Check out the tour poster for the Antagonist Tour on Ken Carson’s Twitter below:

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— (@kencarson) July 12, 2023

Playboi Carti founded Opium, a record label based in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2019 where he signed Ken Carson to his label. Both Destroy Lonely and Homixide Gang were then signed to Opium in 2021. The Antagonist Tour will be the first the four acts go on tour together as an Opium collective. Currently, the label has officially released six studio albums including Ken Carson’s Project X (2019) and Destroy Lonely’s If Looks Could Kill (2023) which debuted at number 18 on the US Billboard 200.

Listen to Destroy Lonely’s 2023 album If Looks Could Kill on Spotify below:

Carti’s most recent album Whole Lotta Red was released on December 25, 2020 debuting at number one on the US Billboard 200. It was also ranked number one on Rolling Stone’s 20 Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2021 being described as “one of the most forward-thinking rap records since Kanye West’s Yeezus.” The album consists of 24 songs and features artists Kanye West, Kid Cudi, and Future. Whole Lotta Red includes songs such as “Rockstar Made”, “Vamp Anthem”, “Sky”, and “ILoveUIHateU”.

Listen to Playboi Carti’s album Whole Lotta Red on Spotify below:

However, since the drop of Whole Lotta Red, Carti has been collaborating with other musicians. Recently, he featured on Canadian singer The Weeknd’s single “Popular” along with Madonna. The song was released on June 2, 2023 and peaked at number 11 in the UK. In addition to this, it charted within the top 20 in Canada, Japan, Lithuania, New Zealand, Switzerland, Croatia, and India. A music visualiser accompanied the release of the single and was uploaded on YouTube.

Check out the music visualiser for “Popular” by The Weeknd, Madonna, and Playboi Carti on Youtube below:

The American rapper recently headlined this year’s Wireless Festival at Finsbury Park on Friday 7th July. Friday’s Wireless was dubbed as Opium Friday with Ken Carson, Destroy Lonely, and Homixide Gang also performing that day. He surprised the UK audience with an unreleased track at the festival.

Watch Carti perform his unreleased track at Wireless Festival below:

Playboi Carti UK and Europe Antagonist tour dates:

19/11/2023 – 3Arena – Dublin
21/11 – AO Arena – Manchester
22/11 – The O2 – London
24/11 – Forest National – Manchester
25/11 – Ziggo Dome – Birmingham
27/11 – Mediolanum Forum – Milan
29/11 – Lanxess Arena – Cologne
30/11 – Mercedes-Benz Arena – Berlin
02/12 – Accorhotels Arena – Paris
04/12 – Royal Arena – Copenhagen

Tickets for the Antagonist tour are available to purchase here

Watch a video of Ice Spice and PinkPantheress performing “Boys a liar Pt.2” at Wireless Festival below:

| PinkPantheress and Ice Spice performing “Boys a liar” at Wireless Fest pic.twitter.com/5gPOlE6KSJ

— PinkPantheress Updates ☆ (@updatespinkp) July 7, 2023

“Boy’s a liar” was first released on January 2, 2023 as a single but then added to PinkPantheress’ EP Take Me Home. Soon after, “Boy’s a liar Pt. 2” was released on February 3, 2023 which debuted at number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song reached number 4 on the chart which was the first top 10 entry for both artist Ice Spice and PinkPantheress. Watch the official video for “Boy’s a liar Pt. 2” on YouTube below: Recently, PinkPantheress released another collab with Opium-signed American rapper Destroy Lonely. The singer took to Twitter to announce the song“Turn Your Phone Off”. She wrote, “This song has been on my mind since I leaked it in 2021 – I was just waiting until the perfect opportunity to drop it. I’m privileged to share this track with lone, love his artistry, love a random collab.” The song “Turn Your Phone Off” was released on July 14 and is available to listen to on Spotify. See PinkPantheress’ announcement for “Turn Your Phone Off” below:

this song has been on my mind since I leaked it in 2021 – I was just waiting until the perfect opportunity to drop it. im privileged to share this track with lone, love his artistry, love a random collab lol

Turn your phone off – (feat Destroy Lonely) out now

mv next week

— pinkpantheress (@pinkpantheress2) July 13, 2023

Listen to PinkPantheress and Destroy Lonely’s new track “Turn Your Phone Off” below:

PinkPantheress has also teased her debut studio album. On May 24, the singer posted a song teaser where she and her friend are in a car park dancing to an unreleased song. It samples the track “Ku Lo Sa” by Oxlade and at the bottom of the video, PinkPantheress captioned “Album season is upon us.”

