Nicki Minaj makes a guest appearance on Kai Cenat’s Twitch stream to talk about her new album ‘Pink Friday 2.’ Katharine McPhee and David Foster share their Christmas playlist. We run down some new music releases from Karol G, Reneé Rapp & Megan Thee Stallion, Lil Baby, Eladio Carrión, DDG in our Friday Music Guide and more!
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00:00 Nicki Minaj gets spicy on YouTube with Kai.
00:03 New hits from Carole G, Renee Rap, and Megan Thee Stallion.
00:07 We went to see Cardi B and Madonna.
00:10 We sit down with the legendary E-40
00:12 and get in the spirit with David Foster and Catherine McPhee.
00:15 (upbeat music)
00:19 It's Friday, December 15th.
00:20 I'm Tetris, and welcome to our last
00:23 Billboard News episode of the year.
00:25 Let's start things off with our Friday music guide.
00:28 We're getting a little mean with this one.
00:30 ♪ You're my future, like in love with me ♪
00:32 ♪ You're like in love with me ♪
00:34 Mean Girls star and pop star Renee Rap
00:37 teams up with Megan Thee Stallion
00:38 for "Not My Fault" off the new movie soundtrack.
00:42 ♪ It's funny how the mean girl open all the doors ♪
00:44 ♪ I been told y'all I'm the black Regina George ♪
00:46 So much new music coming,
00:47 but for now, let's get into the news.
00:49 - Nicki?
00:51 Nicki!
00:55 - Where's my music?
00:58 Oh, oh, oh, my phone, my phone, my phone.
00:59 I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it.
01:01 - After a three hour delay,
01:02 Nicki Minaj put up to Kaisa Knots live stream
01:05 on Twitch at 3 a.m.
01:07 To an audience of over 350,000 viewers.
01:11 - Well you guys, I wanna just say,
01:13 obviously this is not Kai's fault.
01:15 You know, I struggle with my time management.
01:17 - Perched on a pink throne, fitting for the queen of rap.
01:20 - Being the queen that I am, Kai,
01:22 I do normally sit on a throne.
01:23 - Nicki Minaj joined YouTuber KC3
01:26 for a late night live stream
01:27 where Nicki was quick to call out
01:29 the streamer's lack of hospitality.
01:31 - You haven't offered me anything to drink.
01:33 - Oh, um, you want something to drink?
01:36 - Yes, sir.
01:37 - And let him know how she really feels about him.
01:40 - Pour some alcohol in a plastic cup that's clean.
01:44 - Yeah, of course.
01:45 - And a lot of juice, 'cause I'm not an alcohol person,
01:48 but I might need it dealing with you
01:50 because you are very annoying.
01:51 - The two matched energy all night long.
01:55 - Are you hungry?
01:56 - No.
01:57 - But later, as Kai's mom.
01:59 - Where's the food?
02:01 You know I came here for food.
02:02 - Kai, where the food?
02:05 - And Nicki wrapped up the night with a dance party.
02:08 (all chanting)
02:10 If you were looking for a little Latin flavor
02:18 to close out your year, you're in luck.
02:20 (upbeat music)
02:25 There's no doubt Carol G had one of the best
02:28 2023s out there, and she wrapped it all up
02:30 with her new song, "Que Chimba De Vida."
02:33 (singing in foreign language)
02:37 Hip hop royalty has graced Billboard.
02:40 Karl Lamar sat down with E-40.
02:43 - Back in them days, when I wrote,
02:44 I would write, you know, on anything.
02:46 Paper plates, like a Dixie paper plate
02:48 on the back of it, yeah, anything.
02:50 I would have my own little editing the way I did it.
02:52 If I messed up on a word, I kinda like had a second page,
02:55 I cut it out the word, and then put that word in there.
02:59 It was crazy, you know, that's that genius stuff,
03:02 that throat in the head stuff, you know.
03:04 And back then, we just wanted to the vocal booth
03:05 back and forth, you know, punch me in, you know,
03:09 'cause a lot of ideas come to you right then and there.
03:10 Everything ain't always written, pre-written.
03:14 So now, I just, you know, sit in my studio,
03:16 had an engineer, punch me in, like,
03:18 we don't even use the, I ain't use the vocal booth
03:20 in probably about five, six years.
03:22 - Wow.
