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New Music Videos: Cardi B, Ciara, Ice Spice, Dahi, Dawn Richard and More
Cardi B takes over Brooklyn, Ice Spice and Lil Yachty get surreal, and Dahi brings Kendrick Lamar and Amber Mark into a stark black-and-white visual. Ciara, Ne-Yo, Dawn Richard, Rob49 and MNEK also land in this week's HitsCulture video roundup.
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New Music Friday, August 28: Badu Finally Named It, Prince Opens the Vault, E-40 Ships Forty Songs
Badu and Alchemist land the record fifteen years in the making, Dahi shows up with Kendrick and Gambino, and Prince gives up ten songs nobody has heard.
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The Game's 'The Life' Video Puts Los Angeles Back at the Center
After a release week dominated by other rappers’ names, The Game turns the camera back toward Los Angeles. “The Life” makes hometown identity, not feud speculation, the center of The Documentary 3.
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How Streaming Fraud Can Cost Artists Their Royalties
Every major distributor now passes streaming fraud penalties straight through to the artist, and CD Baby says a flag counts whether you meant it or not.
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Beyoncé Reopens the B'Day Vault With a 27-Track Map of the Era
Beyoncé’s 20th-anniversary B’Day edition gathers 27 tracks from an era that was scattered across deluxe discs, regional bonuses and Spanish-language releases. The new configuration is expansive, but it is also selective, revealing how Beyoncé wants the album remembered in 2026.
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Swae Lee's Diamond Records All Belong to Someone Else: The "SUITCASE" Video Is Him Working the Problem
Three Diamond certifications, and Swae Lee's name is second on every one of them. The "SUITCASE" video, five months into the SAME DIFFERENCE cycle, is him working that problem in public.
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Twelve Times for Hey Ya: How Black Catalog Became Retail's Free Soundtrack
Sony says Kroger used its recordings 392 times without paying. The songs in the exhibits are not a random sample, and nobody will say whether the artists see a dime.
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The House That Whitney Built: Dolly Parton's Fifty Years Inside Black Music
Four Black women have won Album of the Year at the Grammys. Two of those records have Dolly Parton's name in the credits. Inside a fifty-year run she rarely narrated.
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There's a D'Angelo Record in It (Video): Busta Rhymes' Dillagence 2 Drops and It's Bigger Than We Thought
Dillagence 2 is out, and the biggest surprise is not Lil Wayne. Busta Rhymes has revealed that the J Dilla archive in his possession also held a previously unreleased D’Angelo collaboration, reframing the album as an act of musical stewardship.
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Dr. Dre Says Only People Who Can't Create Fear AI. Four Days Earlier, Apple Made the Label Mandatory.
Dre and Jimmy Iovine endorsed AI in the studio. DJ Quik called it appropriation. The rule that will actually reach your catalog arrived four days earlier, from Apple.
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What Friday Buried: Ice-T Skips Streaming, Three Soul Records Slip Through, and the Roots Break a Decade
The front page of New Music Friday was crowded. Underneath it sat a rap record you cannot stream, two projects escaping a paywall, three soul singles on imprints you have to squint to see, and the Roots ending twelve years of silence.
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Veteran Moves: Lil' Kim Is Turning 'Hard Core' Into a Symphony
Lil’ Kim will celebrate 30 years of Hard Core with her first orchestral performance at Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre. The bigger story is what the concert says about hip-hop’s move into repertory, preservation and institutional spaces.
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