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  • GOAT introduces Pusha T’s archival sale

    GOAT, the global platform for the past, present and future, has partnered with hip-hop icon Pusha T to showcase a collection of exclusive products from his very own closet. As a continuation of the GREATEST cover with Clipse, Keys Open Doors: The Archive of Pusha T, offers GOAT’s community the chance to acquire one-of-one pieces, ranging from rare apparel and footwear to accessories and more. Each item represents a chapter in Pusha T’s journey at the forefront of culture, with many worn throughout significant moments across his career.

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    From his longstanding relationships with adidas and Thom Browne to his friendships with Kim Jones and Pharrell Williams, Pusha T’s collection includes incredible pieces such as a Dior Chiffre Rouge Ultramatte Chronograph watch gifted by Kim Jones at Paris Fashion Week, a sample pair of Pharrell x adidas Superstar 92 ‘Virginia’ sneakers, a Thom Browne Hector Bag—carried whilst attending the designer’s FW23 show, a reversible jacket from the discontinued Burberry Prorsum label, the headline-making Prada Bowling shirt recognised as “performance art” by The New Yorker and much more.

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    “Building an archive of one-of-a-kind pieces that transcend across cultural moments in fashion and music is truly special. We’re thrilled to partner with an artist and creative like Pusha T to share his incredible collection with our GOAT community,” said Sen Sugano, Chief Brand Officer of GOAT Group. “This collection further proves that fashion is circular, and it continues to offer storytelling and a perspective on style.”

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    “Collecting and curating this wardrobe has been a passion equal to making music in a lot of ways”, said Pusha T. “I take it very seriously. In my music I am meticulous and ultra vivid, and I’ve always felt that extends to fashion. Luxury, exclusivity, design, point of view and attention to detail are all super important. GOAT understands this at a DNA level. I can’t think of a better partner to help share this collection.”

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    Pusha T’s closet sale will be available on GOAT from Monday, May 19 to Friday, May 30.

  • Listen to Los Angeles-based artist Spill Tab’s fierce genre-blending debut album ‘Angie’

    It’s finally here ❤

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    Yesterday, French-Korean songwriter and record producer Spill Tab released her vibrant and palatable debut album ‘Angie’, which we thoroughly enjoyed for its experimental, creative edge. Aside from being influenced by various musical styles like R&B, Electro-Pop, Rock, and Jazz, she does an incredible job at execution. Not to mention, she sings in French on ‘Assis’. The opening record ‘Pink Lemonade’ is my favourite from the bunch, followed by ‘Athlete’.

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    Raised by a French Algerian composer father and a Korean pianist mother, Spill Tab spent her early years immersed in music at her parents’ post-production studio, absorbing Jazz, Classical, and other diverse influences. Following a childhood spent between Los Angeles, Thailand, and Paris, where she picked up guitar and soaked in a variety of musical traditions, she developed a distinctive sound blending raw-edged guitar confessionals with anthemic Pop hooks. 

    About her first album, Spill Tab tells Hanuman Welch, “I think I’ve always had this goal where I’m trying to represent myself the fullest of my ability in a two-minute song, and I think I’ve been realising through the process of EPs that that’s not possible. I do feel like this album, as much as I possibly could, represents not only where I’m from, but where I want to go and the music that I’m listening to now, the music that I’ve been listening to for the past 10 years.”

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    About the album, she continues, “Those conversations, musically, are what make me the most excited about musicmaking. So to me, this album is that conversation in action, but also shows my evolution with that music and production, and being able to work with all these incredible collaborators has just made me a better artist.”

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    Spill Tab’s tour starts next week (May 23) at the Le Weekend Des Curiosités Festival in Toulouse, France. Look below to see the rest of her performance dates and play the album.

