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Chances are that whatever you got for your last birthday, it doesn’t compare to what The Kid LAROI got upon turning 16 in 2019: a trip to Greece, and a feature from Juice WRLD.
The young Aussie upstart and the late Chicago superstar already had a history. LAROI had opened shows for Juice in Sydney and Melbourne earlier in the year, and had become the latest signing by Juice’s managers, Grade A Productions. But one night last August, Juice surprised The Kid with a freestyled verse for his brand new song “Go,” the first taste of LAROI’s mixtape F--k Love, which drops later this month. The music video, out today, opens with footage from that night in Greece. “That’s a $200,000 dollar gift, bro!” Juice says with a laugh before he lays down his vocal.
In retrospect, of course, the feature was even more priceless. Only four months after that gift, one of hip-hop’s brightest stars was gone, a sudden death that was a gut punch to music and the culture, and devastated Juice’s family and friends, including Grade A and LAROI, who to this day calls Juice his “big brother.”

As a keepsake, “Go” sparkles, with the mentor’s voice blending effortlessly with his protégé's. The Steve Cannon-directed visual alternates between heart-rending road footage of Juice and LAROI, and more recent scenes, shot in Los Angeles, of LAROI with a biker crew, and alone on a balcony, in front of a mic that recalls the one used by Juice at the beginning of the clip. It’s melancholy and affecting, but somehow, also lighthearted.
It’s been a whirlwind year and a half for LAROI (real name: Charlton Howard). Until the one-two punch of Juice’s death and the coronavirus outbreak, he had been on a steady, upward trajectory: a record deal through Grade A with Sony Music, a pairing with Lil Skies on “Moving," those support dates for Juice (in both January and November of last year), a life-altering move across the Pacific, from Sydney to Los Angeles, a spot on Rolling Loud’s inaugural New York festival, and a major label debut single, “Let Her Go,” with a video directed by Gen Z rap’s premier lensman Cole Bennett.
The two paired again for the even bigger hit “Diva," LAROI’s January collaboration with Lil Tecca, which featured the two rappers playing hilariously off each other in a trailer park. Then came COVID, and a global quarantine that threatened to put the brakes on a young career in the process of blowing up. Nonetheless, LAROI has stayed remarkably visible over the past couple of months -- scoring a viral hit from out of the blue in March with “Addison Rae," named after the TikTok starlet, followed by “Fade Away," a musing on quick fame and fortune with NYC hotshot Lil Tjay, with whom The Kid toured in early 2020.

This month promises an even bigger spotlight with F--k Love. It’s LAROI’s first collection of songs since 2018’s independently released EP 14 With A Dream. The new project – melodically even stronger, sporting immediate, infectious hooks – is steeped in relationship drama. Charlton’s love life seems about as active and turbulent as you’d expect from a 16-year-old with newfound fame, particularly since his relocation to the City of Angels. Still, he's never been more vulnerable than on tracks like “Erase U," “Too Scared," “Wish” and the tuneful “Tell My Why.”
It wasn’t that long ago that LAROI’s life was very different. For much of his early years, Howard and his family bounced from one hardscrabble New South Wales community to another, including the South Sydney suburb of Waterloo (the place he most considers “home") and even spent four years in far-off-the-beaten-path Broken Hill, a outback mining town that was not exactly a hotbed of hip-hop. But starting with raps over beats recorded on his mom’s phone and posted to SoundCloud, one thing led to another, and attention truly ramped up when LAROI placed third in the 2018 edition of “Unearthed High," a competition for high school artists by renowned Aussie...

Playboi Carti fans have theorized that today could finally be the day that the Atlanta rapper releases his new studio album Whole Lotta Red. The reasoning behind their theories comes from Carti's recent posts on social media, which have included a bunch of 3's and 0's. Reaching slightly, people are under the assumption that the vampiric artist is planning to drop on November 30 as a result.
If he doesn't come through today, people will continue to grow increasingly frustrated with the lack of updates from the rapper, which is what killed his hype the first time the album was rumored to drop.
Thankfully, if Playboi Carti doesn't decide to release his album, we've got Mario Judah to stand in for him.

