G Herbo And Southside Salute Lil Baby and Gunna At BET Hip-Hop Awards

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The Chicago and Atlanta combination of G Herbo and Southside have made for a electric hip-hop combination. Their Swervojoint LP (Southside Produced the entire project) has earmarked them as one of the hottest duos in the game. Despite their sizzling status, the two recently gave props to another heatseeking combo on the BET Hip-Hop Awards’ green carpet.

“I want to see the home team Lil Baby and Gunna,” said Southside, the man who has produced for Jay-Z, Kanye West, DJ Khaled, Waka Flocka Flame and Future, amongst others. “I want to see what they got going on."

“Ditto,” Herbo added. “I say the same thing. I want to see Baby and Gunna.”

Chi-Town’s Herbo has enjoyed Baby and Gunna’s rise, especially since they started on the underground circuit as he did.

“When you build it organically from the ground up, when you build it from the mud, it makes [the fans] cherish you more,” Herbo determined. “You want to keep striving literally. Like me and Southside knew each other before we had all these millions. He genuinely reached out to me when I was 15, still in the hood. Going on high speed [police chases] and going to jail. He saw it  in me before I saw it in a myself.”

“He was different. He was a different kid,” Southside reminisced. “The way he rapped. His style, everything. I couldn’t figure it out. I couldn’t figure it out. I love what I can’t figure out.”

Herbo and Southside are heading out on the road soon, headlining a 40 city tour.

Catch the BET Hip-Hop Awards tonight at 8pm on BET.

Lil Duval Talks Success Of Smash Single ‘Smile' On BET Hip Hop Awards Green Carpet

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Comedian Lil Duval is usually jovial; it’s kind of his job. However, Duval took jovial to a new level as he boasted on social media about his single “Smile (Living My Best Life)” going number one. The Florida native, who’s been down with T.I.’s Grand Hustle family for over a decade, is enjoying the greatest success of his career with a song that’s being sung by everyone from Future to your next door neighbor.
“Smile” is that universal type of feel-good anthem that resonates with everyone, because who among us doesn’t strive to live that best life? Believe it or not, the song title is actually pilfered from an Oprah Winfrey mantra — seriously, check out O Magazine’s book “Live Your Best Life: A Treasury of Wisdom, Wit, Advice, Interviews, and Inspiration from O, The Oprah Magazine.” But Oprah references aside, the true genius in this record is in its aspirational notion that we should make the best of their current situation, no matter what.
These days we see Duval on stages way more for singing than his stand up.  
 
“41 years old, living my best life,” told us calmly on the green carpet of the BET Hip-Hop Awards, which air tonight on the network. Clearly success isn’t just for those in their 20s and 30s. “The only ones that’s surprised is the industry,” he added about his increased profile. “I been had fame. I been had support. It’s just new to the industry. It’s different how people see me, but it’s not that much difference to me.”
 
Besides Duval’s show stealing turn at the awards, he was looking forward to seeing his family T.I. perform as well as the “I AM Hip-Hop” award recipient Lil Wayne.
“Someone like Tip’s been doing this for so long. I’m doing what he’s been doing,” the funnyman determined. “He’s definitely one of the greatest. And Lil Wayne.”
 
Duval is working a full length LP and is releasing a new single before 2019.
 
“I got another song dropping, probably gonna drop it end of this year.”

Ariana Grande Calls Off Her Engagement

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OK, who had October 14th in the pool?

I’m kidding. It’s easy to make jokes about Ariana Grande’s relationship with Pete Davidson – they seemed so mismatched, he seemed so goofy and awkward and just… not on her level.

But this is yet another sad blow to Ari in a season of tough life events. One of the biggest, obviously, being the untimely death of her ex, Mac Miller. Sources are saying that was the ultimate breaking point of her relationship with Pete.

Ari failed to show up to a scheduled event on Saturday night, the F___ Cancer Gala in Los Angeles. Her manager, Scooter Braun, who is also involved with the foundation, spoke up for her.

“Someone that I am very close to could not be here today because of things that she is going through. She couldn’t be here today, and while I was frustrated, being a manager, my wife, being who she always is, said to me, ‘She needs this time.’ If people are just here to see her sing and not [wanting to] be here for the cancer foundation, I don’t want them here anyway.”

The next day, news started to leak that Ariana & Pete's engagement had been called off. Ultimately I’m happy she’s not marrying him – I think she can do better! -- but I feel sad that her life has been so rough lately.

Maybe she can get some closure with Slacker’s The Twenty: It’s Over.

And the Winner Is…

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I’m not giving you a spoiler alert, because the AMAs were days ago and if you don’t know who won by now, you haven’t been on the internet. So.

By far, the big country winner of the night was Kane Brown. He beat out superstars Luke Bryan and Thomas Rhett for Favorite Country Male. He came out ahead of Thomas Rhett and Luke Combs for Favorite Country Album. And he also won Favorite Country Song for “Heaven,” edging out Dan + Shay’s “Tequila” and FGL and Bebe Rexha’s “Meant To Be.”

Here’s his acceptance speech for Favorite Country Male (and the good news is, he did NOT pass out).

His fiancée Katelyn Jae wasn’t with him – she was home watching on TV, but when his name was announced. Check out her reaction on Instagram here.

Carrie Underwood got her sixth AMA for Favorite Female Country Artist, in fact, she’s won that one every year since 2014. Check out her acceptance speech here.

Later, on social media, she says she got caught up in the excitement and the emotions and felt like her speech made no sense, and she left out half of what she wanted to say, so she finished here!

Not surprisingly, Florida Georgia Line took home the win for Favorite Country Duo or Group. Check out their red carpet interview with Jessie James Decker – and their STYLE.

Only one all-genre category included country artists. Florida Georgia Line and Maren Morris were both up for Collaboration of the Year for their projects with Bebe Rexha and Zedd, respectively. Neither won, but as they say, it’s an honor just to be nominated, right?

CeeLo lends support to Taylor Swift

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While President Trump’s opinion of the newly outspoken-on-politics Taylor Swift (well, at least her music) has recently diminished by a whopping 25%, the superstar singer continues to get support from within the entertainment community. Over the weekend, Swift took to social media and gave a lucid, well-articulated explanation of why she chose now to break her political silence and to let the world know she was endorsing Democratic candidates in the upcoming mid-term elections in her home state of Tennessee. Fellow pop-star (and sometimes nemesis) Katy Perry and actor Josh Brolin are among the celebrities who publicly supported Swift’s sentiment. The growing list of Swift supporters can now add one Mr. CeeLo Green.
Green weighed in on Monday from his hometown of Atlanta, where the musical renaissance man is taking a break from his recording and touring to hang out with his son Kingston and new artist, Echelon, to discuss politics. The legendary performer said he likes that Swift has decided to get vocal.
 
“Kudos to Taylor Swift for owning up to her opinion and lending her influence and support to someone that she deems worthy,” the veteran MC applauded. “I have to respect that. It’s quite difficult because we’re bound by our opinions, our public opinions. IT can be picked apart. There’s no way to give politics poetic justice. It’s a conversation that only requires plain English. Just speak to the facts. Know your enemy, know your opposition and then know thy self and be true to thy self.”
 
Swift was the big winner last night at the American Music Awards. Not only did she open up the show with a performance, but she also took home Artist of the Year, Tour of the Year Favorite Female Artist, Pop/Rock and Favorite Album/ Pop Rock for Reputation.