The Generation of Infamous

The hitmaker’s fame has only increased over the last few years as she has become one of the hottest artists globally, and during her chat with Zane Lowe for Apple Music’s New Music Daily, Megan explained why she often feels as if she has to keep cranking out hit songs.

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“I feel like, today, right now, everybody’s attention span is so short, so I feel like a lot of artists are pressured to make a song that’s—you need the first thirty seconds of the song to be a smash,” she said. “Because people are, you know, you lookin’ at TikTok or you lookin’ at whatever you lookin’ at, Instagram. Everything is so quick.”

“You wanna hurry up and do something that’s gonna catch everybody’s attention and I feel like it’s a lot of pressure to make music that you feel like everybody likes,” she added. “So, it’s like, should I make myself this one way because I want to make sure that I hold my audience’s attention, but then like, another side of me wants to make that I always cater to my Hotties. I wanna do things that keep the people in love with me that fell in love with me in the first place because I like to Rap.”

So, Megan has been doing her best to focus on honing her Rap skills while balancing the expectations of the industry as she prepares for her next album slated for 2022. Check out her interview with Lowe below.

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An Evening With Silk Sonic was initially expected to drop at the top of 2022 but the two announced the change of plans last month. The debut album from Silk Sonic is expected to drop on November 12th so “Smokin Out The Window” will likely serve as the final single we receive from the two before the album drops. They previously released a handful of singles including “Skate” and “Leave The Door Open.”

The objective of this album was to provide some feel-good music following the bleak headlines that dominated through the pandemic and beyond. “A good song can bring people together — you don’t have to actually sing the words ‘Everybody come together.’ Sometimes the hard thing is to actually do it. You don’t have to say, ‘Everybody raise your hands’ — sometimes you just hit the right chord and it happens,” Mars told Rolling Stone. “So that was our mindset with the whole album.”

Check the teaser to their single below.

We all recently tuned in for the Big Daddy Kane and KRS-One matching that found the Rap veterans delivering their favorite classics to a live audience as millions of others tuned in remotely. On Monday (November 1), Verzuz announced its return this week, with a slight twist.

This time around, we’re going to catch rappers performing as well as gaming. The brand shared the flyer to their social media pages showing that Verzuz Gamez would be hosting a Call of Duty: Vanguard world premiere event hosted by T-Pain on Wednesday. There will reportedly be a multi-round gameplay tournament featuring Lil Jon and Lil Tecca versus Big Boi and Big Sean. So, yes, it is the Lils versus the Bigs.

In addition to the gameplay, Migos will take to the stage as performers. It is all going down from 6 pm to 9 pm PDT so let us know if you’ll be tuning in.

Dash, who co-founded Roc-A-Fella Records with Hov back in the 90s, served as Jay’s manager and business partner before their relationship soured in the mid-2000s upon Def Jam’s purchase of Roc-A-Fella, and Jay becoming the president of the record label. Over the last two decades, Hov and Dame have taken numerous shots at each other and have engaged in one the most public business feuds in hip-hop history.

However, during Jay’s enshrinement speech, he couldn’t help but acknowledge Dame’s accomplishments and the successes they achieved with Roc-A-Fella.

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“Shout out to Dame,” Jay said. “I know we don’t see eye-to-eye, but I can never erase your accomplishments. And I appreciate you and I thank you for that.”

Not to be outdone by the newest member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Dame told Page Six that he was appreciative of the shoutout, and that he’s ready to squash any beef he has with Jay-Z.

“It was beautiful … I’m glad he said it for the culture. We need to squash everything. So hopefully if that was an extended [olive branch] I’ll spin one back,” he said. “I have no beef with [him] if [he has] no beef with me … let’s get the lawyers out of it then. Let’s talk like men.”

Despite their most recent disagreement over selling the cover of Jay’s first studio album, Reasonable Doubt, as an NFT, Dame maintained that he and Hov have to move their problems out of court if they really want to repair their relationship.

“I would never want you to think that we have to go to the court to resolve anything … We can talk it out and the culture needs to see two strong black men working out a problem. Even if they worked together they can go their separate ways they can still be cool,” Dash told Page Six. “We should not be divided. We have accomplished too much to be beefing… There ain’t no way I’m never gonna [not] consider [him] my brother — it’s just that we don’t see eye-to-eye.”

Both parties have assured that their problems are business-related, and in responding to Jay-Z’s shout out, Dame nodded to his one-time business partner’s accomplishments in hip-hop.

“Whether we cool or not, him getting in the Hall of Fame is major. So congratulations to us, congratulations to him and thank you [to him] for keep working so hard to where he got to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame,” he said.

Do you think Hov and Dame will ever be able to truly squash their beef? Let us know in the comments.

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“Here’s a longer clip from last night when I did a cypher with ASAP Rocky,” the 45-year-old tweeted on the morning of November 1st, along with an over 2-minute video of the two stars verbally duking it out.

A$AP began the battle, and although his bars weren’t week, they definitely weren’t his best work. “Cuz I’m a doc, look at the clock/Look at the wrist, look at the rock,” the “Fashion Killa” said into the camera, later acknowledging that he had fallen off beat during his turn.

When it was Milonakis’ turn, he didn’t hesitate to come out swinging. “Ménage à trois, you’re too f*ckin boujee/Bitch, I’ll f*ck you in the jacuzzi/With you and your mother, she a floozy” he said, prompting the crowd to erupt into laughter.

The social media icon’s post received a reply from Juicy J, who wrote, “Lol watch your drink,” followed by some crying laughing emojis. The video has since been reposted on pages like XXL Magazine, prompting Milonakis to come up with a clever response.

“Thanks, I never got on XXL Freshman, hoping you make a XXL Senior contest someday,” he quote tweeted the rap outlet’s post.

Who do you think won in the cypher between A$AP Rocky and Andy Milonakis?

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