Yeat Goes Extraterrestrial on '2093' ft. Future, Childish Gambino, and Lil Wayne.

Yeat’s in his alien era and finally dropped 2093. Find our first impressions of his new album below. In other news today:

• Song streams & revenue 💰️ 

• Yeat goes extraterrestrial on ‘2093’ ft. Future & Childish Gambino 👽️ 

• Eminem’s returning to the big screen 📽️ 

• Why Kanye’s ‘Vultures 1’ is at risk of being removed from streaming services 😳 

• New Music Friday releases 💿️ 

• Industry Insights 📈 

Song Streams & Revenue

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 Feb 2 to 8.

Don Toliver’s “Bandit” earned $47K from 10.5M streams in its opening week. Meanwhile, Ice Spice’s “Think U The Shit (Fart)” earns $36K from 8M streams in its second week.

Yeat Takes Future, Childish Gambino & Lil Wayne to ‘2093’

It’s been almost a year since Yeat’s Aftërlyfe, and the 12-month lapse in albums is the equivalent of 10 years in Yeat time. The rapper’s rise became synonymous with the quantity over quality release schedule, but he took a pause, kicked it with aliens, and cooked up music for 2093.

Aliens partying to trap music is the best way to describe 2093. It’s futuristic, out of this world, eerie, and every other odd thing Yeat’s teased leading up to its release—like sending coordinates instead of addresses.

Yeat posted a snippet of the Future collab earlier this month, but the full version of “Stand On It” is unlike anything you’d ever get on a Future album, yet somehow it works. Future traded in toxic for sci-fi, recorded his adlibs in space, and codeine mumble raps his way through the second verse. (Listen on Apple Music & Spotify)

“Breathe” is a standout track. If aliens were on a party spaceship on their way to invade Earth—this is what they’d listen to. (Listen on Apple Music & Spotify)

“Power Trip” has fans guessing if Kanye or Travis Scott did some vocals, but it’s actually Childish Gambino credited on Genius as a songwriter and “additional vocals.” It tracks with Yeat’s IG photo dump, including a photo of them in the studio. (Listen on Apple Music & Spotify)

“ILUV” is the extraterrestrial love song two days too late for Valentine’s day. The “I love” female voice adlibs are a sample of electro group Crystal Castle’s song “Fleece.” (Listen on Apple Music & Spotify)

If you expected Playboi Carti-level voice mutations, you’d be disappointed. Yeat’s voice and lyrics are more lucid and comprehensible than previous albums, but the sound experimentation is where he stretched his limits.

Eminem’s Co-Producing a Documentary About Him & His Fans Stans

Slim Shady is coming back to the big screen. Pivoting from where 8 Mile left off (Eminem’s acting debut in 2002), he’s taking on a co-producing role in a documentary about what happens after you’ve made it and the people that, in part, make stardom possible—superfans.

Less fictional and dramatic than Donald Glover’s Swarm,  the project will spotlight Eminem and “the fans that worship him” to document a “revealing, edgy, and disarmingly personal journey into the world of superfandom.”

Directed by Steven Leckart, the doc is tentatively titled Stans after Eminem and Dido’s 2000s hit song “Stan,” which was about an obsessive and delusional fan. If you didn’t know Eminem coined the term “stan,” now you do. Partial credits go to Nas and his 2001 Jay-Z diss track “Ether” for turning the name into an adjective.

Scheduled for a 2024 release, Stans “is a study of the relationship between fanbase and artist through the lens of one of Eminem’s most fascinating songs and one of the world’s most important entertainers,” said Eminem’s manager longtime manager Paul Rosenberg and Stuart Parr of Shady Films in a joint statement.

Kanye’s ‘Vultures 1’ is at Risk of Being Removed From Streaming Services

Can you cancel Kanye? The question has been omnipresent for years, a result of his unpredictable offensive antics. He’s always turned his haters into gasoline, filling his tank with their fuel and churning out an album so good he’s forgiven of his sins.

Vultures 1 made it to streaming services, but Kanye isn’t triumphant yet. The album has been taken down and reinstated more than a few times, the original distributor is trying to remove it permanently, and songs are being taken down for copyright infringement.

Find out how Kanye got around his music industry ban and every issue the album faces below.

Last year, news broke that Kanye was shopping his new album around to potential distributors as an independent artist. Numerous major companies reportedly denied him due to his antisemitic remarks. But when the album got a release date, it was assumed that he found a willing distributor.

It appears not as FUGA, listed as the distribution service in YouTube’s metadata, claims the album was uploaded to streaming services via their automated process. In a very Keke Palmer “I don’t know who this man is” way, FUGA says they previously declined to distribute the album, and it was done without their permission.

FUGA was working to reverse UNO the release, and Vultures was briefly taken down from Apple Music on Thursday only to be reuploaded. Label Engine has taken over the distribution, and the album remains available minus the track “Good (Don’t Die)” on Spotify.

The song interpolates Donna Summer’s “I Feel The Love,” but Kanye allegedly didn’t get the proper clearance. The late singer’s husband spoke out and said her estate denied Kanye’s request to interpolate the 1977 song.

Despite all the legal red tape, Vultures 1 is projected to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200 next week with 140K in first-week sales. This would be Kanye’s 11th No. 1 album and Ty Dolla $ign’s first.

New Music Friday

We’re not getting Vultures 2 (didn’t see that coming), but Yeat’s 2093 finally dropped. Here’s all the music you can listen to now—categorized by 💿️ for albums and 🎶 for singles:

• 💿️ 2093 by Yeat

• 💿️ FLXTRA by OsamaSon

• 💿️ Magic As Usual by ICYTWAT

• 🎶 “Whatever She Wants” by Bryson Tiller

• 🎶 “Sorrys & Ferraris” by Polo G

• 🎶 “YEERN 101’” by ScHoolboy Q

• 🎶 “Vertino” by Conway The Machine, Joey Bada$$

• 🎶 “Closed Case” by NBA YoungBoy

• 🎶 “YOSHIMITSU” by Cochise

• 🎶 “Spirit Of Thunder” by Yung Lean

• 🎶 “27 Club” by Tierra Whack 

• 🎶 “Waiting In Vain” by Jordan Ward

• Lil Yachty & James Blake announce ‘Bad Cameo’ collab album. “But this project is so left for both of us,” the rapper teased.

• Roddy Ricch wins “The Box” copyright infringement lawsuit. The suit was filed by artist Greg Perry, who claims the song is similar to his 1975 cut “Come On Down.”

• Lil Jon reveals his meditation album was inspired by his divorce and turning 50. The 10-track project titled Total Meditation was released today (Feb 16).

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