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Ming Luanli, the younger sister of Nicki Minaj, is following in her elder siblings’ footsteps in music with her appearance on a new song titled “Do It Again.”
Released on Friday (March 8) by Rakeem Love, “Do It Again” includes a pair of guest verses from Luanli, who showcases her rapping and singing abilities while touching on matters of the heart.
“You’re acting suspicious, you don’t know what you do to me/ You’re after these bi**hes and wanna act like you glued to me,” the newcomer rhymes atop a brooding backdrop.
“You’re causing me glitches, the sh*t don’t compute to me/ Like 1+1+1 will never make 2 to me/ You’re treating me brutally,” she adds, before Rakeem Love swoops in with vocals of his own.
Later on in the song, Ming bids her erstwhile lover farewell, rhyming, “My condolences, you lost a real one to a poser/ Closing this door’s the only way I’m getting closure,” as she and her costar harmonize while closing out the track.
In the song’s accompanying music video, which is set in New York City, Luanli is seen traveling on the train and out about in Manhattan, while Rakeem Love roams about the city, passionately belting out lyrics in a lovelorn state.
Directed by City Island Productions, which previously produced music videos by Ice Spice and JT of the City Girls, the visual was created in conjunction with Quantum Swap AI, a crypto exchange venture in which Luanli and Love hold ownership stakes.
While Ming Luanli has jumpstarted her music career with “Do It Again,” her sister is currently on the road in support of her fifth studio album Pink Friday 2. The North American leg of the tour, which began earlier this month, includes dates in Los Angeles, New Orleans, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Toronto, Chicago, and New York City.
In May, Minaj will resume the Pink Friday 2 World Tour with European dates, as the rapper will be hitting the UK, France, Germany, Portugal, Italy, and more.
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The Libertines have revealed that they’ve bought the bathtub that Jim Morrison died in for their Margate hotel, The Albion Rooms.
The band released their fourth album ‘All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade’ last Friday (April 5), marking their first full-length record in almost a decade. It is currently on course to hit Number One in the UK.
During a new interview with Matt Wilkinson on Apple Music 1, Pete Doherty and Carl Barât talked about achieving their “dream” of opening their own Libertines hotel and studio space in 2020.
“We’ve also got the bathtub that Jim Morrison died in, which we’re going to be putting in one of the rooms,” Doherty explained at one point in the chat.
The frontman of The Doors passed away in Paris in 1971 aged 27. He was found dead in the bathtub of the apartment he was staying in, with the official cause of death being ruled as heart failure. Due to French law, however, no autopsy was carried out as no foul play was suspected at the time.
Doherty continued: “There’s a fellow who my wife’s cousin knows, and his cousin was basically the landlord. And he’s not interested in music, and even less interested in music mythology, and so he’s just been going on about this bathtub which people have been trying to buy off him.
He added: “And so I said to Carl – and obviously, Carl’s known me for years, knows I do have a tendency to exaggerate and… well, lie – but this one is the bang honest truth and it’s actually there.”
The revelation came after Barât explained that he had purchased another piece of rock memorabilia: Jimi Hendrix‘s coat. “Someone convinced me to buy it in an auction. It was going cheap,” the musician said.
“It was because there was about to be a movie come out and André 3000 was playing Jimi Hendrix [in 2013’s Jimi: All Is By My Side], and it was going to really revitalise the Hendrix estate and all of the sort of bric-a-brac…”
Elsewhere in the conversation, Barât explained: “We set up this hotel with grand ambitions and a lot of objectives of which we achieved.
“Now, personally, being very close to it and having to deal with a lot more of the runnings and whatnot, I think we’ve done that. And I think what we really need is a studio where the artists can stay there. We don’t have to shove them down the road.”
Barât gave NME a tour of The Albion Rooms in Margate when it first opened its doors. “The band live in three different countries, and the only thing that really binds us without something like this is tour schedules,” he said at the time.
“To have a place that’s our own HQ and that we all have equal ownership of and equal input in – that was the dream.” You can revisit the video tour and interview above.
The Libertines would go on to record ‘All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade’ at The Albion Rooms.
Doherty told NME last October: “The other albums were basically written before we went in the studio. This time it was a case of people presenting really strong ideas, and then everyone else just tucking in, putting their bibs on, rolling up their sleeves and chewing the fat.
“There were so many times on this album where I thought I knew what the song was, and then it became completely different for the best.”
In a four-star review of ‘…Eastern Esplanade’, NME praised the band for “find[ing] their voice again”, adding: “For the first time in over 20 years, The Libertines feel like a band with a viable future.”
The Libertines recently added more shows to their 2024 UK and Ireland headline tour. Find any remaining tickets here.
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