It’s Friday, May 3rd, and we have lots of new music to get through. Kendrick Lamar hits back at Drake again this week with a second diss track “6:16 in LA.” The track comes out after merely days of releasing “euphoria.” Dua Lipa released her new album titled ‘Radical Optimism,’ and she shares the meaning of it and more when she dropped by the studio. Sia drops a new album ‘Reasonable Woman’ after five years since her last album and WILLOW released her highly anticipated album ‘emphathogen.’ We give you a behind the scenes look at WILLOW’s private concert. We sat down with Rapsody, and she shares How It Went Down behind the creation of her latest single “3:AM” with Erykah Badu. J Balvin & Imagine Dragons just launched their new single “Eyes Closed,” Mckenna Grace releases “Gentleman” and more
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00:00 The Kendrick and Drake beef continues.
00:02 We're talking to Dua Lipa.
00:04 New music from the best in pop.
00:07 We take you inside Willow's album release party
00:10 and Rapsody shows us how it went down.
00:12 (upbeat music)
00:15 It's Friday, May 3rd, but before you head to the streets,
00:18 let's get into this entertainment news
00:20 starting with your Friday music guide.
00:23 ♪ But if this was guitar ♪
00:27 Dua Lipa is injecting us with some radical optimism
00:30 and it's gonna make you move.
00:32 ♪ Oh, this love is fading ♪
00:36 More bops later in the show, but now your top story.
00:42 ♪ Can't tootsie slide about it ♪
00:43 ♪ This one is just gonna resurface ♪
00:44 ♪ Every dog gotta have his day ♪
00:46 ♪ Now live in your purpose ♪
00:47 Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef just won't end.
00:50 After K. Dot just fired off a second explosive track,
00:53 we're breaking down some of the top moments.
00:55 ♪ Motherfuck the big three ♪
00:57 ♪ Nigga, it's just big me ♪
00:58 ♪ Nigga, bam ♪
00:59 It keeps on going.
01:01 After so much back and forth like Drake's pushup.
01:04 ♪ Can't believe he jumping ♪
01:05 ♪ And this nigga turning 50 ♪
01:07 ♪ Every song that made it on the chart ♪
01:08 ♪ He got from Drizzy ♪
01:09 And the just released Euphoria from Lamar.
01:12 ♪ Then notice I said we ♪
01:13 ♪ It's not just me ♪
01:14 ♪ I'm what the culture feeling ♪
01:16 Most fans have crowned their winner,
01:18 but Kendrick's gun was still loaded.
01:20 He dropped 616 in LA with some pretty lethal bars
01:23 towards Drizzy.
01:24 ♪ Fake bully, I hate bullies ♪
01:26 ♪ You must be a terrible person ♪
01:27 ♪ Everyone inside your team ♪
01:28 ♪ Is whispering that you deserve it ♪
01:30 The internet is really latching on
01:32 to the section about OVO.
01:34 ♪ Are you finally ready to play ♪
01:35 ♪ Have you ever, let's see ♪
01:36 ♪ Have you ever thought that OVO is working for me ♪
01:39 Kendrick at this point seems to be giving advice to Drake,
01:42 making the Toronto rapper question
01:43 if his own team even has his back.
01:46 After Kendrick's one-two punch, is the beef over?
01:49 Or are we expecting another track from Drake
01:51 outside of a questionable IG post?
01:53 Let us know your pick.
01:55 Sia's back with "Reasonable Woman"
01:58 and the album's got all the good stuff
02:00 you'd expect from her.
02:01 ♪ I know you can't stop ♪
02:06 ♪ But yeah ♪
02:08 And she's even recruited the queen, Chaka Khan.
02:11 ♪ I'm queen diva ♪
02:12 ♪ Kidman bring the kid queen convents ♪
02:15 ♪ Feeding the queen while the kidman starving ♪
02:18 Dua Lipa might be one of the sweetest people
02:20 I've ever sat down with.
02:21 Radical Optimism is here and we talked all about it.
