BTS is officially on hiatus until 2023. Nicki Minaj announced her ‘Pink Friday 2’ World Tour and teamed up with 50 Cent for a new version of her track “Beep Beep.” Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign hosted a listening party for their upcoming joint album ‘Vultures.’ Dove Cameron opened up to Billboard’s Rania Aniftos about creating her album 'Alchemical: Volume 1,' life after the success of her track “Boyfriend,” being vulnerable in her writing and the lessons she learned from her Disney Channel days. Sarz, Asake and Gunna took us behind the scenes of the music video for their track “Happiness.” And more!
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00:00 BTS is leaving us and we aren't well.
00:02 Kanye West has a jam-packed listening party
00:05 full of A-list features,
00:06 while Nicki Minaj grabs 50 Cent for a feature of her own.
00:10 We go behind the video with Sars, Ashake, and Gunna,
00:14 and sit down with Dove Cameron.
00:16 (upbeat music)
00:19 It's Tuesday, December 12th, I'm Tetris,
00:21 and this is Billboard News.
00:23 Today's show is pretty jam-packed,
00:25 so I won't waste any time because this first story
00:28 is gonna be hard for me to get through.
00:30 Bye-bye.
00:32 Say it ain't so, the remainder of our men of BTS
00:36 are heading to the military,
00:38 and their goodbye messages and lives have us in pieces.
00:42 No, seriously, where's the tissue?
00:44 BTS is officially on hiatus until 2025,
00:48 and today is really hard, okay?
00:51 A couple days ago, RM touched ARMY in their souls
00:54 with his letter stating in part,
00:56 "The day has come.
00:57 "I believe this will be some strange
00:59 "and new period of inspiration and learning for all of us.
01:02 "It's scary, but during that vague time,
01:04 "is there anything else that's comforting
01:06 "that's probably your love?"
01:09 Okay, I can get through this.
01:11 I mean, Jin hilariously commented,
01:13 "Welcome, it's your first time in the military, right?"
01:16 BTS's youngest member Jungkook said goodbye on Weverse,
01:20 and you already know I was a puddle
01:22 when Jimin also emotionally said goodbye
01:24 with his clean-shaven look.
01:26 Those two enlisted as buddies together.
01:29 V posted a note to Weverse saying,
01:31 "Actually, I'm really sad that I can't make happy memories
01:34 "with my ARMY for the time being.
01:36 "I'll be back after 18 months of being healthy.
01:39 "So take care of your ARMY,
01:40 "and if you're looking for something
01:42 "to be happy about every day, cheers, I'm here."
01:45 BTS shared a photo of all seven members reunited
01:52 before the big day.
01:54 We'll miss you guys, but we'll be right here
01:56 when you're back in 2025.
01:58 (speaking in foreign language)
02:02 On to the queen of rap,
02:04 she may have just released a 22-track album,
02:06 but she's not done.
02:08 Let's break it down.
02:09 Nicki Minaj has headed out on the road
02:12 to bring Pink Friday 2 to you.
02:15 ♪ 100 rounds on that glop, dop, dop ♪
02:17 ♪ Real one, that shot, dop, dop ♪
02:19 Just days after the release of Pink Friday 2,
02:21 Nicki Minaj has announced dates for a world tour.
02:25 She posted to Instagram on Monday, writing,
02:27 "Barbs, it's time for the Gag City Tour.
02:30 "So excited to see you guys."
02:32 The tour kicks off on March 1st,
02:34 and tickets are on sale this Friday.
02:36 ♪ Beep, beep, is that bleep ♪
02:38 ♪ Is that shoot talking to me ♪
02:40 And keeping her promise of delivering new music
02:42 after her album dropped,
02:44 the queen of rap connected with 50 Cent
02:46 for the first time on a new version of Beep Beep.
02:49 ♪ Say we got some kinda beep, but kinda beep ♪
02:51 ♪ Please remind me ♪
02:53 Last week, Nicki vowed to drop a song
02:55 every single day until this Friday.
02:58 Next week, Gag City welcomes a new edition
03:00 every day until Friday.
03:02 You'll get an additional song
03:03 that completes my fave body of work to date.
03:06 Four more songs.
03:08 We can't wait to hear what's next.
03:11 ♪ Murder, murder, murder, murder, murder ♪
03:15 Nicki's known to kill a feature, too,
03:17 and we just got a taste of one of her next ones
03:19 from Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign,
03:22 along with a ton of other tracks.
03:24 Ye brought his new collab album with Ty Dolla $ign to Miami,
03:28 and it features some A-list friends and family.
03:31 ♪ Ain't no miles on this here, nobody ♪
03:33 ♪ Don't come up with these hits, these bitches is nobody ♪
03:36 Kanye live-streamed Array, featuring new music
03:39 from his and Ty Dolla $ign's new album, Vultures,
03:42 including anticipated tracks featuring Nicki Minaj,
03:45 Bad Bunny, and Kodak Black.
