The Renaissance Rundown: Heat 17
Christmas is this FRIDAY.
What’s good y’all?
Christmas is this Friday and I’d like to give a special shout out and send more power to any and all retail workers that day, the day before and the day after.
[TL;DR — There’s more Carti “news”, a Disney movie with a black lead is right around the corner and a new Pharrell interview has appeared.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Keep an eye on your inbox this week…you may be hearing from us again sooner than you realize…
ARTICLES
Here’s what we published recently:
Don’t Be A Yes Man by Paul K. Barnes
Paul talks about the dangers of people afraid to give criticism to their friends about the music they make.
The Album Sucks — Admit It by Paul K. Barnes
A throwback piece since we’re still in the era of long albums/deluxe editions and the truth about some of them remains.
COMING UP
Here’s what’s coming up from The Renaissance:
The Grammys will be here soon and Juwan has something to say about them…
That Reconsidered for [REDACTED] is still coming…
NEWS
Well we finally have some real news for Playboi Carti’s Whole Lotta Red. Features for it (more than likely) include Kid Cudi, Travis Scott, Future, Pharrell and Kanye. We also have a new alleged date for the album’s release — Christmas Day. As I’ve been saying all year in regards to this situation — we’ll see. Something that did drop however was a “B-Side”/deluxe version of Eminem’s Music To Be Murdered By. Most surprisingly however was that a music video for a song on it called “GNAT” was directed by Cole Bennett of Lyrical Lemonade. This is a surprise because we’ve come to know his brand to focus on more underground/independent rappers of various styles — not Billboard headliners.
Soul, the latest Disney + Pixar movie with a black lead comes out this Friday on Disney Plus! Jamie Foxx plays the lead in this one and if you’ve seen any of the screengrabs or trailers that show how we’re drawn/animated in this one it looks like it’ll be a huge W. There’s also a new (long) interview out with Pharrell on Drink Champs and as always it’s worth hearing it all.
RECOMMENDED SONGS …for some reason, all the reasons, no reasons