Nobody would have thought that the hottest new kid on the scene, Mario Judah, could pull off such an impressive Playboi Carti impression but it turns out that he sounds just like the rapper at times. He went live on Instagram recently and recorded a song in Carti's style, getting the baby voice perfectly and promising that, if Carti doesn't drop Whole Lotta Red, he will.
"I'll drop that bitch. I will drop Whole Lotta Red if you don't," said Mario Judah in a new video, screaming and landing a spot-on Carti impression. Then, he went all-out with the impression, recording a song over a Carti-type beat and sounding almost exactly like the rapper. So, if things end up failing for the "Die Very Rough" artist, we know that he's got a potential job as a Playboi Carti impersonator on TikTok.

Mario Judah isn't playing around at all, he's giving Carti one full week to drop his new album. If it's not out by then, he'll be dropping his own version of Whole Lotta Red. If you don't believe him, just take a look at what he did with his viral remake of DaBaby's "ROCKSTAR".

The title Defending Digga D (BBC Three/BBC One) has a double meaning. While this intimate documentary tells the story of the labyrinthine legal tangle that the UK drill rapper is in, and follows his lawyer’s attempts to free him in more ways than you might expect, it also makes it plain from the outset where it places its loyalties. This is not a critical or particularly balanced take on Digga’s story, but it is revelatory, particularly for people who may not be familiar with the still relatively underground music genre drill.
It was on BBC iPlayer for a few days before it aired, but it does feel a shame that it was buried so late in the schedules – airing at 11.55pm – as unfamiliar audiences may stand to learn the most from it.

It begins with the moment the director, Marian Mohamed, first meets Digga, real name Rhys Herbert. Their meeting takes place outside Feltham young offender institute, from where he has just been released. This was his fourth time in prison, having been recalled three times on his original sentence, and he hopes it will be his last. His longsuffering manager, Bills, is there to greet him, too, as are a group of friends. Bills describes managing Digga D as “exciting, frustrating, stressful”. This is borne out on film, again and again, although you suspect it barely touches the surface of what is happening behind the scenes. Bills is keen to point out that it is worth it. “He’s a creative genius,” he says.
The numbers back up his huge appeal: millions of YouTube plays; 200,000 sales of his Top 20 single No Diet, which also, bizarrely, ended up soundtracking a video of Zac Efron, posted by Zac Efron.

Through a series of interviews, each more trusting than the last, Digga tells Mohamed his story, as events continue to unfold around him. He is charismatic and it is obvious from the beginning that he is a bit of a charmer. He mocks rappers who take themselves too seriously. When we first meet him, he is just 19. Drill is at the centre of the age-old debate about whether rapping about violence documents it or inspires it. Defending Digga D puts forward a more complicated argument – that it is probably a bit of both. Digga says he rapped about crime before he was really doing it, but, as he got older, he did not need to exaggerate quite so much. Bills is circumspect about the cause-and-effect argument. “It can [incite violence],” he says. “Same way a movie can. Same way a book can.” The viewer is left to draw their own conclusions.

The legal side is as bizarre as it is interesting. The rapper was imprisoned for gang-related violent disorder. The details of his offence are not given much time or focus – again, the title says it all – but this is about the aftermath and particularly how it relates to his music career. At 17, he was given a criminal behaviour order, which bans certain themes in his work. Lyrics and videos have to be run past police, who check them for forbidden references to violence or crime. This film poses the question of whether that amounts to censorship. It is truly odd to see him talking through his lyrics on the phone to his lawyer, Cecilia, and it highlights the limitations of such an approach. “Jump out and put ’em in a coffin?” she asks, quoting his work. He explains that it is a dance move, a meme, that it is popular on YouTube. “You’re killing me?” It means that someone has made him laugh. At points, it is genuinely absurd.
The documentary has already caused some debate, with accusations that it glorifies knife crime. I don’t think that is a reasonable claim, but neither does it do much to show the devastation. Its approach is resistant to easy questions and easy answers. It frequently argues that it is complicated; on the evidence displayed here, it is. Digga is threatened with recall to prison after attending a Black Lives Matter protest. He complains online and gets a formal warning for “stating untruths”. Later, Cecilia notes...

If pop idol-dom had a platonic ideal, it might look a lot like Shawn Mendes: dreamy, dimpled, dulcet- voiced. He’s like a sweeter Justin Bieber, minus the pesky personal issues and neck tattoos; Ed Sheeran’s strummy sincerity repoured into 74 inches of clean Canadian marble.

