DJ Khaled photographed on May 8th at The Fig House in Los Angeles.
Sami DrasinDJ Khaled announced Tuesday (April 27) that his 12th album Khaled Khaled will be released on Friday, April 30, via We the Best Music, Epic and Roc Nation.
"ALBUM 100% DONE! ITS TIME," Khaled shared on his socials with the alarm-clock emoji. "I TOLD MY TEAM LETS PUSH THE BUTTON! #KHALEDKHALED THIS FRIDAY APRIL 30TH!"
In a followup post, he revealed his kids would take a leading role on the recording,
"Executive produced by Asahd Khaled and Aalam Khaled," he wrote, explaining the meaning behind the album title.
He promised the album cover next and he delivered, sharing the art on Instagram. "This my name. This is my legacy. This my COVER. Time to bring MORE LIGHT," Khaled captioned the post. "I have a gift for the world. I can’t wait to share it with you. Let’s talk tomorrow, are you available?? I couldn’t post any pictures of this gift I had to sign an NDA." The cover art features Khaled alongside his two sons: Asahd and Aalam.
DJ Khaled (real name Khaled Mohamed Khaled) jumped for joy (and into his pool) last week when two famous Justins -- Justin Bieber and Justin Timberlake -- tried FaceTiming him after submitting their vocals for the upcoming record.
On Monday, he announced Khaled Khaled was "99.1% DONE" in a one-minute clip featuring a choir singing behind him as he preached the good news about his forthcoming LP. "Khaled Khaled is coming. It's special. I worked my whole career, I worked my whole life, and I'm just getting started," he declared. "But to make this album... was... God's hands all over it. Be great but be grateful. And remember, the light is love and God is love. When it's dark, be the sun. I am Khaled Khaled, child of God."
He confirmed in the comments section of Meek Mill's "#ZONE" Instagram picture from the recording studio that he received the rapper's vocals as well. "Facts ! Vocals is in! KHALED KHALED coming [soon]," he wrote on Monday.
Last July, DJ Khaled sent two top 10 singles to the Billboard Hot 100 with the help of Drake: "Popstar," which peaked at No. 3 on the chart, and "Greece," which reached No. 8. "As people that are two music execs, two guys that make music, two guys that put out albums, two guys that are bosses and CEOS, we relate to each other in a great way meaning IT'S BIG," he told Billboard in an interview last year. "If I come to Drake like, 'Let's do something,' in his head, he's already saying that 'Khaled isn't doing just anything.' That's how I look at Drake too, because everything he do is big."
Khaled Khaled will be the follow-up project to Father of Asahd, which was released in 2019 and debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. The song "Higher," featuring John Legend and Nipsey Hussle, from the album earned DJ Khaled his first Grammy at the 2020 Grammy Awards for best rap/sung performance.
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The Dropkick Murphys’ Ken Casey paused one of the band’s annual St. Patrick’s Day shows at MGM Music Hall at Boston’s Fenway Park over the weekend to call out an attendee holding up a MAGA hat.
“If you’re in a room full of people and you want to know who’s in a cult, how do you know who’s in a cult?” Casey asked the crowd on Sunday (March 16), per a video shared to social media. “They’ve been holding up a f—ing hat the whole night to represent a president.”
He then told the Donald Trump-supporting fan, “This is America, there’s no kings here,” before adding, “Anyway, if you mind, sir, we’re gonna play a song about our grandparents and people who fought Nazis in the war and s—. So if you could just shut the f— up for five minutes.”
The “I’m Shipping Up to Boston” band has been open about their contempt for Trump for years. Back in 2022, they performed at the Great Allentown Fair in Pennsylvania and Casey told Rolling Stone, “I felt like we were playing a MAGA flea market. Every other table was selling the MAGA gear and the ‘F— Joe Biden’ gear and all this stuff. I was a little overwhelmed and befuddled. It was like I was dropped into another planet.”
While onstage at the event, Casey told the crowd in a viral moment, “If you’re out there buying these f—ing hats that these swindlers are selling…then you’re part of the problem! Because you’re being duped by the greatest swindler in the history of the world…and a bunch of grifters and billionaires who don’t give a s— about you or your family!”
