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    Rihanna Trolls Fans Asking Her About New Album

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    Fans are not the only ones who are eager to listen to the Fenty founder’s new music as Ariana Grande reveals in a new interview that she can’t wait for Rihanna’s new album.
    May 14, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Fans have been pestering Rihanna about the release of her new album since it has been 4 years since she released her latest album “ANTI”. They have been asking the singer about it at any given chance and recently, the “Umbrella” hitmaker responded to some of the inquiries on her Instagram account.
    This started after a fan wrote in the comment section underneath Rih’s recent Instagram post, “WHERES THE ALBUM.” Rihanna noticed the comment and hilariously replied, “I lost it,” adding a shrug emoji.
    That was not the only comment that Rih responded to. She playfully asked her fandom, The Navy, to come at someone whom she said was responsible of the album delay. “DON’T DROP DAT ALBUM,” the person wrote, to which Rih replied, “Navy this who to blame. right here look.”

    Fans were not the only ones who were eager to listen to the Fenty founder’s new music. Just like others, Ariana Grande revealed in a new interview that she couldn’t wait for Rihanna’s new album. “I get it, I appreciate it, and I’m really glad that she’s putting in so much effort,” Ari said of waiting for the new album.
    “It means a lot. But I also, really, I listen to Anti every day. Like, I think it’s time. I need it. Sorry, she’s gonna, like, hate me for saying that but I want it so bad,” she continued.
    Rihanna previously talked about when will she release the album in an interview with British Vogue. “I can’t say when I’m going to drop,” she explained. “But I am very aggressively working on music.”
    “I don’t want my albums to feel like themes.. there are no rules. There’s no format. There’s just good music, and if I feel it, I’m putting it out,” she added. “I feel like I have no boundaries. I’ve done everything — I’ve done all the hits, I’ve tried every genre — now I’m just, I’m wide open. I can make anything that I want.”

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    Ariana Grande Saving 'Favorite' Doja Cat Collaboration for Time to Release Album Again

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    During an Apple Music interview, the ‘Stuck With U’ singer recalls working with the ‘Say So’ hitmaker on the song toward the end of 2019, and spills on how her collaborator first reacted to the track.
    May 14, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Ariana Grande has a collaboration with Doja Cat under her sleeve. Shortly after the “Juicy” rapper and Nicki Minaj claimed their first number one on the Billboard Hot 100 with their “Say So” remix, the “Thank You, Next” hitmaker came forward with a revelation that the two of them had worked on a song together, and she was waiting for the right time to release it.
    Speaking to Zane Lowe for Apple Music’s Beats 1, the 26-year-old singer first expressed her fascination at the 24-year-old rapper. “I love her,” she admitted. “I was able to work with her earlier this year on this song that I want to save for whenever it’s time again, to drop. I love her personality. I love what she brings to the table musically. She’s just such a breath of fresh air. I think she’s brilliant and so talented.”
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    During the Wednesday, May 13 interview, Grande also recalled the first time she showed the song to the MC. “I remember when I first wrote it and sent it to her, she was in the shower and she was like, ‘B***h, I love this. I’m in the shower.’ And I was like, ‘Shower. You can call me back,’ ” she recounted. “She called me back, and she was twerking to it, and her hair was falling off. She twerked so hard that her wig fully flew off.”
    “She had a whole verse done, everything was done,” the ex-fiancee of Pete Davidson continued sharing. “I was like, ‘First of all, you ate.’ She was like, ‘How many bars can I take? Because this is mad inspiring and I want to just go.’ And I was like, ‘Take as many bars as you want. Do it. If you’re inspired to say stuff, let’s go.’ And so she just goes off on it, and it’s so much fun, and I love it. It’s my favorite so far.”
    Still, when asked if she is using her time in quarantine amid the coronavirus pandemic to work on a new album, Grande stated, “There’s nothing to tell.” She explained, “I’m not putting one out. Talk to you when that’s, I mean, I’ve been making stuff. I’ve been making a lot of stuff, but that’s not where my head is at right now.”
    About feeling creative while at home, the “7 Rings” hitmaker admitted, “I think as far as creating goes, it feels really good.” Nonetheless, she was quick to add, “But also, I don’t really feel comfortable putting anything out right now, because it’s just like other than this, it’s a really tricky time for all of that.”

