Billboard caught up with Diplo at one of his Run Club events, and he shares how he got inspired to bridge the gap between fitness and dance music, what his PR is, tips to people who want to get into running and more!
Diplo:
I started this Run Club as sort of a meeting point between dance and fitness because I ended up at Space Nightclub after running the Miami marathon, it was 9am and DJ Tennis was playing. I texted him, I got on the guest list, and I ran there. I walked, it’s like, three blocks away from the finish line, wandered over, got in with my bib on everything, and I was like, hanging out. I was like, this is the best time ever. And I never really make it to Space that late, because I usually go to bed. I don’t really want to, unless I’m DJing. I don’t, I don’t stay out till seven, eight in the morning, like psychopaths. But I was up early, and I wouldn’t see him play. I was like, this is the best way to enjoy a DJ. I felt so clear headed. I had the best time. I loved the music. I was chilling. I made a TikTok, and the next year, like 40 kids did the same thing. They ran the marathon and went to Space. So I said, we got to do this properly. So I think we had the idea: my team, Teamwork, Wasserman Music, and we put together the first one in San Francisco about a year and a half ago, and it was a big success. So we started to make this in many different cities. And I think Phoenix was the last one we expected. We almost had 10,000 kids here. I thought it was gonna be cold. The weather said it was maybe 50 degrees, but it warmed up. This is Arizona, so when the sun comes out, it starts to cook. And we had a lot of runners, and we had the fastest runners in the history of the Run Club. One kid did like, 15 minutes and like 20 seconds. Which is just insane for a 5k that’s like, would win, like a state championship. I think I did 21:59 or 22:22. I did, like, right on the nose there. I ran, like, a little over seven minute miles. I did New York, 19:50 very fast. I threw up at the end of that.
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Johnny Blue Skies & the Dark Clouds are bringing new music to the fans, with the upcoming release of Mutiny After Midnight.
Johnny Blue Skies (formerly known as Sturgill Simpson) & The Dark Clouds, along with label High Top Mountain Records, have teamed with Atlantic Music Group’s Atlantic Outpost for the upcoming album, set for March 13 on vinyl, CD and cassette only. Johnny Blue Skies is joined by fellow musicians, drummer and backing vocalist Miles Miller, lead guitarist Laur Joamets, bassist Kevin Black and keyboardist/saxist Robbie Crowell.
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“There’s a simple goal we as a band set out to achieve: to make a dance record,” Johnny Blue Skies said in a statement. “This is a new and very different Atlantic Records than my last go-around. Mostly, I’m very excited and honored to be working with my dear friend Ian Cripps, and to finally bring to fruition a vision we initially shared together over ten years ago. I wrote words to what is happening in the world and my life in real time, and played with a group of musicians I deeply love and respect. Together, we made an album that is very fun and will hopefully offer some relief from darkness in the world.”
He recorded multiple albums, including the Grammy-winning 2016 album A Sailor’s Guide to Earth, under the name Sturgill Simpson, before issuing the 2024 project Passage Du Desir under the name Johnny Blue Skies. The upcoming Mutiny After Midnight project was produced by Johnny Blue Skies and recorded at Easy Eye Sound Studios.
On Instagram, Johnny Blue Skies further explained the new project, writing, “Inspired heavily from endless hours on the bus watching old clips of the great fusion-funk band Stuff, and revisiting off-the-beaten-track concept records like Marvin Gaye’s In Our Lifetime, where, in what looks like the end of the world, the artists response is, ‘Let’s dance and make love’ —we decided to make an album centered firmly on groove. We started every day from scratch with a basic groove, I wrote the songs and lyrics in the moment on-the-spot, and everyone established their individual parts servicing the songs and not the individual ego.
“You can break down the songs on this album into two categories—the dark state of the world and the bright state of love. Light lives in darkness just as darkness lives in light. I have come to find over time that it’s far easier to just embrace contradictions rather than attempting to resolve them. Hence ‘Johnny Blue Skies & the Dark Clouds’ … The enjoyment we experienced in making this album of songs will be quite evident for the listener. But it’s a lot more than joy. You can call it a mutiny…an open rebellion. In any case, despite the motivations behind it the mutiny in the studio turned into a party.”
