OHMYGOSSIP — Lil Wayne isn’t retired – and has released new music.
The 33-year-old rap star recently suggested he was set to quit the music industry amid an ongoing feud with the Cash Money record label – but has now released a new record, entitled ‘Grateful’, in a bid to clarify the situation.
On the new track – which references his relationship with Birdman, the co-founder of the label – Wayne says: “You don’t see Stunna right next to me/And I won’t see Stunna write cheques to me/They can’t put no more Weezy baby out/That’s that Cash Money vasectomy.”
Later, he adds: “Tell the press I’m not depressed/I just had to press reset.”
‘Grateful’ comes shortly after Wayne hinted he was poised to turn his back on rap music in light of his disagreements with Cash Money, his former record label.
He tweeted: “I AM NOW DEFENSELESS AND mentally DEFEATED & I leave gracefully and thankful I luh my fanz but I’m dun (sic)”
The statement prompted messages of support from Wayne’s fans and fellow musicians, such as Drake and Kendrick Lamar.
At the time, it was widely assumed that the Twitter post meant he would no longer make music.
That, however, is clearly not going to be the case after Wayne released ‘Grateful’ exclusively on Tidal.
Wayne has previously spoken about having an ambition to retire by the time he is 35 in order to spend more time with his family.
But it does not appear he will quit the music business any time soon following his new release.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Quitting drugs helped James Arthur “gain some perspective” in his music.
The former ‘X Factor’ winner went on a destructive downward spiral after finding fame on the reality TV show and a dependence on marijuana and prescription pills led to James hitting rock bottom.
He explained to The Sun: “My lowest moment was when I was going to bed, I’d take 15 pre-rolled joints and smoke one after the other, popping anti-depressants. My head was an absolute mess.”
However, he is now clean and believes that the music he has written for his new album, ‘Back From The Edge’, is some of his best work.
James said: “Quitting drugs has helped me gain some perspective. I don’t recognise that artist in my first album.
“A couple of songs are great, but I was writing for other people then.
“I was trying to write a hit, trying to be the best ‘X Factor’ winner ever – they weren’t honest songs as you didn’t hear any of my character.
“This one, there’s loads of me in it.
There is a bit of self-indulgence as I had to tell my story. People will relate to it and the message is hope, love and respect – to like yourself.”
James has come a long way from the depths of despair after ‘X Factor’ and he admitted he considered suicide in the past.
He said: “I genuinely was at the end of my tether. I’d never been a guy who suffers from suicidal tendencies but I had taken all I could take from life.
“I thought that was my chance and I’d ruined it. You never see an ‘X Factor’ winner make a comeback. It doesn’t happen.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Taylor Swift is working on new music.
Just days after the star – who is renowned for writing songs inspired by her love life – split from Tom Hiddleston, her close pal Gigi Hadid revealed Taylor, 26, is back in the studio.
Speaking at her Tommy x Gigi show at New York Fashion Week on Friday (09.09.16), which Taylor attended, Gigi told Entertainment Tonight: “She’s obviously such a great friend, and you know she is starting to go back to work in the studio again, and really made time to be here for me, and I am so grateful for that.”
Taylor’s last album ‘1989’ was released in 2014 and is widely believed to contain songs about her brief relationship with One Direction singer Harry Styles, 22.
Since then she has dated Calvin Harris, 32, for over a year and enjoyed a brief romance with Tom, 35, which ended this week.
And it was recently claimed that Taylor’s close pal Selena Gomez advised the star to put her energy into working on a new record after the split.
A source told HollywoodLife.com: “When Taylor told Selena about the breakup, the first thing Selena advised Taylor to do was slow down. Selena has known about the Taylor and Tom split for a while.
“Selena’s advice was to take a break from men and to spend some time enjoying being single.”
Selena told Taylor to “focus her energy in the studio, and drop a new album before another boyfriend pops up”.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Fazer is making a return to music.
