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Denzel Curry has shared T-Pain collaboration ‘Troubles’, the third single to be lifted from the rapper’s forthcoming album ‘Melt My Eyez See Your Future’ ahead of its arrival this Friday (March 25).‘Troubles’ features production from Kenny Beats, who Curry teamed up with back in 2020 for their ‘Unlocked’ EP (along with its remix project, ‘Unlocked 1.5’, the following year.) It arrives alongside a video directed by Adrian Villagomez, who also helmed the clips for the new album’s previous singles, ‘Walkin’ and ‘Zatoichi’.Check that out below:Curry announced ‘Melt My Eyez See Your Future’ back in January. The follow-up to 2019’s ‘Zuu’ features a wide assortment of producers, including JPEGMAFIA, Thundercat and Robert Glasper.

Arctic Monkeys, Lorde, Gorillaz and more are set to headline this year’s Life Is Beautiful festival in Las Vegas, Nevada. Check out the full line-up below.The three-day fest returns to Vegas’ downtown district between September 16-18 2022.

Sasha Urban editor“Life is Beautiful” has announced the lineup for its 2022 music festival. Headliners include Jack Harlow, Lorde, Arctic Monkeys, Gorillaz and Calvin Harris, and additional performers announced include Charli XCX, Rico Nasty, Wet Leg and Alessia Cara.

J. Cole has announced the 2022 lineup of his annual Dreamville Festival in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Denzel Curry has shared a new single that features Slowthai – listen to ‘Zatoichi’ below.The song is the second release from his upcoming album ‘Melt My Eyez See Your Future’, which Curry announced earlier this month with a teaser video, revealing the record would feature contributions from T-Pain, Slowthai, Rico Nasty, Kenny Beats, JPEGMAFIA, Thundercat, Robert Glasper and more. A release date is yet to be confirmed.The latest song has been produced by Powers Pleasant and features Slowthai on the song’s chorus.The video for the song was filmed on location in Peru, ‘Zatoichi’ and follows on from the Sci-Fi Western visuals seen in the recently-released single ‘Walkin’.Watch the video here:Speaking about his upcoming album, Curry said: “I like traditional hip hop, I like drum and bass, I like trap, I like poetry, so a lot of that is going to be interwoven in this album including jazz and a lot of genres that I came up on as a kid and just being in my parents’ house.”The follow up to 2019’s ‘Zuu’, he added: “This album is made up of everything that I couldn’t give you on TA13OO or Imperial because I was going through depression anger issues.”Curry also announced details of North American, UK and European tour dates for 2022.

Denzel Curry has shared a new single, ‘Walkin’, the first to be lifted from his forthcoming album ‘Melt My Eyez See Your Future’.The new cut sees the Florida-raised rapper deliver a powerhouse vocal performance, spitting rapid-fire bars above an atmospheric, Kal Banx-produced beat.‘Walkin’ arrives alongside a sci-fi and western-themed video directed by Adrian Villagomez, in which Curry journeys across a desolate desert planet before a final confrontation with John Wayne. Watch that below:Curry announced ‘Melt My Eyez See Your Future’ earlier this month with a teaser video, revealing the album would feature contributions from T-Pain, Slowthai, Rico Nasty, Kenny Beats, JPEGMAFIA, Thundercat, Robert Glasper and more.

On April 30, the 2022 edition of The Smoker's Club Fest will arrive at the Glen Helen Amphitheater in San Bernardino. The rap festival will be headlined by Kid Cudi, A$AP Rocky, and Playboi Carti.

Rico Nasty has spoken out about how she finds fans encouraging her to twerk on stage during a performance “disrespectful”.In a new interview with XXL, Rico discusses how fans often hold their phones up to her with the word “twerk” while she’s on stage performing.“This is probably the worst thing that you could put up while a female rapper is performing, even if she is gonna twerk, even if that’s what she does,” she said, before adding “this is so disrespectful.”She continued: “It’s pointing to this ever being why I’m on stage or pertaining to anything I’ve ever done in my career. That’s not what I do.

Rico Nasty has received vocal support from fellow artists after the difficulties she has faced on Playboi Carti’s King Vamp tour.After Saturday night’s (November 27) tour stop, Rico posted some concerning messages in multiple since-deleted Twitter posts, writing: “I dead ass need at least two hours out of each day. To just cry.

Rico Nasty has teamed up with Flo Milli for a new collaborative single, ‘Money’ – check it out below.The song, which samples 2 Live Crew’s 1986 single ‘We Want Some Pussy’ and Tone Loc’s 1988 track ‘Wild Thing’, has been teased by Rico Nasty and Flo Milli for a few weeks now.Last month, Rico took to her TikTok to share a snippet of the track alongside the caption “POV: they play your song with Flo Milli in Squid Games”.

