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    Lil Baby Reflects on 2020 After Artist of the Year Honor at Second Annual Apple Music Awards

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    ‘WAP’ hitmaker Megan Thee Stallion, in the meantime, is named Breakthrough Artist of the Year, and Taylor Swift takes home Songwriter of the Year for ‘Folklore’.

    Nov 19, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Rapper Lil Baby has been honored with the Artist of the Year prize at the second annual Apple Music Awards.
    The honors, which were founded in 2019 by bosses at the streaming service, recognize “the best and boldest musicians of 2020 and their enormous impact on global culture,” according to a press release.
    He was awarded the prize after the star “cemented his place as the indisputable, authentic voice of youth culture” with his 2020 single “The Bigger Picture”.
    Of the win, he says, “This year has changed me a lot. Now that I’m an artist, I feel like my voice can get heard through my music and I needed to say something. And my fans listened. So thank you to my fans and thank you to Apple Music for giving me a special way to connect to my fans.”
    Meanwhile, “WAP” star Megan Thee Stallion was “so excited” to be named Breakthrough Artist of the Year, with her Cardi B collaboration and “Savage” remix with Beyonce Knowles racking more than 300 million streams globally on the site.

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    “This is a really big accomplishment for me,” reflects the hitmaker. “Apple Music has been rocking with me for so long, even before making me an Up Next artist, and I am just very appreciative and very grateful. I will forever love ya’ll as much as ya’ll love me.”
    Elsewhere in the prizegiving, which has a limited five awards, Taylor Swift took home Songwriter of the Year for her “lyrical masterpiece” “Folklore”, and admits the honor is “really special this particular year because songwriting was the one thing that kept me connected to my fans,” amid the pandemic.
    And the final two prizes – Top Song of the Year and Top Album of the Year – went to Roddy Ricch for his track “The Box” and its parent LP Please “Excuse Me for Being Antisocial”.
    “It’s crazy making music could get me to the point where a platform like Apple could honor me or put me on a pedestal,” he confesses. “Winning this award motivates me to work even harder. This is confirmation that I am on the right track and doing what I gotta do to be the greatest in my own right.”
    The winners for global Artist, Songwriter and Breakthrough are hand-selected by Apple Music’s global editorial team, while Top Song and Top Album are based on streaming data from Apple Music subscribers.
    All four honorees will be celebrated during “an exciting week of music” in December, teases Oliver Schusser, Apple’s vice president of Apple Music and Beats.

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    50 Cent and Freddie Gibbs React to Jeezy's Diss Track 'Therapy for My Soul'

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    Freddie takes to Twitter to say that Jeezy should have roasted Gucci Mane, whom he will go against in the next episode of ‘Verzuz’, instead of going after him.

    Nov 19, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Ahead of his “Verzuz” battle against Gucci Mane, Jeezy (Young Jeezy) released a song titled “Therapy for My Soul” where he dissed 50 Cent and Freddie Gibbs. It unsurprisingly didn’t take long for Fiddy to catch wind of that and responded to the diss.
    Seemingly not really bothered by the blast, Fofty thought that Jeezy was just chasing the clout. “Anything to try and sell a record i guess? I’m not available this week,” the “Power” actor/creator wrote, before promoting his TV series, “FOR LIFE is coming on at 10pm tonight. i’m busy LOL #yours**tistrash.”

    Echoing the message, Freddie also reacted similarly to the diss track. Reposting Fiddy’s post on his Instagram Stories, he wrote, “@jeezy Message B***h!” He also took to his Twitter account to clap back at the fiance of Jeannai Mai.
    “BMF put U in a headlock in front of me. U gotta come harder than this snow flake,” Freddie tweeted. “u big mad,” he added, before writing in another post, “I can’t beef with n***a. u got it snow U won.”

