Sexyy Red is Billboard’s latest cover star! Ice Spice has teamed up with Pepsi’s lemon-lime soda STARRY for a commercial that will air during the Super Bowl. We all saw when Destiny’s Child reunited for ‘Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé’ but it looks like they were back together once more for a very special reason. Mel B of the Spice Girls is teasing a potential reunion that would feature all five members of the band. Justin Timberlake has wiped his Instagram leaving fans wondering if he is releasing new music. And more!
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00:00 Destiny's Child and the Spice Girls reunite.
00:03 Justin Timberlake wipes his socials.
00:05 iSpice is making her Super Bowl debut.
00:08 Sexy Red covers our future of hip hop issue.
00:11 And we sit down with James Samuel.
00:13 (upbeat music)
00:17 It's time for some Billboard news.
00:18 I'm Tetris Kelly.
00:19 It's Tuesday, January 9th.
00:21 And we continue our week of Billboard future
00:23 of genre covers with Sexy Red.
00:26 - I wanted to be everything,
00:28 'cause I was good at everything.
00:29 I used to think I was gonna be a painter.
00:31 I used to be drawing a lot,
00:33 designing my Barbie dolls clothes.
00:35 I used to be doing they hair.
00:36 I knew I could do it,
00:37 but I just didn't know that's what I would be doing.
00:39 I always knew, 'cause I was just different.
00:41 I was weird, I was quiet.
00:43 But everybody used to want to be my friend.
00:45 I was pretty.
00:46 My hair was real long.
00:48 My mama knew how to dress me.
00:50 And everybody used to just be like flocking to me.
00:52 But I was weird, I was quiet.
00:54 Like I was shy.
00:55 I didn't want to talk to nobody.
00:56 But people still was just like,
00:58 "Girl, no."
00:59 I've always been that person, for real.
01:02 ♪ I can't be your bestie ♪
01:03 ♪ Niggas trying to cuff me ♪
01:04 ♪ He wanna arrest me ♪
01:06 My ex-boyfriend had cheated on me,
01:08 so I had made a diss song about him.
01:11 And then I rapped it to him.
01:12 He was like, "Oh, that's hard, I like that."
01:14 And then that's when we would be around his friends.
01:18 And he had had me rap the song to his friends.
01:21 And they was like, "Oh, you actually can rap.
01:23 "They like you hard."
01:24 So then I just was like, "For real?"
01:25 So I went to the studio and made a real song.
01:28 And then everybody was like,
01:29 "Send me the song, send me the song."
01:30 And then people started booking me for parties.
01:32 And that's how it started.
01:34 I just do me, like, and it's hip hop shit.
01:36 Like, I don't know.
01:37 They probably be saying my music ain't even hip hop.
01:39 But I feel like everybody that's doing hip hop
01:41 is being they self.
01:43 Like if you think of Old Dirty Bastard
01:44 and all them people from back in the day,
01:46 they was wild and crazy too.
01:47 So I just feel like hip hop just showing
01:50 all the different black personalities.
01:52 - For the full cover story, head to Billboard.com.
01:54 We'll have new covers for you every day this week,
01:57 but we've gotta move on to another big rapper.
01:59 The winds keep on coming for Ice Spice.
02:02 Ice Spice is getting ready for the Super Bowl.
02:05 The People's Princess is teaming up
02:07 with the soda brand for a big ad.
02:09 ♪ He said I'm good enough ♪
02:11 ♪ Call my daughter ♪
02:11 ♪ Think about shit that I shouldn't ♪
02:13 - We just found out Miss Boyz a Liar
02:15 is prepping her debut album for 2024.
02:18 Billboard can also reveal that the rapper
02:20 has just landed a Super Bowl commercial
02:22 for Starry, Pepsi's lemon-lime soda.
02:25 It's the brand's first ad in the big game
02:27 and Ice Spice told us this,
02:29 "I'm hyped to star in the first ever
02:32 Starry Super Bowl commercial.
02:34 Trust me, Starry is a five."
02:36 Ice Spice is having a big year
02:38 as a multiple Grammy nominee,
02:40 including for her hit, Barbie World, with Nicki Minaj.
02:43 ♪ Party ♪
02:44 ♪ Pink belt like I'm ready to burn ♪
02:45 ♪ I'm a 10 so I pull in a 10, boy ♪
02:47 - The Super Bowl goes down February 11th.
02:50 Now on to one of my favorite topics, girl groups.
02:53 They're making a big comeback and I'm so excited.
02:57 A Destiny's Child reunion and Spice Girls project
02:59 in the works, I am in heaven.
03:02 Let's break it down.
03:03 ♪ Say my name, say my name ♪
03:05 ♪ Can no one else around you say baby I love you ♪
03:09 - Destiny's Child reunited for Beyoncé's
03:11 Renaissance World Tour film.
