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Bino Rideaux has teamed up with Ty Dolla Sign for Rideaux’s latest song and music video, “Outta Line.”The visual sees the two crooners mingling with women at a house party. At one point, the two trade verses while seated on the home’s roof, as they overlook the partygoers and pool.“Outta Line” arrives in advance of Rideaux’s upcoming new project, Sorry 4 Tha Wait 2 via Def Jam. The offering follows Rideaux’s joint 2021 project with Blxst, Sixtape 2, which came after 2019’s Sixtape.Watch the video for “Outta Line” up top…

A landmark study from researchers in Australia has established the first significant links between childhood obesity and cognitive ability in midlife, with the authors suggesting this relationship may have ties to one's risk of dementia. The research tracked subjects over a 30-year period and found that a higher level of physical performance as a child correlated with better cognition in middle age, and by extension points to lifestyle interventions that may help protect against dementia from early in life.The research…

So what comes first, the chicken or the egg? Links continue to be an important organic search ranking factor. However, Google frowns on “link building” and states that the best way to build links is to create great content.   If you build it, they will come. But how will they find you if you don’t rank, to begin with? Ideally, when your site starts gaining authority and ranking well, your pages will start showing up in the SERPs, and you’ll gain links naturally.  …

There’s a new Labs feature in town for Google AdSense called shopping links.  What are shopping links. Shopping links are placed in your page’s main content by hyperlinking existing words. Whenever Google detects a shoppable product mention, users will be shown shopping ads for that product. Where will shopping links show. Google will only place shopping links on pages where there are detectable product mentions. Since this is a new lab feature, Google will limit the amount of…

Stardom is back with the visuals for Street Profit highlight “Cold Streets”.Featuring Youngs Teflon—whom he recently worked with on the former’s All Eyes On Me Against The World standout, “Body Language”—and The Maffia, the instrumental’s striking piano chords and heavy bass line allows each artist to shine on the track.South London native Youngs Tef adds his lyrical flair to proceedings, while Birmingham’s Stardom drops some introspective rhymes on the cut—reflecting on his regrets and his deepest fears—and it is all…

Twitter has removed the nofollow link attribute from Twitter posts, tweets, in its source code. It is unclear if Twitter removed this attribute on purpose or not and if even search engines, like Google, would value links from Twitter or not. Timing. According to Chris Silver Smith, Twitter removed the nofollow link attribute sometime in the past couple weeks or so. He said on Twitter “Twitter is apparently no longer using rel=”nofollow”. This includes links you find on “profiles,…

Four months on from the “Queen / Aim” double single with bb, Sainté continues the theme of collaboration with new single “East”. For this one he’s cast his eye across the pond, teaming up with Maryland rhymer Joony who’s on a prolific run of his own (seven mixtapes in three years, to be precise).With the help of producers Parker Jazz and Brad Baker, Sainté’s tapped into a similar vibe to some of the tracks on Summer Is Blue: lots of bass, lots of melody, and the contrast between fast flows and laid-back beats. Bringing…

Delia Cai / Vanity Fair: Q&A with Pocket VP Matt Koidin on the 50M links people save per month, longform content, the “algotorial” approach to the Pocket Hits newsletter, and more — Over the past decade, Pocket has endured as an unusually pleasant way to consume the internet. Delia Cai / Vanity Fair: Q&A with Pocket VP Matt Koidin on the 50M links people save per month, longform content, the “algotorial” approach to the Pocket Hits newsletter, and more …

Just two months after the release of his debut mixtape Misunderstood, B-Lovee teams up with Coi Leray for their new collaborative single “Demon.”Produced by Fast Life Beats, Yo Benji, and Amart, “Demon” arrives with the pair set to joins forces for Coi’s Trendsetter Tour, which kicked off this week in San Francisco and features B-Lovee as the opening act. The tour will make stops in Phoenix, Denver, San Diego, Chicago, New York City, and Boston, among others, before wrapping up in Los Angeles on June 23.“Demon” catches…

The Weeknd has secured an official sponsor for his first stadium tour and in doing so becomes the first artist to integrate Web 3.0 tech into a global concert tour.Binance this week announced the news that it is linking up with the Canadian performer for his After Hours Til Dawn Tour to provide “an enhanced fan experience.” Said “experience” will manifest in a number of ways, including via a collaboration with The Weeknd’s creative incubator HXOUSE to produce an exclusive NFT collection and co-branded branded merch.The…