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Good Intentions (album)
''Good Intentions'' is the third studio album by Canadian rapper Nav. It was released on May 8, 2020, by XO Records and Republic Records. It follows his second studio album, '' Bad Habits'', which was released in 2019. The album features guest appearances from Young Thug, Future, Gunna, Travis Scott, Lil Uzi Vert, Pop Smoke, Don Toliver, and Lil Durk. The re-release of the album, titled '' Brown Boy 2'', the deluxe edition and a sequel to his 2019 unofficial ''Brown Boy'' EP, was released three days later, on May 11, 2020. It features additional guest appearances from Quavo and Lil Duke. The album was met with mixed reviews from contemporary critics. At the aggregate site Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 54, based on 4 reviews, indicating “Mixed or Average Reviews”. Background On April 27, 2020, Nav announced the follow-up to his sophomore studio album, '' Bad Habits ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nav (rapper)
Navraj Singh "Nav" Goraya (born November 3, 1989) is a Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He began his career as a producer for other artists before embarking on his recording career, with his first major production credit being Drake (musician), Drake's 2015 single "Back to Back (Drake song), Back to Back". In early 2017, Nav signed with fellow Canadian singer the Weeknd record label, XO (record label), XO. Nav's second and third studio albums, ''Bad Habits (Nav album), Bad Habits'' (2019) and ''Good Intentions (album), Good Intentions'' (2020), both debuted atop the Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200. The latter album's lead single, "Turks (song), Turks" (with Gunna (rapper), Gunna featuring Travis Scott), debuted at number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and remains his highest-charting song as a lead artist. Also in 2020, he guest appeared on the Internet Money Records, Internet Money, Gunna and Don Toliver's single "Lemonade (Internet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunna (rapper)
Sergio Giavanni Kitchens (born June 14, 1993), known professionally as Gunna, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He signed with Young Thug's YSL Records, an imprint of 300 Entertainment in 2016, and rose to fame with his third mixtape, Drip Season 3, ''Drip Season'' 3 (2018). It moderately entered the Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200, while his collaborative mixtape with fellow Georgia rapper Lil Baby, ''Drip Harder'' (2018), peaked at number four on the chart. Its lead single, "Drip Too Hard" peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100, received Diamond (RIAA certification), diamond certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and was nominated for Best Rap/Sung Performance at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards. His debut studio album, ''Drip or Drown 2'' (2019) peaked at number three on the ''Billboard'' 200, while his second, ''Wunna (album), Wunna'' (2020) debuted atop the chart. His 2020 single, "Lemonade (Internet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uproxx
Uproxx Studios (stylized as ''UPROXX'') is an American music, entertainment and popular culture website and content studio. It was founded in 2008 by Jarret Myer and Brian Brater. The website was acquired in 2014 by Woven Digital (which later changed its name to Uproxx Media Group). In August 2018, Uproxx Media Group was acquired by Warner Music Group, with Myer remaining in control of the company's operations as publisher. In April 2024, Myer partnered with Rich Antoniello and will.i.am to form an independent company, Uproxx Studios, after acquiring Uproxx along with ''HipHopDX'' and '' Dime Magazine'' from Warner Music Group. History Uproxx was founded in 2008 by Jarret Myer and Brian Brater, who previously co-founded the hip hop label Rawkus Records in 1996. In April 2014, Uproxx was acquired by Woven Digital, an ad network company. In December 2014, Woven raised US$18 million in Series A funding with a portion of the capital allocated to growing Uproxx throug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track cartridge, 8-track or Cassette tape, cassette), or digital distribution, digital. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78 rpm records (78s) collected in a bound book resembling a photo album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the ''album era''. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983, being gradually supplanted by the cassette tape throughout the 1970s and early 1980s; the popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Normalization (statistics)
In statistics and applications of statistics, normalization can have a range of meanings. In the simplest cases, normalization of ratings means adjusting values measured on different scales to a notionally common scale, often prior to averaging. In more complicated cases, normalization may refer to more sophisticated adjustments where the intention is to bring the entire probability distributions of adjusted values into alignment. In the case of normalization of scores in educational assessment, there may be an intention to align distributions to a normal distribution. A different approach to normalization of probability distributions is quantile normalization, where the quantiles of the different measures are brought into alignment. In another usage in statistics, normalization refers to the creation of shifted and scaled versions of statistics, where the intention is that these normalized values allow the comparison of corresponding normalized values for different datasets in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pitchfork (website)
