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What's gwanin?

Libby Beacham
Mar 5, 2017
2 min read

Another instalment of the latest music news, this time with a down with the kids and hilarious title. Not sure how many people got the Tom Jones reference last time but hey ho, I was laughing and that's what counts.

Moving on swiftly...

Big news for grimers and news that I am sure any Stormzy fans will be well aware of. Stormzy's debut album 'Gang Signs and Prayer' made it to number one in the UK Charts, which is a big step for the recognition of grime artists. It even beat Rag 'N' Bone Man's 'Human' to the punch, which has been called 'one of the closest chart battles in recent memory'. All I can say is with the display at the Brits, with Rag 'N' Bone man receiving two awards and Stormzy winning *ahem* none, the win is deserved for the lad. 69,000 chart sales in his first week is not a bad show so congrats Stormzy, I was rooting for ya.

Now, if you are holding in a full bladder I would go and intentionally empty it now, as after this news you may have no say in the matter. Drake has been working on some top secret playlist project that no one out of his inner circle has any idea of when it will drop. If this isn't intense enough, it has been revealed that The Weeknd will be featured on his 'More Life' project. Hells to the yeah! Previous collabs between the pair have been a thing of beauty, 'Crew Love', 'Live For' and 'The Zone' to name a few, so great things are expected of this next project. 'More Life' was supposed to drop yesterday, as Drake had hinted with a now deleted Instagram post (do ya think we are fools Drake?!) of a note displaying 'More Life March 4', but all this disappointment is only going to lead to a legendary release.

To take the tone down a notch, it is important to talk about the news of Louis Tomlinson of Separate Directions (One Direction to you humourless sorts) getting into a brawl in an airport and attacking a female fan. Now, I know it is more of a shock to the system when you hear of a lad hitting a girl, and there is no arguing with that but violence should not be condoned by anyone. It would be no more okay if Mr Tomlinson had fisticuffs with another lad. But to get back to the story, Louis got his hair off at a photographer at LAX airport for messing with his woman, which lead to the paparazzi member getting sent to the hospital with a concussion. There was then a separate kick-off between his gf Eleanor Calder and some female fans who were filming the altercation, with Louis coming to the rescue and allegedly 'socking' one of them in the face and dragging her to the ground. Louis was then arrested and given $20,000 bail. On the plus side, Louis could now release a remix of his 1D song 'Kiss You' with the more appropriate title, 'Concuss You'. I smell a silver lining.

You can read more on this story at-

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/mar/04/one-directions-louis-tomlinson-arrested-after-row-with-photographer