The message also seemed to address future touring plans for the group, adding, “We’re going out to play arenas and theaters with a vengeance. No opening act. We’re going to take every minute the venue gives us. We’re gonna rock this Mutiny as hard as humanly possible.”
See the tracklist for Mutiny After Midnight below:
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who was arguably the foremost Black leader in the U.S. in the years between the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 and the emergence of Sen. Barack Obama as a national political figure in 2004, died Tuesday (Feb. 17). He was 84.
Jackson, who had battled the neurodegenerative condition progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) for more than a decade, died at home surrounded by family. His daughter, Santita Jackson, confirmed his death with the Associated Press. Jackson was originally diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2017 before the PSP diagnosis was confirmed in April.
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“Our father was a servant leader — not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world,” the Jackson family said in a statement they posted online. “We shared him with the world, and in return, the world became part of our extended family. His unwavering belief in justice, equality, and love uplifted millions, and we ask you to honor his memory by continuing the fight for the values he lived by.”
Motown founder Berry Gordy released a statement hours later in which he said, “I am deeply saddened by the passing of my dear friend, Reverend Jesse Jackson Jr. Jesse was not only a towering leader of the Civil Rights Movement — he was family. He stood with me, with my family, with Motown, and with our community through moments of hope, struggle, and profound change. He stood with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and it was Jesse who brought Dr. King to Hitsville in 1963, just days before the historic Great March to Freedom in Detroit — a moment that forever connected music, movement, and mission.
“In the most difficult and uncertain times, Jesse never failed to remind us of what we were fighting for. His courage, his faith, and his unwavering belief in justice gave strength to countless people, myself included. Even as the road grew harder in recent years, Jesse never surrendered his spirit. He fought with dignity, purpose, and grace. Jesse Jackson was a force of history — a moral voice, a builder of bridges, and a champion for those whose voices were too often ignored. His legacy will live on not only in books and speeches, but in the lives he touched and the progress he helped make possible. My deepest condolences to his beloved wife, Jacqueline, his children, and all who loved him.”
A recording of a Jackson speech won a Grammy in 1989 for best spoken word or non-musical recording. He had been nominated on two previous occasions, in 1980 for best soul gospel performance, contemporary for Push for Excellence, and in 1985 for best spoken word or non-musical recording for Our Time Has Come.
In 1988, Jackson received the President’s Award at the annual NAACP Image Awards. In 2000, President Bill Clinton awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest honor bestowed on civilians.
Jackson was born on Oct. 8, 1941, in Greenville, S.C. In the summer of 1963, at age 21, Jackson traveled to Washington, D.C., where he heard Dr. King deliver his landmark “I Have a Dream” speech. Two years later, he and a group of college friends drove to Alabama to participate in King’s Selma-to-Montgomery march. He met King there. Early the next year, King asked Jackson to head his Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s Operation Breadbasket in Chicago. At 24, Jackson was the youngest of King’s aides.
In April 1968, Jackson joined King in Memphis, where the civil rights leader had agreed to stand in solidarity with striking sanitation workers. The next day, King was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel where he and his team were staying in Memphis.
As Jackson’s media prominence grew — including a cover feature in Time magazine in 1970 — so too did tensions between Jackson and SCLC. In late 1971, SCLC’s board suspended Jackson for “administrative impropriety” and “repeated violation of organization discipline.” Jackson resigned and formed his own organization, PUSH – which originally stood for People United to Save Humanity before being amended to the less grandiose People United to Serve Humanity. Like Operation Breadbasket, its goal was to boost minority employment and ownership.
From the moment he began urging and registering Black Americans to vote, Jackson had found his calling – to empower African Americans and anyone else who had felt left behind. They responded to his signature rally chant, “I am somebody.” Jackson used PUSH resources to staff get-out-the-vote drives that helped elect Black mayors in Gary, Indiana; Newark, New Jersey; and Cleveland, Ohio.
