Santa Clara rapper Saweetie has shared new remix of her hit single ‘Tap In’. It features appearances from Post Malone, DaBaby, and Jack Harlow. Check it out below.
‘Tap In’ is expected to appear on Saweetie’s upcoming LP Pretty Bitch Music, which will feature production from Timbaland and Danja. When it debuted back in June, the Too Short-sampling track rose to the top the U.S. and Global Thriller charts, where it stayed for two weeks. It also earned Saweetie a Song of the Summer nomination at the 2020 VMAs, which are to set to air this weekend.
Harlow and DaBaby previously linked up for the remix of Harlow’s own smash hit ‘What’s Hopping?’, which also featured Tory Lanez and Lil Wayne.
Kendrick Lamar is facing a copyright infringement lawsuit over the Rihanna-featuring DAMN. track ‘LOYALTY.’, Music Business Worldwide reports. The lawsuit, filed on Friday, August 21 in a California federal court by musician Terrance Hayes, claims that ‘LOYALTY.’ lifts “the entire composition, including title, melody, harmony, and rhythm,” from his own song, also called ‘Loyalty.’
Hayes notes that he recorded the track in 2011 with Josef Leimberg, who went on to work with Kendrick Lamar on his 2015 album To Pimp A Butterfly. He alleges that producer Terrace Martin, with whom Leimberg had previously collaborated, had access to the track via Leimberg’s computer. He then adds that Lamar “slowed it down through a synthesizer and combined it with another sample to disguise the copying”.
Terrace Martin, Josef Leimberg, and Top Dawg Entertainment were all named as co-defendants along with Lamar.
Hayes is seeking all profits from the track, as well as the equivalent of “all losses of Plaintiff” that resulted from the infringement and “any other monetary advantage gained by the Defendants through their infringement, the exact sum to be proven at the time of trial,” plus legal fees. You can read the full complaint and listen to the track below.
Elvis Costello has shared a new song called ‘Phonographic Memory’. Notably, it doesn’t appear in the tracklist for his upcoming album, Hey Clockface, but serves as the B-side to the previously released ‘We Are All Cowards Now’. Listen to it below.
As a press release notes, the spoken-word track “imagines a post-war ceremony involving an archive recording of the voice of Orson Welles and someone identified only as, “President Swift.’” It takes the form a short story set against the sound of an open-tuned acoustic guitar and will be available “due entirely to the miracle of digital download or streaming.”
St. Vincent has teamed up with X Japan’s Yoshiki for a new rendition of her MASSEDUCTION single, ‘New York’. Check it out below.
“It was an honor to work with the amazing YOSHIKI on this new version of ‘New York’,” St. Vincent, real name Annie Clark, said in a statement. “Yoshiki’s arrangement added to the song in the way time or distance transform longtime friends or relationships: the original is still recognizable, but subtly and significantly altered.”
Yoshiki added: “As an artist, I admire how St.Vincent approaches music in an innovative and courageous way. Her music breaks the boundaries of genres, which is a mindset I can completely relate to. My band X Japan played the Coachella Festival in 2018 at the same time that St. Vincent performed, but at that time we didn’t meet. But this year, through mutual friends, we were introduced. In terms of ‘New York,’ it’s a great song to start with, and I’m grateful that she trusted me to fully rearrange the song with my classical approach. I hope St. Vincent’s fans enjoy it, and that my fans will too.”
Bryan Devendorf, the drummer of the National, has surprise released his debut solo album, Royal Green. He co-produced it in Brooklyn along with Nate Martinez, with contributions from bandmates/collaborators Aaron Dessner and multinstrumentalist Josh Kaufman. You can stream the album below, and check out the video for ‘Breaking the River’, directed by Owen Cummings.
Containing eight tracks, the album consists of both originals as well as a few notable covers, including of Bob Dylan/George Harrison’s ‘If Not For You’, the Beatles’ ‘Baby You’re A Rich Man’, and Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Dreams’. It also features his own take on the National’s ‘Halo Chagrin’, a lost track which has never been properly released.
Along with the new LP, Royal Green are selling merch including beach towels, wristbands, and trucker hats. The album will be available to purchase on vinyl in December.
Chadwick Boseman, the actor best known for portraying King T’Challa in Marvel’s Black Panther, has died at the age of 43 following a four-year battle with colon cancer. Boseman died at his home in Los Angeles with his wife and family by his side, his publicist Nicki Fioravante revealed on Friday.
“A true fighter, Chadwick persevered through it all, and brought you many of the films you have come to love so much,” his family said in a statement posted on social media. “From Marshall to Da 5 Bloods, August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and several more—all were filmed during and between countless surgeries and chemotherapy. It was the honor of his career to bring King T’Challa to life in Black Panther.”
In addition to his role as Black Panther, Boseman also played baseball pioneer Jackie Robinson in 42, James Brown in the biopic Get On Up, and Thurgood Marshall in Marshall, as well as recently starring in Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods. His was final on-screen role was in August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, which is currently in post-production.
When Black Panther won best cast in a film at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in January of last year, Boseman delivered a powerful speech in which he invoked the title of playwright Lorraine Hansberry’s autobiography, To Be Young, Gifted and Black. “We know what it’s like to be told there’s not a screen for you to be featured on, a stage for you to be featured on,” he said. “We know what it’s like to be the tail and not the head. We know what it’s like to be beneath and not above. That is what we went to work with every day because we knew — not that we would be around during award season or that it would make a billion dollars, but we knew we had something special that we wanted to give the world. That we could be full human beings in the roles that we were playing, that we could create a world that exemplified a world that we wanted to see.”
“We knew that we had something that we wanted to give,” he continued. “And to come to work with every day and to solve problems with this group of people every day, with this director, that is something that I wish all actors would get the opportunity to experience. If you get to experience that, you will be a fulfilled artist.”
