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Kid Cudi‘s signed memoir, aptly named Cudi: The Memoir, is now available for preorder at Barnes & Noble.

Through this memoir, the Grammy-winning artist, actor and designer takes readers through a raw and real look at his life, from his upbringing in Cleveland to his rise to fame through tracks such as “Day ‘n’ Nite,” “Pursuit of Happiness” and “Mr. Rager.” The memoir is deeply personal to Cudi, so much so, in fact, that he even drew up the cover art.

The signed memoir retails for $30, while the hardcover goes for $27. You can also grab an eBook for $14.99 and an audio CD for $39.99. You can also preorder the memoir on Amazon sans the signature for $21. The Kindle version retails for $14.99, while the audio CD, like the Barnes & Noble edition, retails for $39.99. No matter where you buy it from, the audio CD is narrated by none other than Cudi himself.

“I cannot wait for u guys to read it. It’s filled with so much about my journey from my first memory to turning 40. Life lessons, the rager period of my life, and fighting my demons. All the way to the present, where happiness has found me,” Cudi wrote in a post to Instagram on May 11. “I hope this book does what my music does for u and gives u guidance and hope that u will make it through those difficult times.”

The memoir, according to Cudi, was written during a major point of self-discovery through depression, addiction, isolation and doubt. Beyond the cover art, you’ll get a chance to see more of Cudi’s colorful work throughout the book, as well as pictures from his childhood.

While you wait for your preordered memoir to arrive, you can browse Barnes & Noble’s extensive list of memoirs and biographies from impactful rappers such as Tupac Shakur and Gucci Mane. There are also memoirs and biographical works from music industry legends such as Aaron Neville, Lenny Kravitz, Slash, Bruce Springsteen and Jay-Z, just to name a few. If you’re looking to read up on your favorite musicians, it’s likely that Barnes & Noble carries a book about them.

Memoirs aside, Cudi has had himself a big week. The “Better Place” rapper announced he married his longtime partner, Lola Abecassis Sartore, back in June. The two wed in the South of France on June 28 in a dreamy ceremony. Cudi also dropped a new song titled “Grave” along with a music video. The track comes from his upcoming album titled Free.

Toby Keith’s 35 Biggest Hits shoots like a firecracker back to the top 10 on the Billboard 200, rallying from No. 43 to No. 9 with 26,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending July 10, according to Luminate (up 56%).

The collection jumps up the list following streaming gains for its songs generated by Independence Day celebrations. The album, released in 2008, hit No. 1 on the Feb. 17, 2024-dated chart in the wake of Keith’s death that Feb. 5.

Of 35 Biggest Hits’ 26,000 units earned, streaming equivalent-album units comprise 24,000 (up 59%, equaling 32.9 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it vaults 43-11 on Top Streaming Albums).

About one-third of the album’s streams for the week were generated by Keith’s 2002 No. 1 Hot Country Songs hit “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American),” which was also his most streamed song of the week.

The patriotic anthem also reenters Country Digital Song Sales at No. 1, as it surged 121% to 3,000 sold. It concurrently reenters Hot Country Songs at No. 8.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multimetric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album.

Additional reporting by Jim Asker.

“I want to run free when I chose it, play the wrong chord, say something stupid,” Soulwax declares on its latest single “Run Free,” released July 9.

It’s a yearning for a kind of behavioral looseness rarely witnessed and barely tolerated in this meticulously curated modern moment, an era the group thoroughly explores on their forthcoming album, All Systems Are Lying. The title effectively sums up the notions of paranoia and social fracture — and the freedoms that might be their alternative — explored throughout the 14-track project.

All Systems Are Lying — the first studio album in seven years from Soulwax, the longstanding and perpetually cool electronic band lead by Belgian brothers David and Stephen Dewaele — is coming October 17 via Because Music and the band’s own longstanding label, DEWEE. Emanating from an impeccably designed studio in Ghent, Belgium, DEWEE releases music that’s either written, recorded or mixed (or a combination of all three) in the building by the Dewaeles. DEWEE has released music by artists including Charlotte Adigéry and Marie Davidson, with Soulwax earning a 2020 best remixed recording Grammy nomination for their indelible edit of Davidson’s “Work It.”

Between putting their fingerprints on every label release, making their own music and touring as both Soulwax and their lauded dancefloor selector project 2manyDJs, it’s not shocking that the brothers often find themselves in a struggle against time itself. (Along with LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy, the pair are also behind Despacio, the beloved roving sound system/pop-up club space that’s been a regular at festivals including Coachella, III Points and Sonar and which will make it’s next U.S. appearance in September at San Francisco’s Portola, where 2manyDJs are also playing.)

