After a false start at this year’s Essence Fest, the long-rumored Hot Boys reunion is finally happening (hopefully).

On Tuesday (Sept. 3), Lil Wayne announced on his X account that the reunion will take place at his annual Lil’ WeezyAna Fest later this year. The festival will take place Saturday, Nov. 2, at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans and presale tickets are already available. The Hot Boys, Mannie Fresh and Rob49 are the only listed acts, with fans in attendance to expect some surprise guests.

The reunion rumors started heating up when Juvenile revealed in May that the former group consisting of himself, Lil Wayne, B.G. and Young Turk were going to perform at Essence Fest and were working on a new album. “Hot Boys is back together, man. What you talkin’ about put the Hot Boys back together? Show y’all ain’t keeping up with sh–,” he said on Instagram Live. “Turk gonna be with me tonight, I’m gonna be with B.G. next week. Me, Wayne, Turk and B.G., all of us gonna be on stage in New Orleans with Mannie Fresh and Birdman. And we already done started working on a Hot Boys album. Any other f—ing questions? Keep on askin’ put the Hot Boys together. Have some f—in’ patience.”

However, fans were disappointed when the reunion at Essence Fest never happened. While Birdman, Mannie Fresh, Juvenile and B.G. hit the stage together, Wayne decided to perform his own solo set after they left the stage and Turk was nowhere to be found.

The Hot Boys haven’t dropped an album since 2003’s Let ‘Em Burn.

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Guess we know what Tyla‘s go-to karaoke song is, according to her new “Breathe Me” music video that dropped Tuesday (Sept. 3).

Picking up where her “Truth or Dare” music video left off seven months ago and featuring the same love interest, the “Breathe Me” visual takes place on a random late night in Osaka, Japan. The lovebirds are all smiles while headed to their private karaoke room for a sweet (and at times steamy) session where Tyla serenades him. The Nabil-directed video might’ve been filmed earlier last month when the South African singer did a signing at Tower Records Shibuya, since her man in the music video is rocking the store’s merch.

“Breathe Me” is featured on her self-titled debut album Tyla, which was released in March via FAX and Epic Records. It reached No. 24 on the Billboard 200 and No. 8 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.

Tyla is up for best new artist, best R&B and and best Afrobeats with her Billboard Hot 100 No. 7 smash “Water” at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards next Wednesday, Sept. 11. The “popiano” star won best new artist and best international act at the 2024 BET Awards in June, when she performed “Jump” alongside Gunna and Skillibeng.

“The South African genre of amapiano just started bubbling, and I’m so proud that South Africa has a genre that people are enjoying and paying attention to. I’m super proud of my country and where our sound has gone,” she told Billboard in her cover story earlier this year.

Watch Tyla’s “Breathe Me” music video below.

Before the days of “Patiently Waiting” and “Crack a Bottle,” there was an initial meeting between 50 Cent and Eminem that laid the foundation for one of the most fruitful partnerships in all of hip-hop.

50 sat down with the hosts of Million Dollaz Worth of Game over the weekend and took a trip down memory lane to recall his first encounter with Eminem, which he described as “wild.” The Queens legend even wore his signature bulletproof vest, as he wasn’t going to be taking any chances on the West Coast.

“It was wild,” he said. “Remember that show they had, Punk’d on MTV? I thought they had cameras and they was gonna come out and say, ‘You’ve been Punk’d.’ I was in California. He flew me to L.A. I came out, I was so bugged out from the experience that I came through the airport with the [bulletproof] vest and sh– on. I’m lucky I took the shock plate out the front of the joint because when I came through it [didn’t go off].”

50 continued: “I get there, he’s like, ‘Yo!’ Hugs me, feel the vest and sh– and was like [shocked expression]. [I said,] ‘Yo, this is going to be the biggest sh– ever, right?’ He’s like, ‘Yo, so excited.’ It made me question whether what was happening was happening was right. It felt so good that it couldn’t be right. I’m like, ‘Yo, nah.’ When I left that meeting, I didn’t want him to feel like he bought a problem so I wouldn’t say anything about Ja Rule and them.”

The G-Unit honcho couldn’t process how excited Em was to meet him and potentially collaborate while he was already dominating the industry and coming off the fresh release of his iconic The Marshall Mathers LP.

“When I met him, the first night I met him, he had an event. The Marshall Mathers LP just came out,” 50 went on to provide more context to the initial meet-up. “The first week he sold 1.7 million records. And he was so excited about me that I’m looking like, ‘[Are] you serious?’”

50 would end up signing a joint venture deal in June 2002 to Eminem’s Shady Records and Dr. Dre’s Aftermath Entertainment. “Wanksta” served as the first single out of the partnership in November 2002, which landed on the 8 Mile soundtrack and peaked at No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100.

“In Da Club” arrived in January 2003 and set the stage for 50 Cent to make the quantum leap to superstardom with his Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ album in February 2003. The glass-shattering debut LP launched at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 872,000 album units sold in the first week.

Watch the interview below. Talk of 50 meeting Em starts around the 51-minute mark.

Halsey just revealed a new trick up her sleeve, but it’s the pop star’s fans who will be doing the magic this time.

Ahead of their upcoming album The Great Impersonator, Halsey announced plans to send fans on a scavenger hunt through five cities across the world in a cryptic video posted Tuesday (Sept. 3). “My next trick is not mine at all,” she says in a voice-over in the clip. “It’s yours.”

Kicking off Wednesday (Sept. 4), the hunt will challenge listeners to track down time capsules — each filled with items representing a different decade — in London, New York, Toronto, Los Angeles and Sydney based on clues posted by Halsey on social media. In the process, fans will uncover The Great Impersonator‘s album cover as well as four variants of the project’s artwork.

“You must work together, as the next city’s clues will not be revealed until the previous city is found,” the About-Face Beauty founder adds in the video. “Don’t blink … or you’ll miss it.”

Halsey’s website also now features a countdown to the beginning of the scavenger hunt, as well as five tiles for each of the cities included in the game. So far, the Great Impersonator rollout has found the “Closer” singer embracing magician aesthetics while dabbling in different decades in her singles; for instance, July’s “Lucky,” which sampled Britney Spears’ hit of the same name, found Halsey channeling the early 2000s.

“What if I debuted in the early 2000s? The ’90s? The ’80s? The ’70s?” the three-time Grammy nominee asks in a trailer for the album posted Aug. 27. “Am I still Halsey every time? In every timeline, do I still get sick? Do I become a mom?”

Halsey has also dropped singles “The End” — with which the star announced their Lupus and rare T-cell disorder diagnoses to the world for the first time — and “Lonely Is the Muse” ahead of The Great Impersonator. Next up, she’ll release “Ego” on Friday (Sept. 6), as announced on Instagram last week.

See Halsey’s scavenger hunt teaser below.