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Mere minutes after Drake’s “Family Matters” arrived, Kendrick Lamar returned fire with the blistering “Meet the Grahams.”



As the clock struck midnight on the East Coast on Saturday (May 4), K. Dot released his third Drake diss track this week. Family seems to be the common theme as he calls out Drizzy for being a “deadbeat” father and alleges that Drake is hiding another child besides Adonis.



“You lied about your son, you lied about your daughter, huh, you lied about them other kids that’s out there hoping that you come,” Lamar raps, claiming Drake has a baby girl.



Kendrick continues to warn Drake and alleges that he’s got issues with alcohol, gambling and contests there are pedophiles inside the OVO camp.



“You f—ed up the minute you called out my family’s name,” Lamar spews. “You got gambling problems, drinking problems, pill-popping and spending problems, bad with money, whore house/ Therapy’s a lovely start.”



Lamar lists off all of Drake’s alleged lies when it comes to his son, ghost writers, cosmetic surgeries and more. “F— a rap battle, this a lifelong battle with yourself,” K. Dot snipes.



The tensions have been turned up a few notches within minutes as wild threats were fired off with the latest haymakers thrown in each other’s direction.



Kendrick’s third diss track of the week is no doubt his most scathing following “6:16 in LA” and “Euphoria” on what’s turned out to be a historic night in hip-hop.



Listen to Kendrick Lamar’s “Meet the Grahams” below.






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Drake didn’t waste much time unloading the clip as he replied to Kendrick Lamar with the eviscerating “Family Matters” on Friday night (May 3).



“Family Matters” arrived on YouTube about 14 hours after K. Dot delivered his “6:16 in LA” diss track. Drizzy picks up where he left off to finish “Push Ups” and snipes at Lamar and his alleged fractured relationship with fiancee Whitney Alford, which he claims is filled with infidelity.



“You the Black messiah wifing up a mixed queen/ And hit vanilla cream to help out with your self-esteem/ On some Bobby sh–, I wanna know what Whitney need,” he spews.



At one point, Drake alleges that one of Kendrick’s kids could actually be Dave Free’s, Lamar’s pgLang partner.



“Your baby mama captions always screamin, ‘Save me’/ You did her dirty all her life, you tryna make peace/ I heard that one of them little kids might be Dave Free/ Don’t make it dave freeze/ Cause if your GM is your BM secret BD,” Drake contests.



There’s a menacing beat switch and Drake turns his sights to his other opps in the music game while dissing A$AP Rocky, The Weeknd, Metro Boomin, Future and Rick Ross.



“Rakim talking sh– again/ Gassed ’cause you hit my BM first n—a do the math who I was hitting then/ I ain’t even know you rap still because they only talking about your ‘fit again/ Probably gotta have a kid again before you think of dropping any sh– again/ Even when you do drop they gonna say you should’ve modeled because it’s mid again,” Drake raps while landing a right hook on Rocky.



Drake is apologetic about having static with Future, but blames Metro Boomin — who he calls by his government name (Leland Green) — and insinuates he has a romantic past with a woman who has history with Metro.



“Pluto sh– make me sick to my stomach, we ain’t never really been through it/ Leland Wayne he a f—ing lame so I know he had to be an influence,” Drake continues.



There’s always room for smoke with Rozay as Drizzy jabs at his correction officer past: “Body after body and you know Rick reading my Miranda Rights.”



The accompanying music video finds Drake heading to the New Ho King Chinese restaurant Kendrick referenced on “Euphoria.”



With a beat switch into the third track, Drizzy puts the scope back on Lamar and questions him moving to New York and living the “bachelor life,” while also trolling him about the jewelry he purchased from 2Pac’s estate and Pharrell’s collection.



Kendrick went back-to-back with “Euphoria” and “6:16 in LA” before Drake stepped in with a seven-minute thrashing. This doesn’t seem like it will be coming to an end anytime soon either.



Watch the “Family Matters” video below.






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Sunnier days are upon us, and SZA wants to make sure your shade game is on point. The “Kill Bill” singer teamed up with Quay Australia to pick out some of her favorite sunglasses for spring, she revealed Wednesday (May 2) on Instagram.



