According to a video posted on his Instagram account, Drake will be releasing his next studio album, “Certified Lover Boy” in January.
The announcement comes on Drake’s 34th birthday. Toronto’s very own superstar recreates some of his most famous and iconic album covers in the video, including Nothing Was The Same, Take Care, Dark Lane Demo Tapes, and also some of his mixtapes, Comeback Season and So Far Gone.
While it was originally announced that CLB would be arriving in the Summer of 2020, fans were only treated to the hit single from the album, Laugh Now Cry Later, assisted by Lil Durk and a music video giving fans a tour of Nike Headquarters and cameos from star athletes such as Kevin Durant and OBJ.
The hit certainly gave the fans a taste of what to expect on the new album, and we for sure can’t wait for January to come.
A previously unreleased 1997 freestyle by Notorious B.I.G. appeared in a new animated Pepsi ad. The freestyle came courtesy of Cey Adams and DJ Enuff, two of B.I.G.’s closest collaborators. They remastered the tapes from 1997 which had been recorded at D&D studios. The Pepsi ad which features the freestyle, was animated by Antnamation and shows B.I.G.’s beloved borough of Brooklyn.
Biggie raps about Pepsi in the ad saying, “Nothing can beat the P-E-P-S-I drink it constantly/ Something ’bout the taste feels great, less filling/ Tell ’em Biggie said drink it all, don’t test me/ Nothing else beats a Pepsi/ If it is, let’s see/ I’m thirsty/ I keep a 3 liter for my crew/ My girl like them diet joints too/ For when she watch her weight, crack the top I can’t wait.”
Check out Notorious B.I.G. freestyle in the “Pepsi Freestyle” ad below.
The ad and unreleased freestyles comes in lead up to the iconic Brooklyn rapper’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on November 7. B.I.G. will be only the second solo hip-hop artist to be included in the Hall of Fame, the other being Tupac Shakur. Depeche Mode, T. Rex, the Doobie Brothers, Nine Inch Nails, and Whitney Houston will also be inducted in November.
To learn more about the 2020 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, visit their website here.
Music lovers could be in for a ride in the new season of Verzuz, the smash-hit musical competition, produced by Timbaland and Swizz Beatz.
Just recently, legendary rapper Busta Rhymes challenged another legend of the game, T.I., to square off in a rap battle. T.I. however, declined to participate, stating the generational gap between the two artists as a reason.
TI said, however, that he could consider doing a battle with 50 Cent or Jeezy, but still didn’t give a battle against Busta any possibility.
Jeezy, fellow ATL native,responded with a challenge for Tip, sending out a video for him in which he says; “Put a date on it… I aint gonna meet you there, Imma beat you there.”
Shortly after Jeezy’s challenge, T.I. made some remarks questioning if it was for him, and, ultimately, decided to accept the challenge, which we can’t see soon enough.
Lil Bibby, mentor and close friend of the later rapper Juice WRLD stated that he’s got a new Juice WRLD posthumous album in the works.
Speaking outside of the BOA Restaurant in West Hollywood, Lil Bibby said “Kid Laroi … Juice WRLD next album” when asked about what he’s working on currently, in a video shared by The Hollywood Fix. (See below)
Juice WRLD’s first posthumous album, Legends Never Die, was released over the summer. Lil Bibby, CEO of Grade A Productions, who produced the “Legends Never Die” along with Interscope Records, said at the time:
“I tried to put it together to kinda tell a story and like I said, the last talks that I had with Juice, I kinda like remember where his mind was at and I wanted to explain exactly what he was going through at the time with the music,” Bibby said at the time. “Somebody that was fighting addiction, anxiety, detachment. It’s a lot of stuff that he was going through and I just wanted to make sure that the music told the story.” (Via XXL)
Lil Bibby ended the conversation with “Juice WRLD next album crazy”. There is no release date as of now for the album.
Miley Cyrus recently revealed that she is currently working on a Metallica cover album.
In a recent interview with Rick Owens for Interview magazine, Cyrus said “I’m calling you from someone else’s bed… There is a story behind it. We’ve been working on a Metallica cover album, and I’m here working on that. We’re so lucky to be able to continue to work on our art during all of this. At first, it felt uninspiring, and now I’ve been totally ignited.”
Other than this though, not much more information was given about the upcoming album by Cyrus. The 27-year-old pop queen had covered the iconic rock band’s 1991 hit “Nothing Else Matters” at last year’s Glastonbury Festival.
Miley Cyrus is known for singing covers of pop and classic rock songs when given the opportunity, especially as of lately. On The Tonight Show, she performed Hall and Oates’ “Maneater” and before that at the virtual iHeartRadio Music Festival, Cyrus covered Blondie’s “Heart Of Glass.”
Just this past weekend, Miley covered bands like Pearl Jam, The Velvet Underground, and The Cardigans at numerous virtual events. At the Save Our Stages Fest (#SOSFest), Cyrus performed live from Whiskey a Go Go, and covered The Cure’s “Boys Don’t Cry.”
If you wanna catch her full interview with Rick Owens its available in Interview Magazine.
Ty Dolla $ign is releasing his new album, “Featuring Ty Dolla $ign” this Friday, and we couldn’t be more hyped!
Coming with his fourth studio album, following “Free TC”, “Beach House 3” and “MihTy”, Ty is prepared to break ground with this new one. The name of the new album, “Featuring Ty Dolla $ign”, releasing Friday, October 23rd, is a nod to the social media banter going on about how Ty is always the featured artist on hit songs he’s been in.
