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25 Hip-Hop Releases You Need On Your Playlist
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25 Hip-Hop Releases You Need On Your Playlist

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Big L, Kodak Black, Westside Gunn, Monaleo, Ken Carson, Wale, Flyana Boss, Lola Brooke, and more stars also dropped new offerings.

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Today is Friday, which means there are a ton of new releases to look forward to from some of your favorite Hip-Hop artists. To help you unwind and enjoy the weekend, check out VIBE’s picks of songs and albums you should hear and add to your soundtrack of weekend festivities.

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Sevdaliza Releases Album 'Heroina' With Karol G, Kenia Os, Tokischa
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Sevdaliza Releases Album ‘Heroina’ With Karol G, Kenia Os, Tokischa

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Sevdaliza is celebrating womanhood in all its forms on her new album. On Friday, the experimental singer released her third LP, Heroina — an ode to femininity that features collaborations with Karol G, Kenia Os, Pabllo Vittar, and Tokischa.

“I started creating around the world with people carrying different energies, different frequencies. Out of that process, a few songs found their way onto Heroina,” Sevdaliza explained in a press statement. “They carry the same thread that’s always been with me, humanity, the resistance of the body and mind, the way women and queer people are still shaped by control and the male gaze.”

“But this time, it’s a different kind of protest,” she added. “Heroina is about wanting to be free, and at the same time feeling how limited that freedom can be. That tension between surrender and resistance became the core of this album.”

The 13-track record includes her massive hit “Alibi,” featuring Brazilian drag singer Pabllo Vittar and French star Yseult, “Ride or Die, Pt. 2” with Puerto Rican rapper Villano Antillano and Dominican queen Tokischa, and “No Me Cansaré” with Karol G. Elsewhere on the record, she welcomes collaborations with Kenia Os, La Joaqui, and Eartheater.

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In an Instagram post celebrating the LP’s release Friday, she explained how the featured artists and collaborators on the album “represent different shades of womanhood: resilience, sensuality, and independence.” She explained, “Together, they form a collective voice that challenges traditional narratives and celebrates the power of the feminine in all its forms.”

Heroína marks Sevdaliza’s first full-length project since 2020’s Shabrang, which included tracks “Oh My God” and “Joanna.” She later released the EP Raving Dahlia in 2022.

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Mass MoCA Releases Malawian Roots Album to Launch Its New Label: Listen
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Mass MoCA Releases Malawian Roots Album to Launch Its New Label: Listen

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A new album of Malawian roots music is the inaugural release of a new record label from the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA). A collaboration with California label Hen House Studios, Mass MoCA Records released the Kasambwe Brothers’ self-titled album today, and you can hear it below.

The Kasambwe Brothers are a band of four decades, based in the Ndirande township near Malawian capital Blantyre. They found their way to a Mass MoCA residency with help from Hen House and Luc Deschamps, the director of the Jacaranda Foundation and France’s honorary consul to Malawi. Watch a documentary on the making of the album, which involves collaborators from the Massachusetts music scene, below. Clement Kammwamba is the artist behind the cover painting.

Mass MoCA Records will operate in tandem with the museum’s curatorial ethos, a press release notes, and is running as a three-year pilot. Museum director Kristy Edmunds said, “By joining forces with Hen House Studios and being able to tap into the remarkable number of music studios and intimate venues in the local area—the ingredients for a hand-made record label were all around us. I see this label as an extension of how we innovate to support the mobility of artists’ ideas and connect audiences the world over.”

Harlan Steinberger, the producer and engineer behind Hen House, added, “Though technology today can work wonders, the digital world has de-humanized us. I believe in an older-world method that emphasizes the magic of a band making music together in one room, playing off the creativity of the moment. The humanistic approach creates a deeper emotional listener experience that can not only be heard, but also felt.”

An album from Compton jazz artists Black Nile will follow in 2026, the press release notes.