Jackson was the first Black candidate for president to attract a broad following and to give rise to credible speculation about his chances. He received about 3.5 million votes in Democratic primaries in 1984 — roughly one in five of those cast. Former VP Walter Mondale won the nomination, and selected New York Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro, not Jackson, as his running mate.
Four years later, he ran again, this time winning 7 million votes, second only to the eventual nominee, Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis. Jackson’s hourlong speech at the 1988 Democratic National Convention brought many delegates to tears. Again, Jackson was passed over for the VP nomination, this time in favor of Texas Sen. Lloyd Bentsen.
Jackson had a complicated relationship with Clinton. In the 1992 campaign, Clinton used Jackson as a foil in what became known as the Sister Souljah moment. Jackson invited a little-known rap singer and activist, Sister Souljah, to a political event featuring the Arkansas governor. In an interview, Souljah had been quoted as saying: “So if you’re a gang member and you would normally be killing somebody, why not kill a white person? Do you think that somebody thinks that white people are better, are above and beyond dying, when they would kill their own kind?”
Clinton, in her presence, took issue with her words. “If you took the words ‘white’ and ‘Black,’ and you reversed them, you might think David Duke was giving that speech,” the candidate said. The moment burnished the image Clinton was trying to build as someone who was willing to stand up to the party’s special interests and most loyal voting base. But the gain for Clinton came at Jackson’s expense. Nonetheless, Jackson had hoped to be selected as Clinton’s VP, but on July 9, Clinton announced Tennessee Sen. Al Gore as his choice instead. Eight years later, in August 2000, President Clinton awarded Jackson the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Jackson’s prominence waned in the 2000s, in part because there were now so many Black leaders in politics, business and entertainment that the idea of one Black leader who spoke for the entire community seemed passe. Jackson was on hand at Grant Park in Chicago when President-elect Obama accepted his victory. Jackson wept, moved that the moment had finally come and saddened, perhaps, that the doors were not nearly so wide open when he ran in 1984 and 1988.
Jackson is survived by his wife, Jacqueline, and six children, Jesse Jr., Yusef, Jonathan, Jacqueline, Santita and Ashley.
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Amber Glenn just got the ultimate seal of approval on her Olympic figure-skating routine set to Madonna‘s 1989 Billboard Hot 100-topper “Like a Prayer,” with the Queen of Pop herself sending the athlete into “shock” by recording a special personalized message for her ahead of the women’s short in Milan, Italy.
In footage shared by NBC Sports on Tuesday (Feb. 17), Glenn can barely contain her excitement while pressing play on a clip Madge filmed for her as a surprise. “I just watched you skate to my song ‘Like a Prayer,’ and I have to tell you, I was blown away by it,” the icon tells the skater, who covers her mouth in disbelief while listening. “So strong, so beautiful, so brave. I can’t imagine that you would not win. Go get that gold.”
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It was a moment before Glenn could formulate a response. “Sorry, I’m in shock,” she says after the video ends. “Oh my God. I’m legitimately shaking.”
She then sends a message directly to Madonna. “My queen, thank you so much,” Glenn says. “You are beautiful, stunning, amazing, and you are an icon forever. Thank you for supporting athletes in their artistic endeavors. I hope I can do the song justice.”
The spontaneous pep talk from Madonna came shortly before Glenn competed on the ice for the women’s short, which ended with the American at 13th place in the overall skater standings. At press time, Team USA’s Alysa Liu and Isabeau Levito are at third and eighth.
The 2026 Winter Games kicked off earlier in February. Prior to the women’s short, Glenn competed in the free skate with a routine set to Canadian artist CLANN’s “The Return.”
After the musician also known as Seb McKinnon voiced concern on social media that he hadn’t been asked permission before Glenn used his song in the free skate — ultimately winning a gold medal for her performance — both parties released statements confirming that all had been resolved.
“I discovered Seb McKinnon’s music (CLANN) two years ago and felt a deep connection to it,” she wrote at the time. “The issue of music rights can be complex and confusing. Seems like there was a hiccup in that whole process. I’m glad we cleared things up with Seb and I look forward to collaborating with him.”
