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11-05-2025
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Statik Selektah Claps Back at DDG's Claim of Being First to Livestream the Making of an Album
Veteran hip-hop producer Statik Selektah is upset about DDG claiming he was the first person to livestream the making of an album in regards to his recent project Blame the Chat, which he put together live on Twitch. The New England beatmaker took to Instagram to post a clip of DDG making the claim to TMZ and attached a caption laying out his own receipts. More from Billboard DDG Offers IShowSpeed $2 Million for a 'Quick Little Cameo' in His Music Video PinkPantheress Drops 'Fancy That': Stream It Now 'It's a Happy Time': Counting Crows Return With 'The Complete Sweets!' 'This is some bullsh–,' Statik wrote. 'We got receipts. 2010 me and Termanology made an EP live on livestream. Action Bronson first feature to hit the blogs. 2010 me and Freeway did the same. Young Mac Miller in the building. 2011 me and Freddie Gibbs did the same. Rip Fred the Godson was there amongst many others. 2019 me & Bun B do the first Trillstatik with Fat Joe, Method Man, Westside Gunn, Millyz, Nems, Benny [the Butcher], Boldy James etc. etc. We've done three more since. Stop it with the [cap].' He added: 'The fans know. The industry does too. DDG, no ideas original.' A few days ago, TMZ caught up with streamer and rapper DDG and talked about his new album. 'We changing the music industry forever,' he said. 'First to ever make an album live on Twitch. Revolutionary. The music industry getting boring, I had to spice it up. I don't really like how mysterious the music industry is, for real. I feel like it's better when artists connect closer with the fans so they can feel like they're more of a part of the process rather than just being surprised.' Last week, DDG was on his stream when he offered fellow streamer IShowSpeed $2 million to make a cameo in one of the music videos he had planned for the project. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
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11-05-2025
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Miley Cyrus Has Nothing ‘More to Lose' on ‘Emotional' New Single: Stream It Now
Miley Cyrus just unlocked a vulnerable new layer of her upcoming visual album Something Beautiful, dropping fourth single 'More to Lose' Friday (May 9) just a few weeks ahead of the LP. Singing over cinematic piano, guitars and strings, the pop star steps fully into the power of her voice on the new track. 'I knew someday that one would have to choose,' she belts introspectively. 'I just thought we had more to lose.' More from Billboard Miley Cyrus Reveals the Best Piece of Advice Dolly Parton Gave Her PinkPantheress Drops 'Fancy That': Stream It Now 'It's a Happy Time': Counting Crows Return With 'The Complete Sweets!' The ballad arrives after about a week of Cyrus teasing it on social media, eventually sharing a black-and-white preview of 'More to Lose' on her YouTube channel two days ahead of its release. In one clip posted to Instagram, the Grammy winner shared snippets of the song while describing how it came together in the studio. 'I tried to keep it a singular take,' she explained to followers, addressing the camera in an elegant black dress. 'It's really a song that's more of a story, and I never want that to be interrupted or overthought or chasing perfection. I never wanted 'More to Lose' to be perfect, I wanted it to sound beautiful and emotional.' Following 'Prelude,' 'End of the World' and Something Beautiful's title track, 'More to Lose' marks the fourth song fans have gotten to hear from the album ahead of its May 30 release. At a recent Spotify listening event in New York City, Cyrus revealed that she thinks the 13-track project is 'not only my best album, but also my gayest.' Listen to 'More to Lose' below. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
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09-05-2025
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Fat Joe Compares Kendrick to Snoop & 2Pac: ‘Nobody From L.A. Has Dominated the Paint Like This Guy'