Rico Nasty retaliating after a bottle was thrown at her during a performance has emerged, showing the singer jumping into the crowd.The incident occurred at the Portland, Oregon show of Playboi Carti‘s King Vamp tour – formerly known as the Narcissist tour – on Saturday night (November 13), which Rico has been supporting.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorIssa Rae, a self-described “major music fan,” provides new insights about the creation of the soundtrack for her HBO comedy “Insecure” in a new playlist on Spotify.“Insecure Interludes” combines the music from the series along with a discussion of its most memorable songs, the scoring process and the cultural impact of “Insecure’s” music. In addition to Rae, the playlist features “Insecure” music supervisor Kier Lehman; actor-director Jay Ellis; and artists featured in the series including Cautious Clay, Victoria Monet, Vince Staples and Rico Nasty.HBO Max launched “Interludes” Friday on Spotify as part of promoting the premiere of the fifth and final season of “Insecure” this Sunday, Oct.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorFor the first time in 10 years, Red Bull’s long-running SoundClash is back with a line-up in four cities that includes Rico Nasty, Danny Brown, Shelley (formerly known as Dram), Tang and the Bangas and more. The four shows will take place from November 30 – December 15 in Atlanta, Houston, Nashville and Chicago, and feature two artists competing across two opposite stages, with the audience deciding the winner.Red Bull SoundClash 2021 U.S.

Music creation platform Splice has announced its first Artist in Residence program with Kenny Beats, which will see the producer host a six-part series for their on-demand education vertical, Skills.

Rico Nasty has teased a collaborative track with fellow rapper Flo Milli.On Rico’s TikTok account, the rapper posted a clip where she pretends to play Red Light Green Light, the childhood game from Netflix show Squid Game.The caption reads “POV: they play your song with Flo Milli in Squid Games”, with Rico pretending to play the deadly game. Its haunting song switches up to a snippet of the as-yet-untitled track, where a celebratory Miami bass beat takes over.“Hey, we want some money / Let me hear you say,” its hook is heard before Rico playfully fakes getting shot.Rico shared the clip on her Twitter account, adding that she “wouldn’t survive” the game.

On the first season of The FADER Uncovered, host Mark Ronson spoke with some of the of world's most pioneering and legendary artists — David Byrne, Questlove, HAIM, Rico Nasty, Tame Impala, Erykah Badu, Damon Albarn, and Santigold — about their lives, careers, and creative processes. Now the Grammy- and Oscar-winning producer is back for Season 2.

RELEASESRadiohead have released a previously unreleased track from their ‘Kid A’ and ‘Amnesiac’ sessions, called ‘If You Say The Word’. Why? Because they’re releasing a new 21st anniversary compilation, pulling together those two albums plus another album’s worth of unreleased stuff from those sessions.

Last week, Rico Nasty dropped off a performance for NPR's Tiny Desk (Home) Concert. It was a metal-themed revisiting of some of the more aggressive songs in her catalogue, earlier hits that made her a star as well as more recent tracks that maintain her status as a Gen Z icon.

Rico Nasty has surprised fans this week by dropping five brand new songs without warning on SoundCloud.Announcing the release of the songs on Instagram, Rico – real name Maria Kelly – posted a photo of a close-up of her face, and wrote “secrets on Soundcloud”.She linked to a playlist titled ‘Rico’s Archives’ containing five songs, including ‘Switch Places’, ‘Grow Up’, ‘Cotton Candy’, ‘Show Me Your Love’, produced by Take a Daytrip, and ‘How Ya Feel’, produced by Jetsonmade.Listen to the playlist below:The release of the five songs comes just days after Rico Nasty made her debut on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series, where she performed breakout hit ‘Smack A Bitch’, last year’s ‘OHFR?’ and more backed with an all-female band.Last year, Rico

Rico Nasty is the latest artist to take on NPR’s Tiny Desk online concert series, performing a string of tracks from throughout her catalogue.Performing with an all-female band on a poolside set, Rico – real name Maria Kelly – opens the set with a bouncing rendition of her most recent single, ‘Magic’.She then performed her 2018 track ‘Rage’, backed with searing electric guitar riffs and telling viewers “you better break some shit”, before playing last year’s ‘OHFR’, which appeared on her debut album ‘Nightmare Vacation’.She followed that with the Kenny Beats-produced ‘Trust Issues’, which appeared on her 2018 mixtape ‘Nasty’, and closed her set with her breakout single ‘Smack A Bitch’.

Rico Nasty has shared a new video for her recent single ‘Magic‘ – watch it below.‘Magic’ was released in June as a preview of the rapper’s upcoming mixtape. The new visual sees her head to the desert.Upon its release, the rapper – real name Maria Kelly – said she wants the song “to bring out another side of you and almost feel like you’re being taken over by magic”.Watch the ‘Magic’ video, which also sees Nasty ride a dirt bike, below:Since the release of ‘Magic’, Nasty has also shared a fiery new single called ‘Buss’, which landed earlier this month.The artist is currently working on her forthcoming mixtape ‘Rx’, which has no confirmed release date at present but is expected to arrive before the end of summer.