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Nuthin' 2 Prove
''Nuthin' 2 Prove'' is the third studio album by American rapper Lil Yachty. It was released on October 19, 2018, by Capitol Records, Motown and Quality Control Music. The album features guest appearances from Playboi Carti, Juice Wrld, Lil Baby, Young Nudy, Cardi B, Offset, Trippie Redd, Kevin Gates, and Gunna. Background Lil Yachty revealed the cover art on October 11, 2018, to ''Billboard''. He confirmed the release date and album name via his Twitter account in September. Promotion " Who Want the Smoke?" featuring Cardi B and Offset, was released as the album's lead single on July 6, 2018. The song was produced by Tay Keith. Critical reception ''Nuthin' 2 Prove'' was met with mixed reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 52, based on eight reviews. Trey Alston of ''Pitchfork'' gave a positive review, stating "When he bellows and trills, regardless of what's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lil Yachty
Miles Parks McCollum (born August 23, 1997), known professionally as Lil Yachty, is an American rapper. He first gained recognition in August 2015 for his viral hit "One Night (Lil Yachty song), One Night", the lead single from his debut extended play (EP), ''Summer Songs''. He released his debut mixtape ''Lil Boat (mixtape), Lil Boat'' in March 2016, and signed a wikt:joint venture, joint venture record deal with Motown, Capitol Records, and Quality Control Music in June of that year. His debut studio album, ''Teenage Emotions'' (2017), peaked at number five on the Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200 despite mixed critical response. His second album, ''Lil Boat 2'' (2018), peaked at number two on the chart, while his third, ''Nuthin' 2 Prove'' (2018), peaked at number 12; both were met with continued unfavorable critical reception. His fourth album, ''Lil Boat 3'' (2020), peaked at number 14, while his fifth album, ''Let's Start Here'' (2023), marked a departure from hip hop in fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lil Baby
Dominique Armani Jones (born December 3, 1994), known professionally as Lil Baby, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He rose to prominence following the release of his 2017 mixtapes ''Harder than Hard'' and ''Too Hard'' — the former of which spawned his first Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100 entry with its lead single, "My Dawg (Lil Baby song), My Dawg." *Alt URL* * He signed with Quality Control Music, an imprint of Motown and Capitol Records to release his debut studio album ''Harder Than Ever'' (2018), which peaked at number three on the Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200 and was supported by the ''Billboard'' Hot 100-top ten single "Yes Indeed (Lil Baby and Drake song), Yes Indeed" (with Drake (musician), Drake). Later that year, he released the collaborative mixtape ''Drip Harder'' with fellow Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia-based rapper Gunna (rapper), Gunna, and his solo mixtape ''Street Gossip (mixtape), Street Gossip''; the former spawned his second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HotNewHipHop
''HotNewHipHop'' (HNHH) is an online publication that covers daily news about hip hop and pop culture, including streetwear, sports, and Sneaker collecting, sneakers. In addition to its editorial content, HotNewHipHop also produces the video series, ''How to Roll'', ''On The Come Up'', ''In My Bag'', and ''Snack Review''. The site has been nominated multiple times for the BET Hip Hop Awards in the category, "The best Hip Hop Platform." The website is known for covering the careers of multiple artists including Post Malone, Tyga, the Weeknd, and Wiz Khalifa. History HotNewHipHop.com was launched in 2007 by Montreal-based Armenians in Lebanon, Lebanese Armenian Saro Derbedrossian, also known as Saro D. alongside DJ Rockstar. Despite being founded in Canada, ''HNHH'' covers the broader hip-hop culture as opposed to simply just focusing on Canadian Hip Hop like ''HipHopCanada''. The site began as a single webpage that users would visit to listen to daily releases of new hip-hop song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HipHopDX
''HipHopDX'' is an online magazine of Hip hop music, hip hop music criticism and news. ''HipHopDX'' has over 3.5M monthly readers, the website encompassing hip hop news, interviews, music, and reviews. The website's founder and CEO is Sharath Cherian and the Head of Content is Jerry L. Barrow. ''HipHopDX'' is the flagship publication of Cheri Media Group. ''HipHopDX'' can be found on X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok. In September 2020, the website was acquired by Warner Music Group; however, the website was sold in 2024 to Uproxx Studios, managed by will.i.am, Jarret Myer, and Rich Antoniello. ''HipHopDX'''s Director of Hip Hop Journalism, Elliott Wilson, is a co-host (with DJ Hed and Jeremy Hecht) on ''The Bigger Picture'', a weekly hip-hop debate show managed by Uproxx Studios. ''HipHopDX'' was nominated for "Best Hip Hop Online Site" at the 2012 BET Hip Hop Awards. On September 3, 2013, ''The Source (magazine), The Source'' named ''HipHopDX'', n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highsnobiety
''Highsnobiety'' is a global fashion and lifestyle media brand founded in 2005 by David Fischer. The youth-focused company is difficult to pigeonhole, as it straddles the line between a media company that reviews fashion and lifestyle products, a clothing company that sells its own clothing lines, and a creative agency that advises other companies how to market their own fashion and lifestyle products. It was bought by Zalando in 2022. It is headquartered in Berlin and has offices in Amsterdam, London, Milan, New York, Los Angeles and Sydney. ''Highsnobiety'' has a digital-first publishing approach. The print magazine first launched in 2010, with quarterly issues published globally. Company activities Highsnobiety Shop, a multi-brand online fashion and lifestyle retailer, was launched in 2019. ''Highsnobiety'' launched their apparel collection in 2021. Since 2018, the brand publishes regular research papers in the fields of luxury and young consumer trends in collaboration w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exclaim!