Over the past half-dozen years, the Toronto-bred singer has also steadily, almost stealthily, managed to amass a truly startling set of numbers — more than 20 million albums and 175 million singles sold; some 50 billion song streams, with over 8 billion music-video views on YouTube alone. In 2018, Time magazine named him to its 100 Most Influential People list alongside astrophysicists, tech moguls, and Kim Jong Un; his concerts, when those were a thing that still existed beyond a Zoom lens, briskly sold out stadiums.

And yet it can also be easy to feel like we hardly know Mendes at all: In a world of constant unmitigated access, his greatest scandals to date have been a handful of racially insensitive tweets unearthed from his early teen years (he promptly apologized) and a particular way of kissing girlfriend Camila Cabello that some fans dubbed “like fish.” (Kids! just let them do as the guppies do.)

Accordingly, even though Wonder is his fourth studio album, it often feels like the sound of an artist still discovering himself in real time — the pleasant but vaguely unplaceable style of previous hits like “Treat You Better” and “There’s Nothing Holding Me Back” now gilded with swirling psychedelic pomp (on the expansive title track), ring-my-bell disco (“Teach Me How to Love”), and slinky R&B (“Piece of You”).

“Call My Friends” blooms from its pensive piano intro into a kind of candied glam-rock stomper, a YOLO ode to wasted youth. Gossamer confection “Dream” yields to the plucked strings and spacious ’60s soul of “Song for No One.” At 22, Mendes is freer, maybe, to express his fondness for sexual tension and cocktails and reflect on the vagaries of early fame. Yet even those allusions tend toward the unfailingly polite. (You can take the boy out of Canada, etcetera.)

“You put me on a pedestal and tell me I'm the best/Raise me up into the sky until I'm short of breath,” he coos on “Monster” — a duet, no less, with his fellow Ottowan and traveler in Gen-Z existentialism Bieber —  “But what if I, what if I trip/What if I, what if I fall?” He very well may one day, and even get a good record out of it. But for now the world, and all that wonder, are still his to lose.

A new posthumous single from Juice WRLD is set to arrive today, it has been confirmed.

The late rapper (real name Jared Higgins) will join forces with Benny Blanco on ‘Real Shit’ – with the latter confirming the new track on Instagram.
Juice WRLD died in December 2019 from an accidental overdose at the age of 21.

“Tomorrow”, wrote Blanco – alongside an animation of the track’s artwork and a photo of the two artists together.
“You two have some of the hardest songs together so like i’m excited,” wrote one of Blanco’s fans.

The new track comes after it was revealed that another posthumous album from the late rapper is reportedly in the works, after his first posthumous album called ‘Legends Never Die’ hit Number One in the UK album charts.
Asked what he was currently working on by The Hollywood Fix, rapper Lil Bibby said: “JUICE Wrld, next album…”
When asked to clarify whether another album was coming, he replied: “I’m talking too much…”
Reviewing Juice WRLD’s ‘Legends Never Die’, NME wrote: “Where other posthumous projects have succeeded – see the recent Pop Smoke album ‘Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon’ – in ensuring that these larger-than-life characters are accurately represented in their charisma and verve, ‘Legends Never Die’ falls flat.

“What mattered most to Juice WRLD and his fans was his voice and his message. Despite the contagious nature of most of the tracks, that message is muted or left jumbled within a meandering album. Juice WRLD’s music came to life most when he made it seem like you were the only two people in the room like he was speaking directly to you, the listener. That intimacy is sadly missing here.”

Bad Bunny has seemingly been out a lot lately: Performing for the Latin Grammys on the streets of Puerto Rico and literally playing an entire concert atop a flatbed in the streets of Manhattan in September. But what may be his most impactful work of the year was all conceived while in lockdown in Puerto Rico.
Bad Bunny’s third album of 2020 (following YHLQMDLG and Las Que No Iban a Salir), the wistfully titled El Último Tour Del Mundo (The Last Tour of the World), came out at midnight after Thanksgiving Day. The date is vintage Bad Bunny: YHLQMDLG came out Feb. 29 (Leap Day) and X100PRE on Dec. 24 (Christmas Eve 2018).
But the music is not vintage Bad Bunny. Yes, you’ll find perreo in the form of the now epic “Dákiti” with Jhay Cortez, currently the most-streamed song in the world and No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200. But most of El Ultimo is more introspective, sometimes acoustic fare and only two collabs: one with R&B newcomer Abra and the other with Rosalía (“La Noche de Anoche”).

