Metro Boomin invites rappers to jump on beat mocking Drake as Kendrick Lamar feud escalatesMetro Boomin has invited rappers to jump in on the Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef with a spicy “BBL Drizzy Beat Giveaway”.
Amid the fiery, rapid exchange of diss tracks between Lamar and Drake in recent weeks, attention shifted Saturday night (May 4) to the 30-year-old producer, who took a fresh shot at the Canadian rapper with a new beat titled BBL Drizzy.

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Sharing the Soundcloud link to his version of BBL Drizzy (sampling a track by comedian and AI storyteller King Willonius), Metro announced on X: “Best verse over this gets a free beat. Just upload your song and hashtag #bbldrizzybeatgiveaway.”

best verse over this gets a free beatjust upload your song and hashtag #bbldrizzybeatgiveaway https://t.co/YDULmWYm0M
— Metro Boomin (@MetroBoomin) May 5, 2024

While a winner in Metro’s freestyle competition hasn’t yet emerged, the work of one talented wordsmith has caught the producer’s eye. With bars like “Drake eyebrows ‘bout strong as a bitch/ If he get too surprised shit might cause a glitch” and “They say Drake not allowed at Chuck E. Cheese,” user Depressed Cowboy Fan got a laugh out of Metro himself, who commented, “Lmao bar for bar this gotta be the funniest one.”

Lmaoooo bar for bar this gotta be the funniest one https://t.co/vSa7xXJa7i
— Metro Boomin (@MetroBoomin) May 5, 2024

 
Along with the giveaway, Metro also slammed Drake’s alleged “coloniser” behaviour in a flurry of posts calling attention to the mixed-race rapper’s use of the N-word as well as a picture of Drake wearing blackface – an image Pusha T notoriously used in 2018 as the cover art of his bombshell diss track against Drake, ‘The Story of Adidon’.

#wedontwannahearyousaynigganomo #colonizer pic.twitter.com/3SF7ibKn9e
— Metro Boomin (@MetroBoomin) May 5, 2024

#colonizer pic.twitter.com/ky21ETyBTu
— Metro Boomin (@MetroBoomin) May 5, 2024

I still can’t believe these pictures are even real
It all makes sense now #colonizer pic.twitter.com/q18MjC9oI3
— Metro Boomin (@MetroBoomin) May 5, 2024

The producer’s latest taunt follows his March collaboration with Future, the track Like That, on which Lamar featured with blistering bars hitting out at both Drake and J. Cole. It also arrives in response to Drake’s recent diss track, Family Matters, on which the 6 God raps: “I mean it’s true a n**** slimed me for my AP/ Just like how Metro n***** slimed him for his main squeeze/ Out here beggin’ for attention, n****, say please”. On a prior diss, Push Ups, Drake had sneered at the producer’s musicality: “Metro, shut your ho ass up and make some drums”.

Metro is far from the only producer embroiled in Lamar and Drake’s ongoing battle. Last week, Lamar released Euphoria and 6:16 in LA, hitting back at Drake’s disses Push Ups and Taylor Made Freestyle. The track 6:16 in LA was notably co-produced by longtime Taylor Swift producer Jack Antonoff, which felt to many like a cheeky acknowledgement of Drake’s repeated Taylor Swift references in his tracks.
In Taylor Made Freestyle, for instance, Drake accused Lamar of ignoring his disses due to the release of Swift’s new album The Tortured Poets Department: “Now we gotta wait a fucking week cause Taylor Swift is your new top/ and if you boutta drop, she gotta approve,” he rapped.
Following the release of Family Matters last Friday, the ongoing Drake-Lamar saga swiftly escalated, taking an ugly turn as both sides took shots at each other’s families. On Saturday, Lamar dropped Meet the Grahams (produced by The Alchemist) and Not Like Us (produced by DJ Mustard), with Drake responding with The Heart Part 6 Sunday night.

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“There’s so much value placed on being young, fresh and cool, and not much on experience, maturity or wisdom”: Fabiana Palladino on being signed as a new artist in her mid-30sGone are the days when artists debuting before graduating high school raised eyebrows. But what about those who find their spotlight later in life? In a new interview, Fabiana Palladino discusses being signed as a new artist in her mid-30s and how she navigates an industry that often prefers its talents “young, fresh and cool”.

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Speaking to MusicTech in our latest digital cover feature, Palladino recounts how in her early 20s, she met a record label executive who casually remarked that they never sign artists over the age of 25 — a comment that stuck with her up till the release of her eponymous debut album this year.
“It definitely did affect me. It wasn’t directed at me,” says the Paul Institute signee, “but there is just that thing in the industry of [being excited by] young, new artists. How often do you see someone in their 30s, female or male, being a new artist or putting out their first album? It’s just, like, very rare.”
“There’s so much value placed on being young and fresh and cool, and not that much value placed on like experience, maturity or wisdom.”
“It was just always on my mind,” Palladino adds. “And I let it hold me back, for sure. And then, eventually, I just thought, ‘This is ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. There’s no reason why a person of any age can’t make something creatively brilliant. I’m not going to let this stop me anymore.’”
According to Fabiana’s father — producer and bassist Pino Palladino, it was a comment that ended up working to the musician’s advantage: “That’s very much her character, too,” he says. “If you tell her she can’t do something that she wants to, she’ll find a way. She’s very determined.”
Listen to the album’s lead single I Care below.

