After last Friday’s, release of a collaborative mixtape with Rich The Kid ‘Trust Fund Babies’, Mr. Carter surprises fans by releasing a new song to streaming services.“Ya Dig” is a slick record that finds Lil Wayne feeling braggadocious as he flexes his status over a distorted, soulful sample.
“Ya Dig” was co-produced by STREETRUNNER and Tarik Azzouz and features a sample of Margie Joseph’s “Stop! In the Name of Love,” which Wayne also sampled on “Gossip” off his 2007 EP The Leak. Word has it “Ya Dig” is a song from the vault that dates back to his Tha Carter III days. It will be featured on the forthcoming “Tha Carter Singles Collection” 7” vinyl box set.
“Weezy, newborn baby, and it’s my party/ And I’m kicking like a horse on the stick-shift Ferrari/ Like new cocaine, bright yellow dope/ Bright red flag like a red velvet rope/ I’m open for criticism/ But really, is it any room for criticism,” Wayne raps.
According to Lil Wayne HQ, the song was recorded in late 2007 or early 2008, but it’s unclear why it wasn’t released until now. It’s not clear where the fansite, got the information from about its alleged recording timeline. There has been no official confirmation. It hears the rapper spit eloquently in the midst of what Stereogum noted was his “peak mixtape era”.
Check out the song below, Weezy has even more music on the way including I Am Not A Human Being III and ColleGrove 2 with 2 Chainz.
After a seven-year hiatus, Kelis returns with a new single “Midnight Snack.” The Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter takes it back to her Kaleidoscope days as she serves up a tasty after-hours jam. Featuring production from UK group The FaNaTiX and Kelis singing to her lover about some late-night affection.
“Guilty pleasures, I just can’t deny / I’m greedy and I don’t care,” she sings on the irresistible hook.
This past January, she did provide an assist on newcomer Ashnikko’s DEMIDEVIL standout “Deal With It.” “Midnight Snacks” also sees an accompanying visual directed by photographer/director Adrienne Raquel, giving off seductive vibes while various references to food appear throughout. The Le Cordon Bleu-trained chef is surrounded by sweet treats in a retro dreamscape, “inspired by the 1990s and paired with the glamour of the 1970s.” Even those it’s been nearly a decade since Tasty and its breakout hit “Milkshake,” it’s clear that the veteran songstress remains a master of mixing the culinary with the intimate.
“I heard the beat, thought it was dope, and the first thing that came to mind was ‘Midnight Snacks,’” said Kelis. “It’s funny to me, but I like the fact that you can take sex and food, and you can put these two things together, and they’re totally interchangeable. I love that.”
“Midnight Snacks” marks Kelis’ first solo music since her 2014 album Food. Unfortunately, the new arrival comes on the heels of terrible news. Kelis’ husband, Mike Mora, recently took to social media to reveal that he’s been battling stage 4 stomach cancer, and was given only 18 months to live when diagnosed.
The U.K. baddie and the Barbie once again prove to be a formidable duo teaming for the new song named “Boyz.” Sampling Diddy’s 2001 anthem “Bad Boy for Life.” The nostalgia doesn’t stop there they’ve also remade the music video, complete with a cameo from the Bad Boy icon himself.
Jesy Nelson, the British singer best known for her tenure as a member of Little Mix, is now stepping into a solo career with some controversy on social media following the release of “Boyz” as she has been accused of blackfishing.
The video itself does a great job paying homage to the song that was sampled, and even recreating icon scenes from the “Bad Boy for Life.” Nicki shouts out Puff Daddy & The Family in her verse. “Bad bitches want a Bad Boy / Word to Biggie, Diddy, and Ma$e,” she raps. “Whoa like Rob, won’t find a prettier face / He gon’ keep my VVS’s dancin’ like Total / So I could just Shyne while he shoot up the place.”
Nicki previously collaborated with Little Mix on the 2018 song “Woman Like Me.” She recently joined Bia on a remix of her single “Whole Lotta Money.” Earlier this year, she brought her 2009 mixtape Beam Me Up Scotty to streaming services with the new Drake and Lil Wayne–featuring the single “Seeing Green.” She also joined Polo G on the new song “For the Love of New York.”
Another designer label is being placed in the Rap spotlight now that 24kGoldn and Lil Tecca have linked up. Just two weeks after debuting the track during his set at New York City’s Governors Ball festival, 24kGoldn latest single “Prada.”
“Prada” is 24kGoldn’s first solo offering since he dropped his debut album El Dorado back in March. Despite featuring solid guest appearances from Future, DaBaby, Swae Lee, and others, no single from the project came close to matching the success of “Mood.”
That’s understandable, the smash hit spent 28 weeks in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, holding the top spot down for eight solid weeks. If nothing else, “Prada” proves 24kGoldn is no one-hit-wonder.
The new track was produced by Cxdy, Humblebee, Ovrcz and Taz Taylor, and it’s accompanied by a video shot and directed by John Tashiro. 24kGoldn and Lil Tecca takeover a Prada store where they flaunt their wealth, women, and their infatuation over the Italian luxury brand. The playful track is reminiscent of last year’s No. 1 hit “Mood,” as 24kGoldn displays his hitmaking potential with another bulletproof hook.
