While Kendrick Lamar takes his shots, J. Cole takes his rhymes to the television.

Following the release of his successful concert film and tour documentary ‘2014 Forest Hills Drive‘ a year ago, the North Carolina MC re-teams with HBO once more for his follow-up project ‘4 Your Eyez Only.’

Dive below for details…

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As a star on the rise, Justine Skye has smartly noted the importance of partnerships.

The Roc Nation singer has teamed with Forever 21 to cross promote her new song ‘Flames’ and the clothe’s store’s latest range.

Sporting the brand’s garms in the sassy visual, the purple-haired performer

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Just as Spring arrived the week sprung on music lovers some of the season’s highest anticipated releases from the likes of serial hitmakers Kendrick Lamar, Zayn, Iggy Azalea, and David Guetta (featuring Nicki Minaj & Lil Wayne).  Then, as if the overflow of back to back drops from the aforementioned weren’t enough, Chris Brown unleashed his new tune, ‘Privacy’ (believed to be the first single from his forthcoming opus ‘Heartbreak on a Full Moon’).

Critically, most of the new songs are getting thumbs up from listeners – a review we at TGJ HQ share. Commercially, on the other hand, Lamar’s new tune – ‘Heart IV’ – is the only one of the wave of new releases to crack the top 10 on the iTunes sales charts [where it sits at #1 as of time reported] while Azalea’s, ‘Mo Bounce,’ has bounced to #1 on Youtube’s streaming charts.

As we wait to see how well all the competition fares toward their Hot 100 placements on the refreshed Billboard Hot 100 in two weeks, we turn to you – That Grape Juice faithful – to ask:

Who gets your pick for best release of the week?

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The beef is cooking once again between former buddies August Alsina and Trey Songz.

Historically, the pair have had an on-off relationship (as friends) for several years, but it appeared a performance together at the BET Awards in 2015 settled their latest spat.

Well, there’s drama all over again.

Find out why below…

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Before Trey Songz could even wrap official promotion on his sixth official era, 2014’s ‘Trigga,’ fans had already begun calling for its official follow-up.  In February 2015, the Grammy-nominated crooner whet appetites by not only announcing the album’s title, ‘Tremaine,’ but also promising its content would be a venture away from his standard fare of raunch into more romantic subject matter.

“…in R&B and hip hop, I feel like it’s easy to make women feel sexy and be a bad bitch, but I feel like the Tremaine album will kind of put women on the pedestal again and show that it’s cool to love, it’s cool to want to be romantic, and it’s cool to want to be in a relationship.” (Source)

Well, it appears the ‘Heart Attack’ hitmaker has had a change of heart since then. For, upon its unique unveiling via a parodic VH1 reality dating show – ‘Tremaine the Playboy’ – the album’s weekly single releases have been nothing but typical Trey:  bleating about boning bad b-tches, bottles in the club, and neighing over trap beats.

Yet, while ‘Tremaine’ remains thematically in line with its predecessors, there is one keen difference:

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Welcome to another edition of Retro Rewind, the TGJ original feature whipped up to celebrate TV and Film’s often shocking and hilarious past.

Today, as thousands revisit discover her “rough” encounter with Whitney Houston online, we took a journey to the past to catch up with Wendy Williams…in 2003.

In that year, she received the shock of her life when she caught up with Judge Mathis to grill him on scandals he was allegedly involved in.

Little did she know that it was she who was to receive the grilling.

Listen below…

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Beneath the veneer of polite society lies the truth about what is really happening in the world we live in.

What it is?

Young girls and boys are being sold into sexual slavery.

Now, LL Cool J has stepped up and out to join the fight against the kidnapping, trafficking and abuse of human beings by urging his peers to help him locate missing girls.

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With director GoodBoyShady at the helm, Wiz Khalifa & Juicy J are ready for their close-ups in the explosive music video for ‘Cell Ready’ – the latest single from last summer’s ‘TGOD Mafia:  Rude Awakening.’

Curious to see the visual treatment afforded the TM88-produced cut?  It awaits inside:

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Packing a double whammy in the form of ‘Empire’s season 3 return and the series premiere of the Sanaa Lathan-led ‘Shots Fired,’ Wednesday (March 22) proved itself to be a big night for the good folks at FOX.

Details inside:

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They don’t call him “King Kendrick” for nothing.

In the midst of a sea of singles launched yesterday and today (see:  Zayn, David Guetta/Nicki Minaj, Mariah Carey/Remy Ma, Chris Brown, Iggy Azalea, and more), the surprise release of ‘Heart IV’ – the latest chapter of Lamar’s ongoing ‘Heart’ series – rose to the top of the iTunes Top 100 just hours after its release.

Serving as evidence of the high anticipation for its yet-titled parent album, the follow-up to 2015’s ‘To Pimp a Butterfly,’ the ringing response to ‘Heart IV’ is due in great part to social media buzz as listeners wonder who the emcee is dissing in the fiery tune:

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Chris Brown is back!

Aiming to shake off recent controversies, the R&B crooner releases new single ‘Privacy.’

A club jam which finds the singer in familiar territory, it’s the latest taste of Brown’s seventh studio album – which has a working title of ‘Heartbreak On A Full Moon.’

Get all the way into new C. Breezy below…

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Daley dazzles with help from R&B songbird Jill Scott.

The soul-filled duo deliver a dynamite duet in the form of ‘Until The Pain Is Gone,’ which has been issued as the lead release from the British singer’s sophomore album.

Previously signed to Polydor / Republic, the 27-year-old recently inked a lucrative deal with BMG.  ‘Gone’ serves as the first fruit of that union.

A scintillating slow jam, this is already on replay here at TGJ HQ.

Take a listen below…

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