02:25 - I think sonically it's vastly different.
02:28 I feel like there's also songs that are, you know,
02:33 more personal in a way that maybe
02:36 people haven't heard from me before.
02:38 - The struggle you kind of make it,
02:39 something optimistic.
02:41 - But then the juxtaposition, the feeling of optimism,
02:44 that's always something that's run through my music.
02:46 It's something that I really firmly believe in.
02:48 I believe that I manifest a lot of the words that I write
02:53 or that I sing, 'cause they almost become like a mantra.
02:56 I sing them every night.
02:57 I perform them in front of crowds.
02:59 People sing them as well,
03:00 so I want there to be a sense of optimism,
03:02 a sense of light at the end of the tunnel.
03:05 I grew up listening to so many different artists
03:09 and I think a lot of that is down to like
03:10 the music my parents listened to,
03:12 the music I listened to on the radio,
03:14 the music I listened to like on my way to school,
03:16 you know, whatever it was,
03:17 and that's like Oasis and Portishead and Massive Attack
03:20 and Primal Scream and there's just so many different artists
03:25 and I don't know, I have to thank my parents
03:27 and my really eclectic knowledge of different types of music
03:31 because they've influenced me throughout my career
03:33 in different ways.
03:34 - The full interview is on Billboard's YouTube.
03:37 Willow has all grown up in her album
03:38 and Pathogen proves just that.
03:41 (upbeat music)
03:46 And we're still digging the psychedelic vibes.
03:49 ♪ Stop looking at me ♪
03:50 ♪ As you hit on your friend ♪
03:52 ♪ Please stop talking to me ♪
03:53 It's not every day you get to listen to a new album
03:55 with the artist herself,
03:57 but Billboard got the invite from Willow,
03:59 which means you get it too.
04:01 - I'll be playing some songs from my new album in Pathogen.
04:05 - Willow Smith wowed the crowd at Electric Lady Studios
04:08 in New York on Thursday night,
04:10 just hours before the release of her latest album
04:12 in Pathogen.
04:13 We take you to the intimate performance
04:15 in Billboard All Access.
04:17 (crowd cheering)
04:18 (upbeat music)
04:19 - I've been coming here since I was 14 years old.
04:22 And it's just a really special place.
04:26 - Willow performed a small set list of four songs,
04:29 including two songs she performed for the first time.
04:32 ♪ It's real, baby ♪
04:34 ♪ Oh, I trust ♪
04:36 The young artist mingled and listened to the entire album
04:40 with her guests.
04:41 (upbeat music)
04:44 Just a few hours before it was released.
04:54 - Let's have fun with this new album.
04:56 In Pathogen, come back tonight.
04:58 (crowd cheering)
05:00 - Guests also had the chance to check out the iconic space,
05:03 which included signed vinyls of some artists
05:05 who have recorded at the studio.
05:07 Willow's In Pathogen is out now.
05:11 McKenna Grace's in her Pop Girl era was Gentleman.
05:14 ♪ Drive an hour, buy me flowers ♪
05:16 ♪ Kiss me now, 'cause you know I fuckin' love ♪
05:19 - I think that it was the first time
05:21 that I felt like somebody was kind of showing me my worth
05:24 and made me feel like I was worth something,
05:28 which is kind of like a sad sentiment,
05:29 but I feel like everybody doesn't always
05:31 make you feel that way.
05:33 So it was kind of, it set a precedent for me
05:35 where I was like, okay, I know how I wanna be treated now.
05:38 Like, this is really nice.
05:39 I feel important.
05:42 - I'm Rapsody, and this is how I went down
05:44 with my new single, 3AM.
05:45 (upbeat music)
05:48 ♪ You make me feel like a virgin ♪
05:50 ♪ New person ♪
05:51 ♪ You make me pull back the curtains ♪
05:54 Getting to the final lyrical version of 3AM was a process.
05:59 First verse was actually lyrics that I pulled
06:01 from another song that I had.