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Mass MoCA Releases Malawian Roots Album to Launch Its New Label: Listen
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Mass MoCA Releases Malawian Roots Album to Launch Its New Label: Listen

by jummy84
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A new album of Malawian roots music is the inaugural release of a new record label from the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA). A collaboration with California label Hen House Studios, Mass MoCA Records released the Kasambwe Brothers’ self-titled album today, and you can hear it below.

The Kasambwe Brothers are a band of four decades, based in the Ndirande township near Malawian capital Blantyre. They found their way to a Mass MoCA residency with help from Hen House and Luc Deschamps, the director of the Jacaranda Foundation and France’s honorary consul to Malawi. Watch a documentary on the making of the album, which involves collaborators from the Massachusetts music scene, below. Clement Kammwamba is the artist behind the cover painting.

Mass MoCA Records will operate in tandem with the museum’s curatorial ethos, a press release notes, and is running as a three-year pilot. Museum director Kristy Edmunds said, “By joining forces with Hen House Studios and being able to tap into the remarkable number of music studios and intimate venues in the local area—the ingredients for a hand-made record label were all around us. I see this label as an extension of how we innovate to support the mobility of artists’ ideas and connect audiences the world over.”

Harlan Steinberger, the producer and engineer behind Hen House, added, “Though technology today can work wonders, the digital world has de-humanized us. I believe in an older-world method that emphasizes the magic of a band making music together in one room, playing off the creativity of the moment. The humanistic approach creates a deeper emotional listener experience that can not only be heard, but also felt.”

An album from Compton jazz artists Black Nile will follow in 2026, the press release notes.

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Time Magazine Releases New Donald Trump Cover After His Criticism
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Time Magazine Releases New Donald Trump Cover After His Criticism

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Time magazine has released a new cover of its upcoming Nov. 10 issue featuring President Donald Trump after the GOP leader heavily critiqued the original image used.

The legacy publication unveiled the second edition earlier this week, tied to its feature on Trump, who was interviewed about his role in brokering the ceasefire deal between Gaza and Israel. While the former image features the POTUS looking upward framed against the sky with the caption “His Triumph,” the latter depicts Trump with his hands clasped under his chin at the Hayes desk with the subtitle “Trump’s World.”

Unveiled Oct. 14, Trump took significant umbrage with the cover photo initially chosen, writing on Truth Social at 1:36 a.m. ET that night: “Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time. They ‘disappeared’ my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one. Really weird! I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a super bad picture, and deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why?”

Trump has a long established relationship with the newsweekly — both as subject and reader. According to the outlet, as of December 2024, Trump’s total cover count exceeds 40, coming behind only Presidents Ronald Reagan and record-holder Richard Nixon. Naturally, this doesn’t include the fake covers that had reportedly been hanging in “at least five of his golf clubs,” which featured a cover line exclaiming that “Trump is hitting it on all fronts … even TV!” The existence of the bogus covers, reported by the Washington Post, prompted the magazine to ask Trump to remove them. Since then, several real covers currently hang in various locations inside his Mar-a-Lago residence. Time also named him the Person of the Year in 2016 and 2024.

Prior to the release of the original cover, the owner of Time, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, made waves over the weekend for comments to The New York Times in which he said he thought Trump was doing a “great job” and “fully” supported the idea of sending federal troops into San Francisco.

According to a report by The Daily Beast, Washington, D.C.-based photographer Stephen Voss’s new photo of Trump drew inspiration from Arnold Newman’s 1963 photograph of German industrialist and convicted Nazi war criminal Alfried Krupp, which was published by Newsweek, though Time vehemently denied this. (The digital outlet also reported Voss liking comments on Instagram where followers asked about the connection, though he has since seemingly removed his likes.)

“There is no connection and claims suggesting otherwise are completely untrue,” a Time spokesperson said. “The references for this photoshoot were past presidential portraits in the Oval Office, including TIME’s own covers. Giving weight to speculation on social media is reckless and contributes to the spread of misinformation.”