Fat Joe and Jadakiss have a new podcast called Joe & Jada where they talk about all things music, sports, and culture. On their recently released premiere episode, the two rap legends — who've seen their fair share of rap beef — talked about the one-year anniversary of the kick-off of the historic rap battle between Kendrick Lamar and Drake. Jada started things off by clarifying that what went down wasn't exactly 'beef,' and that he couldn't believe that it's been a whole year already. 'One year since the Kendrick and Drake discrepancy. What they like to call it 'beef' in the media world,' Jada quipped. 'Thank God nothing really happened to anybody, physically. Personally, I thought it was about four or five months ago. I can't believe it's already been a year.' More from Billboard PinkPantheress Drops 'Fancy That': Stream It Now 'It's a Happy Time': Counting Crows Return With 'The Complete Sweets!' It's No Secret: Gracie Abrams Hits Three Non-Consecutive Weeks at ARIA No. 1 Joey Crack couldn't believe that it's been a year either, and then sparked a light debate between the two when he said he noticed that Lamar gets more airplay than other West Coast legends did in their prime. 'Kiss fired back by saying, 'Everybody from L.A. gets spins on L.A. radio.' Joe then asked him when was the last time Jadakiss was out there, with both of them saying they were recently in L.A. and Joe adding, 'Yo, bro, I never seen nothing like this. Every single song, they like, 'Turn the TV off,' causing Jada to agree that Kenny does indeed get a lot of spin in Southern California. 'It's a fact. Kendrick Lamar gets played nine out of every 10 songs in L.A. right now,' the Bronx rapper proclaimed. 'Not even Snoop Dogg, not even Tupac Shakur — nobody from L.A. has dominated the paint like this guy. That last year? What they're doing in L.A. — if you're from L.A., you probably think there's only one guy on Earth, Kendrick Lamar. I'm just keeping it a buck with you. You turn on that radio in L.A. — if you from L.A., you work at Target, Amazon, you're delivering some s–t, you working at the bakery, panadería, wherever, East L.A., holmes — you thinking it's one man breathing in hip-hop, it's called Kendrick Lamar.' Joe then shifted the conversation to rap beef in today's landscape, asking the Yonkers MC what he thinks about historic hip-hop battles. 'For me, I thought it was always good if you take it all the back to Wild Style and LL and Kool Moe Dee and all the way up to us and 50,' he began. 'It's always good as long as it stays on wax. 'When it first started, somebody say something about you, you gotta go to the studio, you gotta immediately work on getting one back at there, knock the stick off your shoulders like a fight after school at three o'clock. Now, as the technology evolved, it turns into movie skits, animations, retrieving fake information… It got a little wacky for me. I like it to be beats and rhymes and keep it like that. Once it got out of my pay grade, it's a little bit of disinterest to me because it's turning political now.' Fat Joe agreed about things getting political and brought up Drake's controversial UMG lawsuit. 'There's even lawsuits behind rap diss records now. I never saw that,' he said, to which Manteca Jada replied, 'That's over my head, I don't really understand… I just wanna see rhymes and song and hip-hop s–t.' You can watch the full episode below. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
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09-05-2025
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Judas Priest's Rob Halford ‘Absolutely Gutted' To Be Missing Final Black Sabbath Show: ‘I Had No Idea It Was Happening'
When you look at the bonkers hard rock roster for the upcoming final Black Sabbath show in Birmingham, U.K. on July 5 at Villa Park, there is definitely one name that is conspicuously absent: Judas Priest. The masters of British leather-and-motorcycle metal simply are nowhere to be found among the head-banging roster of greats lined lined up for the Back to the Beginning show that includes Guns N' Roses, Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, Alice in Chains, Pantera, Lamb of God and many more. Apparently, there is a very good explanation for their absence, according to singer Rob Halford: they're double-booked. Speaking to Metal Hammer, Halford explained that his band is slated to join the Scorpions in Hanover, Germany on that date for a 60th anniversary celebration of the German rock group. More from Billboard PinkPantheress Drops 'Fancy That': Stream It Now 'It's a Happy Time': Counting Crows Return With 'The Complete Sweets!' It's No Secret: Gracie Abrams Hits Three Non-Consecutive Weeks at ARIA No. 1 'I had no idea it [the Sabbath show] was happening. It all got announced and was a big deal,' he said of the Scorpions and Priest concert taking place more than 630 miles away from fellow Brummie Ozzy's show. 