The nominations for the MTV EMAs 2022 have been unveiled and Harry Styles was the most mentioned artist with seven nods including Best Artist, Best Song and Best Video.
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Lil Baby has shared a new single titled ‘The World Is Yours To Take’, heavily sampling Tears For Fears’ 1985 classic ‘Everybody Wants To Rule The World’.The song is shaped around the lead melody of the Tears For Fears track – one of the Bath outfits most iconic – with Lil Baby rapping about ambition and personal triumph over it. In the first verse, he spits: “I’m by far one of the hardest workers / Real firm believer in “practice make perfect” / You can gather all the water, stay thirsty / Took a lot to get us here / We broke curses.”It comes as part of a collaboration between Lil Baby and American beer brand Budweiser, and was released as the latter’s official anthem for this year’s FIFA World Cup.
Before the tournament goes down in Qatar – where it will run from November 20 to December 18 – Lil Baby will release a further eight versions of ‘The World Is Yours To Take’, each featuring a different artist from a country represented in the Cup.Have a look at the lyric video for ‘The World Is Yours To Take’ below:Earlier this month, Lil Baby announced his third studio album, ‘It’s Only Me’, alongside the release of a new single titled ‘Detox’. The record, which will follow on from 2020’s ‘My Turn’, is due to arrive on October 14 via Motown.Last summer saw Lil Baby team up with Lil Durk on the collaborative album ‘The Voice Of The Heroes’.
Since then, he’s won a Grammy Award for his guest spot on Kanye West‘s ‘Donda’ cut ‘Hurricane’, linked up with Nicki Minaj for the joint single ‘Bussin’, and rapped alongside Drake and Future on DJ Khaled‘s ‘God Did’. A new documentary about Lil Baby’s career, Untrapped: The Story Of Lil Baby, came out last month on Amazon Prime Video. In a four star review, NME’s Luke Morgan Britton
.The nominations for the MTV EMAs 2022 have been unveiled and Harry Styles was the most mentioned artist with seven nods including Best Artist, Best Song and Best Video.
The full list of nominees for the 2022 MTV EMAs was just released and a lot of your fave stars are nominated this year!
Former Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand has admitted that he is concerned over Jadon Sancho's form at the club after the winger was dropped by Erik ten Hag.
DEALSBDi Music has signed singer songwriter Aimée to a worldwide publishing deal. “I am extremely grateful and excited to be part of BDi Music”, she says. “They have such great enthusiasm and excitement, which makes me feel really heard and appreciated.
Ahead of the release of his next album, It’s Only Me, on October 14, Lil Baby has shared a new single from the project called “Heyy” along with its cover art and tracklist. If you read it in a text message, the word “Heyy” could come off as shy or even noncommital.
“He’s not only who he is at home,” the friend of a Korean filmmaker tells the director’s daughter in Hong Sang-soo’s latest film. But “who he is at home” is at the heart of what “Walk Up” is all about.
Manchester United were without a number of first-team players in Tuesday’s training session as the last few rounds of international fixtures take place.
“The Menu.”The film festival, held at the Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar in Austin, Texas, is one of the premiere genre film festivals in the country and has led to more acquisitions than South by Southwest, which takes place in Austin every spring. A joyful celebration of all things genre, this year was no different – with buzzy titles like Searchlight’s “The Menu” and MGM’s “Bones and All” playing alongside more esoteric fare like “Shin Ultraman.” There was even a high profile Marvel Studios premiere in their upcoming black-and-white Halloween special, “Werewolf by Night” (which really brought the house down).“We really gave our jury members a tough job this year.
Former Manchester United centre-back Wes Brown has suggested that Jadon Sancho should be included in the England squad for the upcoming World Cup in Qatar – if he can continue his good form so far this season.
MultiVersus players apparently won’t have to wait very long for the second half of the Rick and Morty duo to be added to the game.Last night (September 23), developer Player First Games released a brand new trailer which finally gave players of the brawler the first look at Rick Sanchez from the hit cartoon series Rick and Morty.The trailer – which you can check out below – teases the scientist’s upcoming release while also confirming that his pet Meeseeks will be included, perhaps as part of his fighting kit. However, although the trailer doesn’t feature a release date, it’s been confirmed that the character will be coming to MultiVersus sooner than players might think.The MultiVersus game director Tony Huynh took to Twitter soon after the trailer’s release to say that Rick will be “coming very soon” to the game (via PCGamer).
