We're back with this episode dedicated to all the NEW MUSIC of 2025. Tune in as we track what was in our ears the last year.

New Music

*Top Artists and Hits of 2025 *
K-Pop Demon Hunters, Shaboozy, Elton John, Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, Kehlani Folded Single, Beyonce Album, Bad Bunny, Drake, Kedrick Lamar & Sza tour, Summer Walker Album, Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars, Lil Wayne, Pink Floyd, Mariah Carey,

_Biggest Tour: Chris Brown and Beyonce
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_Year started off with _

• Sexxy Redd / Bruno Mars - Fay Juicy, Wet - SINGLE
• Leon Thomas - MUTT single
  

POP

• Sabrina Carpenter - Expresso
• DRAKE - $ome $exy $ongs 4 U
• Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars - Die with a Smile - SINGLE

** R&B**

• Lady Wray - Cover Girl / BEST for US single
• Thundercat - Upside Down (Candy Crush) -
• Leon Thomas - PHOLKS / Just How You Are - SINGLE
• Jane Handcock - It’s Me, Not You / Stare at Me - SINGLE
• Jenevieve - CRYSALIS
• Kehlani - Folded
• Cardi B - AM I THE DRAMA
• Summer Walker - Finally Over It, The Afterparty * Heart of a Woman - SINGLE * Go Girl
  
• SAULT - 10
• TEYANA Taylor - Escape Room
• 803FRESH - Boots on the Ground
• Mariah Carey - Here for it All
• SZA & MoRuf - PT Cruiser - SINGLE
• Chris Brown -
  

RAP

• GloRilla & Sexxy Redd - Whatchi Kno about me

Gospel
Say the Name - Deitrick Haddon

We're back this week with an episode of What's Poppin, take a listen as we dive into New Music, what's new on TV and in the theaters.

New Music

• Doechii - Tiny Desk/SNL;

• Kendrick Lamar
  * New album GNX
  * Performance at Superbowl
  * Kendrick v. Drake

• SZA - SOS deluxe edition

• Ella Mai - 3 EP

• Mario - Glad You Came

• Summer Walker & Sailor - Pookie’s Reqiuem

• Joshua Idehen - Mum Does the WAshing EP

• Amber Mark - Loosies

• Snoop Dogg - Missionary

• Sexy Red & Bruno Mars - Fat Juicy & Wet

*New TV/Movies
** Missing You, WAGS, Virgin River / Netflix

• Bad Sisters / Apple TV
• One of them Days / New Movie Release
• Gladiator II
• Book Review
• Viola Davis - Finding Me
  

Update: !!Daisy Engaged!!

NEW MUSIC

• Remi Wolf - Hello Hello Hello
• H.E.R. - I Can’t Breathe - Single
• Megan Thee Stallion - Girls in the Hood
• City Girls - Enough / Better
• Kanye West - Wash Us in the Blood (feat. Travis Scott) - Single
• Pete Rock & Camp Lo - Meagan Good (feat. Mac Miller)

WHAT'S POPPIN

• BET Awards 2020 goes virtual
  • Amanda Seales was the host who was conscious and addressed the state of black culture to black empowerment.
  • Performers each did their own performances as pre-recorded “mini videos”
  • Favorite Performer?: Megan Thee Stallion, Anderson.Paak, Summer Walker + Usher; Jennifer Hudson, Kearra + Karen Sheard closing.
• Jada/Will + August? (You. Me. & He?)
• Officers in Breonna Taylor’s case have not been arrested.
• Cops in George Floyd case were released
• Kanye West - Running for President in 2020?

POLITRICKS

• Is Independence Day for all of us to celebrate?
• Statues of toppled in several American cities and across the world.
  • christopher columbus statue in Baltimore toppled by protestors.
• Bounty that Russia paid to Taliban to kill American soldiers.
• Iran issues arrest warrant for Trump for the drone strike that killed Iranian General Qasem Soleimani.
• #sayhername VANESSA GUILLEN - was murdered at Fort Hood and taken several miles off base and buried in a shallow grave.
  • Suspect allegedly shot himself in the head when military police attempted to apprehend him.
• Krisis of KARENS - Woman pulls her gun out on Black woman who she hit with her car in a parking lot. Husband looses job
• No Fucking Around Coalition appears in Stone Mountain, GA (birthplace of the KKK) armed to confront KKK.

NEW MUSIC

Dave East - Survival; Nita Sign feat Teyana Taylor - Night Shift; Tory Lanez - Chixtape; Sevyn Streeter - WhatchuSay, The Midnight Hour - Harmony;
Soul Train Awards 2019: Yolanda Adams is the LADY of SOUL, Summer walker wins best new artist. Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis receive LEGEND Award.

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WHAT'S POPPIN

Music
Robyn Crawford’s book about Whitney
Keshia Cole: Nick Cannon calls her the “elder” to her 23 year old boyfriend.
Drake boo’d at camp flog naw, and his response
Trina goes off in woman in Walmart
50cent delete instagram after talking about naturi naughton’s hairline AGAIN. What’s wrong with him?
Netflix plans Selena show
“OK Boomer” millennial, gen x vs. Baby Boomer generation- dictionary.com responded via Twitter
“The word boomer is as bad as n-word”
Saugus High School shooting - why?! Possible bullying case, 16yr old boy shot and killed 2 students (boy and girl) then kills himself, 3 to 7 other students were injured as well
Vivica Fox is not happy about Issa Rae’s remake of Set it Off, “Its a Classic, Leave it Alone”
Mo’Nique during Netflix for racial and gender pay discrimination
9 students died at USC - opioid crisis, suicide
Motorola bringing Razr phone back for $1500, WHY?!
Woman screaming at top of her lungs from car asking for help in Leimert Park while ppl stood and watched... didn’t call police. What’s wrong with society?!
New Starbucks (5 stories) opened in Chicago
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POLITRICKS

Impeachment inquiry hearings began this week.
Trump reverses opinion e-cigarette ban.
2 governorships go to Democrats in Louisiana (Gov. John Bell Adams) and Kentucky (Andy Beshear) signals to trump?
Will long primary just make Democrats worse off?

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NEWS
Fires

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NEW MUSIC
Curren$y - Eyes Closed; Mahalia feat Ella Mai - What You Did; H.E.R. feat YG - Slide; Remi Wolf - You’re a Dog, Summer Walker feat Usher - Come Thru;

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WHAT’s POPPIN

SPORTS
>>Dodgers lost to Washingtion Nationals. Should Roberts be replaced?

China bans Houston Rockets for tweet GM makes.
Simone Biles - the most decorated gymnast of all time - won 25 medals thus far.

Film & TV
>>BET Hip Hop Awards - Lil’ Duval hosts, Meg the Stallion opens, Lil’ Kim honored
>>Dianne Carrol passes away at on October 4.
>>Tyler Perry opens Tyler Perry Studios, Now Hiring. What’s the beef with Tyler Perry.
>>Billy Porter will play fairy godmother in Sony’s Cinderella

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POLITRICKS

Bernie Sanders has heart attack
Is Ellen friends with George Bush? She says to “be kind”
Atatiana Koquice Jefferson, Black woman murdered in her home in Fortworth, TX after woman is shot through bedroom window.
Botham Jean case, Amber Guyger given 10 years, brother gives her a hug alongside judge. Joshua Brown killed days after trial ends.