The N-Dubz star is to make his first-ever appearance as a featured artist on Thomas Teago’s upcoming single ‘Lights Down Low’, and couldn’t resist the collaboration because the “chemistry” with the singer was “just right” and he’s incredibly excited about the track.
He said: “This is a world first for me. ‘Lights Down Low’ is my first ever single as a featured artist because this is the first ever track by another artist that I’m really excited about.
“I’ve been approached many times in the past to feature on tracks, but I’ve always turned them down. But with Thomas Teago and ‘Lights Down Low’ the chemistry was just right, I had to be part of this track.
“Our collaboration fuses Thomas’ distinctive vocals with a dash of Fazer personality – it’s a perfect combination.”
Meanwhile, up-and-coming star Thomas – who wrote the pop/dance track – always had Fazer in mind for the song and has found the musician, writer, and producer very helpful with his own growing career.
He said: “I wrote this track with Fazer in mind, having him on this track instantly lifts the song to another level. He’s mad talented, has lots of experience, gives lots of advice and I couldn’t be happier having him on this release.”
The track is Fazer’s first new music since he released ‘Fireflies’, under his real name Richard Rawson, in 2014.
‘Lights Down Low’ is released on SouthShaw Records on November 4. For more information visit www.thomasteago.com,
www.twitter.com/thomasteago, www.facebook.com/thomasteago, and www.instagram.com/thomasteago.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Britney Spears won’t listen to her own music.
The ‘Make Me’ hitmaker tries to never playback her own songs but relies on her sons – Sean, 10, and Jayden, nine – and her nieces to give her their verdict.
She told Flaunt magazine: “It’s funny, because I don’t really listen to my music. My kids do and my nieces do. I’m about the creative process. I’m in the moment of being creative and then I put it out there. Of course, I sing my songs every night [at my residency] and I have to listen to it that way, but I’m all about change. And new. And forthcoming.
“But, there is a part of me in my music and I hope, for my fans, that they can have that part of me when they hear me on the radio, or buy my CD, or whatever they do.”
Meanwhile, the 34-year-old singer previously revealed her new album is “very chill.”
She said: “It’s very exciting. I’ve been working on this project for a year and a half now, almost two years so it really means a lot to me. It’s my baby.
“It’s a little melodic, a little more not so poppy. It’s kind of chill. Very chill. I’m old school. I like classic rock. I like the Rolling Stones. The Lumineers are really cool. Sade is nice. I like 80s music, too.”
And Britney recently described her new music as like a “baby” to her.
She added: “I just know that the direction I’m going in is so good. It’s the best thing I’ve done in a long time. I’m just particular with this record – it’s my baby. I’m proud of the work, and it’s very different.
“It’s not what you would think at all. I’m not rushing anything. I would much rather have it be completely how I want it to be. I just want it to be done right so that my fans will truly appreciate it.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Lady Gaga has recorded a track with Florence Welch on her new album.
The 30-year-old singer penned a song for her as-yet untitled LP and when she decided she wanted another female vocalist to join her over the music she couldn’t think of anyone more perfect than Florence, also 30.
Speaking to Nick Grimshaw on UK station BBC Radio 1, the ‘Poker Face’ hitmaker said: “There’s a feature on the album that I think you will be very excited about. Me and Florence Welch did a duet together. I started to work on an idea for a song that I really wanted to do with a girl. You’ll see why when you see what the song is about. I just thought, ‘Who do I want to sing with?’ She’s really to me, if not the best, one of the greatest vocalists in the world. She’s incredible.”
The new album is Gaga’s first on her own since 2013’s ‘Artpop’ and follows ‘Cheek to Cheek’, the collaborative record she released in 2014 with Tony Bennett.
Gaga appeared on the show to unveil her new single ‘Perfect Illusion’ and revealed the lyrics on the track deal with the pressures of social media and the “many fake things” in the world.
