C. Breezy season is upon us. Chris Brown returned on Friday (May 8) to deliver his 12th studio album, Brown.

A backronym for Break Rules Only When Necessary, Brown is loaded with 27 tracks in total and boasts appearances from YoungBoy Never Broke Again, GloRilla, Vybz Kartel, Leon Thomas, Bryson Tiller, Tank, Fridayy, Sexyy Red and Lucky Daye.

“Dis is so tight thank u for having me apart of it I love you Bhrisssssss,” Sexyy Red wrote in CB’s comments on Instagram May 5 in appreciation of being invited into his world for the album.

Out of the 27 songs, Brown included four singles — “Obvious,” “Fallin’,” “Holy Blindfold” and “It Depends” — which were previously released.

Chris Brown is slated to hit the road later this year for the blockbuster R&B Tour with Usher. Across 33 dates, the pair of R&B dignitaries will bring their influx of anthems to North American stadiums. The trek will kick off in Denver on June 26, and wrap up on Dec. 11 in Tampa Bay, Fla.

In between, the duo will be making stops in New Jersey, Detroit, D.C., Cleveland, Toronto, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, New Orleans and Miami.

The 37-year-old recently welcomed a baby boy with influencer Jada Wallace in April, making Breezy a father of four. CB’s also dad to 11-year-old Royalty Brown, 6-year-old son Aeko Catori Brown and 4-year-old daughter Lovely Symphani Brown.

Stream Brown below.

YoungBoy Never Broke Again let fans know Thursday (May 7) that he’ll no longer be performing at this weekend’s Rolling Loud festival in Orlando, Florida.

In a message posted to his Instagram Stories, NBA YoungBoy wrote: “To my Rolling Loud family, I won’t be making it this time. I just need some time away from traveling and performing right now. Love to everybody supporting me, I’ll forever appreciate y’all!”

Rolling Loud re-posted the message on their Stories and, minutes later, shared a new lineup that includes Ken Carson as the replacement Sunday headliner. “PLEASE WELCOME OUR NEW SUNDAY HEADLINER, @kencarson,” reads the caption alongside the lineup poster.

The festival kicks off Friday at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida, with headliner Don Toliver, while Playboy Carti is at the top of the bill for Saturday. Carson wasn’t previously on the bill before stepping in as the new Sunday headliner.

Other rappers performing this weekend include Sexyy Red, Chief Keef, EsDeeKid, Destroy Lonely and PlaqueBoyMax.

This marks the first time Rolling Loud has taken place in Orlando, following 10 stints at its original Miami home. Orlando marks the only U.S. Rolling Loud stop scheduled for this year, previously hosting events in the New York and Los Angeles areas as well. They’ve also gone international, with the last overseas Rolling Loud event taking place last year in India with headliners Central Cee, Wiz Khalifa, Karan Aujla and Toliver.

Carson — who scored his first Billboard 200 No. 1 album last year with More Chaos — was originally set to headline Rolling Loud Australia this year before the March festival was canceled.

See the updated Rolling Loud Orlando lineup below:

Well, put this sad news on the s–t list. L7 announced on Thursday (May 7) that the band is hitting the road for one final tour.

“When L7 decided to release a documentary in 2015, we thought maybe we would take one last victory lap around the sun by playing some shows,” said frontwoman Donita Sparks, referring to the feminist rock band’s 2016 documentary Pretend We’re Dead, which borrows its title from the lead single off its 1992 studio album, Bricks Are Heavy. “Instead, that lap turned into 11 more years of touring, sweat, new music and reconnecting with the fans who made this all possible in the first place.

“Looking out into the crowd seeing longtime supporters rocking out next to a new generation of L7 fans has been the most powerful and humbling part of this chapter,” she continued. “We are deeply grateful and ready to give our audiences one last, loud, fun and hopefully unforgettable night of rock and roll.”

The 27-date North American trek, called The Last Hurrah Tour, is set to kick off June 4 in Toronto, and wraps Nov. 14 in Los Angeles, with stops in Seattle, New York City, Dallas, D.C., Chicago and more in between.

L7 launched in L.A. in 1985, with their self-titled debut album arriving three years later. Third studio effort Bricks Are Heavy launched in 1992 and peaked at No. 160 on the Billboard 200 in September that year; 1994’s Hungry for Stink reached No. 117; and 1997’s The Beauty Process: Triple Platinum achieved a No. 172 high. 1992 single “Pretend We’re Dead” achieved the No. 8 peak on the Alternative Airplay chart, while “Andres” off Hungry for Stink reached No. 20.