Adding to the excitement, Ty recently posted the track-list for the new album, showing features from big-name artists such as Kanye West, Anderson .PAAK, Future, Jhene Aiko, Roddy Rich …. and MORE!
Kendrick Lamar finally broke his silence in an interview for i-D. The Compton MC talks about why he will never do a “Good Kid M.A.A.D. City 2” and more with Baby Keem.
The interview came with some interesting revelations that could give us a look into what’s in store from Kendrick. He spoke on needing inspiration for his albums and searching for a new sound.
“I spend the whole year just thinking about how I’m gonna execute a new sound, I can’t do the same thing over and over,” he explains to Keem. “I need something to get me excited.” He spoke on the pressure felt to execute his sophomore album, good kid, m.A.A.d City, while explaining why he’ll never make a sequel.
“I remember the sophomore jinx of good kid, m.A.A.d City; it was for that year and for that time,”he says. “I was in a different space in my life. I already knew off the top I can’t make good kid, m.A.A.d City Part Two. The second I’m making that, it’s corny bro. That takes the feeling away from the first. I need that muthafucka to live in its own world. Then boom, To Pimp A Butterfly. Some people love it to death, some people hate it.”
Kendrick finally broke his silence in the wake of the pgLang announcement. Early 2020 Kendrick announced a new creative company called pgLang in conjunction with from President of TDE Dave Free. The company announced one of its artists Baby Keem.
Baby Keem released a single “Hooligan” last month in what seems to be the first release under pgLang.
While Kendrick didn’t share specifics on a new album he spoke on the inspiration needed and his search for a new sound. All we can do is hope he finds that sound sooner than later and returns with a follow up to his 2017 album DAMN.
Be sure to keep listening to Dash Radio as you know we’ll have all the updates on pgLang and Kendricks new music.
German music producer and DJ, Marco Niemerski, better known as Tensnake, is releasing his long-awaited album “L.A.”, this Friday, October 16.
A dance music pioneer, Tensnake first made waves with his single “Coma Cat”, in the early 2010s. Since then, he has managed to cement his status as a leading dance music producer over the years.
Tensnake has already delivered 5 singles for “L.A.”, starting with “Rules”, “Automatic”, “Somebody Else” “Make You Mine” and “Strange Without You”. Speaking of “Automatic”, released early 2020, the German said:
“I have been impatiently waiting for this day to finally officially announce that a new Tensnake album is on the way. ‘Automatic’ is the first single and I couldn’t be happier to have it out now. The origins of this song go way back. It is a cover of one of my all-time favorite ‘80s songs, and Fiora and I recorded the vocals while we were working together on my debut album ‘Glow’ in 2013. I’ve always loved it, even though it did not make it onto my first album. So seven years later, I gave it a new treatment, reproduced the music, and now it’s finally coming out. I hope you like it as much as I do.”
In July, Tensnake collaborated with Miami based Nigerian artist Daramola for the vocals of “Strange Without You”, another single for “L.A.”. Speaking of the record, it is understandable that this production could be the most personal for Tensnake yet:
“I wrote it after a breakup and the idea was to combine into one song the excitement of beginning a new relationship and the strange emotional state you often find yourself in after a breakup. Daramola captured the vibe perfectly and translated it into a bittersweet love song you can also dance to.”
As far as sneak peeks into albums goes, this one has been pretty sufficient to put dance music lovers on the edge of their seats until Friday.
On Tuesday, October 13, Stevie Wonder announced the release of two new songs. The songs are titled “Where Is Our Love Song,” and “Can’t Put It in the Hands of Fate.”
This comes as the 70-year-old legend’s, his first new music in 15 years. The tracks will be released on his own record label, So What the Fuss Records, under Republic Records, which means a break from Motown, where he had been releasing music since 1962.
Wonder said he began writing “Where Is Our Love Song” in 1968 when he was 18 and recently brought it back out and completed it with new lyrics. Gary Clark Jr. on guitar is featured on the track. Proceeds from “Where Is Our Love Song” sales will benefit Feeding America. Wonder says that they have requested $1 billion in donations to help families in need around the country.
The second song has also been years in the making. “Can’t Put It in the Hands of Fate” was recently completed with the addition of new lyrics. Busta Rhymes and Rapsody are featured on the track along with five of Wonder’s children.
“When I first wrote it, it was about a relationship. And then I was thinking about where we are in the world and I was thinking … this craziness is unacceptable. We’re not going for it anymore. Change is right now. We can’t put it in hands of fate….. We can’t put voting in the hands of fate.”
The two songs may be included on an in-progress EP, or if that does not proceed, they may be on Through the Eyes of Wonder, Wonder’s long-awaited album.
Ludacris will be executive producing a new Netflix series named Karma’s World, he announced on Twitter.
The show, taking its name from Luda’s daughter Karma, is set to be a coming-of-age story about 10 years old Karma and her aspirations on becoming a musician as a young Black girl in today’s world.
The show, so far, has secured 40, 11-minute episodes, which will be targeted for kids ages 6 to 9. The show will feature original produced songs, that tackle social issues such as discrimination, body positivity, and celebrating differences.
Recently, the rapper/actor made the statement; “I’ve had a lot of accomplishments in my life, but everything that I’ve experienced seems to have led up to this point to where I can leave a legacy for all my daughters, … Karma’s World’ is one of those legacies.”
He later on added that he hopes this series will show kids ways to overcome obstacles and help move Hip Hop culture forward, giving confidence into young girls everywhere that they possess the power to change the world.
A release date as of now hasn’t been announced on the project.