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    Freddie then said that Jeezy should have roasted Gucci instead of him. “n***a smoked yo partner and u bout to sit in the room and do a verzuz wit him. Don’t talk no street s**t to me fam,” he said.
    On “Therapy for My Soul”, Jeezy can be heard rapping, “If One-Five wasn’t my dawg, I would’ve touched them/ When that s**t went down with Gibbs, I couldn’t trust ’em/ Invested my hard earn money, tied up my bread.” He adds, “But he gon’ try to tell you I’m flawed, that’s in his head/ It’s happening just the way that I said it, good on your own/ And if I’m honest nothin’ gangsta about you, leave this alone.”
    He also taunts Fiddy, spitting bars, “Since we talkin’ boss talk, let’s address the sucka s**t/ Grown man playin’ on Instagram, real sucka s**t Why the f**k this clown n**** playin’ with my legacy?/ Solid in these streets, that’s some sh*t that you will never be/ Talking ’bout power, but weak n****s do the most/ In real life, n***a you really borrow money from Ghost All that lil’ boy s**t, yeah it make it evident/ Made millions in these streets, what the f**k is 50 Cent?”
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    While Jeezy has yet to respond to Fofty and Freddie’s comments on his track, he will face off each other in the season 2 premiere of “Verzuz” this Thursday, November 19.

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    Cardi B Silences 'Cry Babies' After Backlash Over Billboard's Woman of the Year Title

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    The ‘WAP’ hitmaker is among the honorees at the 15th annual Women in Music celebration which will air at 8 P.M. ET on December 10 and be hosted by Teyana Taylor.

    Nov 19, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Cardi B has reacted to backlash over her being titled as Woman of the Year by Billboard. The “WAP” hitmaker silenced her haters for questioning her credibility for being honored with coveted award.
    In a video which she posted on Instagram on Wednesday, November 18, the wife of Offset said, “For you cry babies like, ‘What? She only got one song.’ Yeah, I got THAT song, b***h.” She went on ranting, “You know the one that sold the most, the one that streamed the most… The one that had your grandma popping her p***y on TikTok.”
    She also explained that her activism in politics was only one of the many reasons why this year was her year. “Using my money, my own money, to meet up with these candidates like Bernie [Sanders]. Flying out, tired after shows. Yeah that’s me, b***h,” the Grammy-winning raptress added. “I represent America. Okay. And I wanted a change and that’s exactly what the f**k I did… I’m just that b***h. Eat it up with a spoon.”

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    Meanwhile, Cardi expressed her gratitude for the title in the caption. “Thank you Billboard!Now I can bring up the stats but that will take me all day,” she wrote. “B***h broke records!” The mother of one also thanked her fans BARDIGANG. “with out y’all encouraging while the world was against me and criticizing every move I wouldn’t have gotten here everyday and use my voice for a change,” she concluded.

    Also among the award recipients at the 15th annual Women in Music celebration are Dolly Parton, Dua Lipa and Jennifer Lopez. Dua Lipa will be handed the Powerhouse Award and Dolly will take home this year’s Hitmaker Award. Meanwhike, J.Lo will be feted with another Icon prize by Billboard. Hosted by Teyana Taylor, the event will air at 8 P.M. ET on December 10.

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    DaBaby Continues to Mourn Brother's Death in New Song 'My Brother's Keeper' – Hear Snippet

    The ‘Rockstar’ hitmaker pays homage to his brother Glenn Johnson, who took his own life on November 3, in the new track set to be released in full on Friday, November 20.

    Nov 19, 2020
    AceShowbiz – DaBaby is using his music to pour out his emotions following the tragic passing of his brother Glenn Johnson. The Grammy Award-nominated artist is paying heartbreaking tribute to his late brother in his new track which is aptly titled “My Brother’s Keeper”.
    On Wednesday, November 18, the 28-year-old star previewed the song with a 1-minute snippet shared on his Instagram page along with the cover art. The cover features a throwback image of him and Glenn as little boys. Young DaBaby was seen holding a sippy cup and his elder brother watched him from the couch while holding a bouncy ball.
    “I’m my brother’s keeper and it’s been like that forever,” he begins in the snippet. “We can’t help the s**t we’ve seen, we had to live through that together/ All these demons on my soul, Lord I need help fighting these devils/ He play with me, he gotta go, go dig a grave and get a shovel.”
    “Get a degree, I’ma help you get there,” Baby raps in the opening verse, recalling how their mother raised them. “Two jobs Mama working minimum wage, barely having welfare/ we was motivated by them pitiful days, we was raised the right way.”

