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  • Aminé talks latest single and upcoming album on Apple Music’s New Music Daily Radio

    Aminé joins Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 to celebrate the release of his latest single, ‘Arc de Triomphe’ from his third studio album, ’13 Months of Sunshine’, dropping on May 16. In the conversation, Aminé discusses the inspiration behind his new song and the meaning of his upcoming album title.

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    Aminé tells Apple Music how The Streets influenced his new song, ‘Arc de Triomphe’

    So, I got the beat played for me by Lido like two or three years ago when we were working on ‘2.5’ and I didn’t know much about The Streets at that point. I grew up in Portland. A lot of the shit that I grew up on was a lot of West Coast Rap, and kind of a lot of grime shit that I listened to, but I didn’t know the backstory behind The Streets. And as Lido showed it to me, I just started listening to ‘Has it Come To This’, ‘Turn the Page’, and ‘Take Me As I Am’. Just all the legendary tracks that everyone gravitated towards too, and it made me realise that this dude is incredible. I had to match how crazy he went and try to at least get an ounce of that swag when I was doing ‘Arc de Triomphe’.

    Aminé tells Apple Music about the meaning behind the album title, ’13 Months of Sunshine’

    I grew up in an Ethiopian household. I’m Eritrean and Ethiopian, but I grew up in this Ethiopian household, always seeing these tourism posters growing up, always saying, “13 months of sunshine.” Every kid in the diaspora who lives in America who’s Ethiopian knows about these posters. It’s kind of like if you know kind of thing. And that title got made in like the 1970s promoting people to come to Ethiopia, just as the tourism slogan in it.

    Tourism slogans are literally made to change the perspective of the way you see something. You know what mean? To attract you to come to them. And I loved how this album, for me, musically, it’s just a different era. It’s just a different sound and felt like this is the same thing I want to do slogan wise for myself. It feels like something I want to change the perspective to and kind of gravitate people towards the music and the true feelings I have for myself. The way that title also for me is just so nostalgic. It just made me feel like this is something my parents are going to be happy to see. I’m just really excited to just let the world hear the whole thing as a whole and hear a lot of the Ethiopian influence in the music. Some of it is so left and not the way you’d expect me to use that influence, which I love doing, because I feel like it’s always really easy to just sample an Ethiopian Jazz song, you know what I mean? And rap some bars over it and go crazy, which I would love to do. It’s so much to choose from.

  • Roddy Ricch tells Apple Music about ‘911’, upcoming project ‘The Navy Album’, and reveals it’s ‘his most vulnerable album yet’

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    Roddy Ricch joins Eddie Francis on Apple Music 1 to discuss his new song ‘911’ and upcoming project, ‘The Navy Album’. He describes the selection process for the songs and how important it is to be vulnerable with fans and give them a taste of what his life is like. The two also discuss the bond he built with his collaborator 30 Roc outside of music and his dedication to give it his all every time he performs.

    Roddy Ricch tells Apple Music about the recording process behind his new album

    I just always be creating bro. That’s just my safe haven, a way to express myself and keep myself fresh. I feel like if I was broke or rich, I’d be doing this, so I just treat it like that, you feel me?

    Roddy Ricch tells Apple Music about the concept for this album

    I mean, I feel like I’m just getting back to my roots of taking my time, being real lethal with my injection, if I will. Just trying to really just give it everything I got and being vulnerable as I can to my fans, allowing them into my life. They going to get a real experience, almost like a soundtrack, a movie experience of what my life is like. I’m really excited, bro.

    Roddy Ricch on working with 30 Roc again on their new track, ‘911’

    Yeah, we never met. We did ‘The Box’ but we ain’t know each other. He just sent the beat and I was in New York and I did that and we made history. Shout out to 30, forever grateful for his friendship. Now after the pandemic, everything settled down, dust settled down, me and my team just sitting like, man, we should get with 30. We reached out, he pulled up in the heart of LA And recorded with us. We started to notice a lot of similarities where it’s like I don’t fuck put a lot of people, he don’t fuck with a lot of people. It was like a lot of things similar. And then his career, just how he had to navigate through that with us having that big hit like that and just having to navigate through life, family and all this. We started making good music just because we built a bond outside of the music. You know what I mean? Even though we didn’t really start necessarily together, we were like brothers damn near right off the bat, as soon as we started the dialogue.

    On performing his music in Los Angeles at the Ken & Friends Pop Out

    My music, it is like something that people can feel, man. ‘Down Below’, ‘Die Young’, all that, that’s really them deep cuts that ‘Racks In the Middle’ shit. ‘Box’ is great, you know I’m saying? It’s great but all that, them deep cuts that people can feel and understand, I just try to give it up my all every time. And even in the hype moments, I try to give my all. I ain’t too much of a crazy performer, but I try to give it my
    all, bro.

    On his future plans

    Bro, I’m always working on music, man. You call me today, tomorrow, next week, next month, next year, 10 years from now I’m going to still be working on music.

  • Bad Bunny tells Apple Music about ‘Ignorantes’ and working with Sech

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    Bad Bunny joins Zane Lowe on New Music Daily and tells Apple Music about his new song ‘Ignorantes’ and his experience working with Sech.

    Video | Bad Bunny Tells Apple Music About ‘Ignorantes’ and Working with Sech

  • Bad Bunny tells Apple Music about new album ‘YHLQMDLG’

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    Bad Bunny joins Zane Lowe on New Music Daily and tells Apple Music about his brand new album ‘YHLQMDLG’. He tells Apple Music about being at the best moment in his career, his love for J Balvin, making ‘6 Rings’ following the tragic passing of Kobe, making the album in Miami in a good happy mood, working with Sech on ‘Ignorantes’, collaborating, and more.

    Video | Bad Bunny Tells Apple Music About ‘La Dificil’ and What to Expect from ‘YHLQMDLG’

    Audio | Bad Bunny Tells Apple Music About ‘La Dificil’, Working with Sech and J Balvin and What to expect from ‘YHLQMDLG’