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    Spill Tab Tour Dates

    May 23 – Le Weekend Des Curiosités Festival – Toulouse, FR
    May 26 – SWG3 Poetry Club – Glasgow, UK
    May 27 – The Deaf Institute – The Lodge – Manchester, UK
    May 28 – Oslo – London, UK
    May 30 – Green Door Store – Brighton, UK
    May 31 – Rough Trade – Bristol, UK
    June 7 – We Love Green Festival – Paris, FR
    June 11 – Night Club 101 – New York City, NY
    June 12 – The Drake – Toronto, ON
    June 14 – Beat Kitchen – Chicago, IL
    June 17 – El Cid – Los Angeles, CA

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  • GIVĒON brings fresh dandy vibes to striking ‘Rather Be’ visual: Watch

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    Today, R&B/Soul star GIVĒON released the official music video to his song ‘Rather Be’. In the opening scene, the couple stands in a quaint building structure, night falls, and the pair enjoy a drink. After toasting to a seemingly celebratory moment, the singer-songwriter heads to a performance rehearsal with his dapper or exquisitely dressed bandmates. Watch the music video below to see how it all pans out. Does the baritone vocal artist keep his lady happy, or does he stick around and hurt her? You’ll have to wait and determine it for yourselves.

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    The new single and its Loris Russier-directed music video are above.

  • Hear Chuck D’s awaking 14-track effort ‘Radio Armageddon’, from the legend’s ‘Chuck D Presents Enemy Radio’ series

    The GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement award recipient has something real and heavy to say, as the living legend did in 1985.

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    From Snoop Dogg’s surprise album ‘Iz It a Crime?’ to Xzibit and Ice Cube’s collaboration track ‘For the Love’ featuring Lorine Chia, our elite rapping forefathers are making gracious comebacks in the effervescent market. To my pleasant surprise, I woke up to an email in my inbox from Chuck D’s record label, Def Jam, about his masterly executed new musical effort aptly called ‘Chuck D Presents Enemy Radio: Radio Armageddon’.

    How does it sound? It reveres a time in Hip-Hop (The Golden Era) when lyrics were delivered clearly and passionately as if their lives depended on it. Fully crammed with juicy sampled audio from live shows, classic movies, deejay scratching, sirens as heard on the streets of New York City and scattered vintage radio snippets, and more, the Public Enemy founder’s resonant carries in stereo and feels like your father or intelligent and experienced big brother peels back the curtains on.

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    Described as “a seismic broadcast of truth, rhythm and resistance, uniting Hip-Hop’s pioneers and new gens alike in a militant soundtrack for the times”, it is something that I hope he continues to do by releasing more ‘Radio Armaggedon’ episodes and that he introduces younger people to artists/wordsmiths they’ve never heard of from the eighties, nineties, and further out. I’m excited!

    To the Hip-Hop heads out there, Chuck D’s ‘Radio Armageddon’ is also officially available on compact disc and vinyl. For the ones who listen to music on streaming services, take your dose of in-your-face truth below. It’s said to be fourteen tracks with soul-stirring, hard-to-hear messages for the times, targeting the younger generations and Black people in particular. (See: ‘Black Don’t Dead’ with DJ Too Tuff and ‘New Gens’ with Daddy-O)

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    About the project, Chuck D shares, “Radio Armageddon is not just an album, it’s a frequency. This project is a broadcast of resistance, revolution and rhythm. I’m proud to have these warriors alongside me on the dial.”

    According to the press release, the album was produced and mixed by C-Doc for DefBeat Posse Productions, ID! and co-produced and deconstructed by DJ MROK for Philly Wicked Productions with vocal engineering and additional production by JP Hesser at Castaway 7 Studios, Ventura, California.
     

  • Spill Tab’s ‘Hold Me’ lyrics

    Read the lyrics to Spill Tab’s new song ‘Hold Me’ in English.