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Five months after the midseason finale, Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta season 13 is back with a spicy new premiere airing on Tuesday, Feb. 17. The long-running reality series returns with its fan-favorite cast including Rasheeda and Kirk Frost, Scrappy, Karlie Redd, Bambi, and Yung Joc.
Following the events of season 13a, the new episode titled, “Southern Fried Lies,” finds Salma Slims putting in overtime to put to rest ongoing cheating rumors while Sierra Gates challenges her version of events, setting off a chain reaction within the group. Meanwhile, following a recent arrest, Erica Banks is looking for professional advice on how to handle the court of public opinion while her legal situation plays out. Lastly, Yandy and Mendeecees take a hard look at their marriage, questioning whether their long-standing issues can truly be resolved.
Similar to the first half of season 13, the full cast this season will also feature appearances from Ashley Conley, Erica Banks, Erica Dixon, Erica Racine, Jasmine Bleu, Jessica White, Kendra Robinson, Lil Zane, Mendeecees, Momma Dee, Renni Rucci, Saucy Santana, Sierra Gates, Spice, Yandy, and ZellSwag, along with newcomers Queen Key, Salma Slims and 24hrs.
The Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta season 13b premiere will air live on Tuesday, Feb. 17 at 8 p.m. EST on MTV. For more information on how to stream the show live and for free, keep reading below.
How to Watch ‘Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta’ Season 13 Online for Free
With Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta airing on MTV, there’s plenty of ways for cord-cutters to stream the season 13 premier live online and for free. Streaming platforms like DIRECTV, Fubo and Philo offer free trials to newcomers to watch their favorite shows and movies without committing to a monthly subscription. Here’s a breakdown of each streaming service below.
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You can watch local networks such as FOX and ABC, while you can watch many of the best sports networks, including ESPN, FOX Sports, NFL Network, NBA TV, NHL Network, Big Ten Network, TNT Sports, The Golf Channel, USA Network and many others.
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Philo has a slate of free channels with ad-supported free-to-stream movies, TV shows and other programming. However, you can upgrade to Philoto stream more than 70 channels, including A&E, MTV, Lifetime, OWN, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., HGTV, TLC, BET, FYI, WE tv, Logo and Discovery Channel for $28 per month. A subscription even comes with unlimited DVR cloud recording.
Alongside season 13, Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta season 1 through 12 are also available to stream on Paramount+ which includes MTV. With plans starting at $8.99/month, register and stream CBS, MTV, Comedy Central, and BET series, as well as live sports, movies, and more. Select Paramount+ Premium ($12.99/month) to unlock Showtime releases and ad-free streaming.
Sling TV offers the Blue package, which goes for $54.99 per month and comes with MTV, NBC, USA Network, CNBC, MS NOW, Bravo and others. Blue is one of the most affordable options and comes with more than 40 channels and can be streamed on up to three device at a time. Please note: Pricing and channel availability varies from market-to-market.
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HAVEN.’s “I Run,” featuring Kaitlin Aragon, jumps 4-1 on this week’s Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart (dated Feb. 21), earning each act its first career Billboard leader. The song rises to the summit thanks to a 44% increase in plays (among 24/7 dance reporters and pop stations’ mix show hours) Feb. 6-12, according to Luminate.
“I Run” also ranks at No. 5 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs after spending the previous four weeks at its No. 4 high.
The track was released Nov. 21, 2025, via AAO/Isekai/broke records and gained traction through remixes by David Guetta and James Hype. Its path to No. 1, however, was marked by controversy. An earlier version of the song, released in October without Aragon, went viral on TikTok and quickly surged in streams, but drew scrutiny over its use of AI-assisted vocal processing. The uncredited vocals drew similarities to British singer Jorja Smith, prompting speculation that the recording was an unauthorized deepfake. Following complaints and multiple takedown notices, the song was removed from streaming platforms and withheld from appearing on Billboard’s charts amid the active dispute.
HAVEN., which comprises British producers Jacob Donaghue and Harrison Walker, has maintained that the song’s voice was created using AI-assisted processing that was applied solely to Walker’s own recorded vocal, and that it was not sampled or modeled on Smith specifically. Still, the controversy stalled the song’s initial momentum just as it was poised for a chart breakthrough.