''Exclaim!'' is a Canadian music and entertainment publisher based in Toronto, which features coverage of new music across all genres with a special focus on Canadian and emerging artists. The monthly ''Exclaim!'' print magazine publishes seven issues per year, distributing over 103,000 copies to over 2,600 locations across Canada. In addition to music, the magazine also covers film and comedy. History ''Exclaim!'' began as a discussion among campus and community radio programmers at Ryerson's CKLN-FM in 1991. It was started by then-CKLN programmer Ian Danzig, together with other programmers and Toronto musicians. The goal of the publication was to support great Canadian music that was otherwise going unheralded. The group worked through 1991 to produce their first issue in April 1992, with monthly issues being produced since. Ian Danzig has been the publisher of the magazine since its start. The magazine had no official name for its first year of operations, with only th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Musical ensemble, bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All-Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar, and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as compact discs (CDs) replaced LP record, LPs and cassette (format), cassettes as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it, he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twitter
Twitter, officially known as X since 2023, is an American microblogging and social networking service. It is one of the world's largest social media platforms and one of the most-visited websites. Users can share short text messages, images, and videos in Microblogging, short posts commonly known as "Tweet (social media), tweets" (officially "posts") and Like button, like other users' content. The platform also includes direct message, direct messaging, video and audio calling, bookmarks, lists, communities, a chatbot (Grok (chatbot), Grok), job search, and Spaces, a social audio feature. Users can vote on context added by approved users using the Community Notes feature. Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams (Internet entrepreneur), Evan Williams, and was launched in July of that year. Twitter grew quickly; by 2012 more than 100 million users produced 340 million daily tweets. Twitter, Inc., was based in San Francisco, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard (magazine)
''Billboard'' (stylized in letter case, lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation. The magazine provides music charts, news, video, opinion, reviews, events and styles related to the music industry. Its Billboard charts, music charts include the Billboard Hot 100, Hot 100, the Billboard 200, 200, and the Billboard Global 200, Global 200, tracking the most popular albums and songs in various music genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm and operates several television shows. ''Billboard'' was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson acquired Hennegan's interest in 1900 for $500. In the early years of the 20th century, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows, and also created a mail service for travelling entertainers. ''Billboard'' began focusing more on the music industry as the jukebox ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunna (rapper)
Sergio Giavanni Kitchens (born June 14, 1993), known professionally as Gunna, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He signed with Young Thug's YSL Records, an imprint of 300 Entertainment in 2016, and rose to fame with his third mixtape, Drip Season 3, ''Drip Season'' 3 (2018). It moderately entered the Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200, while his collaborative mixtape with fellow Georgia rapper Lil Baby, ''Drip Harder'' (2018), peaked at number four on the chart. Its lead single, "Drip Too Hard" peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100, received Diamond (RIAA certification), diamond certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and was nominated for Best Rap/Sung Performance at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards. His debut studio album, ''Drip or Drown 2'' (2019) peaked at number three on the ''Billboard'' 200, while his second, ''Wunna (album), Wunna'' (2020) debuted atop the chart. His 2020 single, "Lemonade (Internet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Gates
Kevin Jerome Gilyard (born February 5, 1986), better known by his stage name Kevin Gates, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur. He is currently signed to Bread Winners' Association with a partnership with Atlantic Records. His debut studio album, '' Islah'', released in January 2016 and peaked at number two on the U.S. ''Billboard'' 200 chart. Prior to ''Islah'', Gates also released a number of mixtapes, including '' Stranger Than Fiction'' (2013), '' By Any Means'' (2014), and '' Luca Brasi 2'' (2014), all of which peaked in the top 40 on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart. Early life Kevin Jerome Gilyard was born on February 5, 1986, to a Puerto Rican mother and an African American father. He and his family relocated to New Orleans, Louisiana, before settling in Baton Rouge. Gates had an often tumultuous upbringing and was arrested for the first time in 1999 at the age of 13 for joyriding in a stolen vehicle as a passenger. He lost contact with his father at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trippie Redd
Michael Lamar White IV (born June 18, 1999), known professionally as Trippie Redd, is an American rapper and singer. Born and raised in Canton, Ohio, he has contributed to the progression of emo rap and rage, a subgenre of trap music. His debut mixtape, '' A Love Letter to You'' (2017) was released by Elliot Grainge's 10K Projects and entered the ''Billboard'' 200, while its lead single, " Love Scars" received double platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The following year, he released his debut studio album '' Life's a Trip'' (2018) and the mixtape's second sequel; their singles, " Dark Knight Dummo" (featuring Travis Scott), " Taking a Walk", and " Topanga" each entered the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The album and its follow-up, '' !'' (2019) both reached the top five of the ''Billboard'' 200, while his fourth mixtape, ''A Love Letter to You 4'' (2019) topped the chart. Redd's third and fourth albums ''Pegasus'' (2020) and '' Trip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