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    Don’t you dare pick up the phone
    I’m not gonna hold you to that anymore
    I, I really hate it when you let me down
    I really saved it in my body

    How can I change the seasons when they’re just now forming?
    How can I change the fabric of a dead end story?
    I’m just a person and the breaking has no glory
    I’m just a person on this cold december morning

    And i get quiet
    I get quiet around you now
    And that’s so violent
    To be a distant thing you’ll live without

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    I’d hate to have to do this alone
    It’s a sobering thought
    Hey
    I’d really like you to hold me
    Hold me

    Do you dream about me now?
    (Dream about me)
    I wake up hoping that we’re back at your house

    I really hate the way i let you down
    (Let you down)
    You made me nervous so i shut off
    And i get quiet
    I get quiet around you now
    And that’s so violent
    To be a distant thing you’ll live without

    I’d hate to have to do this alone
    It’s a sobering thought
    Hey
    I’d really like you to hold me
    Hold me

    I’d hate to have to do this alone
    It’s a sobering thought
    Hey
    I’d really like you to hold me
    Hold me

    (Oos)

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  • André 3000 shares new instrumental project ‘7 Piano Sketches’, released after Met Gala 2025 red carpet appearance

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    Categorised under “Alternative” on Apple Music (and tucked into the same corners on your favourite streaming services), André 3000’s new seven-track offering feels less like an album and more like a late-night letter scribbled in melody. Each title—deliciously disarmingly long—reads like a stream of consciousness, a thought unfurling in real-time. According to the press release, this Atlanta legend stripped everything back to one instrument, one room, one soul—solo piano pulses carrying the weight of a lifetime. It follows on the heels of ‘New Blue Sun’, the shapeshifting project that snagged him three GRAMMY nods—including the nearly mythical Album of the Year slot.

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    What does it sound like? Imagine slipping into your childhood home at dusk. Your aunt is tinkling the keys in the living room, unsure whether she’s performing for an audience or simply proclaiming where her heart has roamed. That intimate moment—when a piano’s resonance feels like a whispered conversation—hovers throughout ‘7 Piano Sketches’. It’s the kind of record that makes you ache for the dialogues you never had, the confessions you never heard, the silences you’d give anything to break. And maybe, just maybe, that yearning is the point.

    Clocking in at under twenty minutes, this body of work is brief, but seeing André 3000’s name across the tracklist is unexpectedly comforting—like finding an old friend in a new place. Here, the artist who once redefined Hip-Hop with OutKast is rediscovering the spacious freedom of pre-fame experimentation, and it feels both radical and beautiful. He dropped ‘7 Piano Sketches’ at 8 PM EST, mere moments after stepping onto this year’s Met Gala red carpet in a custom piano-inspired ensemble by Burberry x Benji Bixby (all lower-case, like the album), styled by Law Roach under the Superfine: Tailoring Black Style theme. What began almost a decade ago—in a sparsely furnished Texas house with nothing but a piano, beds, and flickering TV screens—finally sees daylight in spring’s promise of rebirth.

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    André 3000 himself called this “The Best Worst Rap Album In History”—“worst” because there are no lyrics; “best” because it’s the free-est he’s ever felt. As he prepares to receive an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee on May 10 and join the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in November, ‘7 Piano Sketches’ stands as a gentle reminder: even legends need space to play. Press play. Let the conversation begin.

  • Listen to BIA’s new power-punching anthem ‘We On Go’

    She’s bad-ass!

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    Today, BIA released her new power-punching anthemic single ‘We On Go’. On the track, the Massachusetts musical starlet calls out people for stealing her tones, being watched on replay like a Reel on Instagram, and explains why her competitors cannot be her equal in this lifetime. The song is so good and competitive that it was handpicked by the worldwide leader in sports, ESPN, as a marquee soundtrack for the WNBA and NCAA Women’s Final Four broadcasts starting in April. How impressive?!

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    The infectious single was produced by the pioneering legend, Da Honorable CNOTE (born in Michigan and rose to fame in Atlanta).

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  • Don Toliver talks to Apple Music about working with Doja Cat, upcoming Apple original film ‘F1’, and more

    Don Toliver joins Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 to speak about the new music from the upcoming Apple original film ‘F1’ and working with Doja Cat.

