Are you feeling the pressure to learn every word to the mile-a-minute Encanto song “Surface Pressure”? Fear no more, because you can follow along with Lin-Manuel Miranda‘s trademark rapid-fire lyrics below.

The song — performed by Jessica Darrow as Luisa, the freakishly strong oldest sister of the Madgrigal family, in Disney’s animated film — conveys the relentless weight many families put on elder siblings. Get a grip, grip, grip on every word of the breakout song (now a Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hit) below:

I’m the strong one, I’m not nervous
I’m as tough as the crust of the Earth is
I move mountains, I move churches
And I glow ’cause I know what my worth is

I don’t ask how hard the work is
Got a rough, indestructible surface
Diamonds and platinum, I find ’em, I flatten ’em
I take what I’m handed, I break what’s demanded, but

Under the surface
I feel berserk as a tightrope walker in a three-ring circus
Under the surface
Was Hercules ever like, “Yo, I don’t wanna fight Cerberus”?
Under the surface
I’m pretty sure I’m worthless if I can’t be of service

A flaw or a crack
The straw in the stack
That breaks the camel’s back
What breaks the camel’s back?

It’s pressure like a drip, drip, drip, that’ll never stop, whoa
Pressure that’ll tip, tip, tip, ’til you just go pop, whoa-oh-oh
Give it to your sister, your sister’s older
Give her all the heavy things we can’t shoulder
Who am I if I can’t run with the ball?
If I fold to

Pressure like a grip, grip, grip, and it won’t let go, whoa
Pressure like a tick, tick, tick, ’til it’s ready to blow, whoa-oh-oh
Give it to your sister, your sister’s stronger
See if she can hang on a little longer
Who am I if I can’t carry it all?
If I falter

Under the surface
I hide my nerves and it worsens, I worry something is gonna hurt us
Under the surface
The ship doesn’t swerve as it heard how big the iceberg is
Under the surface
I think about my purpose, can I somehow preserve this?

Line up the dominoes
A light wind blows
You try to stop it tumbling
But on and on it goes

But wait, if I could shake
The crushing weight of expectations
Would that free some room up for joy?
Or relaxation? Or simple pleasure?
Instead, we measure this growing pressure
Keeps growing, keep going
‘Cause all we know is

Pressure like a drip, drip, drip, that’ll never stop, whoa
Pressure that’ll tip, tip, tip, ’til you just go pop, whoa-oh-oh
Give it to your sister, it doesn’t hurt and
See if she can handle every family burden
Watch as she buckles and bends but never breaks
No mistakes, just

Pressure like a grip, grip, grip, and it won’t let go, whoa
Pressure like a tick, tick, tick, ’til it’s ready to blow, whoa-oh-oh
Give it to your sister and never wonder
If the same pressure would’ve pulled you under
Who am I if I don’t have what it takes?
No cracks, no breaks
No mistakes, no pressure

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Lyrics © WALT DISNEY MUSIC COMPANY

Written by: Lin-Manuel Miranda

LACMA previewed a new exhibit Wednesday night, and if you happened to pore over the guest list thinking it was a roster for a summer music festival, few could blame you.

The museum hosted Billie Eilish and her brother FinneasOlivia RodrigoJared LetoMachine Gun Kelly, Lana Del Rey, Kelly Rowland, Karen O, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Alexander 23 and members of No Doubt, among others, for the unveiling of Artists Inspired by Music: Interscope Reimagined. Timed to coincide with Interscope’s 30th anniversary, the exhibit is comprised of more than 50 pieces created by visual artists as inspired by albums and sounds of Interscope’s stable of artists.

There’s a reason many of the aforementioned names were making the rounds inside the Resnick Pavilion as Eilish, Rodrigo, MGK, Nine Inch Nails and No Doubt are among the stars that inspired artworks. Also on that list are 2Pac, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Gwen Stefani, Juice WRLD, Kendrick Lamar, Lady Gaga, Mary J. Blige, Selena Gomez, Snoop Dogg and U2, among others. The works were created by such leading visual artists as Cecily Brown, Julie Curtiss, Shepard Fairey, Lauren Halsey, Damien Hirst, Rashid Johnson, Takashi Murakami, Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha, Kehinde Wiley, and others.

