the past few months. The phrase is now synonymous with both TK and Skrilla on socials, and the two young men got to link up in person at an RWE game two weeks ago. For weeks, TikTok users have been responding positively to TK's 'clip farming' — a practice that basically entails purposely doing something in hopes that it will be clipped and reuploaded across social media – by making edits of his game highlights that are soundtracked by his 'six, seven' quip merged with the 'Doot Doot' snippet. According to Luminate, 'Doot Doot' earned 1.7 million official on-demand U.S. streams during its first week of released (Feb. 7-13). That figure shot up 105% the following week to over 3.5 million streams. The track has already racked up 3.2 million streams over the first four days of this tracking week (Feb. 21-24), according to initial data provided by Luminate, which marks an 88% jump from the same period the prior week. With its official music video garnering over 1.26 million YouTube views in just over a week and no signs of slowing down on TikTok, there's tons of room for Skrilla's latest hit to continue growing. – KYLE DENIS Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Four Decades of 'Madonna': A Look Back at the Queen of Pop's Debut Album on the Charts Chart Rewind: In 1990, Madonna Was in 'Vogue' Atop the Hot 100
Yahoo
23-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
10 Awkward And Outrageous Things That Happened This Week
responded to his ongoing beef with Kendrick Lamar on his new album $ome $exy $ongs 4 U: 'They be droppin' shit, but we be droppin' harder shit,' he rapped on the song "Gimme a Hug," essentially running away from the beef after being more or less obliterated by the reign of Kendrick's "Not Like Us." 'Fuck a rap beef, I'm tryna get the party lit / Tryna get the party lit for the bitches.' after publicly disavowing her, Emilia Peréz director Jacques Audiard thanked the film's embattled star Karla Sofía Gascón in his BAFTAs acceptance speech: 'Above all, I would like to thank all the wonderful artists who brought this film to life and who are here with us tonight,' he said, translated by an interpreter, while accepting the award for Best Film Not in the English Language. 'My dear Zoe, my dear Selena, Giorgini, Paul, Juliet, Camille, Clement, Julia and your team, but also you, my dear Karla Sofía, that I kiss. I'm deeply proud of what we achieved together. Long live Emilia Pérez!' supporters got really mad at Tom Hanks for his appearance in an SNL50 skit where he played a MAGA guy: 4.A seal was very randomly on the loose in New Haven, Connecticut: 5.A lawmaker introduced a bill to make Trump's birthday a federal holiday: It's June 14, in case you want to, uh, mark it on your calendar. (It's also Flag Day, which seems a little more significant of an occasion.) Holland's ID got rejected at Target while he tried to buy his own brand of non-alcoholic beer: Kardashian got called out for her "wasteful" Valentine's Day decorations: Devine said she had a "mixed" experience while working with Jennifer Love Hewitt on the 2010s TV show The Client List: "You know what? She decided to rewrite the entire angle of the show right in the middle," Loretta claimed, before diplomatically adding, "Everything gets you prepared for whatever you're going to do next." Erivo seemingly rejected Ariana Grande's attempt to hold her hand in public — again: finally, Matthew Lawrence claimed that Gabrielle Union reported him to a studio after he refused to rehearse on the set of the 1999 TV movie H-E Double Hockey Sticks: Gerardo Mora / Getty Images "There was this one moment where — and, again, I'm oblivious, I had no idea — and she wanted to rehearse. And I was like, 'No, I'm good,'" Matthew said on the Magical Rewind podcast, later claiming that "she got angry and went and reported me to the director and the studio." Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments!
Buzz Feed
23-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
10 Awkward And Outrageous Things That Happened This Week
1. Drake responded to his ongoing beef with Kendrick Lamar on his new album $ome $exy $ongs 4 U: 'They be droppin' shit, but we be droppin' harder shit,' he rapped on the song "Gimme a Hug," essentially running away from the beef after being more or less obliterated by the reign of Kendrick's "Not Like Us." 'Fuck a rap beef, I'm tryna get the party lit / Tryna get the party lit for the bitches.' 2. Weeks after publicly disavowing her, Emilia Peréz director Jacques Audiard thanked the film's embattled star Karla Sofía Gascon in his BAFTAs acceptance speech: 'Above all, I would like to thank all the wonderful artists who brought this film to life and who are here with us tonight,' he said, translated by an interpreter, while accepting the award for Best Film Not in the English Language. 'My dear Zoe, my dear Selena, Giorgini, Paul, Juliet, Camille, Clement, Julia and your team, but also you, my dear Karla Sofía, that I kiss. I'm deeply proud of what we achieved together. Long live Emilia Pérez!' 3. Trump supporters got really mad at Tom Hanks for his appearance in an SNL 50 skit where he played a MAGA guy: 4. A seal was very randomly on the loose in New Haven, Connecticut: New Haven Police Dept / @WTNH / Via 5. A lawmaker introduced a bill to make Trump's birthday a federal holiday: It's June 14, in case you want to, uh, mark it on your calendar. (It's also Flag Day, which seems a little more significant of an occasion.) 6. Tom Holland's ID got rejected at Target while he tried to buy his own brand of non-alcoholic beer: 7. Kourtney Kardashian got called out for her "wasteful" Valentine's Day decorations: 8. Loretta Devine said she had a "mixed" experience while working with Jennifer Love Hewitt on the 2010s TV show The Client List: Jason Kempin / Getty Images "You know what? She decided to rewrite the entire angle of the show right in the middle," Loretta claimed, before diplomatically adding, "Everything gets you prepared for whatever you're going to do next." 9. Cynthia Erivo seemingly rejected Ariana Grande's attempt to hold her hand in public — again: 10. And finally, Matthew Lawrence claimed that Gabrielle Union reported him to a studio after he refused to rehearse on the set of the 1999 TV movie H-E Double Hockey Sticks: "There was this one moment where — and, again, I'm oblivious, I had no idea — and she wanted to rehearse. And I was like, 'No, I'm good,'" Matthew said on the Magical Rewind podcast, later claiming that "she got angry and went and reported me to the director and the studio."