Tributes have begun pouring in for the star, including from co-stars Mark Ruffalo, Sterling K. Brown, Chris Pratt, Chris Evans, Don Cheadle, and Brie Larson, as well as Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Kamala Harris, Jordan Peele, Barry Jenkins, and more. You can read a selection of them below.
All I have to say is the tragedies amassing this year have only been made more profound by the loss of #ChadwickBoseman. What a man, and what an immense talent. Brother, you were one of the all time greats and your greatness was only beginning. Lord love ya. Rest in power, King.
I’m absolutely devastated. This is beyond heartbreaking.
Chadwick was special. A true original. He was a deeply committed and constantly curious artist. He had so much amazing work still left to create. I’m endlessly grateful for our friendship. Rest in power, King💙 pic.twitter.com/oBERXlw66Z
My prayers go out to Chadwick’s family and loved ones. The world will miss his tremendous talent. God rest his soul. #wakandaforeverhttps://t.co/j5JWSeiqd5
I don’t have words. Rest In Peace, Bruh. Thank you for all you did while you were here. Thank you for being a friend. You are loved. You will be missed. 🤜🏿🤛🏿 https://t.co/8rK4dWmorq
Heartbroken. My friend and fellow Bison Chadwick Boseman was brilliant, kind, learned, and humble. He left too early but his life made a difference. Sending my sincere condolences to his family. pic.twitter.com/C5xGkUi9oZ
Chadwick…..no words to express my devastation of losing you. Your talent, your spirit, your heart, your authenticity……..It was an honor working beside you, getting to know you….Rest well prince…May flights of angels sing thee to thy heavenly rest. I love you! 💛💛💛 pic.twitter.com/6abglPBOsh
Firstly on our Sound Selection, we have Fall by Kinships, a relatively new duo in the world of music having released their first song Splitting Hairs earlier this year. Fall follows up on their debut with a mellifluous production which incorporates soft ear-pleasing female and male vocals within a climbing-like progression that ends softly, leaving us in hope for more great music.
Neil Frances Tuesday
Neil Frances, a well-regarded duo comprised of Jordan Feller and Marc Gilfry, have unveiled their freshest song Tuesday. It’s a throwback-feel song, bringing a groovy mood and revealing the beauty of 90s French house that we have come to love over the years — without compromising on quality.
Talking about the song, Marc said: “Tuesday could be any day. Call us escapists, but the song was written based on a longing for simplicity. On some level, it’s too simple a desire given the current state of the world. But maybe we should all be allowed a moment or two of escape in order to come back stronger. So it’s bittersweet that we release this song at this time. Take it as a welcome break, but don’t get too sucked in, remember that there is work to be done.”
Christina Munsey habits
After the release of her 2020 debut EP for me, or for you, it’s hard to know what to expect from Christina Munsey — the gifted eighteen-year-old singer-songwriter. In her latest piece, habits Munsey brings out a mystical-like vibe with dreamy vocals leading on from the great start she had with her first EP. Having presented habits, we are eager to see what is next for Munsey.
Run the Jewels have shared a new video for their 2 Chainz-featuring RTJ4 track, ‘Out of Sight’. Directed by Ninian Doff, the clip was filmed over the course of three weeks in four cities on two different continents. It features the cast of the director’s new British comedy movieGet Duked! as they attempt to steal the sculpted hands featured on the album’s cover. Check it out below.
The duo’s most recent studio album, RTJ4, was released back in June. It features guest spots from Rage Against the Machine’s Zack de La Rocha, Pharrell, 2 Chainz, Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme, and Mavis Staples. More recently, Run the Jewels and Travis Barker teamed up for a collaborative single called ‘Forever’.
FKA twigs has unveiled a new video for her song ‘Sad Day’, from her 2019 album MAGDALENE. Produced by Doomsday and directed by Hiro Murai, known for his collaborations with Donald Glover on Atlanta and Guava Island, it marks the filmmaker’s first music video since Childish Gambino’s ‘This is America’.The six-minute visual sees twigs engaging in an epic sword battle with Teake, a dancer she cast through social media. Check it out below.
According to a press release, the alternative R&B artist has been training as a sword-fighter for three years under the guidance of Master Wu of the Shaolin Wushu Centre. “Everything I’ve previously done with my body, all the training and dancing, has led to this point,” twigs said.
twigs recently teamed up with 645AR for the joint single ‘Sum Bout U’, as well as with Ty Dolla $ign on ‘Ego Death’.
The Roots’ Black Thought has shared a new, star-studded track featuring Pusha-T, Killer Mike, Swizz Beatz, and producer Sean Cane of the duo Sean C & LV. Titled ‘Good Morning’ and originally teased in a tweet posted earlier this week, it’s part of the rapper’s recently announced album, Streams of Thought, Vol. 3: Cane & Able. Take a listen below.
Speaking of the new song, Black Thought told Variety that it “speaks to an awakening”. He continued: “It’s a stellar lineup of features on one record – the level of dimension and different energy you get in one densely packed moment is unprecedented for the Roots and Black Thought up to this point. The energy of the production, whatever iconic thing it is that Swizz (Beatz) does elevating the chorus, juxtaposed with what Pusha T and Killer Mike bring to the equation… I felt as if it was a no-brainer.”
“On any given day, the space that I occupy in the world is somewhere between a Killer Mike and a Pusha T, between an activist and a street hero, a man of the people and a man of the streets — that’s my origin story,” he added. “I feel like both of their energies represent my own creative bipolarity.”
Black Thought’s upcoming LP is the latest in his Streams of Thought series; the first instalment came out in 2018. In addition to the new single and the previously released ‘Thought Vs. Everbody’, it features appearances from Portugal. The Man, ScHoolboy Q, and more.
