Was Yeat's 'Aftërlyfe' a Hit or Miss?

Travis Scott continues to drop everything but Utopia. This week it was a club’s sound engineer but in the past, it’s been everything from laptops 💻️ to trees 🌳 Send prayers to the tech crew at Rolling Loud LA this weekend where La Flame is headlining. Hit the reply 📩 and let us know the one Travis Scott song you couldn’t live without. Here’s what else we have for you today:

• 6 weeks of song streams and revenue

• The Weeknd fires back at Rolling Stone for The Idol exposé

• Travis Scott’s alleged rage causes $12,000 in damages

• Kai Cenat & G Herbo get sturdy

• Enter Yeat’s universe on Aftërlyfe

• Industry insights

Song Streams & Revenue

All 4 songs remain in the top 10 of Hits Double Daily’s latest song revenue chart, which only shows the previous week, but we’ve compiled the streams and revenue for the last 6 weeks from January 13th to February 23rd.

Metro Boomin’s “Creeping” made almost half a million dollars during that time period with an average of $72,930 per week making it more of a rich flex than Drake and 21 Savage’s song of the same name.

Not pictured, Pink Pantheress and Ice Spice’s viral hit, “Boys a liar Pt. 2”, made $362,758 from 75,575,962 streams during the 3-week period of February 3rd to 23rd. Cue the below TikTok audio.

@arboto_0

ICE SPICE😍😍 ##jexnner##icespice##sound❤️##🇧🇷##nomercy##viralll

Travis Scott’s Alleged Assault Causes $12,000 Damages at NYC Club

Not quite the “After Party” Travis Scott was expecting after appearing as a surprise guest during Don Toliver’s concert in New York City on Tuesday night. TMZ reports that Scott got into a physical altercation with a sound engineer at Nebula nightclub, after the show, allegedly punching him in the left side of his face and causing $12,000 worth of damage to a speaker and video screen.

If you’ve ever seen the below TikTok, then you know Scott has an affinity for punching walls, laptops, and basically any inanimate object in his proximity when “Goosebumps” comes on. The guy whose eyes widen in the background is my anxiety watching a MacBook be disrespected.

@therealbrainchild

the guy's face in the back says it all 😭 #travisscott #cactusjack #astroworld #utopia

TMZ obtained footage of Scott visibly agitated with someone in the DJ booth at Nebula, saying “back the fuck up” to the unidentified person and another video shows the damaged videoboards.

If you’re unfamiliar with Travis La Rage Scott, allow me to introduce you. He likes slapping walls…

And has his own language…

@rap

Y’all got any idea what #TravisScott is saying⁉️😭 Via: @Babyface #RapTV #travisscottconcert #travisscottedit #concert

Scott’s rep and attorney have both spoken out, saying the situation is being blown out of proportion for a potential “cash grab” and are confident the issue will soon be resolved with Scott’s name cleared.

Rolling Stone Takes Shots at The Weeknd and He Throws Shade Back

The Weeknd’s forthcoming HBO show, The Idol, dubbed “the sleaziest love story in all of Hollywood”, seems to be more fact than fiction behind the scenes detailed by 13 cast and crew members in a report by Rolling Stone. Sources claim it was the most chaotic production they’ve ever seen and Euphoria director, Sam Levinson, turned the original script into a disturbing and twisted “rape fantasy”.

The singer acknowledge the report, which was trending on Twitter, with an unseen clip from The Idol that well…succinctly described his feelings towards the publication.

Where did it go wrong?

The first sign of trouble came last April when it was announced that the original director, Amy Seimetz, was no longer a part of the project despite having filmed 80% of the series. Then came reports that The Weeknd, who is co-creator, was behind the creative overhaul because he was displeased with the “female perspective” the show was heading in and felt it focused too much on his co-star’s character, played by Lily Rose Depp.

The New Narrative

When Levinson took over as director he allegedly scrapped the nearly-finished series, which had accrued $54-75 million in costs, to re-write and reshoot everything. Enter the torture porn allegations. The show became less about a troubled pop star falling prey to a male industry figure and fighting to reclaim her freedom and more about a degrading love story with sexual abuse and a pop star coming back for more because it makes her music better. 😳 Even Julia Fox had a healthier muse relationship with Kanye.

Torture Porn Scenes

The most disturbing draft among Levinson’s re-writes includes a scene where The Weeknd’s character bashes Depp’s face and she smiles asking to be beaten more which arouses him. Another proposed scene involved Depp carrying an egg in her vagina and if she dropped or cracked it, The Weeknd’s character would refuse to “rape” her.

Neither scene was shot and The Weeknd “barely touched a script during the reshoots” according to the report.