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Chrissy Chlapecka Releases 'Apollo' Video: Watch
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Chrissy Chlapecka Releases ‘Apollo’ Video: Watch

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Chrissy Chlapecka is stepping into her power again. On Friday, the Girlie Pop diva released her single “Apollo,” which she penned following a year of darkness and self-reconstruction. Now, the song is a radiant cyberpop anthem of queer resilience.

“I wrote Apollo about the darkness I had felt throughout this year, and how I longed to chase the light I once knew myself as,” Chlapecka tells Rolling Stone in a statement. “Battling a tough road of depression, the insanity of the music industry as an independent artist, trauma therapy from previous relationships, and the rollercoaster of life… had not only stopped me in my tracks, but it also allowed me to speak directly from my heart.”

She continues, “This song is about the return to oneself, knowing who you truly are on inside, even when darkness consumes you. This music video was made to represent how I had to completely build myself back together into the fierce diva I’ve always known that I am. By the end, I’m a chromatic superhero ready to leave the planet… to my next song.”

The Mikey Harmon-directed video opens with Chlapecka walking out of a plastic tube at a junkyard as if she landed as a cyborg princess from outer space, before transporting to a spaceship-like backdrop. “Know where you run, go where you go/Lead and I follow, follow/Into the sun, out of the cold,” sings Chlapecka in the chorus. “I chase Apollo-pollo/Hit me with your light in the dark/I’d die to be where you are/Into the hollow of every little piece of your heart.”

Chlapecka co-wrote the song with Dallas Caton, Alexandra Veltri, and Jesse Saint John. The singer’s delivery on the track and Alec Cohen’s choreography in the video have inspired fans to compare it to some of Lady Gaga’s early music, in particular, Gaga’s “Judas.”

“Today I learned that Lady Gaga had given birth to a pink-haired offspring,” commented one fan on YouTube. “This woman is literally Lady Gaga 2.0 and I’m here for it,” added another.

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The new single is set to be a part of an upcoming EP, Christine, her follow-up to last year’s Girlie Pop. So far, she’s released singles “Passionfruit,” “Clam Casino,” and “Cherry Do You Love Me” — all as an independent artist. The new project drops Nov. 21.

“The EP recognizes the hurt I have dealt with and gracefully sits with it for a moment, letting it be true and raw. On the other hand, it opens a world to imagination: the girl I was as a child, dancing and singing in my bedroom, pretending it was a stage… The girl who was brave enough to follow her dreams. All of who I am comes from her,” she says. “She is why I was strong enough to pick myself up again, dream as big as I could, and let the world back in.”

Chalpecka first made a splash with her debut single “I’m So Hot,” and led a movement to reclaim the term “bimbo” to be one of self-empowerment on social media. She has been open about her queer identity and has built a fierce fanbase that connects with her authenticity.

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“We need queer artists to be as loud, as colorful, and as fierce as possible,” Chlapecka says. “For all the queer kids who feel small right now, I hope to make you see yourself as you are. Brave, fierce, strong, and as shiny as possible. When you fall down, you can only get up stronger.”

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Elizabeth Olsen Will Only Star in Studio Movies With Theatrical Releases
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Elizabeth Olsen Will Only Star in Studio Movies With Theatrical Releases

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Elizabeth Olsen told InStyle magazine as part of a new cover story that she is no longer signing on to Hollywood studio movies that don’t have a guaranteed theatrical release. As an indie film darling since the start of her career with 2011’s “Martha Marcy May Marlene,” Olsen is comfortable acting in a movie without distribution that gets sold to a streamer. But her preference is always a theatrical release.

“If a movie is made independently and only sells to a streamer, then fine. But I don’t want to make something where [streaming is] the end-all,” Olsen said. “I think it’s important for people to gather as a community, to see other humans, be together in a space. That’s why I like sports. I think it’s really powerful for people to come together for something that they’re excited about. We don’t even audition in person anymore.”