During the group’s career, several songs were featured on movie soundtracks, including “Shitlist” on both Pet Semetary 2 and Natural Born Killers, and “Shove” for Tank Girl.

Take a look at L7 over the years in the band’s teaser for its upcoming tour, and find the North American dates below:

RAYE‘s star has exploded in the past couple of years — and with that, she’s faced more scrutiny than ever. But one specific critique involving the late Amy Winehouse has bothered her in particular, something she addresses on her song “I Will Overcome.”

In her Billboard cover story published Thursday (May 7), RAYE told staff writer Hannah Dailey why she chose to sing about people comparing her to the British soul-pop icon — who died in 2011 from accidental alcohol poisoning — on the opening number of her March album This Music May Contain Hope. On the track, she sings, “Some people say I remind them of Amy/ Some spit through their keyboards, I’ll never amount/ And the evil in insults, the arrows from your tongue/ [Are] the same devils you tortured her with.”

“It just strikes me as so funny, darkly funny, that someone can rip into me in the most evil, horrible way, ‘defending’ Amy,” RAYE explained to Billboard of including the lyric. “What you’re saying to me is a microcosm of what Amy went through. Amy went through being berated and annihilated through words — by the press, by the public, by everyone.

“It’s one thing to not like me, that’s fine,” she continued. “It’s just the irony of someone being so horrible, so dark, so nasty. It’s the same evil. I just wanted to say that, because … I get a lot of beautiful, lovely, kind things. Unfortunately, the negative things are just louder.”

This Music May Contain Hope debuted at No. 11 on the Billboard 200 and reached No. 1 in the U.K., RAYE’s first LP to do so. The feat comes after a long uphill struggle to make her name as an independent artist following her split from her first label, Polydor Records, in 2021.

Elsewhere in her Billboard cover story, the musician touched on her experiences with mental health, sexual assault and finding light in her life again. She also shared her current mindset on dating, having declared her desire to find love on the hit single “Where Is My Husband!,” which has so far peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100.

“It’s been genuinely so many years that it feels alien to me,” she said. “Sometimes I’m very assured and confident and happy with my life, and then some days I’m watching a rom-com, and I’m like, ‘Where? Where?’ But it’s not serious. I’m not crying myself to sleep every night — just some nights.”

Watch RAYE address the Amy Winehouse comparisons below.

Olivia Rodrigo is giving fans a few more chances to see her on tour. After announcing 65 stops on her upcoming Unraveled Tour last week, the “Drop Dead” singer has expanded the outing due to demand, with five more shows in London, two more in Amsterdam and Barcelona and a second Paris show. In addition, five additional gigs in Los Angeles are set for next January and five more in Brooklyn in February.

The tour in support of the singer’s upcoming third studio album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love (June 12) is slated to kick off on Sept. 25 with the first of two gigs at PeoplesBank Arena in Hartford, Conn. Support on select dates on the tour will come from Wolf Alice, The Last Dinner Party, Devon Again, Die Spitz and Grace Ives, with the outing now slated to wrap up with a May 6, 2027 show at Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain.

Among the new 2027 shows on the roster are five in Los Angeles on Jan. 20, 21, 24, 25 and 28 five in Brooklyn on Feb. 19, 20, 23, 24 and 27, five additional dates at the O2 in London on April 12, 14, 15, 19 and 20 along with two more in Amsterdam on March 27 and 28, another pair in Barcelona on May 5 and 6 and a second Paris show on April 24. Another 2026 date, an Oct. 18 stop at TD Garden in Boston, Mass. has also been added.

Check out all the dates for Olivia Rodrigo’s 2026-2027 Unraveled tour below (new shows in bold).

Justin Bieber is many things. A pop icon, a heartthrob, a hitmaker. A “yes man” he is not.

The Kid LAROI recently sat for a chat with Carter Gregory for The Set List, on which he recounted working with Justin Bieber on the mega-hit “Stay.” Were it not for Bieber convincing LAROI he was sitting on a piece of platinum, “Stay” might not have reached our ears.

“That song came about because he sent me the song for his album and I was kind of like alright I gotta send him back one now from mine,” LAROI explains. “I don’t know, there was a part of me at that point in my career I think I was very in my head about like, ‘oh is this too pop of a song? Is this gonna be weird if I put this out?’ I think I was overanalyzing things, I remember asking him ‘do you want to put this on your project or something?’”