The project was shepherded by Interscope co-founder Jimmy Iovine, chairman John Janick, Pulse Music Group co-founder Josh Abraham, and Interscope vice chairman Steve Berman, who worked closely with all of the music and visual artists. Also in the mix was LACMA associate curator of decorative arts and design Staci Steinberger. All were in attendance along with Brian Grazer, Deborah McLeod, Fergie, Ferrari Sheppard, Finneas, Genesis Tramaine, Henry Taylor, Hilary Pecis, Nine Inch Nail’s Ilan Rubin, Jeffrey Deitch, Jennifer Guidi, Jeremy Erlich, Justin Lubliner, Larry Jackson, Liberty Ross, Lucy Bull, Max Lousada, Megan Fox, Nick Zinner, Shepard Fairey, Steve Stoute, Ted Field, The Game, Umar Rashid, Willow Bay, Zane Lowe, Tom Whalley, and No Doubt’s Adrian Young, Tom Dumont and Tony Kanal.

The exhibit, which officially opens Jan. 30 and is on view through Feb. 13, arrives with a few raised eyebrows. The Los Angeles Times posted a commentary from art critic Christopher Knight that questions why an institution like LACMA would partner on such a project, one he criticizes as art conceived as a corporate marketing tool. “Strip away the diverting celebrity names, and what’s left is just a museum show of a corporate collection,” he writes.

This article was originally published by The Hollywood Reporter.

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Kodak Black has a certified smash on his hands with “Super Gremlin” — a No. 1 hit on Billboard‘s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and a top five hit on the Billboard Hot 100.

But what are all the words to the Sniper Gang Presents Syko Bob & Snapkatt: Nightmare Babies standout track? Find the full lyrics below:

Man, we could be superstars
We been ridin’, wreckin’ cars (ayy bro, is that Jambo?)
What is at stakes for us?
Kickin’ off power mirrors
Yeah, we could be superstars
But I’m pretty sure time is up
And so we fell in love with spinnin’ drops
Still only a child, but faithful error (ATL Jacob, ATL Jacob)

Say you my n—a, I’ma be your killer
Nobody gon’ play with you when I’m with you
Go against any n—a, like f— this glitter
Skeet off dirt, I’m ditchin’
I put it in for you, I spin for you
Whatever you with, I’m with it
How you gon’ cross a n—a that rockin’ with you?
I got you lit in the city
I been multitaskin’, rappin’ and bein’ a daddy to my lil’ children
I been standin’ on business
And spinnin’ and spinnin’ and spinnin’ until I’m dizzy
I do all the smackin’, he ain’t never step or help
With none of these killings, you doin’ a lot of cappin’
Watch when I catch you, I’ma whack you in front of the witness

Damn, my n—a you trippin’
We could’ve been superstars (superstars)
Remember when we was jackin’ cars (jackin’ cars)
Now it’s not safe for you (safe for you)
You switched like a p—y, lil’ bi—
Damn, my n—a you trippin’
We could’ve been superstars
Can’t help it, now I’m reminiscing
Remember when we was jackin’ cars
Now you better keep your distance
‘Cause it’s not safe for you (safe for you)
You switched like a p—y, lil’ bi—

Trackhawk with the kit, snatch off on a bi—
When I slide, night light on the blick
Bet I’m on my sh– when I’m outside
Zoe done ran down
Caught him pants down, n—a you sh–ted
I knew the Perc was fake, but I still ate it
‘Cause I’m a gremlin
Yeah, cutthroat business, KTV, backdoor wide open
Wait ’til my sniper get live, all you n—as gon’ die
Time rollin’, bustin’ on my opponent
No half-steppin’, I’m crunchin’ my opps totally
We was just broke with no motion
Sleepin’ on sofas, creepin’ in houses like roaches
I done went cages to stages to cages
Now free me, baby, can’t keep me, baby
I beat them cases, they already hate
When they gon’ want me dead when I’m off probation
Oh, y’all think lil’ Yak retarded?
Y’all ain’t seen none yet, I promise
N—as can’t take me, n—as can’t guard me
I be on a f—-n—a a– like Charmin
AK, twenty inch carbons

