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Showing posts with label #Nurys #NurysMateo. Show all posts
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Two years ago - what seems an eternity by now, the mainstream music scene was introduced to a fiery female rapper who first made waves on the biggest franchise on VH1 and perhaps the most star-studded in all of reality TV. Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, better known as Cardi B., made her debut as part of the cast of the first generation of Love & Hip Hop in New York City, who was on several seasons of the show as an up-and-coming artist before turning her attention to putting her stamp on the music world.
There's no doubt that Cardi is the biggest lady in the hip-hop universe, and two of those from the eight seasons of MTV's Are You The One? have had a chance to get close with her. Years before her ascent into stardom, Mike Crescenzo appeared in one of her early music videos before he himself would be cast on the now-legendary Season 3 cast in 2015 as well as The Real World a year later. But that would pale in comparison to what the other AYTO alum got to do with that girl from the Bronx.
The first eight seconds of the "Press" video that dropped during the midst of -- ironically enough, a publicized court case involving a 2018 brawl at a strip club in Queens, saw someone familiar to us MTV Reality fans get to lock lips with Cardi. And this past week, it was deja vu... and to paraphrase a certain pop star who's also been in the news of late, "Oops... Cardi & Nurys Did It Again!"
For so many of us, we all look forward to the weekend after a long and excruciating week at work, at school and sometimes doing other things that would take up our Monday to Friday lives. In a perfect world, the period from Friday afternoon until Sunday night would be when the entertainment industry unleashes its biggest content... but given the huge effect of the pandemic that's not the case for the movie industry or for the live events scene. But even without the usual array of live concerts, the show must go on for the music industry to give us some fresh content during these tough times, and they've provided us with plenty of comfort food in an otherwise dark start to this decade.
For years, it was a hodgepodge for when new music would be released around the world: those in Europe got first dibs on checking out new albums and singles from top artists on Mondays, a day before those across the Atlantic in North America would join in, and followed by other nations sometimes days later. But five years ago, the trade association that represents the global music industry decided to follow in their movie counterparts' steps and establish a uniform release day for new music releases on Friday. And for those in America and up in Canada, it's become a tradition for music fans here to stay up until midnight to stream new albums and watch new music videos premiere online when it's posted.
The pre-Thanksgiving New Music Friday last week saw the holidays arrive one week early in music land, headlined mega collaborations of Canadian megastars Justin Bieber & Shawn Mendes in "Monster" and Miley Cyrus & Dua Lipa in "Prisoner." The world's biggest boy band BTS returned with a new album Be, as its lead single "Life Goes On" offers a message of hope to their fandom known as the Army, and there were also new music videos that were just as juicy. Ariana Grande dropped the second clip from her new album entitled "34+35," while Grammy queen Billie Eilish brought us to the mall on "Therefore I Am." New songs by Jason Derulo, Sia, DaBaby, Meek Mill, Future, Chloe x Halle, Ava Max, French Montana, Kelly Rowland and Josh Groban rounded out a stellar lineup, providing a lead-in to last Sunday's American Music Awards.
Another artist who joined in on the fun of both the AMA's and that star-studded NMF is one who has certainly had quite a 2020: Megan Pete turned 25 back in February having spent all her childhood and adult life in the Houston area. But her future was pretty much set in stone when her mom Holly decided to not drop young Megan at a daycare center and instead brought her to the recording studio while recording music under her alias of "Holly-Wood." Once the daughter reached that sweet age of 16, Megan began to write raps of her own but had to wait until she turned 21 and after graduating high school to pursue music full-time due to hip-hop's suggestive nature.
While at Prairie View A&M, Megan began making waves when she uploaded videos of her freestyles on social media and one of those rap battles became viral, which kicked the wheels off of her rise to stardom. As she rapidly grew her following and by the time she got her diploma, she eventually adopted the name "Megan Thee Stallion" in reference to being like a horse while in high school due to her 5'10" height and her body frame, a large-boned endomorph.
Usually, summers like these would be the biggest time of year for those in the music industry as tours and festivals take over amphitheaters and sporting venues all throughout the hottest season of the year... but this one is like no other: those venues are empty as we continue to grapple with the COVID reality that we living with. But still, there is plenty of new music to go around to keep us company at home and wherever we may be to keep ourselves entertained.
