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Brent Faiyaz has issued the official music video for “Pistachios.” In the visual, the DMV representative takes the audience on a night out with no shortage of friends, women, and $100 bills.
Directed by Belt and courtesy of ISO Supremacy, the visual takes the chart-topping musician from a parking garage smoke session with his homies to a twerk-filled party house party, and of course, a studio session. Throughout the video, Brent Faiyaz’s jewelry serves as a focal point. The song is produced by Dpat and samples Adina Howard’s “If We Make Love Tonight.”
“Weather like minus 50 on my pinkie/ It’s like minus 80 on my lady,” brags the R&B singer. “That’s minor sh*t when you a major/ I design the sh*t that make the label.”
“I really like ‘Pistachios.’ That might be my favorite [on the album]. It started with Brent wanting to flip the Adina Howard song that we sampled on that, ‘If We Make Love Tonight.’ Maybe from there that kind of subconsciously set the mood of being a sample-heavy album or with a mixtape approach,” he explained.
“I think that did set the tone. A lot of the samples were Brent wanting to use them.”
Much like the aforementioned song and music video, the album was designed to bring listeners into the R&B singer’s atmosphere.
“This is how I see the world. This is my universe. This is what we do. This is what it feels like,” shared the 28-year-old with Rolling Stone. “What I look like letting motherfu**ers tell me what my world looks like?”
Watch the music video for “Pistachios” above and check out Larger Than Life below.
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On today’s (Nov. 20) episode of the Greatest Pop Stars of the 21st Century podcast, we reach No. 3 on our list with a pop super-duperstar who shined bright for 13 years of absolute pop world command, before ducking out to tend to her business and empire for most of the past decade. (Read our No. 3 Greatest Pop Star essay about Rihanna here.)
Host Andrew Unterberger is joined by Billboard staff writer Kyle Denis and senior branded content producer/writer Walaa Elsiddig to remember the dazzling career of Robyn Rihanna Fenty. We discuss both the absurd chart numbers and more intangible factors that made Rihanna loom large over all of 21st century pop stardom, and debate her ranking alongside our No. 4 Greatest Pop Star Drake — where Rih might not have the same level of statistical accomplishments as her frequent co-star but always dominated their one-on-one matchup.
We also discuss how Rihanna shed early one-hit wonder (or two-hit wonder) worries to become a no-doubt A-lister, and how the assault from her superstar then-boyfriend (and the wildly unfair and inappropriate media coverage of the incident) cruelly interrupted what was one of the most incredible rises of the ’00s. Then, we explain how she elevated from hitmaker to global icon over the course of the 2010s, before essentially going out on top with a no-doubt classic album that sounds even better in 2024 than it did back in 2016. Finally, we remember some great moments in Rihanna Social Media Clapback History, share memories of saucy Bad Gal lyrics getting us in trouble, and attempt some impromptu (and off-key) Rih-Yo duet recreations.
Check it out above, get acquainted with our past episodes here, and be sure to subscribe to Billboard‘s Greatest Pop Stars of the 21st Century series wherever you get your podcasts! (New episodes will be revealed every Wednesday, following the Tuesday publishing of our Greatest Pop Star for that week, up to the unveiling of our No. 1 on Dec. 3.)
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