“It’s completely different from YHLQMDLG. This is a more sentimental album, more chill, the kind of thing you can listen to in your room,” Bad Bunny tells Billboard.
Here’s everything important you need to know about the 16-track El Último Tour Del Mundo, in his own words.

I had the album ready for a while. And I’d say: Damn, I’m missing a song. Because the album goes into a different, weird direction. It needed a track that connects with everyone. A party track. Jahycor [Jhay Cortez] and Mora already had the song written and prepared. I added my lyrics, my touch, over Jhay Cortez’s rhythm. Then we sent it to Tainy so he could also put his touch, and everything was a very dynamic, very cool team effort. I really liked the way we worked. We spent time with Jhaycor in the studio, discussing things, going back and forth: "What do you think if we add this, if we change this," and he would say, "Diablos, that’s great," and that’s how it went until we got this hit. Damn.

At the end of the day, it’s the same method I always use. I work in my space, relaxed, I write anywhere -- in my hotel room, on the plane, in my house. I kept creating my songs and I had them ready to go so that the moment I was able to get together with La Paciencia [real name Roberto Rosado, Bad Bunny’s longtime collaborator and sound engineer], I would record  them immediately. We recorded many of them in Puerto Rico, others in Los Angeles, and the very last one in Mexico.

I have “Sorry Papi” with Abra. She’s a girl from Los Angeles. She’s extremely talented. She does her own beats, her own music and she’s independent. And I have another one called “La Noche de Anoche” featuring Rosalía. We recorded separately because of COVID and our schedules. We’d been trying to work together for a while and the right opportunity hadn’t come up. Chris Jedi sent me a track with a rhythmic base he did with Rosalía, and I thought it was cool, but I let it sit for a while. A couple of days later, I couldn’t stop singing the song. So I told Chris I would take a stab at it and see what came out.

Even though the Rosalía collab didn’t come about the way I usually do things, I feel that if I broke rules with this album, it’s more in the music than the process. I’m very happy with it because it’s completely different from YHLQMDLG. This is a more sentimental album, more chill, the kind of thing you can listen to in your room. I laugh because people told me I kept on releasing perreo at a time when people couldn’t go out and party, and I said, "OK. Now you can’t complain." This is an album for you to stay at home, chill, having a beer, a glass of wine, paying attention to the lyrics. It’s a bit more rock 'n' roll, a lot of guitars -- there’s one song that only has guitar -- it’s more musical, has more fusions, and also reggaetón and rap.

Mixtape Wayne is making his return this week.
Five years after the release of No Ceilings 2, Lil Wayne has plans to revive his classic mixtape series. Complex can exclusively announce that this Friday, November 27, he will release No Ceilings 3 on DatPiff.
“The mixtape game seemed to be a dying art and since I’m one of the pioneers of the craft, and it played such a big part in my career, I felt it was only right to resurrect it,” Lil Wayne tells Complex. “Also, it’s a lot of songs out here I wanted to kill my way!”
DJ Khaled, who hosts the mixtape, previewed songs from the project on Wednesday afternoon. “They always try to put a ceiling on our greatness, so we took the fuckin’ ceiling off,” Khaled said in the beginning of a clip he uploaded to Instagram, before playing a snippet of a Drake verse that will be on the tape. He also previewed a new Wayne freestyle over Lil Baby and 42 Dugg’s “We Paid.”
After facing blowback for his controversial decision to meet with Donald Trump before the presidential election, Wayne’s focus has shifted to the rollout of new music for the time being. To commemorate the release of No Ceilings 3, he worked with a trio of artists to create three different mixtape covers.

HustleGrl, who created the artwork for the first No Ceilings mixtape as a teenager, linked up with Wayne again for one of the three covers (seen above). “Working with Wayne years later made me feel nostalgic,” she tells Complex. “I remember being 17 and I had designed the first No Ceilings cover for him; that same excitement and ambition to kill it is there today. Since then, my design style has changed and I wanted to create something iconic for the influential artist that he is. I enjoy working with someone like Lil Wayne because I always get creative freedom, which always yields the best results possible.”
Reflecting on the process, she adds, “This time around, I was as excited as the first time getting the call to design No Ceilings. Lil Wayne is working on a new mixtape, and sure enough, the universe once again aligned our creative paths. A call like that will instantly get your brain going. I couldn’t wait to use the new techniques and styles that I’ve learned since the last time I had worked with him. I’m very happy to be a part of Wayne’s re-release and I look forward to sharing our work with the world.”