PINKPANTHERESS ALBUM INCOMING pic.twitter.com/GcvEoLJUU7

— mev (@toheavenwithit) May 24, 2023

The day after the album was teased, it was announced that PinkPantheress will feature on the upcoming Barbie movie soundtrack. The Barbie album soundtrack will also feature Ice Spice, as well as artists including Dua Lipa, Charli XCX, Lizzo, Nicki Minaj, Ava Max, Tame Impala and many more. The movie will be out in theatres on July 21, 2023. See the Barbie Album announcement on Twitter below:

EXCLUSIVE: @DUALIPA, @icespicee_, @charli_xcx, @lizzo, @NICKIMINAJ, @AvaMax, @pinkpantheress2, Ryan Gosling(!), @tameimpala, and more will appear on the @barbiethealbum soundtrack.

Details: https://t.co/qSJeh0cUaH pic.twitter.com/9tMj7GEEDy

— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) May 25, 2023

Miles Parks McCollum, aka Lil Boat, aka Lil Yachty, will travel through the US starting the first leg of the tour in Washington in late September and ending in Detroit in early November. He will jet off to Europe starting with Oslo in late November concluding the tour in mid-December in Vienna.

Yachty will be visiting Manchester, London, Glasgow, and Birmingham during the second leg of his tour. On the 30th November he will visit the O2 Victoria Warehouse in Manchester. The following evening he will play the UK’s capital at the OVO Wembley Arena. Yachty will visit Scotland on the 3rd December performing at the O2 Academy in Glasgow. His final UK date will be in Birmingham’s O2 Academy on the 4th December.

The charismatic rapper shared the tour poster to his Instagram with the caption “Tickets are now on pre-sale at fieldtriptour.com finally. The link is in my bio.. gooooooooooo, it’s been a long time”.

General sale for tickets begins on Friday the 12^th May at 12 PM BST. Tickets are now available on pre-sale. To purchase and for more information see here.

The newly psychedelically inspired artist will also be popping up at a couple of festivals this summer in the UK and Europe including Ruissalo in Turku and Wireless in London.

On Let’s Start Here, released in January, Yachty abandoned the mumble rap trap persona he was notorious for in favour of a more mature kaleidoscopic soundscape of R&B and neo-soul with echoey guitar riffs and autotuned vocals. His experimentations paid off and the record has fast become a fan favourite and achieved Yachty the highest critical praise in his career.

Watch the video for “sAy sOMETHINg” below:

Yachty dipped his toes into neo-psychedelia with help from a bunch of industry heavyweights such as slacker rock extraordinaire Alex G, beloved indie rocker Mac Demarco, the electropop duo Magdalena Bay, MGMT’s Ben Goldwasser, and Chairlift’s Patrick Wimberley who all played a part in bringing Let’s Start Here together.

“This album is so special and dear to me. I think I created it just because I really wanted to be taken seriously as an artist,” Yachty told the crowd gathered at the album release party in New Jersey. “Not just some SoundCloud rapper. Not just some mumble rapper. Not just some guy who made one hit. I wanted to be taken serious because music is everything to me. I respect all walks of music, not just rap and hip hop. Everything.” Watch more of his speech below:

Lil Yachty on his new album ‘Let’s Start Here’ at his listening event tonight

“I wanted to be taken seriously as an artist… not just some SoundCloud rapper, not some mumble rapper…”pic.twitter.com/4xHg7ihOKS

— Complex Music (@ComplexMusic) January 27, 2023

For all Lil Yachty’s upcoming European and UK dates see below:

