What The Hell Just Happened In Music This Week?

Kid Cudi dropped his new album, Young Thug lived up to his name, and both Pharrell and Rick Ross pissed a lot of people off this week.

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This week gave music fans four new albums, so you would think February would have ended on a happy (heh, heh) note. Pharrell and Rick Ross released free streams of their respective LPs and Kid Cudi dropped Satellite Flight earlier than his announced released it—and it's projected to sell 90,000 units in its first week. (Oxymoron is the fourth album we're talking about, in case you were wondering. It's going to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard charts, despite falling out of the conversation almost immediately.)

Now, on to the unchill part of this week. Robin Thicke and his high school sweetheart Paula Patton announced their split. In other post-Valentine's day news, Drake and Rihanna performed in Paris for Drake's Would You Like A Tour? And despite them being in the city of romance, footage from that night shows that Rihanna kept Drizzy in the friendzone. Bad gyal dem don't play. 

Peep all that and more on What The Hell Just Happened In Music This Week? 

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Paula Patton and Robin Thicke Split

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Kid Cudi Midnight Album Release

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Kid Cudi promised a February release date for his album and actually followed through with it by Beyoncéing. But he said to us in an exclusive interview, "[T]he world can learn a lot from Beyoncé."

Date: February 24

"Just a few days after fully announcing the project, Kid Cudi has gone to Twitter tonight to announce that the release of his new project Satellite Flight would at midnight on iTunes."—Justin Davis


Drake and Rihanna Perform in Paris

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Young Thug Arrested

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"G I R L" Controversy

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Rick Ross Trayvon Martin Lyric

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No, really—when will Rick Ross learn?

Date: February 26

After sharing a stream of his new album, Mastermind, for fans to preview on iTunes last night, Rick Ross found himself amid brewing controversy today over the line "Trayvon Martin, I'm never missing my target." The line appears on the song "Black & White." Today also marks the two-year anniversary of Martin's death

Ross reached out to VIBE in an email to offer a statement on the line. Here's what he had to say:


It's so important that today, on the two-year anniversary of the death of Trayvon Martin, we never forget that tragedy. I'm never going to let the world forget that name. In my song 'Black and White' off Mastermind I say, 'Trayvon Martin, I'm never missing my target'. There I'm reminding people that if you're a black person or a person of any color for that matter in this country, you have to be accurate, whatever moves you make, stay accurate. Even when you're walking down the street, playing music from your car, you have to stay on point.

Black men are being killed and their killers [are] beating the trial. It hasn't been this much violence against black men since the '60s. I am Trayvon Martin, we're all Trayvon Martin. He was from South Florida. That could have been me or one of my homies. So, stay alert and never miss your target. Whatever that target may be. Getting out the hood, providing from your family. Stay sharp. Stay alive. Trayvon, Rest in Peace.

Kyle Kramer

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