“Did a little edit thingy with by besties at Quay eyewear,” she captioned a video modeling sunglasses from the collection of styles ranging from $65-$110. The SZA edit includes limited-edition sunglasses.







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The Grammy winner opened up about the collaboration in an interview with Nylon. “I just picked what I would generally wear,” she said of choosing her favorite styles. “My mom always told me that wearing sunglasses blocks people from seeing your energy and from connecting with you. I didn’t grow up wearing a lot of them, but now they’re so fun. I’m learning how to accessorize them, how to add them to my personality. I tried to basically pick ones I would generally wear.”



Her favorite Quay sunnies are the On Set visor sunglasses. “They’re so cute. I [also] feel like a classic Inspector Gadget, like a slim, black pair, that’s another great shape where I feel it’s fire for day and night. You can go formal, to secretive, to secret agent, to also sexy. It’s divine.”



SZA will have plenty of chances to show off her favorite Quay shades. After taking her SOS Tour to Australia and New Zealand last month, SZA is back Stateside to take the stage at Sol Blume Music Festival in Sacramento, Calif., on May 5.



She’s also billed to co-headline Jack Harlow’s Gazebo Festival held later this month, Governors Ball next month and Lollapalooza in August. Get tickets here.



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It’s Friday, May 3rd, and we have lots of new music to get through. Kendrick Lamar hits back at Drake again this week with a second diss track, “6:16 in LA.” The track comes out days after releasing “euphoria.” Dua Lipa released her new album ‘Radical Optimism,’ and she shares the meaning of it and more when she dropped by the studio. Sia drops the new album ‘Reasonable Woman’ after five years since her last album and WILLOW released her highly anticipated album ‘emphathogen.’ We give you a behind the scenes look at WILLOW’s private concert. We sat down with Rapsody, and she shares How It Went Down behind the creation of her latest single “3:AM” with Erykah Badu. J Balvin & Imagine Dragons just launched their new single “Eyes Closed,” Mckenna Grace releases “Gentleman” and more.



Tetris Kelly: 



The Kendrick and Drake beef continues. We’re talking to Dua Lipa. We take you inside WILLOW’s album release party, and Rapsody shows us How It Went Down. It’s Friday, May 3rd, but before you enter the streets, let’s get into this entertainment news, starting with your Friday Music Guide. Dua Lipa is injecting us with some ‘Radical Optimism’ and it’s gonna make you move. More bops later in the show but now your top story. The Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef just won’t end after K.Dot fired off a second explosive track, we’re breaking down some of the top moments. It keeps on going. After so much back and forth like Drake’s “Push Ups” and the just released “euphoria” from Lamar, most fans have crowned their winner, but Kendrick’s gun was still loaded he dropped “6:16 in LA” with some pretty lethal bars towards Drizzy. The Internet is really latching on to the section about OVO. Kendrick at this point seems to be giving advice to Drake, making the Toronto rapper question if his own team even has his back. After Kendrick’s one-two punch is the beef over? Or are we expecting another track from Drake outside of a questionable IG post? Let us know your pick. Sia is back with ‘Reasonable Woman’ and the album’s got all the good stuff you’d expect from her. She’s even recruited the queen Chaka Khan. Dua Lipa might be one of the sweetest people I’ve ever sat down with.



Keep watching to learn more!


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Aptly given its title, Sia’s “Unstoppable” becomes the first song in nearly a quarter-century to spend 100 weeks on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart.



The track hits triple-digits on the list dated May 11, where it holds at No. 4. It notched 12 weeks at No. 1, nonconsecutively, between charts dated Nov. 12, 2022, and March 18, 2023.




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Below is a look at the select four songs to have logged at least 100 weeks on Adult Contemporary over the chart’s history, which dates to July 1961.



Notably, three are by Australian acts: Above Sia’s song, the top two are by pop duo Savage Garden. (LeAnn Rimes, also on the list below, is from Jackson, Miss.)



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Playing video games is a great escape from your everyday life. Just spending a few hours in a virtual world can work wonders for your mental health and problem-solving capabilities.



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They say styles make fights.