03:22 - Yeah, 'cause we do it right there in the studio now.
03:25 It's headphones, microphone right there,
03:27 and it's all gravity, you know, 'cause my room,
03:29 the room treatment in my studio is nice.
03:31 It's not bouncing all over the place,
03:33 you know what I'm saying, the sound and whatnot,
03:35 it's pretty good.
03:36 Go in there and just punch me in, say a few words,
03:40 sit down, think about it, punch me in again,
03:42 you know, like that, and I feel like it's more,
03:45 I'm more, I think I'm better than ever.
03:47 This album gonna shock a lot of people.
03:49 It's game and gas, man, it's genius, well thought out,
03:52 super, super slaps, different subject matters.
03:56 I don't sound like nobody in rap.
03:58 I'm not trying to be like nobody in rap,
04:00 I'm just being me, and I wanna satisfy my fan base,
04:03 and whoever wants to join my fan base,
04:05 come on in and get a dose of this game.
04:07 - As far as my music, it's been a drought.
04:09 ♪ I grew up off of that bar ♪
04:11 - Come to the party.
04:12 He's a old soul.
04:14 He ain't been here before, that's a deep young man.
04:16 - Yeah.
04:17 - You know what I mean?
04:17 And I always liked him, and you know,
04:19 Birdman hit me one day and was like,
04:21 hey, young boy wanna, want you on one of his songs.
04:23 And he sent it to me, we connected,
04:26 I knocked out one for his album,
04:27 came, but you know, he putting out an album
04:29 every two, three months.
04:30 - Yeah.
04:31 - He ain't playing, and he probably finna beat me
04:33 with most albums in the game.
04:34 - I was just gonna say that, he almost won two right there.
04:36 - Yeah, he ain't playing, 'cause you know,
04:38 nowadays you can do that, and he young and hungry,
04:41 he ain't playing, and so, you know,
04:43 back in our days, we used to have set up times
04:44 where you gotta wait, you know, eight weeks,
04:47 and just for the cassettes to come back in,
04:50 and everything, and now, I can go in the studio right now,
04:53 do a song, or do a whole album in a week,
04:56 and have that thing out the next week, you know,
04:58 real quick, the next day, the next 24 hours, 48 hours.
05:02 But, you know, young boy, it was great having him on there.
05:05 I got him on a song that people probably
05:07 wouldn't even know he would get on.
05:08 It's positive, but it's just the struggle.
05:11 It's like, it's really, it's a good one.
05:13 It's called, "Tryna Get My Life Right."
05:15 Besides Pac, I feel like I'm the dopest rapper in the world.
05:17 Talk about it, like, you know, a lot of times,
05:19 what people don't understand, they seem to, you know,
05:24 dislike or something, because it's too difficult for 'em.
05:28 But those who do understand, that's open-minded,
05:30 that loves creativity, and different content,
05:34 and just subject matter, and game, and lyrics,
05:36 and slang words, and all this stuff put in one.
05:40 I ain't rappin' too fast,
05:41 they just be listenin' too slow.
05:42 So some of these people ain't really locked in like that,
05:45 so that some of 'em ain't really from where you from,
05:47 so they don't get it.
05:48 They just roll with whoever popular at the time,
05:50 then they turn two faces on 'em.
05:52 My fan base stuck with me out the gate,
05:54 and been with me all these years, for 36 plus years.
05:58 You understand me?
05:58 Doing music, having music on the shelf.
06:01 - Mm, amen.
06:02 For the full interview, hit Billboard.com.
06:05 Lil Baby dropped a pair of tracks.
06:07 ♪ I try to tell 'em to chill out ♪
06:09 ♪ We all the tribes and get out ♪
06:10 ♪ Get that shit on when you step out ♪
06:12 - He gave us "Crazy" and "350" with the promise
06:15 that a full album is coming soon.
06:17 ♪ Lost a couple day ones ♪
06:18 ♪ I ain't found the time to be, yeah ♪
06:20 ♪ Lost what I thought I could live without ♪
06:21 ♪ But I'm still breathing ♪
06:23 - And it was a big week in music shows
06:25 from Arizona to New York.
06:27 We've got you covered.
06:28 Cardi B and TikTok take over Arizona,
06:31 while Madonna reminds us she loves New York.
06:34 All in this week's Billboard All Access.
