Monday morning rolls around and what do you know? Ray J decides to kick off the first week of May with his video for "I Hit It First." Of course, it's creepy, has a Kim Kardashian lookalike, and Ray J soaks in all of those bitter emotions throughout the visuals. We also get to meet Bobby Brackins, a true highlight of our week.
The Great Gatsby soundtrack is available via NPR to stream in full—and most of it really sucks. Especially Beyoncé and André 3000's "Back to Black" cover; even Amy Winehouse's father hated it. But Jay-Z's "100$ Bill" isn't horrible, and he raps about being a Kennedy.
Sadly, Chris "Mac Daddy" Kelly of Kriss Kross passed this week and Lil Wayne had yet another seizure. It hasn't been the craziest week but then again, Chance the Rapper dropped his highly anticipated mixtape Acid Rap and everyone just couldn't stop talking about it.
And then Kanye West tweeted, and the world stopped spinning. All this and more, in this week's edition of What The Hell Just Happened In Music This Week?
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Ray J's "I Hit It First" Video Is Strange, Pathetic, and Awesome
Ray J's "I Hit It First" Video Is Strange, Pathetic, and Awesome
Date: April 29
Did you really expect Ray J's "I Hit It First" video to be tasteful? Of course not! So on Monday morning with the visuals dropped for one of the most annoying, disgusting, and unfortunately, very catchy, songs, we all watched. There were a few great things about the video—like meeting Bobby Brackins and trying to truly understand why Ray J had a hologram of a Kim Kardashian lookalike. It's either or, homeboy. Ray J could have had a hologram of Kim K or a lookalike. But he made everything more complicated, and creepy.
Wondering what he's watching in the GIF above? F! News, of course. A mockery of Kim K's infamous shows on E! News. Unfortunately, Ray J had a lot of opportunities to throw shade at Kim K. But he spent most of the video looking weird as hell, and that takes the spotlight off of the Kardashians, for like the first time, ever. —Lauren Nostro
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Chance The Rapper Takes The Spotlight This Week, Next Week, and Forever
Chance The Rapper Takes The Spotlight This Week, Next Week, and Forever
Date: April 30
Chance The Rapper came back even better than he did the last time, with a mixtape that refuses to let the spotlight turn an inch away from Chicago. For those who had been paying attention to dude, it was clear that the Chance craze would go national sooner or later. Acid Rap tipped the scale with an anvil, quite probably catapulting the self-proclaimed chain-smoking, name-dropping, good-looking...individual to the level of stardom that his combination of skill and charisma deserves.
But of course, the tape itself needed to be hot enough to match an amount of hype that crashed the site it leaked on for the first time since the "Don't Like" remix came out. Fortunately, and almost unequivocally, it was. Though one of our commenters has already deemed it to be in his "top 25 projects of all time," the rest of us may just want to let this tape breathe for a while. The year-end lists will come, and more than likely they will smile favorably upon dude. But before we get too far ahead of ourselves, who the hell is this kid, anyway? —Alexander Gleckman
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Lil Wayne Apologized to Emmett Till's Family, Revealed Engagement, Had a Seizure-All In One Day
Lil Wayne Apologized to Emmett Till's Family, Revealed Engagement, Had a Seizure—All In One Day!
Date: May 1
Lil Wayne take a break? Don't be ridiculous. This is Weezy F. Baby we're talking about here, with the "F" being for phenomenal. Phenomenal in what exactly? Time management skills! Apologize to Emmett Till's family for a controversial lyric he spit a few weeks back? Check. Reveal an engagement through an MTV supertrailer? Check and check. Have a seizure and walking out the hospital the same day? Cool...all in one day. Weezy is moving along and hopefully he's doing it in good health. Multitasking can shove it. —Brian Josephs
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Tia and Tamara Mowry Are Name-Dropped Twice in Rap This Week
Tia and Tamara Mowry Are Name-Dropped Twice in Rap This Week
Date: May 1
Game on. J. Cole dropped "Cole Summer" earlier this week, followed by his EP Truly Yours 2, both in anticipation of his forthcoming album Born Sinner. Never one to mince words, J. Cole rhymed "If I had one wish, I would fuck Tia and Tamera, at the same time/And put name tags on they titties so I don’t get they name wrong/Screamin' 'Game on'." Sounds like a creative and effective way to tell twins apart.
Maybe Cole thought the Mowry twins weren't really up on his music, but fortunately he was wrong! And unfortunately, they listened to the track. The two got into a hilarious Twitter exchange the next day:
So I'm hearing J Cole mentioned the sis and I in a song?Send me the link? I'm curious..
— Tia Mowry (@TiaMowry) May 1, 2013
RT @jcolenc: Noooo @tiamowryDon't do itttt- oh lord
— Tia Mowry (@TiaMowry) May 1, 2013
You know who probably isn't pleased? Mr. Bobby Brackins whose line in "I Hit It First" is: "Tia’s and Tamera’s, I be knockin sisters/And I still hit, while you lonely and you miss her." Brackins, so creative. Tia, Tamera, thoughts? —Lauren Nostro
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Jay-Z Calls Himself A New Kennedy on "100$ Bill"
Jay-Z Calls Himself A New Kennedy on "100$ Bill," Meanwhile The Rest of The Great Gatsby Soundtrack Sucks
Date: May 2
After a few weeks of snippets and anticipation, we finally got to hear The Great Gatsby soundtrack this week. It's not the greatest piece of work we ever heard (psst...it sucks), but to be fair, we weren't really thinking "instant classic" when we heard will.i.am was on it. It's all good though, because "100$ Bill" is the first track, and Jay-Z is still prospering.
He got the "Benjamin Franklins filled, rolled up for the thrill," he's riding in a 911, and is just rolling in dollars. Hell, he's balling so much that he's got the dollar sign after the dollar amount because "$100 Bill" is for common folk. The soundtrack may be a disappointment, but Hov is still winning. —Brian Josephs
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What Does Kanye West's June Eighteen Tweet Mean?
What Does Kanye West's June Eighteen Tweet Mean?
Date: May 2
June Eighteen. Kanye West deleted all of his previous tweets—as per usual—before he tweeted June Eighteen.
June Eighteen
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) May 2, 2013
Twitter went insane—everyone, everywhere, was speculating that it was an album release date. And then it was confirmed. And then it was unconfirmed. And everyone just got really tired of guessing what the hell he was referencing.
It could have been a few things—new music, Kim K's due date, new album release, a celebration honoring Sally Ride as the first woman in space on June 18, 1983. Whatever. It's most likely Kim K's due date, which Kanye would obviously release new music on so that the two could enjoy each other's company, and Kanye's soothing vocals, while in the delivery room.
Plus, don't you think it's clever that Kanye would prepare music to drop on Kim's due date? And don't you think Kanye West is smarter than the average human being and already is planning some insane day of music, birth, and a child named Knorth West (the K's a nod to the Kardashian family, getit?). Yeah, so we thought. Until then. —Lauren Nostro