We could’ve been superstars (superstars)
Remember when we was jackin’ cars (jackin’ cars)
Now it’s not safe for you (safe for you)
You switched like a p—y, lil’ bi—
Damn, my n—a you trippin’
We could’ve been superstars
Can’t help it, now I’m reminiscing
Remember when we was jackin’ cars
Now you better keep your distance
‘Cause it’s not safe for you (safe for you)
You switched like a p—y, lil’ bi—

Trackhawk with the kit, snatch off on a bi—
When I slide, night light on the blick
Bet I’m on my sh– when I’m outside
Zoe done ran down
Caught him pants down, n—a you sh–ted
I knew the Perc was fake, but I still ate it
‘Cause I’m a gremlin

Yeah, we could be superstars (Super Gremlin)
But I’m pretty sure our time is up (now your time is up)
And so we fell in love with spinnin’ drops
Still only a child, but faithful error
I ain’t slimin’, I’m grimin’
Any way you put it I’m SG with it, I’m Super Gremlin
Snatch and grab, sneak and geek
Sniper Gang, trust

Nightmare, baby, you know I
I bet you always see me in your dreams
Glee

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Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Written by: Bill K. Kapri

She’s (still) in control. On Friday night, Janet Jackson unveils the two-hour premiere of her brand-new documentary Janet on A&E and Lifetime.

Filmed over a five-year period following Jackson’s 2017 State of the World Tour, the series invites viewers into the world of the notoriously private superstar, with the first two episodes looking back on her rise from child star and younger sister of the Jackson 5 to her establishment as a pop supernova with the meteoric success of 1986’s Control and 1989’s Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814.

Early in the first episode (airing 8-10 p.m. ET on A&E and Lifetime), as she drives past a mural of her famous brothers in her hometown of Gary, Ind., the “Nasty” singer opens up about why she chose to allow a film crew to follow her around after years of shunning the harsh glare of the spotlight.

“It’s just something that needs to be done. It’s never…You’ve had someone write this unauthorized biography or someone else do something. Or they’ll do a movie and it’s candy-coated…,” she says, her voice trailing off as she notices the giant piece of art featuring her siblings for the first time. (“Oh I love that. That’s so sweet,” she coos as her eyes fill with tears.)

While her famous siblings may hover over the proceedings in the margins, this story is, as its title states, fully and unequivocally Janet’s. Below, Billboard broke down all the major moments from the series’ first part (the one-hour second episode airs Saturday at 8 p.m., followed by the third and final episode at 9 p.m. ET).


Janet first experienced racism after the Jackson family’s move to L.A.

Uprooting their lives in Indiana, Joe Jackson moved his wife and nine children to the L.A. suburb of Encino once the boys had signed to Motown Records and become stars. However, the family quickly learned that they might not be quite so welcome in the affluent, mostly white neighborhood, even with their celebrity status.

A lot of the people didn’t want us there. They had this petition going around so that we wouldn’t be in the neighborhood,” Jackson recalled. “I remember walking down the street and being called the N-word — someone driving by yelling it out. Being told to ‘go back home to your country.’ Feeling it at school, some of the teachers and some of the kids. Touching your hair ‘cause your hair was different from theirs. Or your skin, rubbing it, like, ‘Does that come off?’”

Around the same time, the youngest Jackson also began feeling like something of an outcast within her own family, overshadowed by her brothers’ fame and success. “I just felt, yeah…Where do I fit in?” she said.

Her father put a stop to her plans to attend college

As a teenager, Jackson admits she didn’t harbor much of a desire to join the family business. Instead, she wanted to go to college, where she planned on studying business law. However, Joe Jackson made the decision for her after coming across a little melody line she’d recorded for fun in the family’s home studio.

What parent doesn’t want you to go to college?” she said with a laugh. “But he said, ‘No, you’re gonna sing.’ I would’ve liked to [have] experienced staying at a dorm, being around other kids. But I was very, very naive, very, very shy. Not worldly at all.”

She didn’t want her last name on the cover of her debut album

After signing a record deal with A&M Records at just sixteen, Jackson began her career as a solo artist. And yet, she felt largely uninspired by the music the label handed her for her first two albums, 1982’s Janet Jackson and 1984’s Dream Street. And even from the very beginning, she wanted to establish herself outside of the shadow of her family name.

I just wanted to go by my first name,” Janet admits of her eponymous first album. “I wanted them to accept me for me, to be interested in this for me, not because I was the brother or sister of…but that’s everything that this industry takes advantage of. And they want to play on that, and I didn’t want that.”