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    Travis McCready Fails to Seek Approval From Health Department for His Concert Amid Pandemic

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    The Bishop Gunn vocalist might be forced to call off his live concert in Arkansas as he is facing a cease and desist notice from Health Department amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis.
    May 14, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Travis McCready’s socially-distanced gig on Friday, May 15, 2020 looks set to be shut down as Arkansas’ Department of Health prepare to serve him with a cease and desist notice.
    The Bishop Gunn frontman revealed earlier this month that he was going to play America’s first concert featuring enforced social distancing measures amid the coronavirus lockdown at the TempleLive venue in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
    Only 229 seats at the 1,100 capacity venue have been sold, creating socially distanced pods of fans, with all those in attendance required to wear face masks and have their temperature taken before arriving at the concert – which is scheduled to take place three days before the state’s Governor Asa Hutchinson has stated gigs may be held again.
    However, in his daily briefing on Tuesday, May 12, 2020, Hutchinson said that the concert violates the state’s timing and capacity restrictions, as well as failing to seek the required approval from the Department of Health.
    As such, “there will be a cease and desist order that will be issued by the Department Of Health directing that that concert not take place, which is an official legal order and directive that will go out,” he said.
    McCready has yet to respond to the latest development.

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    Swizz Beatz Says Rappers Should Pay 'Taxes' to Hip-Hop Founders

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    The producer husband of Alicia Keys wants rappers to pay a million dollars each to the hip-hop pioneers like Melle Mel, Grandmaster Flash, and Sugarhill Gang.
    May 14, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Swizz Beatz has called on the rap stars of today to pay “taxes” to hip-hop’s founders.
    The star spoke out on the issue during a chat with Joe Budden on his Beatz’s Zone Radio on Instagram Live, where he suggested he wants to “raise a million dollars for each icon that started hip-hop.”
    “The fact we’re not paying taxes on who started hip-hop shows we don’t f**king really love hip-hop,” he explained, reported the New York Post’s gossip column Page Six. “The fact we don’t pay taxes as artists to those icons that paved the way took the lower cut for the music that allowed us to feed our families.”
    The star, real name Kasseem Dean, added, “We need to be paying taxes to the creatives of hip-hop that gave us freedom of speech to go forward.”
    “Melle Mel, Grandmaster Flash, and Sugarhill Gang, minimum a million a piece.”
    The “Echo” hitmaker made the comments after saying he wanted to stage a rap battle between Rakim and Big Daddy Kane. He also claimed that a similar face-off between his wife Alicia Keys and singer John Legend, in which they will both play the piano, is also in the works.

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    Kelly Rowland Talks About the Time Destiny's Child Was Boo-ed in 2001

    The one third of the ‘Say My Name’ hitmaker reveals in a YouTube video that prior to hitting the stage, they were like, ‘Are we going to do this, are we going to go out here?’
    May 13, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Destiny’s Child is one of the greatest girl groups of all time but that doesn’t mean they never experienced a dark time throughout their career. Back in 2001, the singers received a roaring “boo” from the audience when they hit the Hot 97’s Summer stage. While it’s not a happy memory to remember, member Kelly Rowland reveals in a new interview that the experience taught them something.
    “It prepared us, because what was so interesting was like, around that time Destiny’s Child was crossing over, and because we were crossing over, I think that it was a question if we were still down or black, or…you know what I mean?” said Kelly in a YouTube video. “At that time we crossed over so that was just in question, which is ridiculous.”
    Going on recalling the moment, Kelly said, “Before we went out there, it was that overwhelming loud ‘boo’ and it was…we were looking at each other like, ‘Are we going to do this, are we going to go out here?’ ”
    “I saw the look in [Beyonce Knowles]’ eyes and I was like, ‘If she’s going out there I’m not letting her go out there by herself. Like, I’m going with her.’ And then it was like a trickle effect, and then we were out there, we were on the stage.”
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    Kelly shared they ran off stage as soon as they finished performing their set. She said, “I don’t think it was anything anybody could’ve told us at that time. Here we are at the height of our career and we are being praised everywhere except for in our neighborhood. In the space that first took us on and gave us so much love.”
    Whether the booing had something to do with their race, Kelly said, “I don’t want to say that the color of our skin was questioned but it was like, ‘Y’all too popular. Y’all too big for your britches so we got to humble you.’ That was some of it too.”

