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Hip-Hop Lives Here
During his concert for SiriusXM and Pandora’s Small Stage Series at the Hollywood Palladium on Wednesday night (Feb. 9), John Mayer stopped the show to help a fan with an apparent medical issue in the crowd.
When Mayer noticed that a fan had possibly fainted in the audience, he stopped singing and immediately called for medics to help. As his band quietly vamped in the background, Mayer then asked to stop the music altogether.
“Is she conscious? Give me a thumbs-up if she’s alert,” Mayer asked the people around her, who responded with a round of thumbs-ups. “I’m gonna step off the stage for a second,” Mayer added before leading his band offstage.
When he returned, Mayer reassured the crowd that the woman was going to be fine. “Anyone in the crowd who’s worried, I’m told she waved goodbye, so she’s OK,” he said, adding, “The system works.”
The ordeal went down as Mayer was in the final stretches of the 2006 Continuum ballad “Slow Dancing in a Burning Room,” and when he came back, he launched into the much more upbeat Grammy-winning single “Waiting on the World to Change” from the same album.
Mayer’s abundance of caution comes a few days after Billie Eilish briefly stopped her show on Saturday night to help a fan in the crowd who needed an inhaler, according to concert footage captured by fans.
Wednesday’s hour-plus concert — hosted by Andy Cohen, who introduced his friend as “The King of Sob Rock” — aired live on SiriusXM’s The Spectrum (channel 28) and on the SXM app and will be rebroadcast throughout the week. On Friday, Cohen’s sit-down interview with Mayer will air on Radio Andy (channel 102) at 7 p.m. ET, and his concert will re-air on Andy Cohen’s Kiki Lounge (channel 312) at 8 p.m. ET. The concert will also air in its entirety on Saturday as part of the Pandora LIVE series at 9 p.m. (RSVP here).
Next up: Mayer kicks off his Sob Rock Tour on Feb. 17 in Albany, N.Y. The Palladium set definitely served as a preview of the trek, with Mayer performing six songs from the July 2021 album, including “New Light,” “Last Train Home” and “Wild Blue,” which just became the rocker’s eighth No. 1 hit on Billboard‘s Adult Alternative Airplay chart.
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Drake has been heavily criticized by Charlamagne Tha God over his legal action against Universal Music Group.
Speaking on The Breakfast Club on Monday (December 2), Charlamagne outlined his feelings on Drizzy’s allegations that the music giant used payola and streaming bots to boost the popularity of Kendrick Lamar‘s diss track “Not Like Us,” as well as his claim of defamation because of the song’s content.
“I told you Drake was going to sue. He is a multi-billion dollar entity; no multi-billion dollar entity is going to allow you to call him a pedophile or sex offender and not take some sort of legal action,” he began.
The radio host went on to warn that Drake could be opening a can of worms because of things he said on his own diss tracks: “The person who has the real defamation case in this situation is Kendrick’s woman [Whitney Alford], because Drake not only said Kendrick was beating on her, he said that Dave Free, Kendrick’s business partner and friend, was the real father to one of Kendrick’s kids.
“So if you’re going to accuse somebody of defamation, you must first make sure you, too, aren’t guilty of defamation. Drake saying that Kendrick defamed him is indeed the pot calling the kettle beige.”
Charlamagne continued to tear into the 6 God by branding him “Donkey of the Day” and accusing him of being a hypocrite, a sore loser and a Hip Hop outsider who “simply doesn’t understand culture.”
“There was a time when Drake was on the cover of every playlist on Spotify,” he said. “Stop acting like you haven’t been the beneficiary of record label tricknology. You being a whole ho simply because you lost.
“Simply because Kendrick Lamar kicked your ass — lyrically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally. Anybody acting like this is anything more than Drake’s feelings being hurt, you a ho, too. An O-V-ho to be exact.”
He added: “Drake, you’re in this position because you tapped out after you heard ‘Not Like Us.’ Kendrick dropped too much tune for your headtop […] You could’ve gone into the studio and give us a bop! But you chose not to. Kendrick won. And he told you to squabble up, not lawyer up.”
The media personality wrapped his lecture by offering Drake some advice: “Take a break, go away. Let nostalgia bring you back, people will miss you. You see what J. Cole is doing. People don’t even care he tapped out of the rap battle anymore!”
It is not yet clear if Drake intends to file a lawsuit against UMG regarding the aforementioned claims. The Toronto native has not spoken publicly on the “pre-action” legal filings or the backlash to them.
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