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 ♪
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