It’s evident that Justin Bieber is working on his new album. It appears that he surprised everyone recently with the release of a new single titled “I Feel Funny,” which was intended as a humorous rap song. As well as the song, it was accompanied by a simple phone shot video from Lyrical Lemonade’s Cole Bennett, which showed Bieber and Don Toliver enjoying themselves on the set of a forthcoming video for an upcoming song. On Wednesday, April 29, the Canadian singer and his Houston counterpart will release Bieber’s first official release in 2022, “Honest.”. Naturally, the accompanying video was also created, along with Bennett, in keeping with the collaboration’s glorious vibes that are sure to remain well into the summer months.
Bieber has only been recording music since his sixth studio album Justice dropped a year ago. With subsequent upgrades, that project featured 25 songs and a host of artists, such as Khalid, Daniel Caesar, The Kid LAROI, Lil Uzi Vert, Burna Boy, Jaden, Chance the Rapper, DaBaby, Quavo, and more. The album’s first week of release saw 154,000 album equivalent units sold, earning Justin Bieber his eighth number one ranking on Billboard 200. Additionally, Justice has been awarded Gold and Platinum awards around the world, including one Platinum award in the United States. After releasing 2021, Justin Bieber released a gospel EP titled Freedom weeks after Justice.
Throughout his career, Bieber has contributed his unique vocal style to songs such as Omah Lay “Attention,” DJ Khaled “LET IT GO,” Wizkid “Essence (Remix),” Migos “What You See,” Bryson Tiller “lonely Christmas,” BEAM “SUNDOWN,” Juice WRLD “Wandered To LA,” and Kehlani “up at night.” Together with Toliver, they collaborated on Skrillex’s genre-bending “Don’t Go.”
Blxst is without a doubt among the most exciting new music artists to emerge in recent memory. We like to refer to the sophomore slump as “sophomore slump”; however, this does not describe the Los Angeles phenomenon. His actions indicate that he took that idea and put the extra effort into making sure that wouldn’t be his call this time. He seems to have done so. The spring and summer seasons will be infused with endless bops. The fact that Blxst decided to share some new tunes with us is very convenient in light of this situation. The sophomore album from Blxst, Before You Go, arrives today (Apr 22).
Honestly, Blxst is at an extremely exciting part of his career, and he is just getting started. No Love Lost (released in 2020), his debut album, reached No. 3 on Billboard’s Heatseekers chart in 2020, elevating him from a promising local performer to a credible R&B voice with heat to spare. Fans were not disappointed when he released the platinum-certified single “Chosen” featuring Ty Dolla $ign and Tyga months after the initial release. Due to the success of his debut single, the South Central native began receiving high expectations for his sophomore efforts, a stage at which some artists find it difficult to recapture the magic of their debut project.
The rising star has never slowed down since his arrival and it seems abundantly clear that he has no plans of doing so any time soon. A total of 13 tracks are featured on the LP, including tracks from Rick Ross, Arin Ray, GrandmasterVic, and Zacari.
FKA Twigs unveiled her debut mix tape CAPRISONGS in January, which included 17 genre-bending songs alongside help from artists including Pa Salieu, The Weeknd, Shygirl, Rema, Daniel Caesar, Jorja Smith, Unknown T, and more. Until now, the project has produced visually stimulating visuals for tracks such as “ride the dragon,” “tears in the club,” “meta angel,” “darjeeling,” “jealousy,” and “papi bones.”
Besides that, FKA twigs released a video yesterday (April 19) for “oh my love,” a Jason Scheff and El Guincho -produced track, which is accompanied by messages from Abigail Sakari and Suzannah Pettigrew detailing their experience of being on the wrong side of an inconsistent and lopsided relationship:
Featuring lo-fi footage of FKA Twigs having her nails done at a salon, Aidan Zamiri’s accompanying clip offers a lesson in self-care.
Relatedly, twigs recently released a short film called PLAYSCAPE, which has coincided with this year’s International Woolmark Prize, a prize that honors designers around the world (previous winners includeKarl Lagerfeld and Yves Saint Laurent). Below explains said film:
“Directed by FKA Twigs and creatively directed by Zak Group with choreography by Juliano Nunes, here is the final Lookbook for the IWP2022 collection including Ahluwalia, Jordan Dalah, EGONLAB, Peter Do, MMUSOMAXWELL, RUI and Saul Nash. Isamu Noguchi’s concept of play as a catalyst for creativity inspired Playscape, which merged elements of fashion, dance, and music.”
Day Sulan made some serious waves with the singles “Mascara” and “BIG” with Rubi Rose” in addition to making a massive appearance on the YG show “Equinox.” She also recently collaborated with her 4Hunnid Records boss and fellow labelmate D3szn for the highly anticipated track, Lil Wayne for “Blood Walk” as well as “Hit Em Up,” with YG once again for “Bailar,”
Featuring a sultry video that shows her and her fellow dancers using the track to perfection, she returns today with a brand new single titled “Gravity,” which arrives with a brand new music video.
With her new home team, collaboration and investment have been a key factor in Day Sulan’s success. As she described in a recent interview, being the first lady at 4Hunnid means the following:
“It means a great deal to me. I am getting a great deal of attention from YG. Having him go the extra mile for me only motivates me to do the same. As a result of everything he’s done for me, I’ve got some shit to do. The fact that I am now the first lady of 4HUNNID makes me go crazy. There is no option, it is mandatory.”
EST Gee and 42 Dugg teamed up earlier this month for the release of their joint project Last Ones Left, a collection of 17 tracks that includes contributions from members of each group’s respective crews, including EST DeMike, 42 Cheez, YNT Tae Money, EST Zo, and more. Earlier today (April 15), the upcoming CMG act released a video for the opening track from its upcoming album, Last Ones Left, “Ice Talk,” a track that was produced by Helluva Beats and serves as a courtesy introduction for those who don’t yet know the act:
A video accompanying the article shows the two somewhere possibly tropical, courtesy of Diesel Films. Dugg also continues to catch vibes in various locations around a presumed resort, while he delivers the bars under red lighting. Throughout, the song is short and direct.
The band’s lead singer, Gee, spoke recently with Apple Music’s Ebro Darden about the creation of Last Ones Left:
“Me and Dugg spend most of our time in the studio together. The fact that we have so many songs together makes it only logical that we should release something together. I think both of us are highly sought-after artists, and our fan bases like it, and is convenient for our geographic areas of Michigan and Kentucky. “There will be a lot of good music from me and Dugg.”
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