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    Don Toliver talks to Apple Music about working with Doja Cat

    Zane Lowe: You and Doja, man. This whole idea of getting her on a song and just hearing it back and knowing that you’ve got this collaboration, how’d that feel?

    Don Toliver: Crazy, honestly. Doja’s very talented, it was very … It was like we got in there and got it done, man. We both love the ‘F1’, so it was really a no-brainer. It was so crazy.

    Zane Lowe: It must be nice as well to work in soundtrack land and not be so focused on, just for a second, on 12, 15, 20 songs that have to be a cohesive body of work for you. But just to be able to single in on one song and just make it as great as possible.

    Don Toliver: Exactly. It makes the whole thing way more locked in, tunnel vision to the whole idea, the vision. It just made everything so fun. It’s crazy.

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    Don Toliver talks to Apple Music about what he is working on right now

    Zane Lowe: What are you working on, man? Can I be cheeky and ask you how music is for you right now?

    Don Toliver: Music is doing me well, man. I’m just being creative. I’m having fun. I’m producing more of my records. It’s like I’ve been recording for so long and just figuring out all these different melodies, and just starting to get deeper and deeper into just the whole production behind all my music. It’s getting crazy, honestly.

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    Don Toliver talks to Apple Music about playing piano more

    Zane Lowe: I hope I’m not betraying trust, but I’m sure it’s pretty cool because you know how much I appreciate both you and your better half, man, and the family that you’ve built. It’s always great catching up with Kali and we had a really good conversation as always, and she mentioned that you’ve been on the piano and taking yourself even deeper into your craft.

    Don Toliver: Yeah. No, I have. I’ve been playing the piano, man. Just playing all types of different keyboards, honestly. And it’s just like I got a feel for certain melodies and things, so I’m just exploring. It’s fun. It’s amazing. Playing the piano with my son, it’s fun.

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  • Mariah the Scientist joins Summer Walker to discuss touring, mental health, and more on Apple Music

    Mariah the Scientist joins Summer Walker for Episode 6 of Over It Radio, where the two discuss their songwriting process, touring and mental health.

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    Video | Summer Walker and Mariah the Scientist: Biology, heartbreak and touring | Over It Radio

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    Mariah the Scientist talks to Summer Walker about going on tour with friends

    Summer Walker: How was the tour when you was on it?

    Maria the Scientist: I feel like sometimes when you make friends with somebody who also makes music, you like to assume that it’s like, “Okay cool…” And it is different for the boys. Maybe I’m always assuming this because all the rappers who are friends, the lines between working and playing have totally been blurred. They don’t even exist. They’re not insistent. With the girls, obviously we work, we play. All those things, but you assume, “Okay, cool. I’m going on tour with my friend. We’re going to be partying hard. We’re on the town.”

    Summer Walker: What y’all do? Y’all just went to sleep?

    Mariah the Scientist: We didn’t do a damn thing.

    Summer Walker: It be like that.

    Summer Walker: Where is your favorite place to perform, if you have one?

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    Mariah the Scientist talks to Summer Walker about her favorite place to perform

    Mariah the Scientist: My favourite place that I did was a tabernacle in Atlanta. I just love the Tabernacle. It’s just such a classic venue. I just always wanted to play that and they tried to ask me did I want to play another venue instead of doing two days there, and it was just like, “No, it’s the Tabernacle.” I just felt like it was so lit. I just loved everything about it.

    Summer Walker: What do you love about it specifically?

    Mariah the Scientist: I just love the architecture. I felt like when I was a child I used to, I probably wasn’t supposed to be in there, but there were sometimes I was in there breathing in the Zaza and the air and just seeing the lights come through, the smoke and just all those things.

