Today’s Morning Wood is 24-year-old Nigerian-British singer/rapper J-Sol (born Samuel Stephen Olatunbosun). J-Sol is the son of a preacher and grew up in the church where he honed his craft playing the drums every Sunday. Eventually, he and his siblings joined the church’s gospel choir where he was encouraged to follow his dreams.
On Thursday, rapper Young Thug released a sign language video for his track “Anybody” featuring the comeback queen Nicki Minaj. Thugger has a brother who is a deaf mute. The rapper previously said he planned to take a yearlong hiatus from music to live his life as a deaf man.
Nicki Minaj released a teaser for her music video for her “Barbie Tingz” hit. Nicki captioned the teaser: “Check out the trailer to my #BarbieTingz video on @tidal NOW – shot by the INCREDIBLE @gb65… so proud of my glam team. @bcompleted @brettalannelson @officialsheiks @kimblehaircare”.
On Thursday, Nicki Minaj dropped 2 sizzling new tracks, “Barbie Tingz” and “Chun Li”. On her track “Barbie Tingz”, Nicki went straight for Cardi B‘s jugular. “How you still dissin’, still can’t find some hits?,” rapped Nicki, clearly referencing the one-hit rapper.
She continued:
Fans are raving about “Barbie Tingz” on social media.
Nicki announced her return to reclaim her throne on Instagramm.com on Tuesday. She released artwork covers for her singles which showed she has not tamed down her sexy image.
Nicki Minaj is masterminding her huge rap comeback. In addition to sending new tracks to select bloggers and music critics last week, Nicki took to Instagram.com and announced she will drop 2 new tracks, entitled “Barbie Tingz” and “Chun-Li,” at 10am Pacific Standard Time on Thursday, April 12.
Cardi B dropped her debut album, Invasion of Privacy on Friday morning. If you’re not a Cardi fan, you’re not missing anything. Cardi’s music is for youngsters who chase temporary highs. They’ll play the album once to say they heard it, then move on to the next one-hit wonder.
Rapper Cardi B dropped the music video for her 2017 track “Bartier Cardi”, featuring 21 Savage. Her fiancé Offset makes an appearance in the video. It’s unusual for a rapper to release a music video several months after the song dropped, but Cardi is an unusual rap artist.
Poor Cardi B. It’s beginning to look like the Bronx rapper’s smash hit “Bodak Yellow” was just a fluke. The 25-year-old is still struggling to come up with her second solo hit song. Cardi actually sings the chorus on “Be Careful”, which sounds like elevator music.
Migos dropped the new music video for their track “Walk It Talk It,” featuring Drake with intro by Jamie Foxx.
Pop singer Bruno Mars is still catching heat for profiting off of black music. A video posted on social media on March 8th criticizing Mars has garnered under just 3 million views.
Struggling rapper Safaree Samuels leaked his own nudes 2 weeks ago to promote his current single “Hunnid”. Today he released the music video on Worldstar.
Drake dropped his much-anticipated music video for his single “God’s Plan”. The video was taped on location in Miami, Florida last week. Drake made headlines for giving away the entire music video budget — $996.631.90 — to Floridians, including a high schooler who received a $50,000 scholarship to the University of Miami.
Black rappers are beginning to question the hip-hop industry’s sudden love affair with non-black rappers.
Rap producer Sonny Digital has noticed the industry’s emphasis on white rappers and producers.
DJ Khaled, Post Malone (“Rockstar”), Tekashi69, aka 6ix9ine, and Lil Pump (“Gucci Gang”) are just some of the white rappers who are highly favored by the music industry right now.
Justin Bieber is reportedly skipping the Grammy Awards for the 2nd year in a row. The 23-year-old Canadian singer believes the awards show is no longer relevant, even as he is nominated for 3 trophies — all for his collaboration with Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee on the hit remix of their #1 hit song “Despacito”.
In 2017, Justin reportedly skipped the Grammy Awards because he, “doesn’t think the Grammys are relevant or representative, especially when it comes to young singers.”
Rapper Cardi B released her latest track, titled “Bartier Cardi” featuring mumble rapper 21 Savage, just in time for the New Year. The track is getting mixed reviews from hip-hop fans who consistently compare the Bronx native to Nicki Minaj.
Cardi and 21 rhyme about (what else) b*tches, ho*s, jewelry, cars — you know, the trappings of rap success.