07/07/23 – Ruisrock – Turku
07/08 – Wireless – London
22/11 – Sentrum Scene – Oslo
24/11 – Fryhuset – Stockholm
25/11 – KB Hallen – Copenhagen
27/11 – Columbiahalle – Berlin
28/11 – Palladium – Cologne
30/11 – O2 Victoria Warehouse – Manchester
01/12 – OVO Wembley Arena – London
03/12 – O2 Academy – Glasgow
04/12 – O2 Academy – Birmingham
06/12 – Salle Pleyel – Paris
08/12 – Poppodium013 – Tilburg
10/12 – Ancienne Belgique – Brussels
12/12 – Razzmatazz – Barcelona
14/12 – Fabrique – Milan
16/12 – Komplex 457 – Zurich
17/12 – Gasometer – Vienna

That’s a wrap on 2022, magical weekend #GopuffxWireless pic.twitter.com/wvYHH4PctL

— Wireless Festival (@WirelessFest) July 11, 2022

While I’m definitely not an event organiser, I imagine that – while you may try your best to account for everything – sometimes… things are out of your control. The weather for example, and thus how punters end up reacting to it. The UK are currently dead centre of a pretty significant heatwave, 30+C degree temperatures and give or take 50,000 people in the same place will always bring problems. On Sunday afternoon, the police were called to control crowds after many were reported to jump the park’s fences in order to avoid being trampled. It’s unknown as to whether those that jumped the fence had tickets… but it just makes sense. The Met issued a statement consoling fans by saying ‘As a result of this, security staff put in place a brief hold on people being admitted to the event to ensure the safe flow of people into the site. This caused a large crowd to form in the area around the site.’.

This wasn’t the only bad news, many artists like Burna Boy, Lil Durk, JI and Ruger all announced on very short notice that they wouldn’t be arriving. This, in conjunction with the 40-minute late start of headliner Nicki Minaj left a bit of a bad taste in many fans’ mouths after what was a particularly successful festival in the first 2 days.

Now, that’s all the bad news out of the way. The rest of the girlpower-centric festival was primarily considered to be a massive success. Day 1 headliner Cardi B highlighted the power couple dynamic by bringing out Offset for a brief Migos interlude: “Bad and Boujee”, “Coult”, and “Ric Flair Drip” all made an appearance – then it just seems right for Megan Thee Stallion to also arrive for the bombshell of a track that is ‘WAP’. Visibly Pregnant Summer Walker owned her time in the spotlight and even brought out Bree Runway for “Hot Hot”, and SZA proved she had what it takes to headline a festival with a seamless slot.

All in all, festivals will always come with their negatives. This one is very much proof that the circuit is back into full swing after a few years of doubt.

The Tottenham rapper announced his new project while performing on the main stage at this year’s Wireless Festival in Crystal Palace park, before confirming his announcement with the official cover art which he posted on his Instagram the evening of his performance.

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Headie has not yet released the tracklist for what will be his 7th mixtape and 8th project since his debut project Drillers and Trappers alongside frequent collaborator RV in 2017. 

The 26-year-old rappers last project was his debut album and came in the shape of a 20 track project titled Edna after the rapper late mother. The project was not only Headies first album but it was also his first number one with his project staying in the charts for 14 weeks following its debut week at number one. 

Edna also landed Headie with 2 top twenty singles, with “Ain’t it different” featuring Stormzy and AJ Tracey which peaked at number 2 and stayed in the charts 21 weeks, and “Princess Cuts” featuring Nottingham duo Young T and Bugsey which peaked at number 11 and stayed in the charts for 13 weeks.

Headie one’s announcement was made at this year’s Wireless festival which was held at Crystal Palace park this year instead of its regular venue, Finsbury Park. Headie performed on the main stage in front of thousands of fans excited to be back at festivals after nearly two years.

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Headie has released two singles in recent months, “Pound Signs” and “2 Chainz” and if they are anything to go by for his upcoming project then fans should anticipate Headie one doing what he does best, effortlessly rapping over drill beats that will be infused with different genres such as Jazz and electronic music.