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Nicki Minaj Makes Billboard History On R&B/Hip-Hop Charts
Nicki Minaj becomes the first female artist to chart four songs simultaneously in the top 10 of Billboard‘s Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop airplay chart (dated March 28), as “Feeling Myself,” featuring Beyonce, rises 11-10. Two males had previously achieved the record: Lil Wayne (first in 2008) and Drake (2011), each of whom has quadrupled up in the top 10 in multiple weeks.
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Nicki Minaj Announces The Line Up For The US Tour
The “Only” rapper took to her Instagram this evening, where she announced that her new booMeek Mill will be joining her on the road for the U.S. tour, along with Dej Loaf, Tinashe, and Rae Sremmurd.
The news of Tinashe being added to the lineup comes just after she pulled out of Iggy Azalea‘s summer tour, which was pushed to the Fall season. She had promised her fans that she would make plans for the summer, and now they will know where to find her.
Nicki also announced that tickets for The Pinkprint Tour in the States will go on sale this Friday, so all you Barbz better get ready. Knowing Nicki, she probably has tons of other surprises in store.
Are you guys copping your tickets?
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Just In Case You Didn’t Know . . . Kendrick Lamar’s Album Dropped Today! Here Are His Thoughts In His New York Times Interview.
Album Link Here: To Pimp A Butterfly
LOS ANGELES — Following the success of his major label debut, “good kid, m.A.A.d. city,” in 2012, the rapper Kendrick Lamar did not indulge in earthly luxuries. Instead, he got baptized.
That album was the story of his redemption, not just from street gangs through rapping but from a life of sin by embracing Jesus Christ. His long-awaited follow-up, “To Pimp a Butterfly” (TDE/Aftermath/Interscope), which was made available online Sunday night, ahead of a planned March 23 release, is about carrying the weight of that clarity: What happens when you speak out, spiritually and politically, and people actually start to listen? And what of the world you left behind?
Mr. Lamar, who grew up in Compton, Calif., had previously been saved as a teenager in the parking lot of a Food 4 Less, he said, when the grandmother of a friend approached him after a tragedy, asking if he had accepted God. “One of my homeboys got smoked,” Mr. Lamar recalled. “She had seen that we weren’t right in the head. That was her being an angel for us.”
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