New Kid Cudi & Travis Scott Collab, Tik Tok Partners With United Masters and More

Tik Tok has teamed up with the music distribution platform, UnitedMasters to help promote artists that have blown up on the social media app. Tik Tok has always stressed that the app is run off of the creators that often get their inspiration from music. So, Tik Tok partnered with UnitedMasters to allow artists who blow up on their app to distribute their music directly to the app and then from the app to other music services. This will be a game-changer for a lot of young artists who would not get publicity or revenue from people using their songs on Tik Tok.

The YBN rap group recently split up and YBN Cordae wasted no time dropping the “YBN” from his name. Earlier this month, YBN Nahmir tweeted that “They left this YBN shit in the gutter. Remember that. I’ll turn it up myself”. Nahmir says “they” which refers to Cordae and Almighty Jay. YBN Cordae’s name on streaming platforms and on social media has now been changed to Cordae. He also hinted at some new music dropping as we pass the one year anniversary of his grammy-nominated album ‘Lost Boy’.

Travis Scott was recently interviewed by GQ where he talked about his next solo album and also mentioned an album with Kid Cudi. Travis said that he has learned a lot since he dropped Astroworld and he wants to put everything that he has learned into this next album. He also discussed more songs he has with Kid Cudi who he has previously collaborated with on “The Scotts” which was released in April of 2020. Travis says that he and Kid Cudi are making a collab album and some of the songs are already finished.

Juice Wrld has dominated the charts this year even after his tragic death. The rapper had 7 tracks that made it to the top 10 of the hot 100 this year beating out artists like Drake, The Weeknd, and his close friend Young Thug. Juice has had the most songs in the top ten this year over any other artist. His posthumous album did very well, becoming the biggest posthumous album since ‘Life After Death’ by Biggie and ‘R U Still Down?’ by 2Pac.

Stormzy donated 500,000 Euros to the Black Heart Foundation in order to allow kids from under-resourced communities to get an education. This money can be used for traveling abroad to a college, paying tuition, or even giving money so some students do not need to work part-time and they can fully focus on their education. What Stormzy is doing is absolutely brilliant because it can break the cycle of oppression. Education is something that many people who grow up in under-resourced communities cannot get. This perpetuates the cycles of oppression because many of these people are people of color. Since Stormzy is donating this mass amount of money, some of these kids will be able to break the cycle by getting a great education which will most likely make these students more successful in the future.