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Top Fortnite players & content creators competed in L.A., where D4vd provided commentary, and ZHU performed at Fortnite and Billboard’s afterparty. Eric Ananmalay Twenty of Fortnite’s top professional players teamed up with 20 of the biggest content creators for a six-round tournament at the Fortnite Championship Series (FNCS) Pro-Am on Saturday in Los Angeles. The 20 duos squared off for a share of $500,000 up for grabs. An average of more than 480,000 fans watched as pro player Peterbot and content creator Aussie Antics rose to victory, taking home the FNCS Pro-Am trophy and $25,000 each. Hitmaker and Fortnite superfan…

DJ Akademiks has a bone to pick with Cam’ron and Mase.The media personality fired back at the rappers after they defended their It Is What It Is co-host, Treasure Wilson.“HEY @akademiks OUT OF ALL THE TWEETS YOU SEEN YOU DECIDED TO SAY SOMETHING BACK TO #STAT @treasurewilsxn WHY CAUSE WE POPPING, BUT THAT’s COOL, WE GONE MAKE THIS CLEAR & SIMPLE IT AIN’t GONE BE NO TYPE OF VIOLATING GOING ON ESPECIALLY WITH #STAT FAIR WARNING,” the pair captioned an Instagram post on Sunday, alongside a video of Wilson with Mace and a photo of her posing with Cam.Their response…

On Friday (May 9), SoundCloud encountered user backlash after AI music expert and founder of Fairly Trained, Ed Newton-Rex, posted on X that SoundCloud’s terms of service quietly changed in February 2024 to allow the platform the ability to “inform, train, develop or serve as input” to AI models. Over the weekend, SoundCloud clarified via a statement, originally sent to The Verge and also obtained by Billboard, that reads in part: “SoundCloud has never used artist content to train AI models, nor do we develop AI tools or allow third parties to scrape or use SoundCloud content from our platform…

Veteran music journalist Gerry Wood died on Saturday (May 3) in Inverness, Fla. He was 87. Wood was Billboard’s Nashville bureau chief and country editor in 1980 when he was promoted to editor-in-chief of the magazine, resulting in a transfer to the publication’s New York headquarters. He served in that capacity through 1983, when he left Billboard, only to return in 1986 as general manager/Nashville, a position he held into 1991. Wood’s elevation to editor-in-chief coincided with the explosion of country music in the late 1970s and early ‘80s, when Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson and Alabama were among the top-selling acts in…

Loot Audio has introduced a new Kontakt instrument library where the dark, atmospheric power of synthesis meets the warmth and authenticity of organic sound.Vektor 2 by Nova seamlessly blends vintage analog gear, textured synth layers, and carefully recorded natural instruments and soundscapes.With over 200 meticulously crafted snapshots and 146 unique instruments, this is your gateway to expressive, immersive sound design. From lush pads and eerie drones to epic braaams and evolving textures, every sound in Vektor 2 has been shaped to evoke emotion and tension — perfect for film scoring, atmospheric soundtracks, and cinematic sound design.We’ve painstakingly manipulated classic analog…

In her 1991 documentary Truth or Dare, Madonna declared that Sean Penn was the love of her life. And more than three decades later, the actor is sharing his thoughts on it. In an interview on The Louis Theroux Podcast posted Monday (May 12), Penn said that his superstar ex-wife was “very sweet” for her remarks in the Alek Keshishian-directed doc when asked whether he recalled what she’d said. “I do,” he told Theroux. “Look, she’s been a good friend for a lot of years.” The two-time Oscar-winning actor went on to reflect on his four-year marriage to Madge, with…

Rihanna might be pregnant with twins and while Cardi B hints at wanting more kids…the rumors are pregnant! AllHipHop.com Since 1998, AllHipHop.com has pioneered delivering Hip-Hop news. Get our daily email for exclusive, breaking news, and weekly digests, all curated for the true Hip-Hop enthusiast. Stay connected and informed with the heartbeat of Hip-Hop culture. Subscribe now! Subscribe So here’s what’s buzzing: Rihanna is pregnant with baby number three. Naturally, people are nosey, myself included. The main question is why is she and A$AP Rocky having babies back to back to back? The leading rumor? Rihanna wants a girl—desperately. With two boys…

Schulz Audio has announced the release of a new multi-band dynamic enhancement plugin designed to maximize the punch, clarity, and impact of your sounds.By splitting the audio signal into 4 flexible bands, you can independently enhance frequency zones, controlling their saturation, balance, dynamics, and stereo width.OOMPH is a tool to refine and design individual sounds, or place on mix and master busses for cohesion and macro-tone shaping.OOMPH featuresSplit your audio into four frequency bands for targeted control.Preserve your dynamics while achieving professional loudness.Add just the right amount of saturation for warmth and character.Finalize your tracks with clean limiting and high-quality…

Kendrick Lamar and Baby Keem had a big influence on one of the biggest movies of the year. In a clip posted by IMAX on social media, Thunderbolts director Jake Schreier explained how going to see Christopher Nolan’s movie Tenet at IMAX headquarters while working on music videos with the two cousins during the pandemic helped inspired how he went about shooting the MCU blockbuster. “Something that happened during the pandemic,” he began. “I was shooting these music videos and they were these long oner [one-shot] videos. I did one for Baby Keem and did one for Kendrick. And we…

Diddy was described in federal court Monday (May 12) as orchestrating a string of sexually explicit encounters involving male dancers, baby oil and degrading acts toward Cassie during the first day of testimony in his sex trafficking trial. One wild moment came when male dancer Daniel Phillip testified that Diddy once tried to direct him and Cassie to act out an “airport fantasy” role play. “One time, he tried to have us role-play, like we had just met at an airport. We weren’t good, so we skipped that,” Phillip said under oath. Phillip, who was called to testify by Assistant…