00:00The real Slim Shady kicks the bucket.
00:03Tyler takes us behind the photo.
00:05We learn more about Jennie's solo tracks,
00:07all of Luna's members return to music,
00:09and the new Jean's illit drama heats up.
00:12Jimmy Fallon talks about some of his biggest musical guests,
00:15and Rapsody stops by to talk new music.
00:18Let's jump right into it here at Billboard News.
00:24Slim Shady is dead, but Eminem lives on.
00:28We're talking about the obituary and his new venture.
00:31♪ I'm Slim Shady, yes I'm the real Shady ♪
00:34♪ All you other Slim Shadys are just imitating ♪
00:36It seems Eminem may be taking his upcoming album title,
00:39The Death of Slim Shady, literally.
00:41The Detroit Free Press ran a fake
00:43Slim Shady obituary on Monday,
00:45and it's a hilarious read.
00:47It states, Slim Shady made lasting impressions,
00:50and fans will never forget the controversial rapper.
00:54It continues, his complex and tortured existence
00:57has come to a close, and the legacy he leaves behind
01:00is no closer to resolution than the manner
01:02in which this character departed this world.
01:05May he truly find the peace in an afterlife
01:07that he could not find on Earth.
01:10Um, what?
01:11The ad obituary appears to be in support
01:14of Em's upcoming 12th studio LP,
01:16news that was first broken by his frequent collaborator,
01:19Dr. Dre, on Jimmy Kimmel in March.
01:22Eminem is working on his own album,
01:24which is coming out this year,
01:27peace.
01:30And there's music news in general,
01:31and then the whole world of K-pop.
01:34There's so much going on,
01:35here's three things you need to know in K-pop.
01:38♪ Up and down, round and round at the spot, spot, spot, spot ♪
01:43Jennie earned her second number one
01:44on the World Digital Song Sales chart with Spot,
01:47and now Zico is teasing more new music from Jennie.
01:50He told Billboard, I had the chance to peek at Jennie's
01:53to-be-released solo track demos,
01:55and there were so many good ones.
01:56How many good ones are we talking here?
01:58EP, LP, I need to know everything.
02:01When the girls of Loonadist banded,
02:02fans thought it was bittersweet.
02:04They were happy they got out of their contract,
02:06but sad to see them go.
02:08But all the girls are officially active
02:10in the music industry.
02:12We got a taste of E's return to music for the soundtrack
02:15to K-drama Missing Crown Prince.
02:17♪ Like a whirlwind, you tickle my heart ♪
02:22Actually.
02:24Whether the girls are a part of a new group
02:26or have gone solo, we're happy if they're happy.
02:29Keep going strong.
02:30New Jeans performance director Kim Yoon-ju
02:33expressed her frustrations on IG.
02:35A post on her story seems to reference the ongoing debate
02:38on whether or not Ylit has been copying
02:40creative elements from New Jeans.
02:43If she is referencing that,
02:44she alleges that Ylit copied choreography
02:47from one of New Jeans' ads.
02:49Fans online are saying they see similarities
02:51between New Jeans' McDonald's commercial
02:53and Ylit's Lucky Girl Syndrome choreo.
02:56♪ Yeah, love, yeah, I'm a lucky girl ♪
02:59♪ Yeah, you're a lucky girl ♪
03:01What do I see?
03:0210 talented women doing their thing.
03:04This is complicated, and I hope they all figure it out
03:07for the sake of them and the fans.
03:09Hello, it's Tyler, and I'm taking you
03:11behind the photo with Billboard.
03:17This was taken by my very best friend.
03:20This was when I was in Ghana,
03:22and we went to the skate park,
03:24and I have no idea I was in skates,
03:25but I was having very much fun that day.
03:29This is a cute one.
03:31It's gonna sound like everything has to do
03:32with my best friend, but we basically always together.
03:35And over here, we were in Cape Town, South Africa,
03:39and we had a whole picnic.
03:41Hey, we were having a girl's day,
03:43gossiping there on the Cape Town beach.
03:46And she took a picture of me eating a sushi.
03:49This is me in South Africa for Heritage Day.
03:54I was feeling myself this day.
03:57I woke up very early to do my edges,
03:59my head wrap, my outfit.
04:02I was feeling very fancy, and yeah,
04:06this was a cute moment.
04:09The most iconic Tyler picture that will ever exist.
04:14This was in school,
04:19literally me and my best friend again.
04:21I don't know what we were doing,
04:22but we were leaders in the school,
04:24and I think we had to organize clothes
04:26as like the RCL of the school.
04:29No, we were playing with those clothes.
04:31We were not being serious.
04:32She snapped this picture of me,
04:34and the rest is history.
04:36In celebration of his 10-year anniversary
04:38on The Tonight Show,
04:40we sat down with Jimmy Fallon
04:41to talk about some of the biggest
04:43Billboard chart toppers he's had on his show
04:45over the years.
04:46Here are some of his top memories.
04:48We're just gonna run through
04:49some of our favorite Billboard chart toppers,
04:51and you have to tell us your first memory,
04:53like rapid fire, don't overthink it, okay?
04:55Okay, go.
04:56All right, your bestie is first, Justin Timberlake.
04:59Oh, I remember doing the MTV Awards,
05:01and we were both backstage nervous,
05:02and I was nervous,
05:03because if I did a good job hosting,
05:04I would get to host other things.
