Anuel AA has a new illuminat(i)ng new collaboration…
The 27-year-old Puerto Rican rapper and singer has joined voices with Lil Pump for a fiery new single “Illuminati.”
Rumors about a new music videofrom Lil Pump surfaced late last year when the 19-year-old “Gucci Gang” rapper shared a profanity-laced Instagramclip showing his bloodied hand after being bitten by a snake.
On Friday, Pump and Anuel AA dropped the hellish Spiff TV-directed video for “Illuminati,” which features the two artists surrounded by death, fire and plenty of serpents.
“Illuminati” and its accompanying video were released through Tha Lights Global.
The 22-year-old Venezuelan internet personality, actress, singer, dancer and host of La Voz… México appears in YouTube’s “YouTube Rewind 2018: Everyone Controls Rewind.”
The clip, jam-packed with references to this year’s music, features many of YouTube’s popular creators and recaps the year’s content, trends and tunes.
The YouTube Rewind series first hit the internet in 2010..
The eight-minute-plus video opens with Will Smith (who made his YouTube channel debut earlier this year) against a mountainous landscape, announcing, “It’s rewind time.” He continues, “If I control rewind, I would want Fortnite and Marques Brownlee.” Snapping his fingers, a dreamlike YouTuber-filled compilation begins.
“Is this what you wanted?” asks Brownlee from a flying Fortnite-esque bus full of YouTubers ready to pick out their own favorite moments as Cardi B’s “I Like It” plays in the background.
The scene eventually swaps to one in which the content creators crowd around a campfire together. “Apparently we control rewind this year. Y’all, we can do whatever we want,” confirms Liza Koshy. “What do we do?”
“K-pop!” pipe up the Merrell Twins and Casey Neistat as a dancing montage backed by BTS’ “Idol” plays in the background.
Marshmello soon makes a brief appearance (as does his collaboration with Bastille, “Happier“).
The next music moment comes when the animated TheOdd1sOut suggests they accept Drake’s “In My Feelings” Challenge, the moving-car dance craze inspired by the song earlier this year.
YouTubers including Pons, Anwar Jibawi and Rudy Mancuso later take on a catwalk wearing oversized blocky bodysuits meant to resemble the ones Kanye West and Lil Pump sported in the “I Love It” music video; Panic! at the Disco’s “High Hopes” backs them up.
The social-media-famous “Baby Shark” song by Pinkfong also gets a nod, accompanied by some colorfully costumed kid show characters.
This year’s video has, notably, at time of press, been disliked more than 2.2 million times — over twice as many times as it has been liked — with viewers pointing out that some of YouTube’s biggest stars, including PewDiePie (who boasts over 74 million subscribers), are absent. Despite this, the recap has already received 33 million views.
The 25-year-old half-Dominican American rap sensation has been announced as the headlining act for the third annual Mala Luna Music Festival, taking place during the Halloween weekend (October 27-28) in San Antonio.
The two-day festival will also have Puerto Rican urban singer Nicky Jamas a headliner, offering concertgoers their most diverse lineup yet.
In its third anniversary, Mala Luna will keep its hip-hop and EDM essence while adding some of the biggest names in the Latin music industry to its lineup, including DJ Deorro, and Becky G.
Other artists in the lineup include 2 Chainz, Lil Pump, Dillon Francis and Tyler the Creator.
The Mala Luna Music Festival will take place at the Nelson Wolff Stadium in San Antonio,
Single-day or weekend tickets are available at www.MalaLuna.com.
The 25-year-old half-Dominican American rapper, who has a monstrous 2017 fueled by her Billboard Hot 100-topping single “Bodak Yellow,” has been named to Forbes magazine’s Hip-Hop’s Future Moguls list.
The list represents hip-hop’s new class of moneymakers, with Cardi B joining Post Malone, Lil Pump and 21 Savage as some of this year’s honorees.
Formerly known as Hip-Hop Cash Princes, Forbes renamed the original male-centered roundup o Hip-Hop Future Moguls as a push towards inclusivity and diversity, broadening this year’s criteria to include “age, ethnicity and gender,” making way for artists like Cardi B and Lizzo to appear on the list.
Cardi B enters the Hip-Hop Future Moguls list thanks to the success of breakout hit “Bodak Yellow,” which sat atop the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 1 for three consecutive weeks and made the Bronx rapper the first female rapper to top the chart solo.
With her gargantuan hit “Bodak Yellow,” which clocked more than 400 million on-demand streams—the fifth highest total for any song this year—she’s now grossing $150,000 or so per city on the road.
Detroit rapper Lizzo and producer Wondagurl are also featured on the list.
Vic Mensa, Playboi Carti and Lil Pump also make Forbes‘ list.
