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Why Tyler, The Creator is dropping CHROMAKOPIA on a Monday instead of Friday

Tyler, The Creator is scoffing at a music industry standard with CHROMAKOPIA’s release date

Tyler, The Creator just announced his new album, CHROMAKOPIA, coming in less than two weeks. He tweeted that the album’s official release date is on October 28.

All the music snobs out there reading this are probably raising a brow because of that release date. It’s a bit of an oddity.

October 28 is a Monday. The standard release time for most albums these days has been on Friday for the majority of the last decade to prevent piracy on global music releases.

Tyler is deviating from a music industry standard by releasing his album on a Monday.

But, for fans of his who’ve been following him for years, this shouldn’t come as a surprise. Tyler explained in an interview with Nardwaur last year why he thought Monday music releases would be better than Fridays.

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“People on the weekends, they just want to chill and hang out. So they’re not really listening. But I think if you put it out during the week, man. That commute to work or that commute to school or, just, whatever that is, you really have that hour or thirty minutes to dive in and really listen.”

He also said that putting albums out at midnight feels “disrespectful” to the artist.

“People are sleep on the east coast and people are going to sleep on the west,” he said. “I think it coming out in the morning would just make more sense.” 

Makes sense to me.

Drake was at Michael Rubin’s all-white 4th of July party when Kendrick Lamar ruined his day with the ‘Not Like Us’ video

Kendrick Lamar is diabolical

There isn’t a person left on the planet still debating who won the beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake. It’s been Kendrick in a landslide for a while.

READ MORE: Everything you need to know about the beef

“Not Like Us” is easily the song of the summer. Heck, that might be selling it short at this point. It might just be the song of the year. It might even win a Grammy, which is insane considering it’s a beef song.

You’d think Kendrick might just take his win and go home. But nope. He’s not letting Drake off that easily. He’s petty like that.

The Pop Out show on Juneteenth wasn’t enough of a victory lap for K Dot. He had to come with an entire “Not Like Us” video to rub things in even more. And, to make matters worse, he dropped it on July 4th.

It doesn’t sound like Drake is getting any holidays to celebrate this summer.

If you’re like me, you’re probably wondering what he was doing on the 4th when this happened. Luckily, we don’t have to wait around to find out. We know exactly where Drake was when the video dropped.

He was schmoozing at Michael Rubin’s second annual 4th of July all-white party. He was spotted chatting with Glorilla during the party.

He also performed at the party, which, honestly, deserves a shoutout. If I were him, I probably wouldn’t be spotted in public for another five years. But hey! Live your life, dude.

We also got a picture of him and Michael Rubin together.

Is it just me or does Drake look like he’s aged about 20 years in the last three months? Sheesh.

I want to know if anyone played the video for him here at this party. Did that happen?

The best-case scenario, he didn’t see it. This seems like one of those ultra-rich “leave your phone at home” parties, so maybe they didn’t even know it dropped? Which, if that’s the case, Drake may have had a nice day. This is probably what actually happened.

The worst case? In the middle of everybody having a blast, all the phones in the building simultaneously go “ding.” It’s a mass text from Kendrick. Why does he have everyone’s number? How did he get it? I have no idea. He’s just diabolical like that. It says, “Play this for your boy,” and it’s just a link to the “Not Like Us” video. This is surely not what happened, but I’ll pretend it did just because it’s hilarious.

Regardless, Kendrick Lamar is living up to his Boogeyman nickname.

Falcons to celebrate 50 years of Hip-Hop in Week 12 pregame show

Falcons to celebrate 50 years of Hip-Hop with star-studded Week 12 pregame show

The Atlanta Falcons have a lot to play for this Sunday when they host the division-rival New Orleans Saints at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Not only is first place in the NFC South on the line, but some of the biggest names in hip-hop will be in attendance.

Prior to the game, the stadium will put on a show celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. Fans will get to see a star-studded lineup featuring Big Boi, Ludacris, T.I., Killer Mike, Jeezy and Quavo, as you can see below.

According to the team’s official website, fans hoping to see the pregame show should arrive to the stadium early:

“Fans are strongly encouraged to arrive early for the pre-game show that begins at 12:30 p.m. honoring over 60 Atlanta artists spanning the 50 years.“

Sunday’s game kicks off at 1:00 p.m. ET at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. 

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What are the Boston Celtics favorite living ALL-TIME rappers?

Amid some very predictable replies, there were a few surprises!

The NBA and hip hop have gone together like a hand does with gloves since long before THE Glove was suiting up for the Boston Celtics, and with that connection, a lot of NBA players have long been avid fans of rap music, including many of the current crop of players on the Celtics’ roster.

But who are the favorites of the favorite team of most of you reading this article that have not moved on to the great beyond? Given the only way to find out would be to ask them, one would have to have the sort of access to make such a thing possible, and exactly such a confluence of topical curiosity and clout came to bear on Boston via the hosts of the ESPN “Jalen and Jacoby” show recently.

Eponymous hosts Jalen Rose and David Jacoby polled several players from the team on who they most liked among living contemporary and historic hip hop artists, and got quite a range of replies.

Check out the video linked above to see for yourself which rappers are held in the highest regard by today’s Celtics players.

This post originally appeared on Celtics Wire. Follow us on Facebook!

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