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DJ Khaled says he nearly lost his mansion in Miami in the mid-2010s while investing too much capital into his We The Best company. In doing so, he found himself struggling to make rent payments on the property. He recalled the tough period during a new interview with Rolling Stone.
“I remember I had like a month to come up with this [large] amount of money. I kept saying, ‘There’s no way in the world that we worked this much this far and we don’t have nothing to show for it.’ I changed that right away,” he recalled. “I was like, ‘Yo, if I want a family, I got to get my shit right.’ And I gambled on myself. I always bet on myself from day one. But I tripled down that day.”
Elsewhere in his conversation with the outlet, he discussed his upcoming album, Til Next Time. He says that the name is in reference to a transition he'll be making into TV and film. “I’m treating it like it’s my last album. But it’s not a goodbye,” he said. “You’re going to start seeing and hearing about all these new things that I’m doing. I’m going to be doing more TV and film. We taking over the TV and film. That’s what Til Next Time is — it’s like, I’m going to give you an incredible album, but also while I’m giving you that incredible album, you’re going to see all these big new moves that I’m doing and new categories that we going to take over.”
In that vein, Khaled is currently producing a documentary on Shyne's life. The rapper-turned-politican previously revealed that he's heard Khaled's Til Next Time and described it as a "masterpiece" on Instagram. Be on the lookout for further updates on Khaled's new album on HotNewHipHop.
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Kylie Minogue has admitted there was a time when she felt recording a Christmas song was not really her thing.
The Padam Padam singer has since landed the UK festive number one with XMAS, though she revealed she once turned down suggestions to release a holiday themed track.
Speaking to the Daily Star newspaper’s Wired column, she said: "It was suggested to me many years ago but I would go, 'Nah I'm too busy trying to be on point'."
In the end, it was Kylie’s brother who convinced her to lean into the festive spirit and go ahead with making Christmas music.
She explained: "I spoke to my brother before I hit the green button."
She continued: "He's the voice of reason in my family. He said, 'I think it's great and the perfect time.' He was right."
The Locomotion hitmaker has since refreshed her 2015 seasonal album Kylie Christmas, adding four new tracks including XMAS, and relaunching it under the title Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped).
The 57 year old star also summed up the mood of the record as “Doris Day fuzzy stuff meets Aunt Lynne's had a couple too many sherries.”
Kylie has previously shared that XMAS, which draws inspiration from the Village People’s 1978 party anthem YMCA, was a decade in the making after she first came up with the idea in the summer of 2015.
Recalling how it all began, she told The Sun newspaper’s Bizarre column: “The song comes from 2015. I was at Soho House in Berlin, it was summer on the terrace and we’d just done the first Christmas album.”
She added: "We’d had a couple of glasses of wine - it wasn’t Kylie Wines back then - and it came to us like YMCA but XMAS. I’ve been sitting on the chorus for 10 years.”
In the music video for the single, Kylie recreates the iconic lift from Dirty Dancing, and despite years of performing experience, the Can't Get You Out Of My Head singer admitted she felt nervous about attempting it.
She said: “I was a bit scared as I’ve never done it before. It was a fantasy moment. I was told not to overthink it.”
She went on to explain: “We did a couple of practices before we did the main one. The thing is, you just need to trust the other person.”
Looking back, she added: "The first one I got up, but I overshot it. The second was fine. The third one was good. The bruises were worth it the next day."
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