“Prada, that’s on my shoes, that’s on my shirt, that’s on my collar/I hit it once, ain’t hit her back ’cause I’m a baller,” the 20-year-old raps on the sing-song chorus.
Next for 24kGoldn, he’ll take to the road for his debut headlining tour, which starts in San Diego on Nov. 2. Check out the video for 24kGoldn and Lil Tecca’s collaborative single down below, and stream the track now on all major platforms.
The sneaker game as we know it, gone are the days when people used to camp out overnight at Foot Locker for limited-edition pairs. As it stands, there’s nothing joyful about the process of buying sneakers anymore due to automated shopping software (AKA bots), stores’ shady “backdoor” operations,” and entrepreneurial teens who buy pairs with a single goal in mind: to make a profit.
Well there is hope for the consumer who want back a level of accessibility, those who grow up in the culture and grow up in sneakers. KYX World is the answer, changing the rules with the world’s first subscription platform offering wide access to authentic, limited edition sneakers with a try-before-you-buy and non-committal sneaker access model, subscription to KYX and get fresh sneakers every month — wear them, and then choose to keep them, buy them, or swap them out for a new pair next month. Whether you want an Air Jordan, a Nike Dunk, or an Adidas Bad Bunny shoe.
This service helps sneakerheads get access to hyped, limited-edition pairs for a monthly fee — but the math suggests it may be best to save up to own them.
With hopes to promote a more inclusion in the sneaker community, KYX membership offers four levels of access, from $49 per month up to $599 month, these plans scale according to the total number of pairs allotted per month, as well as by value. Each level comes with an allowance to rent a specified range of sneakers per month, and as users pay more for higher levels, more perks are afforded. This includes options like the pool of shoes members have access to, monthly shipment value, number of swaps, how many shoes they can rent and, of course, the amount of money they have to rent with.
Brian Mupo, CEO and founder of Kyx World, formed this idea based off his own expererinces of buying sneakers, wearing them for a short period of time, and then flipping them, similar toa rental model.
“When I got them, saw them, and I put them on and saw how fly I looked. Some I would keep for a while, some I would wear once and I knew I wasn’t probably going to wear them again, either at all or for a long time, and then I would liquidate,” said Mupo
KYX World CEO Brian Mupo (left) and Steve Dorfman COO. Image via KYX
Today I was given the oppertunity to speak with Kami Thomas, the Director of Brand Strategy for KYX World about the mission of this brand, how this brand sees itself sucess using a method often used in real estate, the goal it has set for itself, where the brand sees itself in the future of sneakers, and how exactly KYX World acquires these sneaker that everyone wants.
How was Brian so sure a business model in real estate would work with sneakers?
The short answer is when you think about sneaker resell there’s kind of this entire group of people who are essentially renting shoes and then flipping them. For example, they’re taking a $500 pair of shoes, and then when they’re done with those shoes they’ll sell them… More or least get some of the money back to get a new pair. If you think about it just essentially engaging in rental behavior whether they know that or not.
Explain in greater detail these memberships and the particular value each one would bring to a sneakerhead.
So we have four membership levels, the first level you can rent one shoe per month and the fourth level you can rent 4 shoes per month. For example, if you’re a level 3 membership then you can rent up to three shoes per month at a minimum of $199 (per) month…the value it would bring to a sneakerhead is you could buy one shoe for $199 if you could find that price on the resell market or if you think about from a sneakerheads perspective you’re able to experience significantly more sneakers with KYX then you would if you were buying them outright. Unless you have unlimited capital, which most people don’t.
How does KYX see itself affecting the landscape of sneaker culture today and about 5 years from now?
I necessarily see that this is going to kind of throw a wrench in the sneaker reseller’s businesses they’re such an inaccessible industry for people a lot of people, I think we’re giving a level of accessibility back to the hands of the consumer…people who grow up in the culture and grow up in sneakers are not able to experience a lot of the sneakers because of the prices. So what I see KYX doing and how I see us affecting sneaker culture is kind of making it something that’s accessible again, putting sneaker back into the hands of the people who created that culture to began with.
So how did the partnership with sneaker cleaner brand Reshoevn8r come about?
We were introduced to Reshoevn8r through our Executive Creative Director, Jeff Staple, so now internally at KYX when we are cleaning all of our shoes we clean every shoe that comes back to us with those Reshoevn8r products.
Who would you say is the targeted audience for this kind of subscription service?
I think the obvious answer is “Well sneakerheads,” but the more specific answer is our main target audience would be people who love sneakers. This has been traditionally been a very male-heavy culture, with males between the ages of 18-35, but as the culture evolving women, gen-z, older gentlemen, and dads they’ve become a focus as well. I think sneakers are for everyone and everyone deserves to experience these shoes so I think our target audience is just people who really love the sneakers and the culture.
How exactly does Kyx plan to secure the highly coveted pairs, does Kyx have a plug in the industry for exclusive access?
That’s something we’re keeping to ourselves, for now however what I can say is first and for most, we don’t backdoor pairs. We don’t take them out of the hands of retail consumers and the second thing is that all of our shoes are absolutely authentic, but, I can’t get into the procurement of the shoes for now.
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