The rumors are true. There have been murmurs that Drake was planning on releasing a mixtape tonight, and Champagne Papi surfaced on Instagram to confirm the news. The Toronto icon has been teasing fans with bits about his forthcoming album that’s slated for release this year. While we await his next project, fans haven’t been without new music from OVO Sound’s head honcho. He’s collaborated with a bevy of artists and shared a few unreleased tunes on SoundCloud.

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Answering the call of his admirers who want to hear more from the rapper, Drake shared moments ago that he is, indeed, releasing a record this evening titled Dark Lane Demo Tapes. Additionally, he let the world know when they can expect his sixth studio album. “My brothers @oliverelkhatib @ovonoel put together alot of the songs people have been asking for (some leaks and some joints from SoundCloud and some new vibes) DARK LANE DEMO TAPES out everywhere at midnight,” the rapper wrote. “Also my 6th STUDIO ALBUM DROPPING SUMMER 2020!!! Lucky number 6 ? soon fwd.”

Drake shared the tracklisting, so we’ve included that below, as well (order is subject to change):

1. Deep Pockets
2. When To Say When
3. Chicago Freestyle ft. Giveon
4. Not You Too ft. Chris Brown
5. Toosie Slide
6. Desires ft. Future
6. Time Flies
7. Landed
8. D4L Freestyle ft. Future & Young Thug
9. Pain 1993 ft. Playboi Carti
10. Losses
11. From Florida With Love
12. Demons ft. Fivio Foreign and Sosa Geek
13. War

After Hours hasn’t even dropped and people are already entering it into the “Album of the Year” discussion. The Weeknd is set to release his highly-anticipated project this week, and the singer continues his rollout with yet another video shared on social media. The way The Weeknd has been preparing the world for After Hours seems like he’s readying a film more than an album, but the singles he’s delivered has proven that the hype around the record is justified.

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In this latest clip, The Weeknd plays the part of his red-suited, battered and bruised character that seems as if he’s trying to pick up the pieces of a broken evening. Once again, The Weekend is seen speeding into the night with his high-powered luxury vehicle. While his recent music videos have shown bits and pieces of his character’s misadventure, the full scope of this storyline has yet to be told. We’ll just have to wait and see what The Weeknd has in store.

Meanwhile, the singer recently shared the tracklist for After Hours, so check that out along with his latest video teaser below.

Tracklist

1. “Alone Again”
2 “Too Late”
3. “Hardest to Love”
4. “Scared to Live”
5. “Snowchild”
6. “Escape from L.A.”
7. “Heartless”
8. “Faith”
9. “Blinding Lights”
10. “In Your Eyes”
11. “Save Your Tears”
12. “Repeat After Me (Interlude)”
13. “After Hours”
14. “Until I Bleed Out”

Joyner Lucas is trolling his fans once again about further delaying the release of his upcoming debut album, ADHD, eight more years, due to the rapidly spreading coronavirus epidemic. The status of the artist's debut album has been up in the air for awhile now, ever since he announced it way back in October of 2018. Last month, he finally gave fans a time frame for when they could expect to hear the project, and a few weeks later, he announced that the official release date would be March 27th, 2020. Now, with the worldwide panic surrounding the rising threat of COVID-19, the rapper joked that ADHD would be pushed back another eight years.

Mac Miller‘s estate announced the deluxe edition of his posthumous album, Circles, on Monday, and now, this version, which includes two new songs titled “Right” and “Floating,” is available for purchase exclusively on CD. The late artist’s family released “Circles” on January 17th, after announcing the posthumous album a few weeks earlier and dropping its first single, “Good News,” the following day. The project was intended to serve as a companion album to 2018’s Swimming, which he dropped just over a month before his fatal overdose in September that year. Mac tragically passed before he could finish Circles, and the project was thus completed by producer and composer, Jon Brion.

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“He had been working with Jon Brion, who after hearing some early versions of songs, cleared his calendar to help Malcolm fine-tune them,” Mac’s family said in their statement back in January. “After his passing, Jon dedicated himself to finishing Circles based on his time and conversations with Malcolm. We are eternally grateful to Jon and to those who gave their best to the difficult and emotional task of putting out this body of work.”

The deluxe version of the album includes two new songs at the end of the tracklist: “Right” and “Floating.” The Circles deluxe edition is now available for purchase exclusively on CD, and will hit streaming services in two weeks on March 20th. Vinyl copies of the deluxe version will be released next month on April 17th. 

A judge has officially denied the emergency motion filed by 1501 Certified Entertainment CEO Carl Crawford to dissolve Megan Thee Stallion‘s temporary restraining order against the label, which allowed her to release her debut album, SUGA, without his permission. Megan made her conflict with the label and Carl public this weekend by going on Instagram live to reveal that 1501 has been preventing her from releasing new music ever since she requested a renegotiation of her contract. She went on to file a lawsuit against 1501 and Carl, and was granted a temporary restraining order that allowed her to put out new music at her leisure. She immediately took advantage of the opportunity by announcing the upcoming release of her debut album, SUGA, this Friday, Match 6th. Carl took action by filing an emergency motion to have Megan’s restraining order tossed out, thus preventing her from releasing new music, but the judge denied his request on Wednesday night.