06:03 Regardless, when I was talking about love,
06:05 I wanted to pull from a real authentic place.
06:08 You make me feel like a virgin, a new person.
06:10 You make me pull back the curtains.
06:12 I'm not afraid to share what you would hurt me.
06:14 You know, I was really thinking about a relationship
06:17 that I was in and the emotions that I was feeling.
06:20 It was just really raw and real,
06:22 and it just kind of poured out.
06:24 I took those lyrics and spit them over
06:26 the version of 3AM beat, and it just felt really good.
06:31 The last verse, which is actually performed
06:34 as a spoken word piece, I wanted to talk about
06:36 the whole journey of love.
06:38 You fall in love, and then you fall out of love.
06:40 What that feels like, where you can appreciate
06:42 the experience, you can appreciate how you feel.
06:45 At the same time, sometimes you have to put yourself first,
06:48 and it requires letting go.
06:50 And that was just really the approach of it.
06:52 You know, the last verse is super emotional, though.
06:55 You're like my second adolescent.
06:56 Like, come on. (laughs)
07:00 ♪ When it's darkest, we always attract the brightest people ♪
07:03 ♪ Baby, you a light ♪
07:04 ♪ You shift my whole world to the right ♪
07:08 The day that we recorded it, I remember, again,
07:10 why I wanted to name it 3AM.
07:12 He played it, and at the time,
07:14 it was just a piano that he had,
07:16 and that's kind of what I wrote to him.
07:18 Once I wrote to him, we built around that.
07:21 Like, I gave it to him, I recorded it in his studio,
07:24 and he built around it.
07:25 When it came to him, he was like,
07:25 "What are you gonna call it?"
07:26 3AM is such a special hour for me,
07:29 but also, on Pinterest, I saw these phrases,
07:33 and it says, "I want to know the 3AM version of you,
07:36 "vulnerable, honest, and real."
07:38 And that's what this song felt like to me.
07:40 Vulnerable, honest, and real.
07:43 So I was like, you know, let's call it 3AM.
07:45 ♪ I feel safe with you ♪
07:47 ♪ The most vulnerable that I could be ♪
07:49 ♪ Right around this time of the morning at three ♪
07:51 The unofficial music video for 3AM, it was super fun.
07:55 Scheduling-wise, I know I wanted to have a visual for it,
07:57 but we wanted to do something really special
08:00 that I felt like I needed, anyway, more time.
08:03 Erykah Badu was doing her 53rd birthday bash,
08:06 so I always knew that I was gonna go,
08:08 'cause I love celebrating her and celebrating her life.
08:11 The night before the show, we had a rehearsal,
08:14 and she and I went to her rehearsal studio with her band,
08:18 and we ran through the song a few times,
08:19 'cause this would be our first time ever performing it,
08:22 which I needed, you know?
08:25 Day of the show, the energy was just,
08:27 it's always beautiful at her show.
08:28 Like, we're celebrating her life,
08:29 family's there, friends there, Dallas, Texas is there.
08:32 And after she was finished with her set,
08:34 she called everybody back on stage,
08:36 she introduced the record,
08:37 and we performed it live for the first time.
08:40 So when you see it,
08:41 you're seeing the very first version of a performance
08:46 she and I have ever done together,
08:48 and done of this song, 3AM.
08:50 So it was a special night for me.
08:53 - That's today's news.
08:54 Come back next week for interviews
08:56 with Ava Max, Ateez, and more.
08:58 But before you go, we've got one more song
09:01 in our Friday Music Guide.
09:03 I didn't have an Imagine Dragons, J Balvin crossover
09:06 on my 2024 bingo card,
09:08 but the Eyes Closed remix is the best of both worlds.
09:12 ♪ Lock me up in the maze ♪
09:15 ♪ Turn out, turn out the lights ♪
09:17 - It's the collab that keeps on giving.
09:20 (rapping in foreign language)
09:23 ♪ Lock me up in the maze ♪