You may have noticed a distinct lack of Arvin (Armani) in recent times on the ill.
Many of you are not aware, but Arvin has been pursuing his career in acting, and has finally had his debut moment where he stars as Jackie Moreno in the 2025 Netflix series Running Point!
Shout out to lil bro...
Alchemist will be making a new Mobb Deep album with him and Havoc making the beats and is also to involve Nas.
https://x.com/coopierre_/status/1889783413076357194
Best line is that, if you open old hip hop it's gonna be something different... (I.e LL, vs Luda, Vs Nas, vs Fab) but today everything is the same beat... People making love song on the same trap beat and same kill ya mom trap beat.
Great point...
Studio One 7 is now released.
Significant new features;
- Launcher (clip launch like Ableton)
- Stem separation
Not so keen on their new release plan, but those are two real significamt additions to the update.
Studio One / PreSonus (Fender) have been trying to force subscriptions subtly but getting a lot of backlash and people spotting it early.
They've now released their new pricing model, which is essentially a subscription hiding in plain sight -
$200 for full Studio One fully featured. However...
https://www.nme.com/news/music/music-fans-and-artists-hit-back-as-spotify-ceo-claims-the-cost-of-creating-content-is-close-to-zero-3761004
Whilst I agree that lots of people are making music at next to no cost this is definitely not the one