But while whizzing across the world on a recent high-speed train ride, Soulwax found time to reflect on the new album, its lead singles (“Run Free” was released in tandem with the album’s spare, glitchy title track) and something Tiësto once told them, in this joint interview.

1. Where are you in the world right now, and what’s the setting like?

We’re on the Eurostar to London.

2. What is the first album or piece of music you bought for yourself, and what was the medium?

Stephen: Axe Attack, a “hard rock” compilation in 1980. Just to give a bit of context, our dad was a DJ on national radio in Belgium, and famously one of the first to introduce rock music back in the late ’60s, and our mom was the one helping him select the records. So even though our house was filled with whatever was happening in 1980 at the time, probably Blondie, Bowie, Talking Heads, etc., I used my savings as a 10-year-old to purchase this particular record, which contained the kind of stuff our dad would not necessarily get and gave me the feeling I had my own thing going on. Motörhead and AC/DC in particular were the artists that spoke to me on this record.

David: I was 8-years-old, it was the 12” for a track called “Rat Rapping” by Roland Rat Superstar. Roland Rat was a British Saturday morning children’s television puppet character, who was brash and loud, and I remember liking the fact that adults seemed to think he was cheeky and funny. The record contains the extended remix, which in 1983 was quite the thing.

3. What did your parents do for a living when you were kids, and what do, or did, they think of what you do for a living now?

Explained this above, and they are currently both into what their sons are up to, perhaps our mom a bit more.

4. What is the first non-gear thing you bought for yourselves when you started making money as artists?

Probably a horrible Bose 5:1 surround sound system. Seemed fancy at the time.

5.  If you had to recommend one album for someone looking to get into electronic music, what album would you give them?

You’d be hard-pressed to find a record these days that isn’t electronic, in that it is made in the same way as dance music. So in a sense everything is “electronic music” nowadays, even the band stuff. If one were to find a luddite who had only heard banjo music to this point in their life for example, we’d probably recommend starting with Kraftwerk’s Man Machine perhaps? But we’d recommend that person to maybe also check out The Beatles.

6. What’s the last song you each listened to?

David: “Dirty Back Road” by The B-52’s.

Stephen: “Sparkles, Crystals, Miracles” by James Holden & Waclaw Zimpel.

7. What’s the philosophy behind All Systems Are Lying, how did it come to be and how does it reflect your current states of mind?

Quite a bit of our time and energy goes into helping other people out with their songs, or producing  or remixing or scoring, and our job then is usually to facilitate someone else’s vision, and we tend to use the part of our brain that is there to solve a problem.

That can be very rewarding and is by no means less creative — but when we set out to make this album, we wanted to work a lot more on a subconscious level and let spontaneity guide us. Towards the end of the process we realized that so many of the lyrics we had come up with had a certain dystopian feel to them, and “all systems are lying” isn’t necessarily both us saying that that is the case, but more a reflection of the time we live in.

There seems to be a general feeling of distrust towards the very systems that are in place in our society to keep it all together, which can easily lead to people not believing in any of them anymore. The greatest human achievements happen when we all believe in the same thing, and right now it seems like almost everyone is questioning something, if not everything.

8. When you say “I want to run free with the music” on the new single “Run Free,” what do you mean?

Similar to the previous answer, it expresses a need to be less cerebral or more intuitive when it comes to music. It’s probably a reaction to how frustratingly rigid and formulaic so much music, and everything that surrounds it, has become.

9. If all systems are lying, how do you know what to believe in? What do you believe in for sure?

That the weather in Belgium will suck.

10. Do you ever feel disillusioned with technology, and if so, how do you balance that feeling with the fact that the use of technology is necessary for you to make music?

A large part of our studio time is being spent trying to push machines that are so old or slightly broken to do what we want them to, and they rarely comply. So you can imagine how frustration with technology is just part of our every day life.

11. What does success for All Systems Are Lying look like to you?

It finally coming out after having finished it in January. Honestly with the amount of music that is being released on a daily basis, just getting people to be aware of its existence seems like a victory these days.

12. Given that you both work on every DEEWEE release, how do you decide which projects to take on and what to devote your precious, and I’m assuming limited, time to?

It’s a constant struggle. The artists on DEEWEE are friends first and foremost, so we find ourselves spinning plates all the time while sometimes having to prioritize other projects, which sucks if they are your friends! On a good day it’s the best, and when we are stressed for time, it can be the worst.

13. How connected do you feel to the American electronic scene, and what parts of America are most exciting/interesting for you to play in?