BreAnna Bell Lil Baby was recognized with the Black Music Action Coalition’s Quincy Jones Humanitarian Award on Thursday night at the Music in Action Awards Gala. After being introduced with a video congratulations from his mother Lashawn Jones and Quality Control Music Group founder Pierre Thomas as well as a letter written by Quincy Jones, the rapper took the stage in a dapper velvet black suit, which he paired with some reading glasses on stage. “Not only have you made music history and impacted the course of modern hip-hop, but you use your platform to give back to the community in a meaningful way. And that’s what it’s all about,” said Jones in his letter, which was read to the crowd by his son Quincy Jones III.
This winter the FIFA World Cup 2022 will take place in Qatar amid a backdrop of complaints over everything from human rights to fixture congestion. Somehow in the middle of the soccer madness is Lil Baby, who has recorded the official anthem of the tournament, "The World Is Yours To Take." The inspiration song, designed to convince soccer players like Harry Kane and Kylian Mbappe that they can triumph, remixes Tears For Fears' 1985 hit "Everybody Wants To Rule The World." Check it out below.
Vancouver’s Breakout Festival ended in a riot on Sunday night, after Lil Baby cancelled his appearance at the very last minute due to illness. The rapper’s headline performance was due to close the proceedings, meaning the event didn’t get its grand finale.
Crowds at Vancouver's Breakout Festival caused thousands of dollars worth of damage after it was announced that headliner Lil Baby would not be performing, Global and CTV reports. Lil Baby was due to headline the Sunday night (September 18) of the two-day event at Vancouver's Pacific National Exhibition Amphitheatre but pulled out at the last minute, with organizers stating that the rapper was "too sick" to take to the stage.
Lil Baby cancelled his headline slot at the Breakout Festival in Canada.The rapper’s performance was pulled due to illness at 9.30pm local time last night (September 18), 30 minutes before the Vancouver festival was due to close.As a result, videos from the event following the announcement appeared to show attendees ripping down tents, throwing bins, toppling refrigerators, breaking tables and raiding a drinks tent.Police said seven people were arrested for breach of the peace and a criminal investigation has been launched, reports the Vancouver Sun.Riot at the pne and @6ixAdemiks re tweeted me first so he gets footage Best in Vancouver cauze lil baby didn’t show pic.twitter.com/EEuEDCkxPJ— vancity (@vancity2023) September 19, 2022Lil Baby apologised for pulling out earlier today (September 19), writing on his Instagram Stories: “I would like to start off by saying I truly apologise Vancouver, Canada, the Breakout Festival, and to everyone who was in attendance! I have been going so hard these past few months without any breaks that it finally caught up with me. And my body completely shut down.
Erik ten Hag believes the partnership of Tyrell Malacia, Christian Eriksen and Jadon Sancho on the left wing is proving dangerous for Manchester United.
Former Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes believes Jadon Sancho deserved an England call-up more than Manchester City ace Jack Grealish after the former was left out of the squad for the upcoming round of Nations League fixtures.
Thania Garcia Lil Baby will be honored with the Quincy Jones Humanitarian Award at the second annual Music in Action Awards Gala, hosted by the Black Music Action Coalition and taking place Sept. 22 at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills. The ceremony will celebrate artists, executives, businesses, entrepreneurs, activists, and companies that have utilized their platforms to effect social change over the past year, according to BMAC. Lil Baby will be honored for his contribution to racial and social justice inside and outside of the music industry. Recently, the Atlanta-born rapper hosted his third annual “Back to School Fest” at Atlanta’s West End Mall. In partnership with Goodr, the event provided over 3,000 local children with music, games, carnival rides, food, backpacks, school supplies, and haircuts. Additionally, Lil Baby worked with Atlanta restaurateur Lemont Bradley to offer 100 jobs to young adults and established the $150,000 “My Turn” scholarship program for students at his former high school. Previous recipients of this award include the Weeknd and H.E.R. who both received the award at the inaugural Music in Action Awards Gala in 2021.