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DJ Swamp Izzo Just Teased a New Carti x Drake Track

DJ Swamp Izzo Just Teased a New Carti x Drake Track

Plus, Gunna wants to get into the AI game.

June 27, 2025

Our prayers have been answered: Frank Ocean is back in the studio. In other news:

Song streams & revenue 💰️
Will we ever actually get this new Carti x Drake track? 👀
Gunna’s AI comments are disappointing 😒
New Music Friday releases 💿️
Industry Insights 📈

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Songs Streams & Revenue

As reported by Hits Daily Double for the week of May 30 to June 5.

It’s a new week and a new song revenue chart. As reported by Hits Daily Double, which tracks streaming revenue week over week, the above chart reflects the streaming period from May 30 to June 5.

Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s collab, “luther,” is still dominating the chart as BigX’s country collab with Bailey Zimmerman, “All the Way,” snatches second place from Drake’s “NOKIA.” Meanwhile, Lil Tecca’s “OWA OWA” is making an appearance on the chart thanks to his newest album, DOPAMINE.

Playboi Carti Previews New Song With Drake

Drake and Carti’s relationship has (seemingly) been neutral for a while now, with the vamp rapper appearing on the track “Pain 1993” from Drizzy’s 2020 Dark Lane Demos Tapes. Four years later, the Toronto native would drop the track “No Face” with Carti as part of his 100 GIGS releases (his adlibs didn’t make the streaming version of the track, unfortunately). There’ve been whispers of more songs hiding in the vault, including the long-rumored “One Day,” but we finally got something real — thanks to DJ Swamp Izzo randomly deciding to bless us during an afterparty.

Carti & Drake get soulful

On June 25, Playboi Carti kicked off his After Hours Til Dawn Tour run at SoFi Stadium in L.A. and brought the full circus with him. Ken Carson showed up (taking a break from side-eyeing Don Toliver), and Travis Scott appeared to rage through “FE!N” as the two sprinted across the stage in designer fits that probably cost more than your rent.

The real chaos happened after the show. Carti hosted the official afterparty at Zouk Los Angeles, where ATL legend DJ Swamp Izzo decided to casually preview a new Drake x Carti collab. The track, which still doesn’t have an official title, flips Luther Vandross’ “A House Is Not a Home.” If there’s one thing Drake loves more than heartbreak, it’s sampling a soul record because what else goes better with a room full of bottle girls?

The petty backstory that might kill the release

Here’s where it gets messy. Back in March, DJ Akademiks (certified Drake fanboy and drama magnet) said this track was originally intended for For All The Dogs, but got bumped over to Carti’s MUSIC. Allegedly, Kendrick Lamar (who supposedly had a director role on MUSIC) cut the song entirely and then ran with the concept himself, giving us “luther,” his own Vandross-sampling hit.

Naturally, Carti’s go-to producer F1THY was not having it and hopped online to deny the claims — and threaten to fight Akademiks. So the rumor was born months ago, and it just sat there, marinating in internet conspiracy.

Now, the track is back in circulation. However, whether it will actually be released is anyone’s guess. With Carti spending time touring and collaborating with Drake’s current enemies (see: The Weeknd, Kendrick), it wouldn’t be a shock if Drake decides to shelve the track out of sheer pettiness. If we’ve learned one thing from recent events: Drizzy doesn’t forget. He just delays.

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Gunna Wants to Sign an AI Artist & Shares New Album Details

AI in rap is like pineapple on pizza: people either love it or hate it. Still, that hasn’t stopped some of the biggest names in hip-hop from experimenting with it—results be damned. Drake tried to use an AI-generated 2Pac and Snoop Dogg for his “Taylor Made Freestyle,” which went about as well as you’d expect.

Ye’s been accused of stuffing VULTURES 2 with AI vocals (and later confirmed he was using AI for BULLY). Famed producer Timbaland is out here launching a whole AI music company.

Now, will.i.am (AKA Black Eyed Peas), who launched their own AI radio station last year, sat down with Gunna to talk about being a visionary, AI in music, and what we can expect next from the ATL native.

Gunna wants to get into his AI bag

In their sit-down interview for UPROXX, will.i.am asked Gunna (officially crowned the publication's first Visionary) how he personally feels about AI.

“I fuck with it, but I'm not hands-on with it. I'm not against it; I'm gonna for sure tap in to it, but I'm taking my time,” the rapper said.

will.i.am then launched into a full-on Black Mirror monologue about how AI artists will run the game by 2030 — producing, writing, and starring in their own music videos. Gunna was so convinced, he practically started drafting a contract on the spot.

“I gotta sign me an AI artist, fast. Get with 'em, you can't beat 'em,” Gunna said.

This isn’t Gunna’s first brush with machine-made rap. Back in 2022, he dropped a track called “Florida Water” with FN Meka. The AI rapper, Meka, didn’t exactly score Gunna any aura points, looking like a Tekken character with bars that Reddit could have ghostwritten.

It didn’t take long for Capitol Records to cut ties with Meka after clips surfaced of the digital rapper casually dropping the N-word—because apparently no one on the label thought to check if that might be a problem.

Now, Gunna is being torn up online (understandably) for wanting to dive deeper into using AI.

Nevertheless, maybe new music news can help soften the blow to his reputation.

Gunna’s showing “more of him” on this next album

Moving away from AI, Gunna revealed what we can expect from his upcoming sixth album. According to him, there isn’t a specific theme or concept for the project.

“When I create, I go with what I feel. I might approach an album not even knowing the title yet and it'll form. It'll come to me just through life and just living. So for this album in particular, it's no theme. It's in current time of what's happening with me,” Gunna said.

Still, he’s promising something more personal this time around. Not just music, but the visuals too:

[The visuals are] “showing more of me. Not just showing my face. It's me showing, ‘This is what he likes to do.’ Versus me telling you, and you might know, like, ‘He goes to the gym.’ These next videos are going to show more real-deal lifestyle of me, but creatively,” he said.

Here’s hoping one of those things pulling him down isn’t an artificially intelligent rapper with a PR crisis.

Do y'all like AI in music?