The current version of “I Run,” featuring newly recorded vocals from Aragon, marks a fresh chapter for the song, and now a first No. 1 for both credited artists.
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Hilary Duff‘s upcoming album Luck … or Something covers a lot of ground, from the challenges of being a mom to having an “inappropriate” age-gap relationship when she was younger and dealing with tensions with members of her family.
And in a Glamourcover story published Tuesday (Feb. 17), the singer/actress opened up about why she decided to bear it all on the new project. “I just felt really ready to share,” she explained. “I wanted to make something that I could connect with people again on the level of who I am now. I felt like people have definitely gone through some of the similar large strokes that I have in the past 10 to 15 years.”
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“That’s my family,” she said of tracks such as “We Don’t Talk,” which seemingly addresses her rumored rift with sister Haylie, and “The Optimist,” on which she sings about wishing her “father would really love” her. “Those are the people that affect you the most, take up the most space naturally as a human who’s born into something.”
“Just because you’re born into a family doesn’t mean that it always stays together,” Duff continued. “You can only control your side and your street … I’ve had a very complicated life, and my parents had a very complicated thing.”
The Lizzie McGuire alum hasn’t said much about her parents, but some of their challenges were made public when her father, Robert, admitted to having an affair during his marriage to Hilary’s mother, Susan. While going through divorce court in 2008, he reportedly spent a day in jail after allegedly selling his family’s assets without court approval.
As for Haylie, Hilary is rumored to be feuding with her older sister amid speculation that the younger Duff was part of the “toxic” mom group fellow Disney Channel star Ashley Tisdale wrote about in a recent op-ed. Hilary’s husband, Matthew Koma, mocked Tisdale’s essay with a satirical post calling her “tone deaf,” shortly after which Haylie posted about hanging out with Tisdale and her kids.
Hilary didn’t touch on the alleged mom group drama, but she did have high praise for the group of women she’s become friends with since welcoming 13-year-old son Luca with her ex-husband, Mike Comrie, and 7-year-old Banks, 4-year-old Mae and 1-year-old Townes with Koma.
“I feel exceedingly lucky that my kids happen to spend time with people that I feel like our values are aligned with,” she told the publication. “The friends that I’ve made since becoming a parent are some of the deeper, more surprising friendships I’ve found as an adult.”
Luck … or Something arrives Friday (Feb. 20), after which the How I Met Your Father performer will embark on a sprawling arena tour. So far, fans have heard two songs from the album: “Roommates” and lead single “Mature.”
Of the latter song, Duff told Glamour, “It’s definitely about a relationship that I had. It was very brief with someone older than me, and that was not illegal, but inappropriate when you have this much time removed from it.”
“I think that it’s super nuanced, and it’s hard to defend certain things that have happened in my life,” she added of “Mature.” “But the one thing that I’ll say is, working as an adult since I was 10 years old, it’s very hard to have relationships with people your own age.”
Kid Rock makes a multi-chart entrance as his rendition of the 2022 Cody Johnson hit “Til’ You Can’t” debuts, most notably, at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Christian Songs survey dated Feb. 21. The track opens with 3.7 million official U.S. streams and 51,000 sold in the Feb. 6-12 tracking week, according to Luminate, while also launching atop the all-genre Digital Song Sales chart.
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The song’s impact extends across genres. “Til’ You Can’t” also bows at No. 9 on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs, No. 14 on Hot Country Songs and No. 69 on the Billboard Hot 100. The wide debut follows Kid Rock’s Feb. 8 performance of the song during Turning Point USA’s concert, billed as counter-programming to the NFL’s Super Bowl LX halftime show starring Bad Bunny, which helped draw attention to the release during the tracking week.
Originally written by Matt Rogers and Ben Stennis, Kid Rock’s version adds a verse with explicitly Christian lyrics, earning him a writing credit, and his first Hot Christian Songs appearance. “There’s a book that’s sitting in your house somewhere that could use some dusting off,” he sings. “There’s a man that died for all our sins hanging from the cross/ You can give your life to Jesus and he’ll give you a second chance/ Til’ you can’t, til’ you can’t.”
