Puerto Rican superstar Rauw Alejandro shot to No. 3 on both the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. tallies this week (up from No. 31 and No. 18, respectively) with his song “Todo de Ti,” which is only the third all Spanish-language track to reach the top three of the Global 200 since the chart’s inception in Sept. 2020.

Released May 21, “Todo de Ti” drew 102.6 million global streams, up 180% from the prior week, according to MRC Data. The song is Alejandro’s first top 10 on the Global 200.

Explore the team of musicians, producers and more behind the track with recording credits provided by Jaxsta below.

Artists:
Main Artist – Rauw Alejandro

Songwriters:
Composer Lyricist – Eric “Duars” Pérez Rovira
Composer Lyricist – José M. Collazo “Colla”
Composer Lyricist – Luis J. González “Mr. NaisGai”
Composer Lyricist – Rafael E. Pabón Navedo “Rafa Pabon”
Composer Lyricist – Raul Alejandro Ocasio Ruiz “Rauw Alejandro”
Performance Arranger – Carlos Orlando Navarro

Producers:
Executive Producer – Eric “Duars” Pérez Rovira
Producer – Luis J. González “Mr. NaisGai”
Producer – Raúl A. Ocasio “El Zorro”

Engineers:
Mastering Engineer – Sensei Sound
Mixing Engineer – José M. Collazo “Colla”
Recording Engineer – José M. Collazo “Colla”

Performers:
Guitar – Carlos Orlando Navarro

Labels:
Distributor – Sony Music Entertainment
Label – Sony Music Latin

Explore the full “Todo de Ti” credits on Jaxsta here.

Who will win for best new artist at the 2021 BET Awards on June 27? Unlike some years where there’s a clear favorite, this year’s contest seems wide open. The nominees are evenly split between male artists (Giveon, Jack Harlow and Pooh Shiesty) and female artists (Coi Leray, Flo Milli and Latto). All six nominees are in their early to mid 20s.

The three male nominees have all reached the top five on the Billboard 200. (Not so the female nominees.) Giveon and Harlow both received Grammy nominations in November.

The last two winners in the category — Lil Baby (2019) and Roddy Ricch (2020) — were both male rappers. Leray, Flo Milli or Latto would be the first female winner since SZA three years ago. Giveon would be the first non-rap winner since SZA.

Here’s a closer look at the nominees. They’re listed in alphabetical order.

Coi Leray: The rapper, 24, has two nominations. She’s also up for best female hip hop artist. Leray has placed two singles on the Billboard Hot 100: “No More Parties” (featuring Lil Durk, No. 26) and “Big Purr (Prrdd)” (featuring fellow nominee Poo Shiesty, No. 69). Coi is featured on YSL’s “I Like,” a track from Slime Language 2, which hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in May. Leray was Billboard’s R&B/hip-hop rookie of the month for April. As Neena Rouhani noted in a Q&A that announced that designation, “Despite the infancy of her career, the multi-faceted performer has already collaborated with a plethora of fellow charting rappers, including Gunna, DDG and Yung Bleu.” In addition, Leray has released two mixtapes, Everythingcoz and EC2, and an EP, Now or Never.

Flo Milli: The rapper, 21, is the youngest of this year’s nominees. (She’s a couple of months younger than Pooh Shiesty, who is also 21.) Flo Milli’s 2020 mixtape, Ho, Why Is You Here?, reached No. 78 on the Billboard 200. The mixtape spawned five singles, “Beef FloMix,” “In the Party,” “Not Friendly,” “Like That Bitch” and “Weak.” (The latter track samples SWV’s hit of the same name, which topped the Hot 100 in 1993.) The mixtape ranked No. 37 on Billboard’s list of the 50 Best Albums of 2020: Staff Picks. Writing about the mixtape for that list, Tatiana Cirisano observed: “Ho, why is you here? similarly finds the [then] 20-year-old talking herself up, with both the catty attitude of a teenager and the posh confidence of a veteran rapper, adding up to an album that feels like a shot of pure caffeine.”

Giveon: Giveon is this year’s oldest best new artist nominee (26) and the only non-rap artist among the nominees. He has a second nod for best male R&B/pop artist. His compilation When It’s All Said and Done…Take Time reached No. 5 on the Billboard 200. It consists of two previously released EPs — Take Time (which received a Grammy nod for best R&B album) and When It’s All Said and Done — plus new material. Take Time included the deeply moving and musically sophisticated ballad “Heartbreak Anniversary,” which reached No. 17 on the Hot 100. Giveon has climbed even higher as a featured artist on Justin Bieber’s “Peaches” (No. 1) and Drake’s “Chicago Freestyle” (No. 14). “Heartbreak Anniversary” ranked No. 17 on Billboard’s list of the 50 Best Songs of 2021 So Far: Staff Picks. Billboard also included Giveon’s compilation in its list of the 50 Best Albums of 2021 So Far: Staff Picks, where Gail Mitchell wrote: “Giveon is steadily winning fans on his own with a gutsy brand of R&B that embraces influences that range from Frank Sinatra to Frank Ocean.”