Gustavo Zermeño Jr, known as gz.jr in the art community, feels similarly. Having made a name for himself in Los Angeles for his iconic murals, he jumped at the opportunity to work with Wayne. Speaking about the experience of creating cover artwork (seen above), Gustavo tells Complex, “Growing up I can still remember when Wayne dropped No Ceilings. I’ve always been a fan of his music so being able to work with him designing the cover of No Ceilings 3 has really been a full circle moment for me. I hope his fans enjoy the cover as much as I have enjoyed creating it and bringing it to life.”

ABH, who created one of the covers, adds, “Wayne is the GOAT, period, so having the opportunity to show him in an artistic way for a classic project like No Ceilings is a fucking honor. And I’ve been on tour with him as a youngin,’ so it’s a full-circle moment for me, as well.”
While you wait for No Ceilings 3 to arrive on DatPiff this Friday, you can hear a preview of some of the music below.

Miley Cyrus fans, rejoice! Plastic Hearts, the singer's seventh studio album, will be out just in time for the holidays. The record is due for release on Nov. 27, which Cyrus revealed in an emotional Instagram post in late October. Reflecting on how the album has been two years in the making, Cyrus explained in the caption that much of the initial body of work was destroyed along with her Malibu home during the 2018 California wildfires. "I lost my house in a fire but found myself in its ashes," she wrote.

Cyrus has already released five tracks from the highly anticipated record, the latest being a collaboration with Dua Lipa called "Prisoner." The edgy new single arrived just a few weeks after Cyrus released "Edge of Midnight" featuring Stevie Nicks, which is a remix of her song "Midnight Sky" that dropped in August. The singer also gave fans two cover songs; a version of Blondie's "Heart of Glass" and a rendition of The Cranberries' "Zombie." If the covers are any indication, Plastic Hearts will diverge from Cyrus' 2017 pop country album, Younger Now, and will offer fans a more disco-inspired, rock-and-roll sound.
If you're curious about what else Cyrus has up her sleeve for Plastic Hearts, you've come to the right place. The album will feature several collaborations with many legendary artists, and the pop star has already revealed the full tracklist. From the song titles to the special guest features, here's everything there is to know about Miley's seventh studio album.

Plastic Hearts will debut the day after Thanksgiving on Friday, Nov. 27. The album is available to pre-order now on Cyrus' website and other places where music is sold. The singer announced the official date of release on social media alongside a photo of the pink and black album art — a collaboration with photographer Mick Rock and artist Alana O'Herlihy — that evokes major Joan Jett energy.

A few days after the grand debut of "Edge of Midnight," Cyrus unveiled the album's full track list, which includes a total of 12 songs. The songs are as follows:

1. “WTF Do I Know”
2. “Plastic Hearts”
3. “Angels Like You”
4. “Prisoner” (feat. Dua Lipa)
5. “Gimme What I Want”
6. “Night Crawling” (feat. Billy Idol)
7. “Midnight Sky”
8. “High”
9. “Hate Me”
10. “Bad Karma” (feat. Joan Jett)
11. “Never Be Me”
12. “Golden G String”

Yes, in case you managed to gloss over the major names in the aforementioned section, there are quite a few notable collaborators. A song with Nicks is already one for the ages, but Cyrus took it a step further with songs that feature Dua Lipa ("Prisoner"), Billy Idol ("Night Crawling"), and Joan Jett ("Bad Karma"). Producer Mark Ronson, who worked with Cyrus on the album, also confirmed that singer-songwriter Angel Olsen is featured in "Bad Karma" as a guitarist, tweeting that Olsen's guitar "cuts like razor wire."

On Wednesday, Nov. 18, Cyrus began teasing "Prisoner" on social media by sharing a short clip of the music video. Come Friday, Nov. 20, the song and video were out for all to enjoy. Of course, it wasn't long before fans took to Twitter to share their thoughts about the steamy visual, which featured Miley and Dua closer than they've ever been before.