Since her last outing as the Scarlet Witch in the Marvel Cinematic Universe courtesy of 2022’s “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” Olsen has made only indie movies such as 2023’s “His Three Daughters,” 2024’s “The Assessment” and the upcoming A24 romantic comedy “Eternity.” Only “His Three Daughters” was backed by a streamer (in this case Netflix), although it was given an awards-qualifying theatrical release in select theaters.

Olsen knows a thing or two about bringing millions of people together in movie theaters thanks to the MCU, where she’s played Scarlet Witch since debuting in the post-credits scene of 2014’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier.”

“Making the films are fun. Goofy. It’s ridiculous. We’re grown people like children on a playground,” Olsen told InStyle about the MCU. “We’re flying. We’re shooting things out of our hands. And it’s a character that I’ve gotten to return to so many times after over 10 years. It’s good to put her down and then I miss  her and I want her back. I’d jump at the opportunity to be in her shoes again.”

Olsen added about the pros of the MCU, “It’s the consistency of a community and a job, which is hard to find. The insane camera movement, stunt work and special effects, visual effects that are happening in real time. It’s a lot of coordination, it’s hundreds and hundreds of people on set, and it’s a powerful thing to be a part of all those people working towards one goal. The people doing the visual effects are artists… The soul, the spirit, the heart is fulfilled doing it. It does mean something. I care about the acting being great — everyone does.”

The “Doctor Strange” sequel remains Olsen’s last in-person Marvel appearance as Scarlet Witch. She was recently featured as a voice role on the Disney+ animated series “Marvel Zombies.” Her next film is “Eternity,” co-starring Miles Teller and Callum Turner. The A24 film puts a fantasy spin on the rom-com genre by being set in an afterlife where the recently deceased have one week to decide who to spend eternity with. Olsen’s Joan must decide between her first love or the man she built her life with.

“Eternity” opens in theaters this Thanksgiving.

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‘Saturday Night Live’ Releases Promos for Sabrina Carpenter Episode

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Is “Sabrina and the City” the latest Sex and the City spinoff? Not quite. But it is the premise for Saturday Night Live’s first teaser for pop star Sabrina Carpenter’s upcoming episode.

The Man’s Best Friend singer, who previously appeared on the show as a musical guest, is taking on double-duty this Saturday (Oct. 18) as SNL’s host and musical guest.

In a promotional video titled, “And Just Like That…Sabrina Carpenter Is Hosting SNL,” Carpenter turns into her own version of Carrie Bradshaw. “New York is one big apple, and I’m taking my bite at Saturday Night Live,” the singer says in a classic Sex and the City voiceover to kick off the video.

Carpenter encounters several SNL castmembers, ignoring their normal questions and answering in lines that sound like they’ve been pulled from the HBO show. “Thank God, it’s Mr. Big,” she yells at one point, referencing Carrie’s longtime Sex and the City love interest, before running over to Marcello Hernández. “Oh, hey, it’s actually Marcello but I’ll take it,” he answers.

Hernández and Carpenter are certainly not strangers. On top of doing the week’s second promotional video together, Hernández gained immense popularity for a character he played on the show named Domingo, who was featured in a wedding-themed parody skit set to Carpenter’s song “Espresso.” She even joined in for a follow-up sketch earlier this year, set to a song from Wicked, a nod to fellow pop star Ariana Grande, who was in the first sketch.

In the second video released ahead of the episode, Carpenter jokes that she might need to arrest someone for being too hot — a nod to her song “Juno,” where she picks an audience member to “arrest” for that reason. Carpenter even arrested Hernández, reprising his Domingo character, at an L.A. show last year. In the promo, Hernández holds his hands out, ready to be arrested, before Carpenter picks the show’s cameraman.

Carpenter follows Bad Bunny and SNL alum Amy Poehler as hosts of season 51. Miles Teller, Nikki Glaser and Glen Powell were just announced as the show’s upcoming hosts; however, the full lineup of hosts and musical guests for this season hasn’t been revealed.