Speaking about the track, she said: “People feel pressured to live up to that perfect illusion in their real lives. This is about accepting that and letting go. I’m not saying not to use your phone, I’m not that crazy. I think social media is great. But there’s also a lot of things that are on the internet that aren’t reality … So this song is about raging against it and letting it go. It’s about wanting people to re-establish that human connection.”
Gaga also revealed she composed ‘Perfect Illusion’ with producer Mark Ronson and Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker and she wrote it on an old fashioned typewriter.
She spilled: “Kevin flew to us from Australia and he came with this idea, that was the beginning of a song called Illusion. I work on a typewriter and we would bounce new lyrics back and forth.
“We stripped everything away. Changed the melody, shifted it. I sat at piano, Kevin was on guitar, Mark was on the bass.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Kasabian’s ‘Comeback Kid’ is among the songs on the ‘FIFA 17’ soundtrack.
A sample of the music on the hotly-anticipated game has been released through its official FIFA Spotify profile, and artists included on the list are Bastille, Catfish and the Bottlemen and Two Door Cinema Club.
Catfish return to the ‘FIFA 17’ soundtrack with their tune ‘Postpone’, while Jack Garratt’s ‘Surprise Yourself’ will also feature on the title.
Other tunes to get you going while you’re waiting to take on your opponents are Two Door Cinema Club’s ‘Are We Ready? (Wreck)’, Barns Courtney’s ‘Hobo Rocket’ and Bastille’s ‘Send Them Off’.
Songs from the likes of Beaty Heart, Declan McKenna, Formation, and Glass Animals also appear on the soundtrack.
Gamers who can’t wait to try out the new game can do so on Tuesday (13.09.16) when the demo launches.
Electronic Arts, the tech company behind the ever-popular game franchise, have created a teaser of the new game, which is to be released in full on September 29 for PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
Garreth Reeder, the lead producer of ‘FIFA 17’, insists the title is the “best ever made” of the football gaming franchise.
He said: “‘FIFA 17’ is the best ‘FIFA’ we’ve ever made.
“We always say that, so I think sometimes people laugh, but I think the modes that we’ve put in, the content, the quality – we’ve got something for all of our fans in the game and it’s going to be great.”
For more information on the release of ‘FIFA 17’ on 29th September, head to https://www.easports.com/uk/fifa.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Busted have announced their first album in 13 years.
The pop rock trio – comprised of Charlie Simpson, Matt Willis and James Bourne – will release ‘Night Driver’ on November 11 and have teased that it will be unlike their previous material because they feel the old songs “belong to that time”.
Guitarist James said: “The last thing we wanted to do was try to recreate what we used to have.
“It belongs to that time. All real artists evolve, all real artists try things, it’s unnatural not to.”
And frontman Charlie – who quit the rock/pop group in 2005 and previously vowed never to return – added that the album is a “reflection” of themselves now.
He said: “On this record, we’re older, we’ve had completely different experiences than what we’d have been talking about ten years ago. It’s an authentic reflection of who we are today.”
Matt, James and Charlie recently confirmed that, following the success of their current ‘Pigs Can Fly’ arena tour, they are “elated” to be starting a “new chapter” as a band and will be releasing new music after striking up a deal through Warner Music.
Bassist Matt, 33, said: “We wrote some awesome songs together and now Busted are back! The three of us went into the studio with no preconceptions, and were so elated with the results that we wanted to start a new chapter of our band!
“We are having an incredible time on our arena tour and are now looking forward to releasing new music through a global partnership with East West. It’s great to see Dan, Howard and the team as excited about the new music as we are.”
Matt believes the new tracks are the best they’ve ever done and that fans may be “shocked” at first because the style is very different to their previous offerings like ‘Year 3000’ and ‘What I Go To School For’.
He said: “It’s the best s**t we’ve ever done by ten times. The first single is f***ing ridiculous. I’m more proud of our first single than anything I’ve ever done in my life. It is the most epic song, it’s ridiculous.
