What We Know About Every Kanye Rumor Including Alleged 40 Min Apology Video

It’s A$AP YAMS Day 🕊️ hard to believe it’s been nine years since the world lost the A$AP Mob visionary R.I.P. May his legacy continue to be remembered. In other news today:

• Song streams & revenue 💰️ 

• What we know about every Kanye rumor, including 40 min apology 👀 

• Vince Staples brings his dry humor to Netflix 📺️ 

• Posthumous 2Pac album in the works by Kat Williams 😳 

• New Music Friday releases 💿️ 

• Industry Insights 📈 

Song Streams & Revenue

It’s a new Thursday 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 Jan 5 to 11.

Jack Harlow continues his “Lovin On Me” reign, earning $100K from 21M streams. Only $122 and 26K streams put Drake’s “Rich Baby Daddy” ahead of Doja’s “Paint The Town Red.” Meanwhile, $10 from 2K streams separated Gunna and Nicki Minaj.

What We Know About Every Kanye Rumor

Kanye’s rollouts thrive on the mystery of rumors, the excitement of a potential release date by a “source close to the rapper,” followed by headlines of his alleged antics. Vultures has a new rumored release date, but Kanye’s alleged side quests have been of greater interest.

He’s at the center of claims about remodeling his teeth for $850K, filing a trademark related to biological cloning, and recording a 40-minute apology video for his antisemitic remarks. Find out everything we know below.

He’s rumored to release a 40-minute apology before ‘Vultures’

TMZ, the home of many Kanye rumors, reported that Kanye shot an apology video with a camera crew weeks ago for his antisemitic remarks and is planning to release it before Vultures. Earlier this week, Vultures got an updated release date of February 9th on Apple Music.

The video is reportedly 40 minutes long. Kanye speaks directly to the camera but is often rambling, making him, at times, hard to understand. While making apologies or retractions is uncharacteristic of Kanye, he may be turning a new leaf because he recently gave a sincere apology to Kid Cudi, which led to their reconciliation.

He did not remove his teeth but did get a $850K custom grill

Kanye’s teeth remodel made waves because of the initial report that he had his teeth removed in favor of $850K titanium grillz, inspired by the James Bond villain Jaws. The teeth removal was an exaggerated rumor, but he did get the six-figure alteration to be placed over his natural teeth.

In a new photo with Chris Rock and Bianca, you can see Kanye wearing the new grillz.

His latest trademark request names biological cloning as an area of interest

“I miss you when I wake up before you,” is a caption Kanye wrote in celebration of his wife Bianca’s birthday. Not the first to use the phrase; it’s been floating around online since Tumblr days, but it appears he’s the first to try and trademark it.

According to XXL, he listed various goods and services related to interior or logo design in the trademark filing. It wouldn’t be a Kanye rumor without an eyebrow-raising catch, “cloud seeding,” “graphoanalysis,” “biological cloning,” and “exploration services in the field of oil, gas, and mining industries” were also named.

The trademark application has been accepted, but in order to be approved, Kanye will need to show examples of the goods he aims to provide under the trademark.

Vince Staples Takes His Dry Humour to Netflix

The rapper and unintentional comedian Vince Staples is taking his talents to the big screen. The Vince Staples Show will premiere on Netflix on February 15th, and the trailer gives a first look at what to expect.

The Plot

A cross between Atlanta, Insecure, and Curb Your Enthusiasm, the show is a comedic take on Vince’s life, set in his hometown of Long Beach, California. According to Tudum, “he’s thrust into adventures while navigating life as a kind of famous, kind of rich, kind of criminal (but not really) rapper. Unfortunately, anything that can go wrong usually does.”

What to expect

Executive produced by Kenya Barris of Black-ish and BlackAF, you can look forward to plenty of satirical jokes and dry wit. Vince, who once said the most underrated Long Beach attraction was the county jail, has a natural tendency to make unfiltered remarks in interviews with a deadpan demeanor that contrasts the seriousness of his audacious social commentary.

If you’re unfamiliar with Vince’s humor, allow us to introduce you. These are real questions and responses from his rapid-fire Q&A YouTube video.

• Best dish your mom cooks? My mom can’t cook.

• Best late night dish? Sleep. 

• Favorite thing to do outside? Go inside. 

• Are you gonna start your 3rd album or master your chili recipe? That’s my business.

• If you could star in any TV show right now, what would it be? Real Housewives of Atlanta.

The show’s background

The concept for the Netflix show initially began as a YouTube series in 2019. The original show had a similar comedic plot. In the first episode, Vince gets into a brawl at a barbershop in a Blood neighborhood after a kid rips his headphones out of his ears and exposes the music he was listening to—which was full of Crip references.

New Posthumous 2Pac Album in the Works by Kat Williams ft. Cardi B

The smoke from Kat Williams’ appearance on Club Shay Shay is still clearing, but he’s already onto the next podcast. Talking to Suge Knight on his Call Collect podcast, Williams revealed that he’s working on a new posthumous 2Pac album, and it features Cardi B. 

“What you got going on with some of those unreleases with ‘Pac, shit, you got me excited. The different people you said you’re gonna put on there. I don’t wanna let the cat out the bag, but it’s unbelievable,” said Knight.

Confirming that Cardi B would be one of the features, Williams said he always thought Cardi was the female version of 2Pac. He also said there would be eight featured artists in total, leaving seven unknown slots, and it was only “the best of the best.”

No further information is known about where 2Pac’s vocals are from or which producers are working on them. There have been rumors of 2Pac’s estate gearing up to release new music from the late rapper, but nothing has come to fruition in recent years.

New Music Friday

Lil Tecca is allegedly dropping the deluxe version of his TEC album, and Taz Taylor just teased a Lil Tecca x Offset collab. Hopefully, they both drop tonight. Here’s all the music you can look forward to—categorized by 💿️ for albums and 🎶 for singles:

• 💿️ TEC (Deluxe) by Lil Tecca

• 💿️ YES, I’m SAD by Fredo Band

• 💿️ PENITH by Lil Dicky

• 💿️ Highway 600 (deluxe) by Curren$y x Trauma Tone

• 🎶 “SLOPES” by Offset, Warren Hue

• 🎶 “Wassam Baby” by Rob49, Lil Wayne

• 🎶 “Passports & Suitcases” by Joey Bada$$, KayCyy

• 🎶 “Same 24” by Fivio Foreign, Meek Mill

• 🎶 “Jangrova” by Skepta, Idris Elba

• 🎶 “Give & Give” by Conway The Machine

• 🎶 “Fat Boy” by Finesse2Tymes, Rick Ross

• 🎶 “Too Rare” by Jay Critch

• 🎶 “Heart Ain’t Empty” by Blxst

• André 3000 announces New Blue Sun cinematic IMAX experience for one night only. Set for January 23, there will be a live-streamed Q&A with André and director Terence Nance immediately after.

• Kid Cudi speaks on Kanye reunion and reveals the rapper paid for his “Day ‘n’ Nite” video. Sitting down with Zane Lowe, Cudi reflects on his sibling-like relationship with Kanye.

• Tyler, the Creator, named 2023’s best-selling male artist and rapper on vinyl. Selling 552K vinyl records in the US, he’s also the third best-selling vinyl artist of 2023.

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