Skin Bleaching, Stacey Dash, Atlanta and Other Music News This Week

The uplifting and the straight-up crazy.

A Week of Waiting - Thank goodness for yet another week filled with music news. Don’t worry, we’ll recap for you. 2016 has already revealed itself to be a great year for new releases by big artists and we got news of another finished album — no, it’s not Frank Ocean’s. No new developments in the Drake vs. Joe Budden story, but Joe goes for a win this week and it doesn’t involve taking a stab at Drake. There wasn’t a plethora of shady moments, but thanks to a pop star, the #TaylorSwiftIsOver party gets extended a little bit. Don’t mind the social media confusion of a Snapchatter or the reappearance of two hip-hop villains. – Jon Reyes(Photo: BET)

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A Week to Recover - It's been another dramatic week in which our favorite musicians tried their hand at other professions that didn’t involve the mic. Others showed immense gratitude on the 'Gram. Oh, we also got our read on with a super revelatory new memoir. If you were wondering, we were also trolled. Here’s the past week in music news. – Jon Reyes(Photo: BET)

DJ Khaled - Working with "the best," of course, means teaming up with DJ Khaled. The Miami DJ is known for organizing ground-breaking collaborations with some of the biggest names in hop hop, like Jay Z, Diddy, Drake and Lil Wayne. We'd love to see who he'd team up with Remy. Someone from this list?(Photo: Christopher Polk/BET/Getty Images for BET)

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In adorable news, because this 100% falls under that category, DJ Khaled wrote an awesome thank you note to Beyoncé on Instagram. Go ahead and read it while you bask in gratitude. - (Photo: Christopher Polk/BET/Getty Images for BET)

Former ball player and current sports broadcaster Marcellus Wiley is out here claiming he witnessed a potential Drake and Kendrick Lamar beef. It’s still confusing as to what would prompt it and we low-key pray it'll turn into some fire music. - (Photos from left: 247PAPS.TV / Splash News, Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for MTV)

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Former ball player and current sports broadcaster Marcellus Wiley is out here claiming he witnessed a potential Drake and Kendrick Lamar beef. It’s still confusing as to what would prompt it and we low-key pray it'll turn into some fire music. - (Photos from left: 247PAPS.TV / Splash News, Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for MTV)

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This past week, The Game was moonlighting as a suicide prevention counselor. While his answer to a fan seeking advice was adequate, seek professional help if you’re struggling, like the National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255. - (Photo: Alberto Rodriguez/BET/Getty Images for BET)

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This past week, The Game was moonlighting as a suicide prevention counselor. While his answer to a fan seeking advice was adequate, seek professional help if you’re struggling, like the National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255. - (Photo: Alberto Rodriguez/BET/Getty Images for BET)

Reading Bobby Brown - Bobby Brown’s newest memoir, Every Little Step: My Story, reads like a deranged soap opera that contains gang shootings, a hell of a lot of drug use, and immense regret and pain over poor decisions. The famed singer comes clean about a lot of moments we’ve heard about or are brand new to the public at large. Coupled with the testimonials from his kids and ex-members of New Edition, the memoir is a bird’s-eye view of one the most notorious careers in R&B. Here are some of the craziest things we learned from Every Little Step: My Story. – Jon Reyes(Photo: Dev Street Books)

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Bobby Brown’s latest memoir is a must-read addition to the music memoir library. It’s an insane read that taught us...a lot. - (Photo: Dev Street Books)

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So, Kanye West is going on tour! While the potential for epic rants that eat into the setlist is too high, it’s still in line to be one of the biggest tours of 2016. - (Photo: Splash News)

It’s always a breath of fresh air when our favorites go after society’s trolls like Stacey Dash. That’s exactly what SZA and Wale did this week when Dash popped off. Ugh, #DeleteYourAccount. - (Photos from left: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images, Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images, Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for FENTY PUMA)

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It’s always a breath of fresh air when our favorites go after society’s trolls like Stacey Dash. That’s exactly what SZA and Wale did this week when Dash popped off. Ugh, #DeleteYourAccount. - (Photos from left: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images, Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images, Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for FENTY PUMA)

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More than anything, this was just a headline that we totally could have expected. Basically, Desiigner has never been to Atlanta, so the internet is going crazy over the line in his “Panda” hit: “I got broads in Atlanta.” But in the age of internet dating, geography is relative. - (Photo: Felipe Ramales / Splash News)

We’ve all been there, Usher. When you’re so amped to console a friend but they’re like, “Nah, fall back.” Musicians are just like us. - (Photos from left: Andy Lyons/Getty Images, Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Gabrielle's Angel Foundation)

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We’ve all been there, Usher. When you’re so amped to console a friend but they’re like, “Nah, fall back.” Musicians are just like us. - (Photos from left: Andy Lyons/Getty Images, Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Gabrielle's Angel Foundation)

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Here we go. So Azealia Banks vowed not to use the word “f*g” anymore and a couple of days later revealed her newly bleached skin. Is anyone else exhausted? - (Photo: John Sciulli/Getty Images for Nasty Gal)

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This year’s XXL Freshmen Class was revealed and, whether you agree or not, it is a pretty good representation of where things are going. Hop on or get left. - (Photo: XXL Magazine, Summer 2016)

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This year’s XXL Freshmen Class was revealed and, whether you agree or not, it is a pretty good representation of where things are going. Hop on or get left. - (Photo: XXL Magazine, Summer 2016)