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District Court Judge Beau A. Miller stated that “the album at issue may be dropped for distribution beginning March 6, 2020.” Miller also ordered that Rap-A-Lot Records head J. Prince, whom Megan’s team has accused of making threatening social media posts toward her after he publicly expressed his support of Carl in the whole debacle, to “refrain from threatening or posting threatening or retaliatory social media posts or threats against [Megan], her agents, or her representatives.” Miller also established some rules for both Megan and Carl, who, in the wake of Megan’s claims, spoke to the press to publicly denounce most of her story. Miller has thus prohibited both parties “from communicating with the media concerning the underlying issues in this case without court approval.” It looks like SUGA will most definitely be dropping tomorrow.

Blueface has promised that he will be dropping his upcoming debut album, Find The Beat, this month, after he failed to deliver on the initial release date in January. Blueface first announced Find The Beat back in September, before revealing the tracklist a few weeks later. His debut was initially supposed to be released on December 6th, but the date came and went without any sign of a drop. Then, the artist took to Instagram to announce that Find The Beat would really be dropping in the new year on January 17th but, once again, nothing. Now that March is upon us, the Internet sensation rapper has decided to stop playing by revealing that he will be dropping his official debut album later this month on March 13th.

“Okay guys jokes over,” Blueface wrote on the throwback photo of himself. “Find the beat dropping March 13th.” Considering how long it’s been since he shared the tracklist, it’s quite possible that the ultimate final product will look a little different. Though DaBaby, Jeremih, and Gunna will still be featured on the album, considering their collabs with Blueface (“Obama,” “Close Up,” and “First Class,” respectively) have already been released, the initial tracklist also features artists like Lil Baby, Gunna, Stunna 4 Vegas, NLE Choppa, and more. Check out the full tracklist below and let us know if you think it’ll stay the same come March 13th:

1. First Class Ft. Gunna
2. Weekend Ft. Lil Baby
3. Obama Ft. DaBaby
4. Double Back
5. Carne Asada Ft. Ambjaay
6. Wire Ft. Stunna4Vegas
7. Holy Moly Ft. NLE Choppa
8. Close Up Ft. Jeremih
9. Period
10. In The Zone
11. 2 Dicks Ft. YBN Nahmir
12. Street Shit

Lil Tecca is planning on dropping his debut album, Virgo World, sometime during Virgo season, from August 23rd-September 22nd, in 2020. The 17-year-old rapper is currently riding the wave of his latest single, “IDK,” a self-produced track he dropped last week, but Tecca is still focused on crafting his next body of work. He already established himself with the release of his first project, We Love You Tecca, last August, but the New York native has big plans for his official debut album, Virgo World which, he confirms, is coming “soon.”

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“The album is called Virgo World so it might be in that season,” Tecca noted in an interview with Apple Music’s Eddie Francis on Thursday. Born on August 26th, 2002, Tecca is a Virgo himself. “Ah, Virgo season,” Francis acknowledged, to which Tecca responded, “You know the vibes.” It looks like Tecca fans can expect his album to drop some time during those 31 days from August 23rd-September 22nd later this year.

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Until then, Tecca has plenty of big plans in store for 2020. “Tour for the album, more singles, maybe a little pack before the album,” he listed. “A whole lot of visuals, new music, all vibes, literally.” Tecca will also be performing at Rolling Loud in Portugal this summer, which takes place from July 8th-10th. The stacked lineup includes acts like DaBaby, A$AP Rocky, Future, and more.

On Friday, Selena Gomez released her first album in over four years, Rare. Several of the songs chronicle the falling-out of her long relationship with Justin Bieber and the aftermath of her coping with it. After she shared the album’s first single, “Lose You To Love Me”, Hailey Bieber was suspected of throwing shade at Selena for making not-so-subtle references to her husband on the song. Given these circumstances, a run-in between Hailey and Selena has the potential to be somewhat awkward. 

While we can’t confirm that Hailey and Selena dining at the same restaurant on Saturday night (Jan. 11) resulted in an awkward encounter, we can confirm that it sparked some drama online. TMZ reported that both of these stars dined at Craig’s in West Hollywood that evening. Hailey was there with her friend, Madison Beer, around the same time Selena was inside. Selena supposedly left an hour before Hailey’s party did, but there was some overlap in the time they spent at the restaurant.

A fight did not break out between The Biebs’ mutuals, but Selena’s fans tried to stir up some controversy anyway. Selenators flooded the comments of Madison Beer’s last post, shaming her participating in a ruse to spoil their idol’s album release weekend. Beer defended herself by explaining that it was merely a coincidence that Selena happened to be at the same resto. “i just had dinner with my friend hailey of 10 years… and that’s it?” she wrote in the comments. “how is that a crime? i love selena.. always have … and i would literally never in a million years try to upset her??? this is just mean and unnecessary and nothin happened.” 

Selena also weighed in to put her presumptuous fans in order. “This wasn’t intentional whatsoever,” she wrote. “I’m so disappointed that people would speak to someone like this … There is no issue.”  

Talk of LL Cool J releasing new music has seemingly been going on forever, or at least since he dropped his last album, Authentic, in 2013. However, as he's remained focused on his acting career, most notably his 10 year run (and counting) on NCIS: Los Angeles, LL has yet to follow up the nearly 6-year-old project with a new body of work. It looks like this is all about to change, as the rapper-turned-actor is about to turn rapper again based on an announcement he made on Twitter on Sunday. Mr. Ladies Love Cool James informed the Twitterverse that he's been busy in the studio, working closely with a particular  producer who is sure to excite hip hop fans everywhere.