This year marks a decade & a half since the emergence on the scene of a 16-year-old from a suburb of over 2,500 people outside of Richmond, Virginia. It was in summer 2005 that "Run It!" from Chris Brown was released on pop radio stations, and it instantly became a song of the summer. And was the sign of things to come when, during Thanksgiving week, the track hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time Chris' self-titled debut album also dropped and eventually followed the lead of his debut single to ascending to the Top 5 of the Billboard 200 - the first man to have a #1 debut single since the mid-'90s.
That set the tone for a career that has seen him continue to top the charts and where he has sold over 140 million records and garnered dozens of awards... and he just turned 31. He's also forged a movie career for himself with several roles, along with owning his own clothing line and even owning more than a dozen Burger King restaurants. But there's also the elephant in the room of past wrongdoings: a summer 2012 fight in New York with Drake and his entourage where the Spurs' Tony Parker had his eye cut, another scuffle with Frank Ocean a year later, a hit & run in L.A., and charges of Brown threatening a woman with a gun... and due to this he's prohibited from traveling to Britain.
And of course, there's the high-profile relationship with Chris and Rihanna: just before the 2009 Grammys they got into a huge fight that ended with her face all beaten up. His public image suffered tremendously in the wake of that domestic violence incident by the time he had his day in court, eventually pleading guilty to a felony of assault and being handed a lengthy probation, although most thought Brown was left off lightly than he should have been. More bad blood followed including a controversial tattoo and him going off behind the scenes at a TV appearance before finally agreeing to enter rehab to clean up his act due to his out-of-control mental health.
Summer 2020 sees Chris mark a slew of milestones: earlier this month, he revealed the name of his upcoming tenth studio album which bears his nickname Breezy. He also had his 100th career entry into the Hot 100 singles chart when "Not You Too" from a Drake mixtape entered the list, and a collaborative mixtape with Young Thug, Slime & B, which includes the lead single "Go Crazy," which has also sparked its own TikTok dance challenge. The video for it dropped yesterday which sees him and Young throw a house party in the Hollywood Hills (something we wish we could throw on Saturday nights like this), and features cameos by Justin & King Combs, sons of their more famous daddy Sean "Diddy" Combs, the man behind MTV's next relaunch of Making the Band 5.
The reason we are covering Breezy here is that, if you watch the video in its entirety, two young ladies come walking into that bash as lightning bolts in the L.A. sky and join the hundreds partying with Chris and Young. The lady wearing the white dress is none other than Nurys Mateo from MTV's Are You The One? and Ex On The Beach... the last time we featured that member of the "Sexy Season 6" crew on here was exactly a year ago this summer when she made out with Cardi B. in the opening seconds of the Love & Hip Hop queen's spine-tingling video for "Press," and a few years after being in "Broccoli" by D.R.A.M. before being cast on AYTO.
Since it was released it has been at the top of the YouTube trending list and has already achieved over four million views on YouTube. And Nurys co-stars in the clip alongside Sharlena Hassani, a Beverly Hills skincare small business owner, and who ask them to follow them to wherever they go next... which ends with a cliffhanger and teasing a possible reappearance in a follow-up video. When the video dropped yesterday, only those who have followed Nurys from the beginning knew who she is from her MTV days... and she posted on Instagram after the premiere, "We might’ve gone crazy 😜 @chrisbrownofficial"
And those who have rolled with Nurys from when then joined Team MTV three years ago (and for when they were filming AYTO at this time in summer 2017 - with the end of this month being when they completed that historic $1 million comeback) were quick to send their reactions to her after seeing her starring role in "Go Crazy," with her ride or die Diandra Delgado reminding everyone on Twitter, "Y’all go watch the GO CRAZY music video & lmk if ya see a familia face 😏😏😏😏😏😏😏😏 @NurysKMateo."
Nour of last year's Season 8 saying "OMG YES BABYGURL!!!! so proud of you!! congrats 🔥🔥🔥🔥😻😻😻😻," Tyranny of Season 5 & Ex On The Beach writing "Yes yes yes go girl ! I’m so so happy for you you deserve this !!!! Aghhhh!", and Ellie of Season 2 saying "Omfg THATS MY BABY DADDDDYYYY STOPPPPP BITCH IM SO JEALOUS 😭😭😭😭!" And where will Nurys pop up next? We'll wait and see...