Jack Harlow: Harlow, 23, has three nominations, more than any of this year’s other best new artist candidates. He’s also nominated for best collaboration for the “Whats Poppin” remix (which featured DaBaby, Tory Lanez and Lil Wayne) and best male hip hop artist. Harlow has climbed higher on the Hot 100 as a lead artist than any of the other nominees. “Whats Poppin” reached No. 2. The track received a Grammy nomination for best rap performance and placed No. 26 on Billboard’s list of the 100 Best Songs of 2020: Staff Picks, where Andrew Unterberger praised the song’s “tiptoeing bounce and tight one-bar-at-a-time flow.” Harlow’s studio album Thats What They All Say reached No. 5 on the Billboard 200. His earlier EP Sweet Action hit No. 20. Harlow, who received four nominations at last month’s Billboard Music Awards, is the first white rapper to land a best new artist nod at the BET Awards since Paul Wall 15 years ago.

Latto: The rapper, 22, changed her stage name from Mulatto just last month. (As Billboard’s Carl Lamarre explained here, “Coined during slavery, ‘mulatto’ was a racial slur used to describe multiracial children.”) Latto has a second nomination for best female hip hop artist. She reached No. 44 on the Billboard 200 with Queen of Da Souf. A track from the album, “Bitch From Da Souf” (featuring Saweetie and Trina) reached No. 95 on the Hot 100. The album spawned four more singles: “Muwop” (featuring Gucci Mane), “On God,” “In n Out” (featuring City Girls) and “Sex Lies” (featuring Lil Baby). Latto has also released three mixtapes (Miss Mulatto, Latto Let ‘Em Know and Mulatto) and three EPs (Time and Pressure, Big Latto and Hit the Latto).

Pooh Shiesty: The rapper, 21, has climbed higher on the Billboard 200 than any of this year’s other nominees. His mixtape Shiesty Season reached No. 3. Billboard included the mixtape on its list of the 50 Best Albums of 2021 So Far: Staff Picks, where Jason Lipshutz wrote: “Memphis rapper Pooh Shiesty’s debut mixtape Shiesty Season sneaks up on you. The singsong hooks, slow-drawled rhymes and menacing beats initially register as straightforward Southern rap — but then you keep playing it, keep absorbing every percussive creak and threat of violence, and realize just how deep the thing goes.” “Back in Blood” (featuring Lil Durk) reached No. 13 on the Hot 100. It ranked even higher (No. 6) on Billboard’s list of the 50 Best Songs of 2021 So Far: Staff Picks, where Andrew Unterberger called Shiesty “the year’s rookie breakout sensation.”

It’s been 100 years since a white mob set fire to Greenwood, a thriving Tulsa neighborhood also known as Black Wall Street. Between May 31 and June 1, 1921, the Tulsa Race Massacre burned Greenwood’s entire business district down to the ground, murdered hundreds of Black people and left many more homeless in an American horror story that’s long been ignored.

Now that’s changing with the help of two music projects commemorating the centennial through the voices of Black culture’s next generation in Oklahoma: Fire in Little Africa and 1921 … The Black Wall Street Music Project. Both compilations feature artists — some of whom are direct descendants of Tulsa-Greenwood survivors — sharing their fresh perspectives through hip-hop, R&B/soul, jazz and spoken word.

Arriving in July and featuring 18 artists, 1921 … The Black Wall Street Music Project will release two singles on June 18: “For Black Wall Street” by Dangerous Rob and Playya 1000 featuring Malachi and “Oklahoma Made” by Kode Ransom. These are the follow-ups to the project’s first dual singles that came out in late May: “Kerosene” by Omaleyb featuring Steph Simon and “The Sun Will Rise Again” by Doc Shaw featuring Lester Shaw and Retsel Shaw. Among the album’s other offerings will be a posthumous premiere by the late smooth jazz bass guitarist and NBA player Wayman Tisdale.

Being released in conjunction with New York-based Isotopia Records, headed by Constance Hauman, 1921 … The Black Wall Street Music Project was executive produced by Fred Jones, Thornell Jones Jr. and Guy Troupe. Partners in the project include The Hille Foundation, Osage Casinos and Spirit Bank. Jones is the founder of One Tulsa LLC, whose divisions encompass broadcast, digital and print media, marketing, artist management and philanthropy. Jones, who envisioned the music project three years ago, has close ties to the Tulsa Race Massacre. His grandmother Maggie Jones was in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, 25 miles away from Greenwood, when the riot started.

“I remember my grandmother saying they could see the smoke as the city burned for three days,” says Jones. “The massacre was about money and the economic power that Black Wall Street had. Black people were hiring Black people. You didn’t have to be treated as a secondhand citizen or be subjected to racial slurs. I want people to realize what really happened and see the resilience of a community.”

Sharing similar sentiments, Jones Jr. adds, “In order for us as a people to move forward, we have to unify behind the message of Tulsa, the country and the world. This album speaks to the horrors of the massacre and the destruction. But it’s really an allegory because it’s telling young people to be fired up, be the best they can be and walk in the steps of their ancestors.”

