Rihanna's Revenue Gains Post Super Bowl are Massive

It’s the end of an era as Quavo seemingly confirms the Migos are done in his new song “Greatness”. The 2-for-1 track commemorates his late nephew, Takeoff 🚀, while also dissing his cousin, Offset. Who said Quavo wasn’t versatile? Hit the reply and let us know what your all-time favorite Migos track is. Here’s what we have for you today:

• Rihanna cashes in on the Super Bowl effect

• Bye bye Migos

• 5 bad bars your favorite rapper got away with

• Up your aux with 6lack

• The significance of Eminem’s album The Slim Shady

• New Music Friday releases

• Industry Insights

Song Streams & Revenue

Rihanna may not have been paid to perform at the Super Bowl but the 13-minute halftime show acts as an advertisement for an artist’s catalog and she’s cashing in on the surge from her post-show streams.

Hits Double Daily reported that she tallied $183,561 from 5 of her setlist songs for the week of Feb 10-16th (streaming weeks follow a Friday to Thursday schedule). According to Luminate, that was also her largest streaming week ever, with her entire song catalog generating 166.1 million U.S. on-demand streams.

Read our music catalog breakdown if you’d like to know more about the different rights associated with any song that determines revenue.

Quavo Bids Farewell to Takeoff and Migos on “Greatness”

If someone told you in 2013, after the release of “Versace”, that Takeoff would tragically die and Quavo and Offset would be publicly feuding with no future for the Migos in sight, you’d probably think it was a prank or a bad episode of Black Mirror. Sadly, it’s real life.

Quavo released the video for his new song “Greatness” last night, his second track paying tribute to his late nephew, and one line in particular set the Twitter fingers off.

“So don’t ask about the group, he gone, we gone, young n***a, it can’t come back”, Quavo raps referring to Takeoff’s absence as “he gone” and seemingly putting an end to any hope for a Migos reconciliation.

The song comes after rumors that Quavo and Offset got into a physical altercation at the Grammy Awards earlier this month.

5 Bad Bars Your Favorite Rapper Got Away With

There are probably a few rap songs that come to mind when you hear the words “bad bars” but there’s a difference between inadequate, as in lazy lackluster lyricism, and bad, as in looking at your friend to see if they heard the same thing because it can’t be.

Forget the “something something something, I forgot now” mumble raps of Chief Keef, and let’s zero in on two specific categories: sus and shit bars.

Young Thug has “smashed” so many suspect and outlandish things in his lyrics that he’s deserving of his own Lexicon and category. Meanwhile, J. Cole and Trippie Redd have delivered some shit bars, in the literal sense.

“I just fucked a cup of water (I did)” - Young Thug on “pushing P”

Just so there’s no confusion, Thug confirms it in the ad-lib, although, logistically, I’m still confused.

“I used to wanna fuck my auntie” - Young Thug on “Tussin”

No words really, just questions, mostly surrounding the context and legitimacy of this bar.

“I’m so geeked up, I might fuck a condom” - Young Thug on “Thief in the Night”

Come again? Thug, you might do what? Can’t relate.

“You wanna know how I’m the shit? Cause I keep clogging up the toilet” - J. Cole on “Disgusting”

A formal request to flush this bar from my memory and J. Cole’s catalog.

“You’s a poopy butt, yeah, you’s a shitstain, yeah (shitstain)” - Trippie Redd on “Me Likey”

What in the ghostwriting by an 8-year-old is this bar?

Slim Shady Was Introduced

24 years ago today, Eminem released his second studio album The Slim Shady LP in 1999. The 4x platinum album debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 chart, won Best Rap Album at the 2000 Grammy Awards, and its iconic single, “My Name Is”, also took home the Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance.

The album sparked controversy due to its dark subject matter, filled with horrorcore lyrics and references to drug addiction and domestic violence. Still, its commercial success notably proved hip-hop could be socially relevant without censorship and it pushed the boundaries of mainstream music.

It established Eminem’s alter ego, Slim Shady, and marked the beginning of his longstanding creative partnership with Dr. Dre who helped shape the album’s distinctive sound.

Big Mad Lawsuits

The upset in the wake of the album’s release wasn’t exclusive to Karens and D.A.R.E advocates and Eminem became the subject of a few lawsuits.

In 1999, his mother, Deborah Nelson, filed a $10 million dollar slander lawsuit for the lyrics “I just found out my mom does more dope than I do” in the song “My Name Is”. She was awarded $25,000 after a two-year-long trial.

In 2001, DeAngelo Bailey filed a $1 million dollar lawsuit for slander and invasion of privacy. Bailey was portrayed as Eminem’s high school bully in the song “Brain Damage”. Prior to the suit, Bailey had admitted to bullying Eminem in a 1999 issue of Rolling Stone Magazine and the lawsuit was later dismissed.

Six 6lack Songs Your Playlist Lacks

Atlanta’s resident breakup boy is 6ack after a five-year hiatus. His new album, S.I.H.A.L (Since I Have A Lover), is arriving on March 24th with the title song dropping on March 1st. Whether you’ve been waiting for this return or are new to 6lack, up your aux with six of his best-underrated songs.

1. “Rent Free” (2021) Listen on Spotify & Apple Music

2. “Let Her Go” (2018) Listen on Spotify & Apple Music

3. “ATL Freestyle” (2020) Listen on Spotify & Apple Music

4. “Ex Calling” (2016) Listen on Spotify & Apple Music

5. “Switch” (2018) Listen on Spotify & Apple Music

6. “One Way” ft. T-Pain (2016) Listen on Spotify & Apple Music

• Spotify launches a new AI-powered DJ to curate music for users and give spoken commentary about favorite tracks and artists.

• R. Kelly avoids a life sentence and is set to serve 31 years behind bars, making him eligible for release around age 80.

• Rihana will perform “Lift Me Up” at the Oscars on March 12th. The Black Panther song is also her first Academy Award nomination.