This continues to be a beautiful blossoming scene for the R&B scene, and artists like Ella Mai are a huge part of that. Throughout her second album, Ella Mai opens up to her listeners and shares the depths of her soul. This time around, the London-born R&B singer embarks on a personal journey, giving us insight into what her mind is like than ever before. Her new album Heart On My Sleeve comes out today, May 6. There are many differences between this album and Mai’s impressive self-titled debut album, which was released in 2018. That album went double platinum in the US and was a big hit. Boo’d Up, the album’s chart-topping lead-single, garnered a Grammy award for best pop song.
Despite the passage of time since her debut album was released, Ella Mai has an air of maturity and transparency as she embarks upon her new phase. She could only reach this viewpoint by fully embracing all of love’s challenges and completely embracing who she was as a woman. Having downloaded her debut album over 2.5 million times, the singer entered the next phase of her career knowing people all around the world were eagerly anticipating her second release.
Thanks to the generosity of her label, Ella Mai was given the time and space to work at her own pace. With quite a bit of freedom over her creative process, Ella Mai began to think about exactly what she wanted to express. “Everything that could possibly come to mind was going through my head,” she says about the process. The tour of 2019 had kept me out of the studio for a while because I had been touring all year. Thus, when I started recording the alalbum, I had to reconnect to with the studio again.”
A project by Ace Hood called M.I.N.D., which had 10 introspective tracks, was released in February. Killer Mike is the only featured artist on M.I.N.D.’s track “Greatness“, and the official accompanying video has just been released (May 5). The visually enthralling visual pays homage to the late Young Dolph and Nipsey Hussle with clips and artwork throughout the visual while Ace Hood sings emotion-filled verses:
Earlier this year, Ace Hood released his fifth studio album Mr. Hood, his first release since splitting with We The Best excluding his Body Bag and Trust The Process mixtape series. There are 14 high quality tracks on this project, with contributions from OZ, Alexdynamix, Jacquees and Slim Diesel.
Ace Hood has taken some time to discuss his journey of financial literacy in a recent interview:
“I decided to invest in myself first. This was the first investment I made. My involvement began while I was a member of Dollaz N Dealz back in Deerfield. Although we were labeling ourselves at that time, I felt like I could accomplish more. I have always dreamed big coming from such a small town, so financial literacy has always been a priority to me. As a business, I realized that I needed to invest in myself. Creating my LLC years ago, adopting the business mentality, and trying to treat my money well.”
J Stone announced this week that he would release The Definition Of Sacrifice, the final installment in his trilogy “Definition”. Among the artists who are working on the project are Young Dolph, Swizz Beatz, Jadakiss,, Mozzy, OT Genasis, Styles P, K Camp, and Lumidee. The announcement of the upcoming album was accompanied by release of a brand-new single, “Weekend”. This track features an outstanding feature by the late and legendary Young Dolph and captures the excitement of making it to the end of the week:
The chemistry, the game of independent grind we share, and our shared drive made working with Dolph like working with Nipsey. Almost every single day, he would FaceTime me about shooting the video. “Unfortunately, the unimaginable tragedy took place almost just as hard as Nip’s passing,” Stone said in a press release about the collaboration. Nevertheless, I will stick with the script and the plans that both Dolph and I had for The Weekend because that is what he would have desired. A hymn to remember, a song for a lifetime.”
The Definition of Pain and Ground Zero were two J Stone projects released last year. As for the project, it contains 18 tracks total and features artists such as the late great T.I., Nipsey Hussle, T-Pain, Dom Kennedy, Dave East, Mike D’Angelo, and more. Pacman da Gunman collaborated with Ground Zero. Those two projects were preceded by The Definition of Loyalty from 2019. The Bootleg Kev Podcast’s J Stone confirmed earlier today that a posthumous Nipsey Hussle album will definitely happen someday.
His career has been one to remember, and he is nowhere close to calling it a day. His legacy extends far beyond Atlanta, and he is without a doubt one of the most celebrated artists of the city. Fans have been waiting two years for a follow-up to his High Off Life album and the Freeband Gang leader has been waiting patiently for some new music since then. Though the time seemed to pass fairly quickly, As little as possible is what Future is known for doing to keep his fans waiting. The toxic king has released his ninth studio album I Never Liked You today (April 29) just in time for the end of the month!
Future’s ninth studio album will be released in January. In an interview with GQ earlier this month, the rapper revealed, “I’m putting myself out there.” “I am revealing my lifestyle,” he said. He said that he would share his pain with the world. “I’m willing to share all of me with the universe, so I can learn how to build on me, and become a better version of me.”
Throughout the artwork, a sleeping rapper lies in the backseat of an apparent luxury vehicle, lying comfortably. An eye mask obscures his vision while he sleeps. Wearing an eggplant-purple silk suit and a bracelet and ring around his wrist and fingers, he is shown here in a photograph. The title of Future’s album has also been a big hit among fans, who have made comments in Future’s comment section praising what they see.
A rapper equipped with 16 records, Future featured seven artists: Gunna, Young Thug, Drake (featured twice), Kanye West, EST Gee, Tems, Kodak Black. I Never Liked You is expected to dominate the summer, considering that summer is just around the corner.
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.”
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