03:48 ♪ Sabado, we on the yacht with that ♪
03:49 ♪ Truck is a stunt and she poppin' the top ♪
03:52 And even his daughter, North West.
03:54 ♪ Blast me ♪
03:56 ♪ It's your bestie, Miss Miss Blastie ♪
04:00 Another feature on the album had the audience going wild.
04:04 A sample of Backstreet Boys' Everybody.
04:07 ♪ My everything you need, you better rock your body now ♪
04:11 ♪ Everybody ♪
04:14 It was a star-studded event attended by Chris Brown,
04:17 Offset, and Lil Durk, just to name a few.
04:21 The full album is expected this Friday.
04:24 Let's move on to some Dove Cameron.
04:26 She stopped by our studio to talk to Raya Niftos
04:28 about the strategy when it comes to releasing music
04:31 in her Disney days.
04:33 - So your debut album, Alchemical Part One.
04:36 So you're splitting it into two parts.
04:38 What was the idea behind telling a story
04:41 in sequence like that?
04:43 - I felt like I was writing the two halves
04:46 in such different head spaces.
04:48 Like the first half was really like about
04:51 the ending of something and an entire year of my life
04:54 and the processing of that that happened.
04:56 And then there was like a very stark kind of
04:59 sonic page turn when it came to the sort of like
05:02 next musical phase that I stepped into.
05:04 It just kind of ended up making sense to split it.
05:06 - How did being part of Disney kind of build you up
05:09 to be the artist that you are?
05:11 Or in a good way or a bad way, anyway.
05:13 - I was so young, it almost feels like it didn't happen.
05:15 Like, yeah, you know, like, like, you know,
05:18 it's like when people are like,
05:19 tell me about middle school.
05:20 And I know that sounds funny because there's all of this
05:23 video footage of me on the Disney channel, right?
05:25 Like, so people are like, shut up.
05:26 Like that can't be real, but it just was such a whirlwind
05:29 and it was so fast and it, my life changed so drastically.
05:32 Like to go from being a 14 year old doing whatever
05:36 to then like that, that whole thing,
05:38 that whirlwind experience with them that is so singular.
05:41 'Cause it's, I think it's like one of the only
05:44 like old fashioned studio contracts left.
05:46 Like it's just really, it's very like MGM classics.
05:49 I had no idea what I was doing and I had no idea who I was.
05:52 And I just kind of was going with the flow
05:54 and like trying not to upset anybody.
05:56 And I was trying to process like a lot going on
05:58 in my own young life and I was bleaching my hair blonde.
06:03 I was dating boys.
06:04 I was, you know, I was just doing whatever I was doing
06:07 as a young teenager.
06:08 - For the full interview, head to billboard.com.
06:11 Before I let you go, we got an up close and personal look
06:14 at SARS, Ashake and Gunna's new music video for "Happiness."
06:17 Let us take you behind the video.
06:20 ♪ Happiness ♪
06:22 ♪ Everything is ♪
06:25 ♪ My life no stress ♪
06:26 - Hey, what's up?
06:27 It's Edgar Estevez.
06:28 I'm the director today for SARS, Ashake and Gunna,
06:30 "Happiness."
06:31 And today, Billboard, we're taking you behind the scenes
06:33 of the music video.
06:34 (upbeat music)
06:37 - The director today is Edgar Estevez, "The Goat."
06:40 So right here, we got Zev, creative director.
06:43 - This music video concept is really just about
06:45 like when, you know, life waters your seed
06:47 and blossoms you into the flower that you are,
06:49 bringing your own happiness to fruition.
06:50 And through costume, wardrobe, through good energy,
06:53 we can achieve that.
06:54 - The song just reminds me of just like nature,
06:56 earth, smiles, sun flares.
06:59 And that's why we came to the hills in Calabasas,
07:01 California to shoot everything,
07:02 where we have these beautiful, you know,
07:04 brown and green hills that in post,
07:06 we're gonna turn all green.
07:07 ♪ But your birthstone, you're an earth toad ♪
07:09 ♪ I miss and need you bad, baby, come home ♪
07:11 - Wide out, arms wide out.
07:13 - So right now, we're doing a portrait scene of Sars
07:18 as everyone runs behind him in slow motion.
07:20 We're basically, you know, we're staying united.
07:23 See, we're doing that.
07:24 Let's go.
07:25 All right.
07:25 - Action!
07:26 (upbeat music)
07:28 - That's it for today.
07:29 Make sure you come back tomorrow
07:30 to learn some of Brandi's holiday traditions.
07:33 That sounds fun.
07:34 I'm Tetris Kelly, and this is Billboard News.
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