Kid Rock logs his second Digital Song Sales No. 1, after “We the People” launched atop the chart and led for two weeks in 2022. He’s now charted eight titles on the ranking dating to “Lean on Me,” a 2010 cover of the Bill Withers classic with Sheryl Crow and Keith Urban. “Don’t Tell Me How To Live,” featuring Monster Truck, has also hit the top five (No. 5, 2021).
Kid Rock first appeared on the all-genre Hot 100 in 1999 with “Cowboy.” “Til’ You Can’t” marks his first appearance since 2015’s “First Kiss,” padding a chart résumé that includes “Only God Knows Why” (No. 19, 2000), “Picture,” featuring Crow (No. 4, 2003), and “All Summer Long” (No. 23, 2008).
With his latest debut, Kid Rock writes another chapter in a catalog that has stretched from rap-rock to country and now Christian across more than 25 years.
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As Lil Durk’s federal trial on murder-for-hire charges nears, a judge has ruled that prosecutors can introduce some lyrics that allegedly show the Chicago rapper’s motive for placing a bounty on his rival Quando Rondo.
Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald issued a key ruling on Friday (Feb. 13) establishing parameters for the upcoming April trial of the rapper (Durk Banks) and several members of his Only the Family (OTF) crew, who allegedly shot Rondo at a Los Angeles gas station in 2022. Rondo (Tyquian Bowman) was ultimately unscathed, but his friend Lul Pab (Saviay’a Robinson) was killed in the crossfire.
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The decision allows prosecutors to present the jury with lyrics from two successful Lil Durk songs: his Nardo Wick collaboration “Who Want Smoke??”, which peaked at No. 5 on Billboard‘s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart in 2021, and “Ahhh Ha,” which hit No. 4 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs in 2022.
Judge Fitzgerald ruled that both these songs contain lyrics about a key disputed question in the case: whether Durk, who was not present at the Rondo shooting, ordered the violence in retaliation for the 2020 killing of his close friend and collaborator King Von (Dayvon Bennett). Durk denies that he was involved.
In “Who Wants Smoke??”, Durk raps, “They be on my page like ‘Slide for Von’, I know they trollin’ me … Got it back in blood, y’all just don’t know that’s how it ’posed to be.”
And on “Ahhh Ha,” he raps, “Don’t respond to s–t with Von/ I’m like, ‘f–k it, you trippin’, go get your gun’/ They droppin’ locations, I’m getting’ it done/ F–k tweetin’, we slidin’, the feds are comin’.”
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“The court agrees that these lyrics are relevant for the stated purpose of showing motive,” wrote the judge. “The discussion of violence in conjunction with getting revenge for ‘Von’ makes the evidence more probative than prejudicial in this instance.”
Judge Fitzgerald also determined that the jury can hear some lyrics showing the tight bond between Durk and OTF member Deeski (Deandre Wilson), who is also a defendant in the case. But he barred prosecutors from introducing other rap lyrics that merely depict OTF as violent without any real connection to the facts of the case.
The government had wanted, for example, to play part of the 2023 song “Beverly Hills,” in which Durk raps, “Before they spin, told the tints darker … Fool his ass, he think we buyin’ some cars, we hop out, scoom his ass.” Prosecutors argued these lyrics told the story of the Rondo shooting, but Judge Fitzgerald was unconvinced.
“There is no inference that the lyrics here are ‘autobiographical’ of the events involved in these charges — indeed, as Banks points out, there is virtually no evidence of the timing of when these lyrics were written or even recorded,” wrote the judge. “There is certainly a danger of unfair prejudice given the content of the lyrics — which here, explicitly reference committing acts of violence — apart from the probative value.”
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This is not the first time the question of Durk’s lyrics has come up in his case. When prosecutors initially charged and arrested the rapper in 2024, they included lyrics from the song “Wonderful Wayne & Jackie Boy” in the indictment. The government claimed these lyrics described the Rondo shooting, but they ultimately deleted the reference after Durk’s lawyers pointed out that the song was written months before the incident.
