Justin Bieber’s single “What Do You Mean?” is a global smash, starting out at No. 1 on the Billboard charts and galvanizing his massive fan base. After performing it at the VMAs anddebuting the video last month, Bieber has given his fans an extra treat.
In honor of breaking the Spotify streaming record (21 million streams in five days), the Biebs posted a video of himself singing an acoustic version of the song. In the simple black-and-white clip, he croons the love song over guitar strums, while we see footage of him skateboarding through Times Square and surfing.
While the original is more of an uptempo jam, this version helps reveal the vulnerable emotions at the song’s core.
Lil Durk & Jeremih's "Like Me" gets a big remix with Lil Wayne and Fetty Wap.
"Like Me" was the biggest hit off Lil Durk's debut album, Remember My Name, and the track has earned itself a massive remix. Durk recently teased a snippet of the remix on Instagram and now we've got the full version. In addition to Jeremih, who crushed the hook on the original, the new remix features a verse from one of the all-time greats, Lil Wayne, and another from one of the game's brightest stars, Fetty Wap.
Drake remixes The Weeknd's Kanye-produced "Tell Your Friends."
We've got new Drake, and of course, it came via OVO Sound Radio on Beats 1. OVO co-founder Oliver El-Khatib took the decks and dropped a Drizzy remix ofThe Weeknd's Kanye West-produced hit "Tell Your Friends," off Beauty Behind the Madness.
Vado drops a We The Best Music Group posse join in "Money and Power."
DJ Khaled has proved himself to be an unstoppable force, and this time he teams up with We The Best Music Group Ace Hood, & Mavado along with Uncle Murda for a new joint called "Money and Power."
NYC veteran N.O.R.E. grabs an all-star stable of collaborators for his latest single. Over a DJ Mustard beat, he trades bars with Rick Ross, City Boy Dee, and Ty Dolla $ign, who provides the hook. It’s initially surprising to hear the East Coast favorite spitting over such distinctively West Coast-flavored production, but he makes it work by acknowledging his bicoastal interests.
“East Coast ni**a rep that NY / West Coast ni**as done taught me how to drive by”—L.A.’s car culture certainly has its advantages.
Rick Ross, meanwhile, contributes a verse just hours ahead of the release of his Black Dollaralbum.
T.I. and Tiny’s daughter Zonnique is all grown up, and she’s stepping out on her own with a brand new video. You may remember her from her days as Star in the OMG Girlz—now, she’s on her own and she’s collaborated with Young Thug on the decidedly PG-13-rated video for her single “Nun for Free.” The 19-year-old diva swears, twerks, and blows stacks of cash in an abandoned warehouse alongside a scarf-wearing Thugger.
“No we don’t do sh*t for free, they pay us to come and shut sh*t down,” she sings.
Now that she’s moving in this new direction, expect a solo project from her soon.
New York’s DJ Cassidy isn’t done promoting his breezy warm-weather jam “Future Is Mine” featuring electro-popsters Chromeo. Now he enlists Wale for a brand new remix.
The MMG rapper adapts his flow for the dance-able production without breaking a sweat, unleashing a verse that makes clever wordplay out of racial dynamics.
“Real talk, pull up with white chicks, hold up with black girls / That’s high off the white chick,” he raps, adding, “FaceTime, FaceTime I say no service / I need it like ‘In Living Color’ like it’s J.Lo twerkin’.”
Cassidy has also collaborated with R. Kelly, Robin Thicke, Usher, and CeeLo Green on his upcoming album Paradise Royale, due later this year.
Curren$y puts on for his city by grabbing two fellow New Orleans natives, August Alsina and Lil Wayne, for “Bottom of the Bottle.” The fellas serenade the sexy ladies on the strip club-ready jam—August praises his lady’s curvaceous body (“Booty so colossal”), while Weezy and Spitta provide some sensual seduction of their own.
The song serves as the first single off Curren$y’s upcoming album Canal Street Confidential, due Nov. 6.
Earlier today, August dropped his new single “Why I Do It” featuring Lil Wayne.
Following the remix to “Kissin’ on My Tattoos,” August Alsina reunites with fellow New Orleans native Lil Wayne for his latest single “Why I Do It.” It’s got a butter-soft, horn-driven instrumental that matches Alsina’s smooth R&B vocals. As for Wayne’s verse, he may have just come up with the new “fanute” when he tells us to stop “boogling” on him. Try getting that one out of your head.
This hasn’t been the easiest year for Alsina—he collapsed while performing and was briefly in a coma, and then required surgery to prevent his left eye from becoming blind, but he’s back in the studio readying his sophomore album.
Mario is the latest artist to join the deluge of early ’00s stars announcing comebacks this year. After parting ways with RCA Records and going independent, the “Let Me Love You” singer has been in the studio with Scott Storch and is gearing up to release Never 2 Late, his first album in six years, on Nov. 27.
Now we get to hear the first single “Forever,” and it comes with a Rick Ross feature. The gruff rapper and the golden-voiced singer collide over timeless R&B production, with strings and rattling percussion.
“I want this forever, I want you forever,” croons Mario on the chorus, adding, “Stay here with me, baby / I just want to love you till you scream.”
It’s another excellent addition to Mario’s canon of middle school slow dance songs.
Fetty Wap is riding high with four singles in the top 10 on the Hot Rap Songs chart. Now U.K. sensation Rita Ora recruits the man of the moment for the remix to her new single “Body on Me” featuring Chris Brown (via HHNM). Over a reworked beat, Fetty turns on the charm and caters to his special lady.
“I know you like the feel of my body, let me take you for a ride in my ‘Rari,” sings the Remy Boy, while Breezy reprises his verse.
Just a day after dropping his mixtape Fuk Wat They Talkin Bout, Tyga gives us another peek into his lavish lifestyle in the video for “Glitta.”
In the flashy clip, which follows “Bu$$in Out Da Bag” and “Ma$ter Suite,” T-Raww wakes up in a room full of Marilyn Monroe photos before riding down Sunset Blvd. and Rodeo in his Bugatti. He swings through his Last Kings store on Melrose and grabs a bite to eat at Philippe Chow before returning to his plush pad in the Hollywood Hills.
French Montana gets biblical on his latest banger “Moses” featuring Chris Brown and Migos. Over a hard-hitting beat, produced by Southside, TM88, and DJ Spinz, Breezy brings the bad bitches to the club and parts the sea like Moses, while French and Migos get on their holy flow.
“I’m feeling like Moses, I’m all in the ocean, I part it, divide it,” sings Breezy.