Biebs laid it out. “He was like ‘bro, are you out of your mind? You have to release this, you keep this for you,’” says LAROI. “He literally was like ‘Bro this is a smash, you gotta put this out.’”

That was some good advice. Following its release in 2021, the collaboration went to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (and stayed there for seven weeks), won ARIA and APRA Awards, and is one of the top 10 most-streamed songs in Spotify history, chalking up more than 3.9 billion plays on the platform (it’s currently at No. 10 on the all-time leaderboard).

Bieber is always there with good advice, even if that is to rip LAROI’s work. “He’s always dropping some really good stuff. I think though, the most helpful and useful thing is something that you wouldn’t think of, maybe off rip, but something I think he does so well is that he just listens really well. He’s really good at just being like ‘man, I’m sorry. That sucks, let’s talk about it,’” LAROI remarks. “He always has great advice but just talking about something and being acknowledged like ‘damn that sucks’ you know, that’s a thing in itself that sometimes.”

He continues, “I find it helpful when he shares his experiences with me. He just cares too which is cool, he’s never approaching it from like ‘I know everything’ which is really cool. He’s very honest about things and if he doesn’t know something he will always be like ‘I don’t know, but I’m here for you.’”

Canada and Australia have a special relationship, a human connection we see flow through with Bieber and LAROI, who also teamed up on “Unstable,” a track housed on Biebs’ sixth studio album, Justice from 2021.

LAROI (real name: Charlton Howard) is currently working his way across the United States on his A Perfect World tour, in support of his third full-length project, Before I Forget, which debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 earlier this year.

Two billion people have taken a trip to a gangsta’s paradise.

The music video for Coolio‘s classic 1995 hit “Gangsta’s Paradise” reached 2 billion views on YouTube. The visual was helmed by film director Antoine Fuqua, who is recently back in the public eye for his work on Michael, the new Michael Jackson biopic. It is the first video by the late rapper to reach this milestone.

“Gangsta’s Paradise” comes from the 1995 thriller film Dangerous Minds and features vocals by the singer L.V. The track served as the lead single of Coolio’s second studio album of the same name. “Gangsta’s Paradise” is Coolio’s biggest chart hit, spending three weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in 1995. Gangsta’s Paradise the album was also successful, spending 62 weeks on the Billboard 200 and peaking at No. 9 on the chart.

“Gangsta’s Paradise” topped the Hot 100 Year-End chart in 1995. In 1996, the song earned Coolio his first and only Grammy, for best rap solo performance, as well as two MTV Video Music Awards and a Billboard Music Award. In 2023, Billboard ranked “Gangsta’s Paradise” as one of the 500 best pop songs of all time.

“Gangsta’s Paradise” was given new life in 1996 after “Weird Al” Yankovic dropped the parody “Amish Paradise” which has millions of streams on YouTube and Spotify. Other stars who have covered the legendary rap song — the original, not the parody — include Maneskin, Brittany Snow and Falling in Reverse.

Watch the “Gangsta’s Paradise” music video below.

Drake season is upon us. The OVO boss announced plans for yet another Iceman livestream on Wednesday (May 4), with episode four set for May 14.

“EPISODE FOUR MAY 14,” Drake wrote on Instagram alongside a photo of the number four and an ICE MAN graphic.

The 6 God also posted photo collages from what appears to be the first three episodes of livestreams, which date back to July 4, 2025.

There wasn’t a time revealed for May 14’s stream, but it should lead into Iceman‘s arrival on May 15. OVO fans hopped into Drizzy’s comments and were extremely hyped at the idea of a Drake album being released within the next 10 days.

“Reminder!: May 15 is International Stay on That Side Day,” one person wrote. It’s fitting that Drake’s announcement for episode four came just shy of May 6 at 6 p.m. ET.

Drake’s shown intentionality with the extended Iceman rollout dating back to 2025, which has been turned up quite a few notches in recent weeks.

Drizzy put the rollout and marketing into another gear when a massive ice block structure was built in downtown Toronto. Streamer Kishka ended up finding the Iceman folder inside the thawing installation, which revealed the album’s May 15 release date and scored him $50,000 from Drake’s team for the discovery.

Drake released singles like “What Did I Miss,” “Which One” and “Dog House” in 2025, but has yet to drop a single in 2026, and it appears there won’t be any new music until Iceman‘s arrival.

Iceman will serve as Drake’s first solo LP since his blockbuster battle with Kendrick Lamar in 2024 and 2023’s For all the Dogs, which topped the Billboard 200.