05:06And he was like, I'm nervous.
05:07I go, why are you nervous?
05:09He was like, I'm launching a solo career.
05:11That's so true.
05:12I was like, oh, you should actually be nervous.
05:14Yeah, he's like, we're both on pressure right now.
05:16I barely had pressure,
05:17but that guy really handles himself
05:20perfectly under pressure.
05:20He is a pro.
05:22He is one of the best to ever do it.
05:24He's one of my favorite artists ever.
05:26Love him, and that new album is so good.
05:28Oh, Masterpiece.
05:28It's so good.
05:29Beyonce.
05:31Beyonce.
05:32I remember Destiny's Child.
05:33I remember her mom being really nice to my mom.
05:35They both did the top 10 list
05:37on a Mother's Day edition of David Letterman.
05:40And Dave, Beyonce's mom was next to my mom,
05:43and they were going down the list,
05:44and they were giving flowers out to all the moms,
05:46and David Letterman was going by going,
05:48thank you, thank you, thank you.
05:51And he got up to my mom.
05:52He goes, thank you.
05:53And my mom goes, what?
05:54He goes, thank you.
05:56Thank you.
05:57Like, she's gonna get something special.
05:59All the other moms, you only get,
06:00so she goes, what?
06:01So he gave her two flowers.
06:02And by the time he got to the end,
06:03to his own mom, he didn't have any flowers to give.
06:05Oh, stop.
06:06Because he gave my mother two flowers.
06:07So that's, I remember Beyonce's mom.
06:09She was great.
06:10And I mean, I gotta ask you,
06:11your opinion on Texas Hold'em.
06:12Crushed it.
06:13Right?
06:14Jolene Blackbird, crushed it.
06:15Album's fantastic.
06:17Another recipe.
06:18She doesn't mess.
06:19She doesn't mess around.
06:20She's a pro, and like, I love seeing artists like that.
06:23She is, who knows where she's gonna go.
06:25I mean, it just doesn't end with her.
06:26She's just always surprising, always,
06:29and just talented, and talent always wins.
06:32It's true, it's true.
06:33Taylor Swift.
06:34I remember her mom, we've had Taylor on forever,
06:39but her mom gave us video of her
06:41after she got her wisdom lacer.
06:43I remember seeing that, that was so funny.
06:46So she's on some type of pill or something,
06:48and she's crying.
06:49Over the banana.
06:50She's eating a banana and crying
06:51about how she killed the banana or something.
06:54It's insane, it's very charming.
06:56It's so vulnerable of like the biggest superstar
06:58in the whole world.
06:59No one would ever let anyone air that,
07:00but thank you, Taylor's mom.
07:02That was the best.
07:03It was everything.
07:04I come back to that video,
07:05it'll pop up on my YouTube side thing.
07:07She's crying, and she can't stop crying.
07:10Yeah, that was good, I love that.
07:12She's a good sport.
07:13I love it, I can't believe she even let you do that.
07:16Ariana Grande.
07:17The best, I remember kind of fighting
07:20to have her on as a talk guest,
07:21because they're like, no, she's a singer,
07:23and she doesn't know how to talk,
07:25or do an interview, she'll be better at singing.
07:27I go, have you seen her acting like Sam and Cat,
07:29or, I go, she's really funny.
07:32So they're like, well, maybe, we're not sure,
07:33we're not sure, and so we begged to just have her on,
07:35and she came on and did impressions,
07:38and stole the show.
07:39The thing went uber viral.
07:41I think probably in like two days,
07:43it was over 20 million, maybe 50 million hits.
07:46She is, yeah, I remember her just proving everyone wrong,
07:50going like, yeah, and talent.
07:52Talented and funny, like, she's both.
07:54She's got it all, she has everything.
07:56I love her. She really is.
07:57Yeah.
07:58Britney Spears, one of my favorites.
07:59Britney Spears, I always think of Saturday Night Live,
08:02that's when I first met Britney.
08:04Super fun, and again, to be that giant of a pop star,
08:07and still have a clear head.
08:10She did, ew, on our show,
08:11where we played 13 year old girls,
08:14and it's like, yeah, that's a suck ass.
08:17But the fact that she still has a sense of humor,
08:18and like, all that stuff, I love Britney forever.
08:22I love that, I love that.
08:23The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
08:2510th Anniversary Special airs tonight.
08:28And our very own legend, Gayle,
08:30got to sit down with Rapsody,
08:32and you don't wanna miss it.
08:33So I think I wanna do this myself.
08:36Like, I wanna trust myself.
08:37And it was, I was nervous, right?
08:39Can you do this?
08:40Is it gonna be good enough?
08:42You know, and that was the hardest part,
08:44like, trusting myself.
08:46But I'm happy I did it.
08:47It was a beautiful challenge, and I grew a lot from it.
08:50And I got to understand that this is just art.
08:52You're supposed to create from who you are,
08:55and just put it out in the world, good, bad, and different.
08:58You know, just make the music that you wanna make.
09:01And that, you know, the illusion and fantasy
09:04of trying to fit in these spaces and get validation,
09:10it's not real.
09:11People have to know who I am first.
09:13For the full interview, check out Billboard's YouTube.
09:16Tomorrow, we go country with our Power Players event,
09:19and interview with Sam Hunt.
09:21Love that guy.
09:22I'm Tetris, and I'll see you then.
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