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Aditya Jambhale’s Baramulla Set in Kashmir Releases This November

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A chilling new supernatural mystery, Baramulla, is set to release on November 7. The film takes audiences to the snow-covered valley of Kashmir, where quiet landscapes hide deep secrets. The story begins with the sudden disappearance of a young boy that disturbs the peace of a small town. DSP Ridwaan Sayyed, played by Manav Kaul, is a Kashmiri police officer transferred to the area to lead the investigation. As he settles in with his family, he soon realizes that the case is far from ordinary, and that some forces at play may not belong to this world.
Baramulla combines supernatural elements with human drama and mystery, bringing together fear, emotion, and suspense. It explores how legends, memories, and reality blend in a place already burdened by conflict. The film also stars Bhasha Sumbli as Gulnaar and promises to offer a tense, emotionally charged viewing experience.
The movie is directed and written by Aditya Suhas Jambhale, known for his acclaimed political thriller Article 370. The story is written by Aditya Dhar and co-produced by Jyoti Deshpande, Aditya Dhar, and Lokesh Dhar under Jio Studios and B62 Studios.


Speaking about the film, director Aditya Suhas Jambhale said, “With a genre-bending film like Baramulla, we wanted to tell a story rooted in emotion but elevated by tension and the supernatural. Kashmir is not just the setting; it’s a living, breathing character that shapes every moment and mystery. We hope audiences across the world feel the pulse of the valley and the humanity at the heart of this journey.”
Producer Jyoti Deshpande added, “At Jio Studios, we’ve always been drawn to stories that break the mould, and Baramulla does exactly that. After Article 370, our collaboration with Aditya Jambhale continues to evolve with this powerful supernatural thriller.”

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The ultimate meter to assess OTT releases is finally here- on The Right Angle with Sonal Kalra

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The Right Angle with Sonal Kalra has launched its latest segment a pioneering OTT report card that sets a new benchmark in authentic content evaluation. Powered by meticulous research from C-Voter, this innovative segment provides audiences with an unbiased and comprehensive analysis of the latest OTT releases, whether movies or web series, across various platforms.

OTT Meter on The Right Angle with Sonal Kalra brings to you a report card on how the week’s OTT offerings performed.

Every week, the segment will scrutinise a newly released film or series, assessing its performance across three key parameters: Buzz, Conversions, and Ratings. Based on a robust sample of respondents across Indian cities, carefully selected through a random sampling method that represents a diversified audience, the findings will offer viewers a clear understanding of what resonates and what doesn’t.

“We’re thrilled to introduce this game changing segment to our audience,” says Sonal Kalra, host and anchor of The Right Angle. She adds, “With the OTT space becoming increasingly crowded, our aim is to cut through the noise and provide viewers with data-driven insights that help them make informed choices. Our research partner, C-Voter, ensures the integrity and accuracy of our findings.”

Yashwant Deshmukh, founder of C-Voter explains, “C-Voter has been successfully running the Daily Omnibus, which tracks media consumption patterns of audiences across India. Building on the success of our readership and radio trackers. we are now proud to partner with Hindustan Times and Sonal Kalra to launch the Weekly OTT Tracker a first of-its-kind initiative that monitors and analyses new OTT releases every week.”

The first feature under the lens was The Ba***ds of Bollywood on Netflix, the much-talked about directorial debut of Aryan Khan, which created waves for its self-referential humour and star studded cameos.

The Buzz was 89%, Conversion came in 61%, and the final Rating 2.885.00. This means that the buzz was strong, the conversions were okay, but the audience rating only came out to 2.88.

Next carne Two Much by Kajol and Twinkle Khanna, a new chat show on Prime Video. The Buzz was 86%, Conversion was 61%, and final Rating 2.95/5.00.

And then, Hrithik Roshan and NTR Jr’s War 2 dropped on Netflix after a dull theatrical release. Tune in to find out how it fared on OTT! Don’t miss the segment every week, exclusively on The Right Angle with Sonal Kalra.

A new episode of The Right Angle drops every Friday at 7pm across all YouTube channels of Hindustan Times, HT City. Mint and Hindustan.

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