''Pitchfork'' (formerly ''Pitchfork Media'') is an American online music magazine founded in 1996 by Ryan Schreiber in Minneapolis. It originally covered alternative and independent music, and expanded to cover genres including pop, hip-hop, jazz and metal. ''Pitchfork'' is one of the most influential music publications to have emerged in the internet age. In the 2000s, ''Pitchfork'' distinguished itself from print media through its unusual editorial style, frequent updates and coverage of emerging acts. It was praised as passionate, authentic and unique, but criticized as pretentious, mean-spirited and elitist, playing into stereotypes of the cynical hipster. It is credited with popularizing acts such as Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Bon Iver and Sufjan Stevens. ''Pitchfork'' relocated to Chicago in 1999 and Brooklyn, New York, in 2011. It expanded with projects including the annual Pitchfork Music Festival (launched in Chicago in 2006), the video site ''Pitchf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HipHopDX
''HipHopDX'' is an online magazine of Hip hop music, hip hop music criticism and news. ''HipHopDX'' has over 3.5M monthly readers, the website encompassing hip hop news, interviews, music, and reviews. The website's founder and CEO is Sharath Cherian and the Head of Content is Jerry L. Barrow. ''HipHopDX'' is the flagship publication of Cheri Media Group. ''HipHopDX'' can be found on X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok. In September 2020, the website was acquired by Warner Music Group; however, the website was sold in 2024 to Uproxx Studios, managed by will.i.am, Jarret Myer, and Rich Antoniello. ''HipHopDX'''s Director of Hip Hop Journalism, Elliott Wilson, is a co-host (with DJ Hed and Jeremy Hecht) on ''The Bigger Picture'', a weekly hip-hop debate show managed by Uproxx Studios. ''HipHopDX'' was nominated for "Best Hip Hop Online Site" at the 2012 BET Hip Hop Awards. On September 3, 2013, ''The Source (magazine), The Source'' named ''HipHopDX'', n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Musical ensemble, bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All-Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar, and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as compact discs (CDs) replaced LP record, LPs and cassette (format), cassettes as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it, he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metacritic
Metacritic is an American website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted average). Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts in 1999, and was acquired by Fandom, Inc. in 2022. Metacritic turns each critic and user review into respective percentage score. This can be done either by calculating the score from the rating given or by making a subjective decision based on the review's quality. Before averaging the scores, they are adjusted based on the critic's popularity, reputation, and the number of reviews they have written. The site also includes a summary from each review and links to the original source, using colors like green, yellow, or red to indicate the overall sentiment of the critics. Metacritic won two Webby Awards for excellence as an aggregation website. It is regarded as the foremost online rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quavo
Quavious Keyate Marshall (born April 2, 1991), better known by his stage name Quavo (), is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as the frontman of the now-defunct hip hop group Migos. Formed with his nephew Takeoff and their mutual friend Offset in 2008, the group released four commercially successful studio albums before disbanding in 2023. As a solo act, Marshall has guest performed on six ''Billboard'' Hot 100 top ten singles: Post Malone's diamond-certified "Congratulations", Justin Bieber's "Intentions", Liam Payne's " Strip That Down", Drake's " Portland", and DJ Khaled's " No Brainer" and " I'm the One", the latter of which peaked atop the chart. His debut studio album, '' Quavo Huncho'' (2018), peaked at number two on the ''Billboard'' 200 and spawned the platinum-certified single " Workin Me". His second album, '' Rocket Power'' (2023), peaked at number 18 and was released in memory of Takeoff, who was fatally shot the year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lil Durk
Durk Derrick Banks (born October 19, 1992), known professionally as Lil Durk, is an American rapper. Regarded as a pioneering artist in the Chicago-based hip-hop subgenre drill music, he is often considered the subgenre's most commercially successful rapper.Dylan Green, May 26, 202"Lil Durk: Almost Healed Album Review" ''Pitchfork (website), Pitchfork'', ''As a member of drill's first wave in Chicago in the early 2010s, Durk's music has always been rife with amped-up tales...'' ''The drill rapper's mainstream takeover continues with an engaging, guest-heavy, but otherwise run-of-the-mill album.''Mosi Reeves, May 26, 202"Lil Durk Balances Chiraq Realism and Global Pop Ambition on ‘Almost Healed’" ''Rolling Stone'', ''The drill superstar's latest is an occasionally thrilling mix of contradictions...'' ''He's arguably the most commercially viable proponent of drill music...'' ''But it's not too long before Almost Healed swerves into an incessant stream of goon antics, drill thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Toliver
Caleb Zackery "Don" Toliver ( ; born June 12, 1994) is an American rapper and singer. He emerged to fame in 2018 with the release of his debut mixtape, ''Donny Womack'', and his feature on the song "Can't Say" by fellow Houston rapper Travis Scott from the latter's third studio album ''Astroworld (album), Astroworld''. Scott also signed him to his record label, Cactus Jack Records, in a joint venture with Atlantic Records. Toliver gained more attention in mainstream music in 2019 with his single, "No Idea (song), No Idea", and his involvement on the Cactus Jack label and Scott's compilation album, ''JackBoys'', in which he was featured on the song "What to Do?" and had his own single, "Had Enough (Don Toliver song), Had Enough" (featuring Quavo and Offset (rapper), Offset). In 2020, Toliver released his debut studio album, ''Heaven or Hell (album), Heaven or Hell'', and also released a collaboration with Internet Money Records, Internet Money and Gunna (rapper), Gunna titled "Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