The use of rap lyrics as evidence in criminal cases is controversial, with critics arguing that it threatens free speech and injects racial bias into legal proceedings. Several states have banned or limited this practice for local prosecutions. It’s still legal in federal court, though, where Durk is being tried.
A rep for the prosecution declined to comment on the matter on Tuesday (Feb. 17). Durk’s lawyer did not immediately return a request for comment.
The rapper’s trial is scheduled to begin on April 21 in Los Angeles.
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Non-English-language music has a long history on Billboard’s charts.
While the U.S.-based Billboard Hot 100 chart naturally been dominated by English-language recordings, international hits have periodically broken through to become inescapable global sensations — taking over streaming platforms, radio airwaves and pop culture at large. Think Los Del Rio’s 14-week No. 1 smash “Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)” in 1996 (recorded in Spanish) or PSY’s viral Korean-language phenomenon “Gangnam Style” in 2012.
In total, 39 songs recorded either entirely or primarily in a language other than English have reached the top 10 of the Hot 100 in the chart’s 68-year history (through the chart dated Feb. 21, 2026). The first was Domenico Modugno’s Italian classic “Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare)” in the chart’s inaugural year, 1958. The song spent five weeks at No. 1 and went on to win both record of the year and song of the year at the first annual Grammy Awards in 1959.
Of those 39 non-English-language top 10 hits, 23 are in Spanish — by far the most of any language. Korean ranks second, with eight, followed by German (three), French and Italian (two each) and Japanese (one).
Bad Bunny has earned the most non-English-language Hot 100 top 10s, with 13. (He has also logged two additional top 10s in his career, with “I Like It” with Cardi B and J Balvin, and “K-Pop” with Travis Scott and The Weeknd, but those are primarily in English.) Four of those 13 Spanish songs are from his 2022 album Un Verano Sin Ti, which spent 13 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 — the longest run atop the chart for a primarily non-English-language album. BTS ranks second with five non-English Hot 100 top 10s, followed by PSY with two.
Eleven of the 39 songs have reached No. 1 on the Hot 100, including Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s “Despacito” featuring Justin Bieber, which spent a then-record-tying 16 weeks at No. 1 in 2017. The most recent No. 1 is Bad Bunny’s “DtMF,” which is in Spanish and surged to No. 1 in February 2026 after his Super Bowl Halftime Show performance.
International hits have become much more common on the Hot 100 in recent years. Twenty-seven of the 39 top 10s have reached the tier since 2012, following a 16-year gap between “Macarena” and “Gangnam Style.” The influx coincides with music’s increased globalization, fueled by streaming and social media, and amplified by superstars such as Bad Bunny and BTS.
Seven non-English-language songs reached the top 10 in the 2023 alone, the most ever in a calendar year. 2022 previously had the most, with four, after three reached the region in both 2019 and 2020.
Regional Mexican music, in particular, reached new milestones during this recent wave. After Gera MX and Christian Nodal’s “Botella Tras Botella” became the first song in the genre to debut on the Hot 100 in 2021, the genre claimed its first top 10 in April 2023 with Eslabon Armado and Peso Pluma’s “Ella Baila Sola.” The track later climbed to No. 4, becoming the genre’s first top five hit.
2023 also delivered a historic moment for female artists. Shakira became the first solo woman ever to earn a Spanish-language top 10 on the Hot 100 with her Bizarrap collaboration “Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53” in January. She returned to the top 10 two months later with another Spanish-language collaboration, “TQG,” alongside Karol G (No. 7 peak). Shakira had reached the top 10 on four previous occasions — including her 2006 No. 1 “Hips Don’t Lie,” with Wyclef Jean — but those were with English recordings.
Below, in chronological order by peak date, are all 39 non-English-language songs to reach the Hot 100’s top 10. (The list excludes songs that feature only minimal non-English lyrics, such as Enrique Iglesias’ “Bailamos” or Cardi B, Bad Bunny and J Balvin’s “I Like It.”)
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