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    Mariah the Scientist talks to Summer Walker about what she is over

    Mariah the Scientist: Feeling like I need to pull the receipts out, or I need to show the evidence or the proof that the other person is wrong. It’s like, let’s just let them be wrong. It’s okay. It’s okay. They wrong. So, I’m really over that. I’m saying I’m over it, but it’s a work in progress. You tell me what you’re over then I’m going to dig into my Rolodex and try to match your energy.

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    Mariah the Scientist talks to Summer Walker about what she should be over but is not

    Summer Walker: What is something that you should be over but you’re not?

    Mariah the Scientist: I am a firm believer, give from the heart, not of the pocket or… Obviously that’s a little metaphorical but something like that. But I just feel like sometimes when you are giving it up, you’re giving it up. And you can’t wait on somebody to reciprocate it or you can’t expect something in return when you’re giving anything away. Whether it be like maybe it’s not necessarily something tangible, maybe it’s more internal thing or whatever the case may be. But I feel like once you do it so much, you’re doing it so much now it’s like you don’t even have… They’re not giving anything back for one and for two, you don’t even have anything to give yourself anymore.

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    Mariah the Scientist talks to Summer Walker about the concept behind her next album

    Mariah the Scientist: I will tell you. I’m going to tell you the concept.

    Summer Walker: Okay.

    Mariah the Scientist: The concept is a little green toy soldier. It represents being dedicated to a cause that you’re willing to die for, but you’re small and you’re a toy, and you’re not really taken seriously. I’m not going to sleep with a toy soldier in my room thinking it’s going to kill me tonight. It’s a joke, almost. And I feel like it’s a metaphor for the women. That’s how men see us.

    Summer Walker: That’s really deep.

    Mariah the Scientist: They see us like we’re going so hard for all of this shit, and it’s just like they’re just-

    Summer Walker: You’re a fucking joke.

    Mariah, the Scientist: They’re just doing it and we’re just like, “It’s nothing.” It’s a modern man’s war on love.

  • Watch Young Thug’s hyper-energetic video for ‘Money on Money’ featuring Future

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    GRAMMY Award-winning, diamond-certified superstar Young Thug makes his triumphant return today with ‘Money On Money’ featuring Future. Produced by Southside, Wheezy, Beatzbyrrose, Dez Wright, and 9jay, the track – which marks the massively influential Hip-Hop icon’s first new solo track in more than eighteen months – is joined by an official music video directed by Kaito and Brendan O’Connor.

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    ‘Money On Money’ heralds the upcoming arrival of Young Thug’s hugely anticipated fourth solo album, ‘UY Scuti’, due this Summer. The album – which takes its name from what is often called the biggest known star in the Universe, a red supergiant located 5,900 light-years away in the constellation Scutum – has been teased in recent weeks by a series of enigmatic clues, from a custom basketball jersey held up by Young Thug while courtside at a Miami Heat game and a cryptic tweet from ‘Money On Money’ collaborator Future to a mysterious billboard spotted near Coachella earlier this month.

    Young Thug will celebrate ‘UY Scuti’ with a busy live schedule, this Summer will see top-billed appearances at an array of international festivals, including Chicago’s Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash Festival 2025 (June 22), Gräfenhainichen, Germany’s Splash! 2025 (July 4), Liège, Belgium’s Les Ardentes Festival 2025 (July 5), Costinesti, Romania’s Beach, Please! Festival (July 10), Frauenfeld, Switzerland’s Openair Frauenfeld 2025 (July 11), and Warsaw, Poland’s Clout 2025 (July 12). Additional dates will be announced.

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    Young Thug
    Summer Shows 2025

    June

    22 – Chicago, IL – The Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash Festival 2025 *

    July

    4 – Gräfenhainichen, Germany – Splash! 2025 *
    5 – Liège, Belgium – Les Ardentes Festival 2025 *
    10 – Costinesti, Romania – Beach, Please! Festival 2025 *
    11 – Frauenfeld, Switzerland – Openair Frauenfeld 2025 *
    12 – Warsaw, Poland – Clout 2025 *

    * denotes festival performance