La Toya Jackson encouraged her to marry James DeBarge

Jackson began dating singer James DeBarge as a teenager after meeting him during his family band’s debut on the musical variety show Soul Train. “We used to talk on the phone as kids!” she revealed in a confessional. “Way before [getting together]. Because his brother was very much so attracted to my sister Toya, so that’s how I wound up getting to know James.”

Soon enough, the pair’s teenage romance turned serious, with Jackson seeing her relationship with DeBarge as a way of gaining a measure of independence. “I wanted to be able to stand on my own feet. And at that time, I felt that there was no other way I would be able to kind of get my own life unless I got married,” she said, eventually confiding the idea to her older sister La Toya Jackson, who supported the idea. “So I did it…in secret.”

The young couple snuck away to DeBarge’s hometown of Grand Rapids, Mich., where they were married in a church by the DeBarge singer’s pastor uncle. Now, however, Jackson recognizes just how naive she was going into her first marriage. “I even remember putting a ring on my finger and putting it on the wrong finger,” she quipped during the premiere.

Her time on Fame was marred by DeBarge’s drug use

Jackson was quick to reveal she didn’t have any desire to take part in Fame, the 1982 TV series based on the 1980 musical of the same name, which she starred in as student Cleo Hewitt. Her father, who also happened to be her manager, was the one who pushed her to take on the role despite the fact that her focus at the time lay solely in her marriage to DeBarge.

There were a lot of times I was late for work,” she said. “I didn’t care. ‘Cause what was more important than my work was James.” However, the singers’ fledgling marriage was in trouble from the very start, with Jackson revealing DeBarge even left her alone in a hotel room for three hours immediately after their wedding ceremony to go search for his next fix.

I eventually learned that he was into drugs,” she said. “There were a lot of nights that I would go searching the streets looking for him, 3 o’clock in the morning, 4 o’clock in the morning. I remember times when I would find the pills and I would take them and try to flush them down the toilet. And we would be rolling around on the floor fighting for them. I mean, it’s not a life for anyone.”

While the marriage was annulled after little more than a year in November 1985, its impact haunts Jackson to this day. “I don’t know, maybe it’s this person in me that wants to help people. Subconsciously, when it comes to relationships, somehow I’m attracted to people that use drugs,” she said, later adding through tears, “I was just incredibly innocent. That’s the thing – it’s that innocence. And it’s just, to me, hurtful for someone to see that and just try to take advantage of it. In knowing that you don’t know any better and lie to you…This is very painful. It doesn’t matter how much work you do, it’s still painful,” before telling the producer to cut off the interview. 

Jackson denies long-standing rumors she secretly gave birth to a daughter with DeBarge

After decades of silence, Janet used the documentary to finally put to rest rumors that have swirled since the mid-’80s that she gave birth to a secret daughter who was raised by her oldest sister Rebbie Jackson.

These were rumors that were just flying around, honey, like hash in a diner. But what was sticking on the wall was, where was the baby? Nobody saw a baby. I mean, she was there with us all day, every day. Where was the baby? Where? Who? Where?” said Debbie Allen, who starred alongside Jackson in Fame.

First they were saying my niece Brandi was my daughter, and that I gave it to Jackie [Jackson] to raise. And then, because Randy [Jackson]’s daughter looks so much like me, then they started saying it was Stevanna,” confessed a visibly frustrated Janet. “I don’t like the weight of that negativity around me. I could never keep a child away from James. How could I keep a child away from their father? I could never do that, that’s not right.”

Instead, she blames the rumor mill surrounding the so-called secret pregnancy on the weight she gained while filming Fame due to starting birth control pills for the first time at 18.

Her relationship with her brother changed after Thriller was released

Michael Jackson‘s Thriller may be one of the best-selling albums of all time, but Janet remembers the release of the 1982 studio set as the start of a major shift in her relationship with her ultra-famous older brother.

It was Thriller. That’s when it all started changing,” she said. “Whenever Mike would do an album, he’d throw me in his car and we’d listen to it from front to back to see what I thought. I remember really loving the Thriller album. But for the first time in my life, that’s when I felt it was different between the two of us. That a shift was happening.”

She continued: “That’s a time where Mike and I, we kind of started going our separate ways; we weren’t as close. And it may have been just because he was so massive, so huge. Huge.”