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Latest ShaperBox update from Cableguys The lastest free update for ShaperBox introduces some enhancements to the plug-in suite's presets system and LFO Waves function.

Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky boardBluesky’s most prominent backer has left its board. On Saturday, Jack Dorsey posted on X about grants for open protocols from his philanthropic Start Small initiative. This prompted someone to ask Dorsey if he was still on the Bluesky board, and he responded with a terse “no.” Dorsey did not answer any of the follow-up […]
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This Windows Installer Installs LinuxIt may be a very long time since some readers have installed a copy of Windows, but it appears at one point during the installation there’s a step that asks you which OS version you would like to install. Normally this is populated by whichever Windows flavours come on the install medium, but [Naman Sood] has other ideas. How about a Windows installer with Alpine Linux as one of the choices? Sounds good to us.
You can see it in action in the video below the break. Indeed Alpine Linux appears as one of the choices, followed by the normal Windows licence accept screen featuring the GPL instead of any MS text. The rest of the installer talks about installing Windows, but we can forgive it not expecting a Linux install instead.
So, the question we’re all asking is: how is it done? The answer lies in a WIM file, a stock Windows image which the installer unpacks onto your hard drive. The Linux distro needs to be installable onto an NTFS root partition, and to make it installable there’s a trick involving the Windows pre-installation environment.
This is an amusing hack, but the guide admits it’s fragile and perhaps not the most useful. Even so, the sight of Linux in a Windows installer has to be worth it.

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Building a Rocket Engine from ScratchThere is a reason building a rocket engine is harder than most things you want to build. If you are building, say, a car, your goal is to not have it explode. If you are building a bomb, you want that to explode. But a rocket engine needs to explode just enough and not a bit more. That’s tough, as [Ryan Kuhn] discovered. He’s behind ABL’s E2 rocket, a LOX/kerosene engine for small vehicle launches. You can catch a video of the engine’s qualification tests below.
[Ryan] shares many of the problems encountered from many problems, each requiring finetuning of the design. True, there are plenty of publicly available NASA documents about what works and doesn’t work for rocket engines, but that can only take you so far. You can’t learn to bowl by reading about bowling, and you can’t design a successful rocket on paper just by reading about what others have done.

The post is long, but it is a rare glimpse into what goes into a major engineering project like this. [Ryan] started with a blank page, and the team created almost everything outside of some commodity parts, such as bearings, seals, and sensors. They even built all their own test infrastructure and software.
So, while you might never get the chance to build a rocket engine on this scale, just looking inside the process is fascinating. Who knows? It might help you with your next model rocket project.
Even starting a rocket engine can be a challenge. Today, we have many interesting fabrication techniques, but engines from the Shuttle and Apollo eras had to resort to some interesting tricks to get the precision parts they needed.

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3D Printing in Custom PLA With a TPU Core[Stefan] from CNC Kitchen explored an unusual approach to a multi-material print by making custom PLA filament with a TPU core to make it super-tough. TPU is a flexible filament whereas PLA is hard almost to the point of being brittle. The combo results in a filament with some unusual properties, inviting some thoughts about what else is possible.
Cross-section of 3D print using white PLA with a red TPU core.
[Stefan]’s video covers a few different filament experiments, but if you’d like to see the TPU-PLA composite you can skip ahead to 18:15. He first creates the composite filament by printing an oversized version on a 3D printer, then re-forming it by running it through a Recreator to resize it down to 1.75 mm.
We have seen this technique of printing custom filaments before, which is useful to create DIY multi-color filaments in small quantities right on a 3D printer’s print bed with no special equipment required. This is an effective method but results in filament with a hexagonal profile, which works but isn’t really ideal. By printing his custom composite at 4 mm diameter then resizing the filament down to 1.75 mm, [Stefan] was able to improve overall printability.
That being said, TPU and PLA have very different characteristics and don’t like to adhere to one another so the process was pretty fiddly. TPU-cored PLA might be troublesome and uncooperative to make, but it can be done with some patience and fairly simple equipment.
Despite the difficulties, test prints were pretty interesting. PLA toughness was roughly doubled and under magnification one can see a lattice of TPU strands throughout the prints which are unlike anything else. Check it out in the video, embedded below.

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Almost Making a Camera Sensor From ScratchOn our travels round the hardware world we’ve encountered more than one group pursuing the goal of making their own silicon integrated circuits, and indeed we’ve seen [Sam Zeloof] producing some of the first practical home-made devices. But silicon is simply one of many different semiconductor materials, and it’s possible to make working semiconductor devices in a less complex lab using some of the others. As an example, [Breaking Taps] has been working with copper (II) oxide, producing photodiodes, and coming within touching distance of a working matrix array.
The video below the break is a comprehensive primer on simple semiconductor production and the challenges of producing copper (II) oxide rather than the lower temperature copper (I) oxide. The devices made have a Schottky junction between the semiconductor and an aluminium conductor, and after some concerns about whether the silicon substrate is part of the circuit and even some spectacular destruction of devices, he has a working photodiode with a satisfying change on the curve tracer when light is applied. The finale is an array of the devices to form a rudimentary camera sensor, but sadly due to alignment issues it’s not quite there  yet. We look forward to seeing it when he solves those problems.
As we’ve seen before, copper oxide isn’t the only semiconductor material outside the silicon envelope.

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