'Suddenly I get this phone call [from Ozzy Osbourne's wife and manager Sharon Osbourne], 'Robbie, I know you've got this gig with Scorpions, but could you consider coming over to do a thing with Ozzy and the guys. He'd love to see you.'' But Halford said as much as he'd like to be on hand for the last run with Ozzy and the gang, trying to pull double-duty would be too difficult. He said Sharon Osbourne even offered to fly him back to Birmingham on the day of the show to make an appearance a la Phil Collins' legendary Concord flight from London to Philadelphia to play two sets at Live Aid in July 1985. And though Collins' whirlwind flights, technically, got him to the U.S. before he left due to the timezones he crossed, Halford said as much as he'd like to double-down he thinks it might be 'dangerous… Even with a private plane, there's a word called 'technical', where something could go wrong, or the weather that time of year could cause problems… I was absolutely gutted [to miss the show],' he said. The Sabbath swan song, which will also be Ozzy's final solo show, has the 76-year-old metal legend pushing himself to deliver a curtain call worthy of his nearly 60-year career. 'I do weights, bike riding, I've got a guy living at my house who's working with me. It's tough – I've been laid up for such a long time,' Osbourne said of his workout regimen to get pumped for his first full set since New Year's Eve in 2018 in the wake of a series of health issues and surgeries that have laid him low for several years and kept him off stages. 'I've been lying on my back doing nothing and the first thing to go is your strength. It's like starting all over again,' he said. 'I've got a vocal coach coming round four days a week to keep my voice going. I have problems walking. I also get blood pressure issues, from blood clots on my legs. I'm used to doing two hours on stage, jumping and running around. I don't think I'll be doing much jumping or running around this time. I may be sitting down.' Though Halford will not be on hand, former longtime Priest guitarist K.K. Downing will perform at the show alongside members of Limp Bizkit, Smashing Pumpkins, Living Colour, Megadeth, Halestorm, Faith No More, Sleep Token, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Megadeth, Ghost, Soundgarden and Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler. 'All my mates are going to be there though, great bands and artists,' Halford told Metal Hammer, saying that Downing's appearance will represent the 'spirt' of Priest. 'It's a wonderful and epic moment for Sabbath and heavy metal — it re-emphasizes that Birmingham is where metal came from.' Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
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09-05-2025
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Oasis' Catalog Is Gonna Live Forever: 12 of Their Albums Out Now in Spatial Audio on Apple Music
Ahead of the band's first tour in more than 15 years, Oasis' full catalog is now available in Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos on Apple Music. Grammy-winning engineer Ryan Hewitt was commissioned by the band's Big Brother Recordings Ltd. label to re-create the mixes from scratch, spending 18 months on the ambitious project. More from Billboard The Dream Setlist for Oasis' Reunion Tour PinkPantheress Drops 'Fancy That': Stream It Now 'It's a Happy Time': Counting Crows Return With 'The Complete Sweets!' 'Honoring the original mixes, and the original intention of the sound of these records, which are so loud and explosive, and transferring that to Dolby Atmos was one of the greatest challenges of my career,' Hewitt says. 'These records sounded big in the first place, and now they sound even bigger on Apple Music in Spatial Audio while honoring the original spirit of the recordings.' Hewitt joined Apple Music's The Matt Wilkinson Show to discuss the project, and their conversation is now available to listen to on demand. It was a happy accident that this release arrived just ahead of Oasis reuniting on the road this summer, because the project started long before there was any inkling that could happen. But now the once-warring Gallagher brothers — Liam and Noel — have 41 dates scheduled this year for the Oasis Live '25 Tour, starting in Cardiff, Wales, on July 4 and hitting their Manchester, England, hometown, followed by London, Edinburgh and Dublin. Then it's off to North America, starting Aug. 24 in Toronto and continuing with international dates through Nov. 23. Below, find a full list of albums that Hewitt re-created in Spatial Audio. Definitely Maybe – 1994(What's The Story) Morning Glory? – 1995Be Here Now – 1997The Masterplan – 1998Standing on the Shoulder of Giants – 2000Familiar to Millions (Live) – 2000Heathen Chemistry – 2002Don't Believe the Truth – 2005Stop the Clocks – 2006Dig Out Your Soul – 2008Time Flies … (1994-2009) – 2010Oasis Knebworth 1996 (Live) – 2021 Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