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    Rihanna Beats Elton John for Third Place on Britain's 2020 Richest Musicians List

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    Raking in almost $576 million in 2019, the ‘Umbrella’ hitmaker falls behind Andrew Lloyd Webber and Paul McCartney, but dominates over the likes of Mick Jagger and Ed Sheeran.
    May 13, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Londoner Rihanna has pipped Sir Elton John to third place on a new list of Britain’s richest musicians thanks to the success of her lingerie and cosmetics lines.
    The “Umbrella” singer, who was born in Barbados but now lives in the U.K., raked in almost $576 million (£468 million) last year to land third place on the Sunday Times’ annual list of wealthy hitmakers, behind Andrew Lloyd Webber and Sir Paul McCartney, who share the top spot with $980 million (£800 million) apiece.
    Elton comes in fourth place with a not-too-shabby $441,000 (£360 million) and Sir Mick Jagger rounds out the 2020 top five with $349 million (£285 million).
    Keith Richards and Ringo Starr also make the top 10, as do Sting, Ed Sheeran and Sir Rod Stewart, who all tie for the 10th spot.
    The Sunday Times’ Top 10 Richest Musicians in Britain:

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    Cardi B Shares New Snippet of Unreleased Song Dedicated to Daughter Kulture

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    In honor of Mother’s Day, the ‘Bodak Yellow’ raptress unveiled over the weekend another part of the track she wrote for her daughter that samples Eve’s ‘Love Is Blind’.
    May 13, 2020
    AceShowbiz – While her fans are eagerly anticipating her next album, Cardi B treated her followers to a new snippet of her unreleased track dedicated to her daughter Kulture. In honor of Mother’s Day, the raptress jumped to Instagram Live over the weekend to preview the song, which she wrote for her and Offset’s child.
    “From that, sonogram when I saw your little hand/ Legs got weak when I heard your heartbeat/ I cried for you, prayed for you, even lost sleep,” she mouthed the lyrics as the song played in the background in the clip. “Little life growing inside of me/ Whole world has been dying to see/ I just wanted a little time for me/ This is invasion of privacy.”
    Cardi recorded the track in 2018, while she was pregnant with Kulture and recording songs for her Grammy Award-winning debut album, “Invasion of Privacy”. She previously unveiled another part of the song, which samples Eve’s 1999 single “Love Is Blind”, in 2019 when celebrating her daughter’s 1st birthday in July.
    “Thank you everybody for wishing my sweet baby a Happy Birthday,” the Bronx femcee wrote in an Instagram post along with a video that compiled footage of Kulture. She continued in the caption, “I made this song one day before I turned in my album and Eve gave me the green light for the beat I was so grateful! She a real one!”

    On why the song didn’t make it into her highly successful debut studio album, Cardi explained at the time, “It didn’t make it on time tho cause as you can hear I was maaa stuffy with a terrible cold.I couldn’t get it right no matter how many times I spit it Even when we try to mix it u still sound stuffy . I love my baby she changed my life.”

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    Beyonce Forced to Call Off Cardi B Duet Due to Leak

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    Beyonce Knowles was ready to collaborate with the ‘Bodak Yellow’ hitmaker but the latter’s producer ruined it by prematurely announcing the project on social media.
    May 13, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Plans for a highly-anticipated 2017 collaboration between Beyonce Knowles and Cardi B were scrapped for good when the news leaked online, according to the producer behind the song.
    Rumours about the secret project first hit headlines in October 2017, when Michael Ashby, who goes by the name Ashby the Mix Engineer, sent fans into a frenzy after posting a picture of his computer screen on his Instagram Story timeline, showing a mixing programme with a file titled, “Cardi B ft Beyonce Demo.”
    He captioned the picture, “Wow this feature is big,” but stopped short of sharing any further details.
    He subsequently apologised to the two stars for making the big reveal while Cardi played coy as she insisted she had never met Ashby, the engineer behind her breakout hit “Bodak Yellow”, and denied knowing anything about the proposed song.
    Now producer J White Did It, who had been quietly developing the track, has opened up about the debacle, admitting the studio get-together between Beyonce and Cardi was ditched the moment Ashby made it public because the “Formation” icon is known for keeping an air of mystery around her work.
    “Three years ago I had a Beyonce play with Cardi and that kinda went sour because it went viral that they was doing a song together and that cut out (sic),” J White Did It explained in an Instagram video.
    “I was just as giddy as everybody else (about the collaboration),” he shared, before recalling the moment he knew that project was dead, “I was sitting there just waiting, looking on the Internet, then it leaked…”
    The beatmaker, who also worked on “Bodak Yellow”, has since been granted a new opportunity to team up with Beyonce as he produced the “Savage Remix” she recently recorded with rap newcomer Megan Thee Stallion.

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