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\n\tThis week, Cardi B has a message for the competition, Chance The Rapper comes full circle and Dijon blows up. Check out all of this week\u2019s picks below:<\/p>\n
\n\tCardi B, \u201cImaginary Playerz\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\t\u201cFixin\u2019 y\u2019all mouth to talk fashion with me \/ I\u2019m the one who showed these girls what fashion could be,\u201d Cardi B spits near the end of \u201cImaginary Playerz,\u201d a viper strike against those who doubted her longevity and other women in hip-hop trying to come for her crown. With Cardi\u2019s long-awaited sophomore album just weeks away, this single is a timely reminder of her dominant wordplay and cutthroat approach; the expectations are officially sky-high.<\/p>\n
\n\tChance The Rapper, Star Line<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\tChance The Rapper hit the mainstream with the force of a freight train in the mid-2010s, and then his 2019 album, The Big Day<\/em>, zapped his momentum; Star Line<\/em>, the long-awaited follow-up, boasts plenty of A-list guest stars \u2014 Lil Wayne, Young Thug and Jazmine Sullivan among them \u2014 but also serves as a back-to-basics project from an artist who blew up thanks to fiercely beloved mixtapes, combining personal reinvention with scrappy artistry.<\/p>\n\n\tDijon, Baby<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\tIn the four years since Dijon released debut album Absolutely<\/em> in 2021, his influence in modern R&B (and popular music in general) has grown by leaps and bounds \u2014 and with follow-up full-length Baby<\/em>, he returns with a lush, lo-fi set of rhythmic gems, to a much bigger audience waiting for them, and now has the opportunity to position himself as a full-blown commercial force.<\/p>\n\n\tKaytranada, Ain\u2019t No Damn Way!<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\tA press release for Ain\u2019t No Damn Way!<\/em>\u00a0describes the project as \u201can intentional return to Kaytranada\u2019s dance music roots\u201d \u2014 which, if you like to move whatsoever, is pretty damn exciting, considering that the producer is absolutely elite when it comes to cooking up dance floor-fillers. Opener \u201cSpace Invader\u201d sets the euphoric tone immediately, and by \u201cTarget Joint\u201d in the fourth slot, your shoulders will be exhausted from wiggling too hard.<\/p>\n\n\tJordan Davis, Learn the Hard Way<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\tCountry star Jordan Davis\u2019 catalog contains a reliability that has made him into a singer-songwriter with a dedicated Nashville fan base, and on Learn the Hard Way<\/em>, he continues his streak of celebrating the simple pleasures of life with mid-tempo tracks built around his steady tone and shrugging off too much production flash (although the occasional guest star, Carly Pearce and Marcus King, does drop by).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\tOlivia Dean, \u201cMan I Need\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\tAnyone paying attention to Olivia Dean\u2019s recent string of singles understands why anticipation keeps ratcheting up for the London singer-songwriter\u2019s sophomore album, The Art of Loving<\/em>: \u201cMan I Need\u201d once again demonstrates her natural gift for immediate melodies, but her modern riff on classic rhythmic pop is snappier than ever, to the point where you\u2019ll be humming along midway through your first listen.<\/p>\n\n\tEditor\u2019s Pick: Conan Gray, Wishbone<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\tWishbone<\/em> is Conan Gray\u2019s fourth studio album, and sounds like the one he\u2019s been working toward his entire career: once again working with Dan Nigro but handling much of the songwriting on his own, the pop artist fully arrives with a mix of hushed confessionals and brash arena-fillers, with both styles boasting the evocative lyricism that\u2019s made him a star.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.billboard.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Billboard\u2019s Friday Music Guide serves as a handy guide to this Friday\u2019s most essential releases \u2014 the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.\u00a0 Explore See latest videos, charts and news This week, Cardi B has a message for the competition, Chance The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1962329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[258007,251271,21932],"class_list":["post-1962328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-first-stream","tag-friday-music-guide","tag-music-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Cardi-B-Chance-The-Rapper-Dijon-More.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1962328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1962329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}