G Herbo and Kai Cenat Get Sturdy on Stream

Kai Cenat was crowned the king of Twitch this week 👑 He broke the previous record for most subscribers on the platform (283K) by surpassing the 300K mark. G Herbo made a special appearance on his stream and the two became the dynamic duo I didn’t know I needed.

G Herbo pulled out the sturdy (or stiff depending on who you ask) dance moves.

@shortsgalore

G Herbo can’t dance at all😭😭💀 #gherbo#herbo#swervo#kai#kaicenat#kc3#sturdy#dance#funny#live#twitch#fyp#foryou#shortsgalore

Other highlights include Kai also stepping in as hype man, G Herbo explaining the “pickle” nickname for his son, and being perplexed by the concept of donations on stream.

It’s Yeat’s World and We’re Living in It

If there’s one thing that’s for sure about the mysterious rapper Yeat, it’s that he truly doesn’t give a fuck. He didn’t care if people thought his distorted voice and made-up words were weird back in 2018 when he released his debut EP, Deep Blue $trips, and he still doesn’t care 5 years later.

Aftërlyfe is the rapper’s 3rd full-length album and as expected, it’s full of the nihilistic lyrics and menacing production that his cult following has come to love him for. Yeat’s ridin’ with his demons on the opening track “No morë talk” and it’s that demonic sentiment carried throughout the album that has you questioning how much you really care about anything by the end of the 22 tracks 👿 

Where Don Toliver leans into love and emotion on his new album, Yeat leans away, so much so that he’s not even on the same planet 🌐 Although there’s no shortage of rage music in Yeat’s discography, this is the first album to give a glimpse of the experimental sound he’s capable of while flexing his linguistically innovative lyrics and multiple personality features.

New Sounds Unlocked on Aftërlyfe 

I may not be the biggest Yeat fan but I have to give credit where credit is due and any artist who can make themselves synonymous with a particular sound or style of a sub-genre has understood the assignment. With each release, Yeat continues to build his own world. Yes, the generation of SoundCloud rappers before him like Playboi Carti and XXXTentacion paved the way but he’s found his own lane.

That being said, you could play his previous albums on shuffle and I wouldn’t be able to differentiate one from another because the sound is more or less the same. One of the album’s standout tracks, “Nun id change”, sees Yeat experiment with a house-influenced sound and cadence that bounces off the beat.

“Now” has psychedelic elements fused with his typical distortions, confessing that he hears voices when geeking assisted by his alter-ego feature “Luh geeky” which is just his voice pitched higher. He’s one of the few rappers that could employ multiple personalities as features and it feels weirdly on-brand.

On “Mysëlf”, Yeat dips his toes into soft rock ballad waters but he’s as apathetic as ever reminding us that he doesn’t give a fuck about anything—not even himself.

He’s credited Young Thug, Future, and T-Pain as major influences for music and I’d be lying if I said I didn’t see the comparisons. The versatility and weirdness that Thug is praised for today, wasn’t widely accepted at first. The experimentation with voice manipulations and inflections are similar to the way T-Pain pioneered the heavy use of auto-tune. The idgaf lyrics and savage unbothered air Yeat possesses are reminiscent of Future.

Granted, he’s not on the same level as any of those aforementioned artists but the glimpse of experimentation shown on Aftërlyfe coupled with his growing Yeataverse of Yeat-nions suggests he has the potential to get there.

Aftërlyfe Songs to Up Your Aux

1. “No morë talk” Listen on Spotify and Apple Music

2. “Nun id Change” Listen on Spotify and Apple Music

3. “7 nightz” Listen on Spotify and Apple Music

4. “How it go” Listen on Spotify and Apple Music

5. “Dëmon tied” Listen on Spotify and Apple Music

Wu-Tang Clan’s Method Man was Born

Happy Birthday to Method Man, who turns 52 today. The rapper and actor first gained recognition as a member of the legendary hip-hop group, Wu-Tang Clan, formed in 1992. Their debut 3x platinum album, Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), is considered one of the most influential and important albums in hip-hop history.

Method Man’s distinctly gruff voice and sharp lyricism quickly made him a standout member of the group and he went on to see commercial success with his solo albums. He’s also had a significant acting career, making his on-screen debut in the cult classic movie Belly, alongside Nas and DMX.

• Doechii and Latto reportedly beef backstage at Billboard Women In Music which resulted in Latto leaving the premises.

• Yeat scores his first platinum single with “Monëy So Big” from his debut album, Up 2 Më, released in 2021.

• Kodak Black asks the judge for a Jolly Rancher in court and is ordered to enter rehab for 30 days.

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