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    The Cleveland native also touches on their sibling fight as kids, “Do the wrong thing, we gеt whooped like a slave/ N***as gon’ go get a switch/ Though you was the oldest so you got it worst/ You was the oldest so you got it first/ I was the baby so I got it easy.”
    He then expresses his feelings in the aftermath of Glenn’s shocking passing as he raps, “I been hurt, ain’t got no feelings since we lost you/ Feel like a prisoner of my mind, no one to talk to/ Never let depression go unchecked, that s**t’ll cost you/ Baby bro gon’ walk down on any n***a that crossed you/ Still in my feelings, that s**t been on my mind/ Need to see somethin’ die, I know who gon’ be my victim.”

    “My Brother’s Keeper” is scheduled to be released in full this Friday, November 20. The tribute song will arrive nearly three weeks after his brother died in suicide by gunshot wound on November 3. Glenn reportedly shot himself in the head in a parking lot on Berkeley Place Drive off Mallard Creek Church Road in Charlotte, North Carolina.
    Earlier in the day, Glenn posted a video in which he claimed that he had been wronged in the past. He was visibly upset and crying, while holding a firearm in a car in the video.

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    Shawn Mendes Gets Real Why Justin Bieber Collaboration Was His Full Circle Moment

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    When sharing the story behind new single ‘Monster’, the ‘Senorita’ hitmaker admits that he’s always been a massive fan of the ‘Holy’ singer, liking him to Elvis Presley.

    Nov 19, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Shawn Mendes was in awe of his “Monster” collaborator Justin Bieber when he started out in music.
    The “Senorita” star has teamed up with Bieber for his latest release, which drops on Friday (November 20), and, speaking to Zane Lowe on Apple Music, Shawn admits he’s always been a massive fan of his newfound pal.
    Of the single, he says, “I think I was coming off the back of a couple of big songs and definitely just so driven by my ego and just feeling like something in this feels not right.”
    “This song has always resonated with me and it just never found its way out,” he explains. “And now all of a sudden I was listening to it one day, and I just started my relationship with Justin.”

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    Shawn says his relationship with Justin only began in the past three months, with the singer sharing, “I called him and I was like, ‘Look, I have this song. It’s kind of going there.’ We go there. It’s about how society can put celebrities up on a pedestal and watch them fall and it seems to be this entertainment thing. And it’s hard. And his heart fell deep into it.”
    “Him and I, even yesterday, were on the phone for an hour and had the deepest conversation, I think, about so much,” he recalls. “And it just felt really nice because it was a full circle moment for me, this guy who was the reason I started singing.”
    Shawn, who is also a Canadian like Justin, continues gushing about his collaborator, “I was nine when ‘One Time’ came out, and I completely was all in. He was Elvis to me. And to come back around and to have this very human to human conversation with him and his truth to come into that song and my truth to be there, it feels like one of the most special songs I’ve ever wrote (sic).”

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    Jesy Nelson Taking 'Extended' Hiatus From Little Mix Amid Health Issues

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    The British singer will not be joining her bandmates Jade Thirlwall, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, and Perrie Edwards until further notice amid unknown health battle.

    Nov 18, 2020
    AceShowbiz – British singer Jesy Nelson will be taking an “extended” break from Little Mix to deal with undisclosed health issues.
    The pop star had to pull out of appearing in the final episode of the girl group’s TV talent show, “Little Mix: The Search”, earlier this month (07Nov20) due to a mystery illness, while she was also absent from the MTV Europe Music Awards on Sunday, when her bandmates Jade Thirlwall, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, and Perrie Edwards served as the event’s hosts.
    Now a spokesperson for the Shout out to “My Ex” hitmakers has revealed Nelson will be sitting out band activities until further notice.

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    “Jesy is having extended time off from Little Mix for private medical reasons,” the representative shared in a statement.
    “We will not be issuing any further comment currently and ask media to please respect her privacy at this time.”
    Before Jesy Nelson’s health issues, the group’s talent show was forced to take a break last month after crew members tested positive for Covid-19. The girls along with the host Chris Ramsey subsequently tested for the virus and the results came back negative.
    While he was “absolutely gutted” by the delay, Ramsey said back then, “Let’s be honest, I think if it was me they would just find another presenter and do the show anyway. See you all next week. Crossed fingers.”

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