Fire in Little Africa, Motown Records’ commemoration of the massacre’s anniversary, is the company’s latest project via its relaunched Black Forum label. Released on May 28 in partnership with Tulsa’s Bob Dylan Center and Woody Guthrie Center, the album features 60 Oklahoma hip-hop artists and a special guest, Tulsa native and Gap Band frontman Charlie Wilson. In fact, the Gap Band adopted its name from three streets in Wilson’s former neighborhood: Greenwood, Archer and Pine Streets — the center of Little Africa.

Wilson, who appears on the track “Party Plane,” notes, “It’s important to continue bringing attention to the Tulsa Race Massacre so future generations will know the history of Black Wall Street. Being a part of the album is full-circle for me: coming from a generation that was told not to speak of the massacre, as our elders still feared for their lives, to the present day where we are standing together unveiling and spreading the truth.”

In addition to Wilson’s track, Fire in Little Africa features the singles “Shining” and “Elevator.” Recorded over a five-day period in March 2020, the album was executive produced by Stevie “Dr. View” Johnson, Ph.D. and manager of education & diversity outreach at the Woody Guthrie Center/Bob Dylan Center. The making of the album is set to be the focus of a documentary film due later this year.

“We wanted to show that this is the new way of community organizing,” says Johnson of the inspiration behind Fire in Little Africa. “It was an opportunity to blur the lines, take historical facts and oral traditions and put them in epistemological lyrics of hip-hop to talk about history, while encompassing how we heal from our trauma and reimagining what the next 100 years will look like for not only Tulsa, but Black and brown folks around the world. We are like the rose in the concrete: We’re still here. We called ourselves ‘Fire in Little Africa’ because the fire still burns, it still exists.”

Rapper Steph Simon, who appears on both 1921…The Black Wall Street Music Project (“Kerosene”) and Fire in Little Africa (“Shining” with Jerica Wortham and Dialtone) says he felt “chosen” to be a part of both tributes. “It gave me purpose,” he explains. “I always wondered, ‘Out of all the places in the world, why did God birth me in North Tulsa?’ But learning this history about where I come from — only to find out we actually had everything — makes me proud.”

Chicago native Bill Murray welcomed a full-capacity crowd back to Wrigley Stadium on Friday (June 11) by leading Cubs fans in a rousing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.”

“This is what it feels like to be 100%!” Murray hollered to the shoulder-to-shoulder baseball fans during the seventh-inning stretch of Friday’s game against the St. Louis Cardinals. “And we are going to be louder from right now until the last out in the top of the ninth inning, understood? Let’s scare the hell out of these Cardinals!”

The Hawaiian-shirt-clad actor and comedian then launched into a charmingly off-key (and fittingly offbeat) take on the baseball standard, swapping the words “home team” for an effusive “Cubbies.”

“Let’s get some runs!” Murray yelled to finish up his guest-conductor duties. His motivation clearly worked: The Cubs beat the Cardinals 8-5 in the end.

This isn’t the first time Murray has led Wrigley Field in “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.” He also showed up for Game 3 of the 2016 World Series against the Cleveland Indians, helpfully letting fans know that the seventh-inning stretch also marked their last opportunity to get beer at the concession stands.

His vocal skills notwithstanding, Murray made his Billboard chart debut back in 2017 thanks to his album New Worlds — credited to Murray, Jan Vogler and Friends — topping the Classical Albums tally.

Grab some Cracker Jack and watch Murray’s performance below:

Chanel is teaming with Pharrell Williams and his nonprofit Black Ambition on a two-part initiative focused on Black and Latinx entrepreneurs aimed at providing “access to knowledge, insights and opportunities from industry-leading experts.”

For part one, Chanel assembled the panel “Women Who Lead” that featured Tracee Ellis Ross, Medley co-founder Edith Cooper, Good American CEO and co-founder Emma Grede, Imaginary Ventures co-founder and partner Natalie Massenet. Moderated by Harper’s Bazaar editor-in-chief, the chat covered topics like resilience and determination, mentorship, building culture and community, and the importance of clarity of vision.

It was live-streamed on Friday exclusively for Black Ambition semifinalists and network members.

Part two is a series of interactive mentorship workshops available to the Black Ambition prize finalists, focused on addressing critical capacity needs by leveraging the expertise of Chanel’s leadership community, as well as the house’s network of experts. Workshops will help prospective entrepreneurs with the knowledge needed to launch and sustain a brand.

The partnership extends an already fruitful relationship between Chanel and the multi-hyphenate Williams, who has appeared in campaigns and at various events for Chanel over the years. When Williams launched Black Ambition last December, he did so by revealing two prize competitions — the Black Ambition HBCU Prize and the Black Ambition Prize — that will culminate in a national Demo Day event to be held in July. The prizes, per Black Ambition, are to “fund bold ideas and companies led by Black and Latinx entrepreneurs” with prize money totaling up to $1 million.

This article was originally published by The Hollywood Reporter.

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