Her relationship with René Elizondo Jr. couldn’t have been more different from her first marriage

One of the high points of the documentary is the personal, never-before-seen footage provided by Jackson’s second husband René Elizondo Jr., who spent 10 years documenting his relationship with the star. One heartwarming scene in particular captures the dancer-turned-filmmaker’s romantic proposal to Jackson on a beach in Hawaii in 1987.

James never proposed to me. He never gave me a ring or anything, so it was different [with Elizondo],” the singer said. “I wanted it to be it. But I thought that every time.” While he started as a backup dancer during Jackson’s Control era, Elizondo would go on to eventually describe himself as “an extension of Janet” in an archival interview while helping creatively direct The Rhythm Nation World Tour 1990. 

She butted heads with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis during the Rhythm Nation recording sessions

Although they had created magic together on 1986’s Control, Janet often didn’t see eye to eye with superproducers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis while creating that album’s socially conscious follow-up. In one particular piece of footage captured by Elizondo, the singer loses her temper in the vocal booth while recording “You Need Me,” the B-side to Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814 lead single “Miss You Much.”

“What are you laughing about? Tell me what’s wrong, Jimmy,” she demands after catching her producers chuckling from behind the board. “You’re sitting there laughing and I’m trying to get this right. You’ve got to tell me something, ’cause it’s like I keep singing this over and over, and you’re not telling me what I need!”

As Jam tells Elizondo to put the camera down, the argument escalates, with Jackson snapping, “I’ve been singing it all night, and you keep saying, “Uh-uh.’ I’m sick of that!”

“There’s no energy! You can hear that sh– and the way that sounds! Ain’t no energy on the song!…You’re the singer, all you’ve got to do is sing! We’re trying to make a record. We’re trying to follow up a big album,” Jam bites back, leading to Jackson storming out of the studio amid a flurry of threats that she’s headed back to L.A. and scrapping the album entirely.

However, in the present day all three collaborators point to the heated footage as proof of their artistic alchemy. “I love the creative process. There’s a lot of people that think I just come into the studio and I sing a song. But I write! I write lyrics, I write melodies…There were things in the world that concerned me. Things I wanted to say,” Jackson said of the album, while Lewis added, “People don’t hear the same things at the same times, but, you know, that’s just part of discovering. Just understanding the process. Praise God that Janet found the groove with us.”

Janet airs its three episodes on Friday (Jan. 28) and Saturday (Jan. 29), starting at 8 p.m. ET each night.

Following Meat Loaf‘s death, Howard Stern is hoping for the late rocker’s family to speak out about COVID-19 vaccines.

The heavyweight rock superstar (real name Marvin Lee Aday), loved by millions for his Bat Out of Hell album, died at age 74 on January 21. Though no official cause of death was revealed, TMZ reported that Meat Loaf was “seriously ill with COVID.”

“Poor Meat Loaf got sucked into some weird f–king cult,” Stern said, as reported by Mediaite, implying that Meat Loaf was unvaccinated and died of coronavirus. “And somehow really believed that — he made a statement, ‘I’d rather die a free man than take that vaccine.’ And now he’s dead!”

Stern then turned his attention towards the rocker’s family: “I wish the family would come forward and say, ‘You know, when Meat Loaf was laying there in the hospital and he couldn’t breathe, he said, ‘I made a mistake. I should have taken the vaccine.’ Like all these anti-vaxxers, they all say, ‘I made a mistake.’”

Last week, Meat Loaf’s family shared a statement confirming the news of his death. “Our hearts are broken to announce that the incomparable Meat Loaf passed away tonight,” the statement said. “We know how much he meant to so many of you and we truly appreciate all of the love and support as we move through this time of grief in losing such an inspiring artist and beautiful man… From his heart to your souls…don’t ever stop rocking!”

In August, Meat Loaf explained his views on the pandemic with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “I hug people in the middle of COVID,” he said. “I understood stopping life for a little while, but they cannot continue to stop life because of politics. And right now they’re stopping because of politics.”

After the interviewer said that “we’re being controlled by everybody,” Meat Loaf agreed. “Yeah, I know. But not me. If I die, I die, but I’m not going to be controlled,” he said.

It is, however, unclear whether or not Meat Loaf was vaccinated.