Kid Cudi to Co-Headline This Year’s Governors Ball at New York’s Citi Field

Kid Cudi is the beau of the Ball

The 37-year-old half-Mexican American singer/rapper is set to co-headline the 2022 Governors Ball festival at Citi Field in Queens, New York.

Kid CudiKid Cudi will co-headline alongside J.Cole and Halsey at the festival, which will take place on June 10-12.

The event will also feature sets from Migos, Jack Harlow, Louis the Child, Black Pumas, Skepta, Beabadoobee, Flume, Roddy Ricch, YG, Tove Lo, Denzel Curry, Playboi Carti, Glass Animals, Kaytranada, Clairo, Becky G, Jazmine Sullivan, Japanese Breakfast, 100 Gecs and many more.

Tickets for the event go on sale on Thursday, January 27 at noon ET on the event’s website; a special presale for three-day and one-day passes and VIP tickets will open exclusively for Citi cardmembers from 10 a.m. ET on Tuesday (Jan. 25) through 11:59 a.m. ET on Thursday (Jan. 27).

In a release announcing this year’s event, promoters Founders Entertainment also said that they’ll be donating $25,000 to the New York City Mayor’s Fund for the victims of January’s devastating Bronx apartment building fire that killed 17 and injured dozens of others; attendees can also support the victims of the blaze by donation to the relief effort via The Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City.

Other artists slated to perform at this year’s Governors Ball include JPEGMAFIA, Coi Leray, Channel Tres, Joji, Still Woozy, ASHNIKKO, Chelsea Cutler, Diesel (Shaquille O’Neal), Gus Dapperton, J.I.D, COIN, Soccer Mommy, Surf Curse, DUCKWRTH, Del Water Gap and more.

The festival celebrated its 10th anniversary in the fall with a show that featured headliners Post Malone, Billie Eilish and A$AP Rocky. As usual, the 2022 festival will feature a rich array of craft cocktails, beers, food, surprise pop-up performances and art installations.

Becky G & Her “True Damage” Squad Release “Giants” Video

Becky G is having a giant moment…

Riot Games has unleashed “Giants” in its latest cross-cultural collaboration featuring in-game hip-hop collective True Damage, featuring the 22-year-old Mexican American bilingual singer/rapper.

Becky G

It’s the follow-up to last year’s League of Legends anthem, K/DA’s “Pop/Stars,” which took the world by storm. 

Released over the weekend to coincide with the annual League of Legends Championships, “Giants” features the voices of Becky G, DuckwrthKeke PalmerSoyeonof K-pop girl group (G)I-dle, and Thutmose.

The multilingual track is performed predominantly in English with occasional verses in Spanish and Korean, it was released alongside an animated music video that features the quintet’s in-game counterparts — Qiyana, Senna, Akali, Ekko, and Yasuo — performing the dynamic track.  

Offering up a more of a hip-hop slant than the pop-focused “Pop/Stars,” “Giants” marks the inauguration of the in-game hip-hop collective known as True Damage. Soyeon, who voices Akali, is the only vocalist to return from K/DA to feature in the new song.

In the 24-hour period following its release, the music video achieved nearly 6 million views on YouTube

The five artists not only voice the members of True Damage but also performed at the League of Legends World Championship Final Opening Ceremony in Paris on Sunday.