03:13 But the DC reunion didn't end there.
03:15 Beyoncé, Michelle, and Kelly joined forces
03:17 at Kelly's husband, Tim Weatherspoon's 50th birthday
03:21 to sing him a very special happy birthday.
03:24 According to Page Six, the guests called it
03:25 a highlight of the night.
03:27 But the good news doesn't stop.
03:29 I hope you're ready for some more girl power in 2024.
03:32 - Been saying it forever, but now we're actually
03:35 gonna be releasing some really good news
03:37 in about a few weeks that involves all five of us.
03:40 - Mel B, aka Scary Spice, told Hoda and Jenna
03:44 on the Today Show that we can expect Scary,
03:46 Baby, Ginger, Sporty, and Posh
03:48 to spice up our lives in 2024.
03:51 - Do you feel like us Spice Girls fans
03:54 who are very loyal will be satisfied by what's happening?
03:58 - 100% satisfied, and it's gonna be the gift
04:01 that keeps on giving without saying too much about it.
04:04 - Wait, you're giving something to someone?
04:06 - Give us something! - Give us something!
04:08 - Sounds like there's another big music return.
04:10 Justin Timberlake has something in the works.
04:13 Justin Timberlake has the internet buzzing
04:15 as fans think he's about to drop new music.
04:18 Here's why.
04:19 ♪ You know you gonna mess around ♪
04:21 ♪ If I'm not there ain't no one there ♪
04:23 ♪ To take back the night ♪
04:25 - Justin Timberlake fans are convinced
04:26 the new JT era is upon us.
04:29 On Monday, Justin wiped his IG page of all posts
04:32 with only a profile pic of the singer's eyes
04:35 staring at us in a car's rear view mirror.
04:38 It's like in my mirror.
04:39 Sorry, I had to do that.
04:41 This is a classic promo move used by pop stars
04:43 like Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa, The Weeknd, and more
04:46 ahead of album releases or large projects.
04:50 So does this mean we have new Justin music coming?
04:52 ♪ Let me take you to a better place ♪
04:57 - He did recently call back his fellow NSYNC members
04:59 for "Better Place" for Trolls Band Together
05:02 and performed at the grand opening
05:03 of the Fontaine Blue Hotel in Vegas in December.
05:07 If Justin does drop an album,
05:09 it would mark his sixth studio album
05:11 and first since 2018's Man of the Woods.
05:14 ♪ But I'm a man of the woods, it's my pride ♪
05:17 - Before I let you go, Billboard's own Gail Mitchell
05:20 sat down with James Samuel
05:21 to talk about all things film and music.
05:24 - Epic and bold are two of the words that define cinema.
05:28 You know, it's not often, you know, in this day,
05:30 when every other movie is a superhero movie,
05:33 you know, and I love those movies,
05:35 but it's really quite rare we get original storytelling
05:42 in a cinematic experience, right?
05:44 It's usually with an IP we're familiar with
05:48 or a sequel or something,
05:49 and I just love original storytelling.
05:53 Like, I love cinema, I love film, I love music,
05:55 and I love originality.
05:57 So who better to bring those things than moi?
06:01 As I'm writing the songs,
06:03 I don't come up with the artists first.
06:06 I write the songs and let the song speaks to me
06:08 who it wants to have on it.
06:09 So I perform this entire soundtrack with featured artists.
06:13 So I perform with Lil Wayne,
06:15 Woody Banton, and Shabba Ranks on "Hallelujah Heaven."
06:18 ♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪
06:22 On "Jizu," I perform with Doja Cat and Kodak Black
06:25 and Ade Kunle Gold from Nigeria.
06:27 But on "All About You," which is the opening credits song,
06:30 I perform with 83-year-old George Ben-Jor,
06:35 who sings "Maskenada,"
06:37 ♪ Oh, Adiaba ♪
06:39 and he sings the title track.
06:41 So the whole thing is amazing.
06:43 I've been working on this thing for years.
06:45 There's a song called "Virinia," right?
06:47 - Okay, yeah, I remember that one, yeah.
06:48 - It was played by Anna Diop,
06:50 and that's featuring myself and a man called Terry Callier.
06:54 He vocaled that song for me for this film
06:57 and passed away in 2012.
07:00 - Oh my goodness.
07:01 - That's how long I've been making--
07:02 - You've been working on this?
07:03 - Yeah, "The Book of Clans."
07:04 - Okay. - You know what I mean?
07:05 - For the full interview, you know what to do.
07:07 Head to Billboard.com.
07:08 That's it for today.
07:10 Come back tomorrow for our next big cover star.
07:12 I'm Tetris Kelly, and this is Billboard News.
07:15 (upbeat music)