“I think people are going to be a bit shocked but it’s what we wanted. It wasn’t on purpose, we just started working and ended up writing these certain style of songs, in a certain type of way and it all happened.”
Busted have been playing two new songs ‘Coming Home’ and ‘Easy’, both featured on the record, at their shows including their May comeback tour and a debut performance at Isle of Wight Festival in June.
The record is the follow-up to 2003’s ‘A Present for Everyone’
‘Night Driver’ tracklisting:
‘Coming Home’
‘Night Driver’
‘On What You’re On’
‘New York’
‘Thinking Of You’
‘Without It’
‘One Of A Kind’
‘I Will Break Your Heart’
‘Kids With Computers’
‘Easy’
‘Out Of Our Minds’
‘Those Days Are Gone’

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OHMYGOSSIP — Kings of Leon have admitted they were too “business-minded” at their peak.
The ‘Sex on Fire’ hitmakers’ frontman Caleb Followill says relations between the band members – made up of his brothers Jared and Nathan and their cousin Matthew Followill – broke down because they became too focused on making money.
Speaking in the new issue of NME magazine, Caleb admitted: “There were a lot of moments when we weren’t talking. It was ‘Man, we’ve become business partners. We haven’t maintained our friendship and our brotherhood, everything that we are.
“After a while, it’s not ‘I’m going to do an interview with my brother’, it’s ‘I’m going to do an interview with the drummer’. When you get together, it’s never ‘We are the band’. We lost that.”
Bass player Jared also admitted that paying for each band member to have separate transport to and from gigs impacted on their relationship.
The 29-year-old rocker said: “We’d only see each other for the hour-and-a-half before a show. We went too far in the other direction. If you’re going to be friends and family, you can’t really be a band, or we can’t be this band.”
The indie group – who are gearing up to release their eagerly-anticipated LP ‘WALLS’, which drops on October 14 – also felt like their last record, 2013’s ‘Mechanical Bull’, wasn’t their best because they were too much in their “comfort zone”.
Jared said: “We were definitely going for it and trying really hard, but we got into a comfort zone. We’ve tried to peel that away on this album, by not using the same producer and doing it in our studio. We were really challenging ourselves, doing things where we were scratching our heads going ‘Holy s***, is this right? Is this wrong?'”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Izzy Stradlin didn’t rejoin Guns N’ Roses for their current tour because they won’t share the money “equally”.
The 54-year-old former guitiarist – who left the band in 1991 after six years – won’t come out on the road with them because he claims the group fronted by Axl Rose weren’t willing to pay him the same figure as everyone else.
Taking to Twitter on Thursday (08.09.16), he wrote: “Bull****. They didn’t want to split the loot equally. Simple as that. Moving right along…(sic)”
It comes after ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’ singer Axl Rose, also 54, recently admitted he had “no idea” why his old bandmate didn’t join him, Slash and Duff McKagan.
He said: “I don’t really know what to say about Izzy. It’s like you could have a conversation and think it’s one way, and the next day it’s another way. And I’m not trying to take any shots at Izzy. It’s just his thing is kind of his thing, whatever that is.”
The original line up – which consisted of Izzy and Axl, joined by Slash, Duff and Steven Adler – is also notably missing 51-year-old drummer Steven, who has played sparingly on tour due to injury.
Axl said: “I have no idea. When this started, Steven had just had back surgery and stuff, so I don’t have any idea about that.”
With Izzy absent from the line up of the ‘Paradise City’ hitmakers, Richard Fortus, 49, has been filling in on guitar. Frank Ferrer, who has been a member of the band since 2006, is on drums in the absence of Steven.
The continued lack of support from Izzy comes after the manager of the ‘Welcome To The Jungle’ musicians confirmed their tour would extend into 2017.
Speaking previously, he said: “I’ve been told there is no end date. I’ve seen plenty of date going into next year, far into next year.
“Everybody’s working together to keep a common goal and common direction – keep the machine going.”

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