06:37 (gunshots)
06:39 (sirens blaring)
06:42 Yes, Cardi.
06:44 TikTok and the mix took over Sloan Park
06:46 in Mesa, Arizona last weekend,
06:48 and we saw Pesso Pluma take the stage.
06:51 ♪ All my love is for you, Cardi ♪
06:53 ♪ Now I follow ♪
06:54 ♪ You are my love ♪
06:56 - Got up with Anita before her set.
06:58 - 'Cause that's how people are gonna leave the set,
07:00 in love with me.
07:01 (laughs)
07:02 - She delivered.
07:03 And we saw Cardi B in all her glory.
07:07 ♪ You can teach from the start to the end ♪
07:09 ♪ From the start, you know me, Cardi B ♪
07:11 ♪ Up in like a top ♪
07:12 - And over at Barclays on the East Coast,
07:14 Madonna told bedtime stories,
07:16 got erotic in the ring,
07:18 and surprised with the track, "I Love New York."
07:21 ♪ If you like my attitude ♪
07:23 ♪ Then you're in the (beep) house ♪
07:26 - I was obsessed with Katharine McPhee's
07:28 open toes as a kid,
07:30 and now I get to feel all the joy
07:32 as I watch her and David Foster
07:34 give us their holiday playlist.
07:35 - Hi, I'm David Foster.
07:36 - I'm Katharine McPhee.
07:38 - And this is our Christmas playlist.
07:40 Well, mine and her.
07:41 - Yes, separate but together.
07:43 (upbeat music)
07:45 - Number one for me,
07:49 It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas,
07:51 Michael Bublé. - Wow.
07:52 - Did you want to take that one?
07:53 - No, we can take each other's.
07:55 I just think it's cute. - What's yours?
07:56 - It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas.
07:58 - Number two, the Christmas song, Nat King Cole.
08:01 - Wow, great choice, Dave.
08:02 - Thank you. - Really good.
08:03 Okay, I'm going to be-- - It's David.
08:05 (Katharine laughs)
08:06 - Well, when I, you know, trying to be funny,
08:08 I call you Dave.
08:09 Okay, so my second one,
08:11 'cause I'm gonna be a good wife,
08:12 is, um, uh...
08:16 - Carol of the Bells.
08:16 - No, your fricking song.
08:18 - Oh, Grown Up Christmas.
08:19 - Thank you, Grown Up Christmas lot list.
08:21 - Number three, Jingle Bell Rock by Katharine McPhee.
08:24 - Oh, it is a very good version, actually.
08:26 ♪ Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock ♪
08:30 ♪ Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring ♪
08:33 - My next one is actually another,
08:35 oh no, it's gonna be Mariah Carey's,
08:37 No, no, Not All I Want for Christmas.
08:41 It's the, what was the one I was singing?
08:44 - The gospel one? - Jesus.
08:46 ♪ Jesus ♪
08:47 - Let's just say it's called Jesus.
08:48 ♪ Oh, what a wonderful child, what a wonderful child ♪
08:50 ♪ Jesus ♪
08:52 ♪ Jesus ♪
08:54 ♪ Oh, what a wonderful child ♪
08:57 ♪ Oh, Jesus ♪
08:59 - Enough.
09:00 - Oh, it's so good.
09:01 And that's our Christmas playlist.
09:03 - Gladio Catedon released the first track
09:05 off his new album, Sol Maria.
09:08 ♪ Yo no pido mucho ♪
09:11 ♪ Solo quiereme como yo te quiero ♪
09:14 - And he said the video for TQMQA
09:17 is his favorite of all time.
09:19 ♪ Nadie ♪
09:20 ♪ Dale, miénteme que me creo todo está bien ♪
09:25 - And that is our Friday.
09:26 This is our last full show of the year,
09:29 and I just wanna say thank you for allowing me
09:31 the honor of bringing you your music news every day.
09:34 I don't take it for granted.
09:35 Have a wonderful holidays, and I'll see you in 2024.
09:38 Running it down for you always,
09:40 I'm Tetris Kelly, and this is Billboard News.
09:42 Who knew a Lil' Mama sample was what we needed?
09:45 DDG added a little lip gloss to his new track,
09:48 She Don't Play.
09:49 ♪ You can tell that she don't play ♪
09:52 ♪ She don't really care what people say, yeah, yeah ♪