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Cardi B shared a teaser for her new song “Hot Sh*t,” due on streaming platforms on July 1.  The 15-second teaser scans across a city at sunset, and finds Cardi perched on top of a skyscraper. Cardi wrote in the caption of the teaser: “My new single “Hot S***” available everywhere THIS FRIDAY 7/1.  Tomorrow 8pm I got another surprise for y’all, tune in.”

The Game and Hit-Boy have teamed up on the new song “Violence”, the follow-up to The Game’s previous offering “Eazy” with Kanye West, which dropped earlier this year.  You can stream Violence – here.

City Girls are teaming up with Usher for a summer anthem titled “Good Love.”

Drake has scored his 11th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with his seventh studio album, ‘Honestly, Nevermind’, earning 204,000 equivalent album units in its first week of release – 11,000 of those being pure album sales. The 14-track LP also scored the fourth-largest streaming week (250.23 million streams) for an album in 2022.  Drake has now moved past Kanye West and Eminem to tie Bruce Springsteen and Barbara Streisand for the third-most No. 1s in the history of the Billboard 200, trailing only the Beatles (19) and Jay-Z (14).

Ms. Lauryn Hill, Lil Baby, Jazmine Sullivan, Jeezy, and the duo of Rick Ross and Gucci Mane lead the bill for the 12th ONE Musicfest, to be held Oct. 8-9 in and around Atlanta’s Central Park.  The lineup also features R&B and hip-hop acts including Ashanti and Ja Rule, City Girls, Jagged Edge, Beenie Man, Lupe Fiasco, Tems, Juvenile, Bilal, Mya and Doug E. Fresh with the Chuck Brown Band.