What we’re seeing here are two rappers standing on top of the game at different sides of the spectrum. There’s Drake, the hitmaking machine who’s never backed down from a challenge. Then there’s Kendrick, the more complicated lyricist who’s managed to collect plaques without chasing commercial appeal, but someone who hasn’t been battle-tested like the person he’s currently in the ring with. This doesn’t mean Kung Fu Kenny isn’t familiar with the “Secretz of War“; he’s a student of the game, after all.



On “Taylor Made Freestyle” — the diss track Drake was forced to take down — Drake goes on a rant at the end, telling Kendrick he hopes he’s in the lab cooking up quintuple entendres. That’s just what Kendrick did on this latest diss track “6:16 in LA.” If you let the chatter online tell it, the title is a play on numerous things. One is an obvious play on Drake’s timestamp series. Another is a nod to Ice-T’s “6 ‘N the Mornin’.” But once you get into numerology games, you slowly start to resemble that Always Sunny meme with Charlie losing it in front of an evidence board trying to tie everything together.



Here’s a list of all the things the song title could maybe refer to:

Universal Music Group’s three-month hiatus from TikTok ended this week after the companies reached a new, multi-faceted licensing agreement. On Thursday, UMG executives explained why it was worth the wait. 




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The bottom line: UMG believes its new licensing deal with TikTok is an improvement over the deal that expired at the end of January. UMG has “substantially improved the total value we’ll derive from this relationship,” CFO Boyd Muir said. Michael Nash, executive vp/chief digital officer, said the new TikTok deal “definitely deliver[s] a fair level of value relative to other short form social platform partners,” which includes Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts and Snap.  



In Thursday’s earnings call and CEO Lucian Grainge’s internal memo obtained by Billboard the same day, Grainge, Muir and Nash mentioned numerous components of the new deal that can be broken into two camps: revenue and non-revenue features and arrangements. 



As for revenue, there will be more of it under the new deal — although none of the executives shared specific deal points such as advertising revenue sharing rates. Nash said that “revenue under this new deal does markedly improve over our last deal.” The previous deal amounted to about 1% of UMG’s annual revenues, which works out to about $120 million euros based on 2023 revenue. That’s not much for a platform that commands an average of 58 minutes per day in the U.S., according to eMarketer — almost as much as Netflix and more than YouTube.  



But UMG is getting more value out of TikTok in forms other than royalties. Many of those non-revenue components typically cost money to labels: e-commerce tools, marketing and promotion campaigns and ad credits. Other aspects of the deal have value that’s hard to pin down: data, artist insights, intelligence and new programs and new collaboration opportunities.  



One interesting aspect of the new deal is what Nash called “content management and attribution.” When TikTok users post videos with sped-up and slowed-down recordings, attribution for the UMG recording is credited “not [to] some infringing third party, but the artists,” said Nash. “And that content is better connected with their official presence on the platform.”  



As Grainge outlined in an internal memo to staff on Thursday, the deal also met the two non-revenue criteria: protection against the harmful effects of AI and prioritizing online safety for both TikTok users and UMG’s artists. 



TikTok made “a number of commitments” that respect UMG artists’ works and rights of publicity and supports UMG’s principles on training AI models without consent from rights holders. UMG wants to protect its artists against deepfakes such as “Heart on My Sleeve” by Ghostwriter, which used AI-generated soundalikes of Drake and Kendrick Lamar (both UMG artists). The new deal ensures such fake content will be removed, both Grainge and Nash said. 




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Nash also described these efforts to combat infringing content as “elevated requirements” that detect and avoid infringing content,” including leaks, unauthorized remixes and unauthorized AI versions. The deal also contains requirements for improved filtering and stream manipulation detection.  



In addition, TikTok agreed to improve online safety and attempt to mitigate the harmful effects of social media, including hate speech, bullying, responsible use of AI, and addressing infringing content and algorithmic manipulation, Grainge wrote in his memo. 



Social media income might not amount to much today, but it “is increasingly important income to artists, songwriters, labels and publishers,” said Grainge during Thursday’s earnings call, “which is why we’ve pushed so hard and we will continue to push to protect and to develop it.” 


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Wallen waived his right to appear at Friday morning's hearing.

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