Not sure if there is a specific “American” scene to be connected to right now as everything is so splintered culturally, but other than the obvious DFA connection, our dear friend Dave P in Philadelphia runs a festival called Making Time, and it’s truly inspiring to see that become successful, because he put his whole heart into it.

14. Is there any wariness of playing the U.S., given the current political situation?

We’re always happy to come and play in the US, as long as we are allowed in.

15. What are the proudest moments of your career thus far?

Losing a Grammy twice.

16. What are you currently finding most challenging?

We’re in a constant race against time. And we’re losing badly.

17. What’s the most exciting thing happening in electronic music, currently?

Anything Quinn Whalley touches, basically.

18. What’s the best business decision you’ve ever made?

Not sure if we’ve ever made a good one.

19. Who’s been your greatest mentor and what’s the best advice they ever gave you?

We once met Tiësto, and he told us we should move our company to the Cayman Islands for tax reasons. We never did, so it kind of answers the previous question as well.

20. What’s one piece of advice you’d give your younger selves?

Put out more music. For everything we end up releasing, we’ve probably thrown away three things that lead up to it. We can’t change the way we are in that respect, but sometimes we stumble on something we buried and realize it’s pretty good.

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It’s well known that Snoop Dogg hails from Long Beach, Calif. But the rapper isn’t the only legend whose roots stretch from that coastal city nestled in southeastern Los Angeles county. Which inspired a current exhibit — and launch of an ongoing initiative — at the African American Cultural Center of Long Beach.

Running through July 26, “Don’t Leave Me This Way: The Legacy of Thelma Houston” is named after the Motown/Tamla singer’s 1976 No. 1 crossover R&B/pop dance disco classic, a song that came in at No. 55 on Billboard‘s recent list of the best dance songs of all time.

The exhibit chronicles the career of the Long Beach-raised Houston, whose catalog includes the top 20 R&B hits “If It’s the Last Thing I Do,” “Saturday Night, Sunday Morning” and “You Used to Hold Me So Tight.” Earning her first Grammy nomination for her first R&B-charting single (No. 64), 1974’s “You’ve Been Doing Wrong for So Long,” Houston won a best R&B vocal performance Grammy for “Don’t.”

Houston’s vocal versatility has graced songs by notable writers such as Laura Nyro, Kris Kristofferson and Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and garnered collaborations with composer Jimmy Webb, and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. The exhibit also encompasses her role as the Clock during season 11 of The Masked Singer in 2024 — during which a new generation of music fans witnessed her still powerful vocals — and the April induction of her 1975 album with Pressure Cooker, I’ve Got the Music in Me, into the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry. Still performing and recording, Houston recently released a cover of the O’Jays’ “Love Train.”

“I never thought I’d have an exhibit about my life anywhere, to be honest,” Houston tells Billboard. “I look back on some of these things, especially at the exhibit, and it’s hard for me to believe that all these things happened to me. It’s very interesting to be living and see your life, your career, unfold right there in front of you. All I ever wanted to do was make my living as a singer.”

Born in Leland, Miss., Houston relocated to Long Beach with her family when she was 10 years old. She credits her junior high school principal Buck Catlin as the mentor who told her early on that she could have a singing career. “I started singing and then professionally in Long Beach,” she adds, “so Long Beach has a very special place in my heart.”

Houston’s sentiment about the formative role Long Beach played in her career stands at the heart of what Sharon Diggs-Jackson, a founding board member of the African American Cultural Center, wants to impart through future exhibits starring other Long Beach-bred legends.

“This year we had an intentional effort,” says Diggs-Jackson, a fellow Long Beach native who also serves as the center’s exhibit curator. “We had to do Thelma; the longevity of a career is the other part of what we want young people to understand. When you look at Thelma, who’s 82, you really see that. We’re going to continue focusing on Long Beach legends in 2026, wanting to tell the story of their amazing music careers and legacies.”

Two months ago, the center launched its legacy spotlight featuring the late Freeman Davis, aka Brother Bones, known for his ability to play the bones, whistle and tap dance. It’s his version of “Sweet Georgia Brown” that the famed Harlem Globetrotters adopted as their official theme song. Diggs-Jackson says she and her team are currently working on an exhibit about the city’s hip-hop legacy slated for 2026.

“We hope to also feature [singer-songwriter-producer] Art Reynolds as well as War,” says Diggs-Jackson. “[War co-founder] Harold Brown was here for Thelma Houston’s exhibit opening [June 6]; the group got their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this year. When we think of our musical legends, those are the ones that we are looking to feature.”

Future plans also include a move from the center’s temporary location into a larger permanent venue. “We hope to have something in place before the 2028 Olympics,” adds Diggs-Jackson, “so we can really tell the African American story here in Long Beach.”