As mentioned above, the music video for "Prisoner" came out on Nov. 20, prompting a big reaction from fans on social media. Not to mention, just a few hours after its release, the video managed to rack up more than 4 million views on YouTube. And while some fans couldn't get over the duo's chemistry, others couldn't stop thinking about the quote that appeared at the end of the video: "In loving memory of all my exes, eat sh*t."

"Prisoner" isn't the only video Cyrus has released from Plastic Hearts, though. In August, Cyrus released the music video for "Midnight Sky" to coincide with the single's release. She self-directed the video, and...

Footage showing King Von and Quando Rondo in a physical altercation the day Von was fatally shot recently surfaced, but Quando says he was acting in self-defense during the brawl.
TMZ reports that Quando's team says that the rapper wasn't looking for a fight the night Von was shot dead in Atlanta, and Von was the aggressor in the fight, which took place before gunfire was exchanged at the scene. Sources close to the situation claim that Quando was outside the club napping in a car, and when he woke up he was greeted by King Von's crew.
The situation got tense between the two camps, with Von allegedly approaching the rapper with aggression that ultimately resulted in a fist fight. Footage from outside the club shows Von throwing punches at members of Quando's crew, even though Quando supposedly didn't know exactly what was going on. One of the members of Quando's crew has been arrested for felony murder, but police are not investigating the rapper himself and currently consider the case closed. Sources have added that the rapper feels bad about the situation, although the two camps have yet to talk since the shooting.
The fight ultimately ended in gunfire, but it still remains unclear who exactly was the gunman who shot King Von. Plain clothes officers were at the scene when the shooting took place, and attempted to return gunfire. Von was taken to the hospital in critical condition after the shooting, and died in hospital later that day.

Timothy Leeks, who is known as Lul Timm, was arrested one day after the shooting took place. Mark Blakely, 34, was also killed in the shooting while another man is in the hospital in critical condition, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Johnny Harris, 21, and Kevin Jones, 23, have been charged in the shooting incident. Jones was hit with a count of aggravated assault while Harris was charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

The ARMY has BTS' "Life Goes On" music video to look forward to at the end of the week, but they can already catch a glimpse of it today (Nov. 17).

The K-pop septet released a 26-second snippet of the visual, which was directed by BTS' youngest member Jungkook, on Tuesday ahead of its full-length release on Friday, Nov. 20. The trailer shows the boys getting cozy by an outdoor fireplace before heading indoors and changing into their pajamas, all while ambient piano and guitar music plays in the background.

BigHit Entertainment announced the teaser on Twitter, and fans flooded the replies with praise for Jungkook on his work as the music video director. He's directed and edited plenty of short clips as part of their Golden Closet Film (G.C.F.) travel vlog series that show BTS all over the world.

"Life Goes On" will be on BTS' upcoming album BE, which is also due Friday. They're also planning to bring the "Dynamite" and debut television performance of "Life Goes On" at the 2020 American Music Awards on Sunday, Nov. 22. BTS has released a “Life Goes On" music video teaser from their new album BE, out November 20.

The teaser is admittedly brief, with ambient piano soundtracking a campfire hangout with the members, soft colors and flickering light everywhere. Then the scene changes, as the septet gather in pajama sets and loungewear to watch a video together.

We don't know much about “Life Goes On” yet, though the BTS official Twitter shared what could possibly be “Life Goes On” lyrics last week: “Like an echo in the forest/Like an arrow in the blue sky/On my pillow, on my table/Life goes on like this again.” BigHit also previously shared the credits for “Life Goes on” on Twitter. Produced by longtime BTS producer Pdogg, the song's writing/composition credits include Pdogg, RM, Ruuth, Chris James, Antonina Armato, Suga, and J-Hope. The Korean septet has talked often over the past few months about the album features heightened creative input from all the members, including in the design and art direction of the concept photos. BE will include eight tracks, including their Billboard no. 1 hit “Dynamite.”

“Each member has a significant share for this upcoming album,” BTS told Teen Vogue previously. “An increase of direct participation in the album-making process allowed us to explore more aspects of our music and creativity.”

BE and “Life Goes on” will be released in just a few days, but you can go ahead and pre-order the album. BTS will perform “Life Goes On” at the upcoming American Music Awards on November 22.