Billboard Magazine’s co-Executive of The Year Coach K checks in from BET Weekend

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The objective is clear, (Quality) Control the fourth quarter. They’re garnering comparisons to iconic hip-hop labels such as Bad Boy, Death Row and more recently T.D.E., but Quality Control principals “Coach K” Kevin Lee and Pierre “Pee” Thomas have carved out their own niche with relentless music releases that always hit the bullseye. 
 
The pair were recently named Executives of the Year by Billboard Magazine, and while their roster members Cardi B and The Migos have dominated all of 2018, QC has no plans to stop. Last night in Miami, they held a “Welcome to Miami” party in honor of their Miami based-female duo, The City Girls. The party served as a welcome for all of the in and out-of-town attendees of the 2018 BET Hip-Hop awards ceremony.  Later in the night, QC's Drip Harder by Gunna and Lil Baby was celebrated at Story nightclub, with many celebrities from music video director Eif Rivera, singer/MC Tory Lanez and street favorite Zoey Dollars in attendance.
 
While Migos are on tour with Drake, Cardi B will be one of the most anticipated performers at tonight’s 2018 BET Hip Awards taping. She joins a stacked performance slate, which includes Gucci Mane, Yo Gotti, T.I., YG, A$AP Rocky, Lil Pump, Lil Duval, Flipp Dinero, Ball Greezy and QC’s Lil Baby and Gunna. The event will also feature City Girls as award presenters, along with Wale, DJ Khaled, and Bun B.

Next week, QC is looking to put up big numbers on the scoreboard with Migos’ melodic star Quavo, who’s dropping a solo LP. His project Quavo Huncho lands on October 12, and features his group members Offset and Takeoff, as well as 21 Savage, Drake, Cardi, Travis Scott, Kid Cudi, Davido, Saweetie, Lil Baby. Be sure to tune in to the LiveXLive Facebook page for live hits from the BET red carpet today. And keep it locked to LiveXLive.com for more exclusives.

Tory Lanez says his new album, Love Me Now, is about to drop.

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Don’t cast your ballot for album of the year just yet. 2018 has definitely been a monumental year for music, especially in the hip-hop community with a cavalcade of the culture’s top tier titans dropping albums. Heavy hitters Eminem, J. Cole, Jay Z and Beyonce, Nas, Kanye West, Drake, Nicki Minaj, Migos, Travis Scott and most recently Lil Wayne, put out well received and commercially successful projects. And let’s not forget Pusha T, whose unapologetic lyrical onslaught was a critical and fan favorite. And ascending superstars have definitely had their say, as well, with Post Malone, controversy-king 6ix9ine,  Jay Rock, Nipsey Hussle, Lil Baby, and Gunna (collectively and individually) -- not to mention late-greats Mac Miller and XXXtentacion -- all releasing lauded projects this year.

And despite this onslaught of material, Tory Lanez is looking to annihilate all them. The Canadian juggernaut revealed exclusively to LiveXLive that his long awaited Love Me Now LP is coming in just a few weeks. 
 
“It’s about my n**** Uno who just Executive Produced the brand new album Love Me Now coming out October 26th," the multi-talented performer said last night outside of Miami’s Story nightclub, where Lil Baby and Gunna were having an album release party for their Drip Season joint project.
 
 “Y’all n**** is over,” Lanez added about the field of competition. “It’s too late for n****.”
 
At the top of the summer while on the Zane Lowe show for Apple Music, Lanez boasted about the large list of guest stars contributing to the album. 
 
“I got the illest features on there,” he said with a smile. “Chris Brown, 2 Chainz, I got Bryson Tiller on there. I got Lil Baby on there. I got a lot of people on there. A Boogie, PNB Rock, all fire songs.” “Keep in Touch” with the aforementioned Tiller and “Talk To Me” with Rich The Kid are Lanez’s latest singles. 
 
Tory also has an all-Spanish language called El Aqua coming down the turnpike soon as well.    Lanez, who has a residence in Miami, is just one of the plethora of MCs and singers in town as the 2018 BET Hip-Hop Awards touches down on the city. T.I., Yo Gotti, Cardi B, YG, A$AP Rocky, Lil Pump, Flipp Dinero, and the MIA's own Ball Greezy are some of the names locked in to perform today at the ceremony. The man with the number one album in the country, Lil Wayne, has been tapped to receive the “I Am Hip Hop” award that goes to rap’s biggest icons.  Be sure to tune in to the LiveXLive Facebook page for live hits from the BET red carpet today. And keep it locked to LiveXLive.com for more exclusives.

In The Event You Survive A Nuclear Holocaust, First Thing You Want To Do Is Find Jack Black And Kyle Gass.

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Just as any fan would expect, a little nuclear holocaust isn't gonna kill their vibe. Besides, it did get them out of paying rent.

Jack and Kyle do all the voices and contrary to popular belief, Pixar didn't do the animation... it is all hand-drawn by Jack himself.

You'll get an episode each week for 6 weeks and the last episode will coincide with the release of their 4th album on November 2nd.

DIO WOULD BE SO PROUD.

Fight Like A Girl

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You probably remember Anita Cochran from her 1997 duet “What If I Said” with Steve Wariner, right? She’s made music since then, and she was actively touring, but it’s been a while since she has put out anything new. Until now.

Her current story started last year when she found a lump in her breast, and she was diagnosed with Stage 2 cancer, which was treated with chemotherapy, which prevented her from touring. That was her only source of income, so her friends, including Steve Wariner, Crystal Gayle, Wade Hayes, Clay Walker, Ty Herndon, Terri Clark, Jamie O’Neal and others put on a benefit concert and raised $12,000 to help her with medical bills and every day life expenses.

She just had her final chemo treatment two weeks ago, after having a double mastectomy and the removal of a lymph node, and she’s been cancer free for a little more than 6 months now.

Now she wants to help others with that fight, so she has created a charity called the Love Anchors Fund, which will be managed by the Community Foundation of Tennessee, and will benefit various charities working to end breast cancer and help its victims and survivors. The first effort to raise money for that fund is the release of a new song called “Fight Like A Girl.” She’s donating all the proceeds from the sale of the song from October 5-12 to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation via the Love Anchors Fund.

Check out the video for “Fight Like A Girl” here, listen to it on Slacker’s Nashville Now here, and donate to the Love Anchors Fund here.