PowerPage Nightcap: Drake, Viola Davis and Baltimore Close August 4
- DJ Quest a.k.a. Mr. Exclusive
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Drake leads a current rap-chart snapshot, Akeylah Simone turns vulnerability into protest R&B, Viola Davis takes on a new high-stakes thriller, and Baltimore neighborhoods gather for National Night Out.
Power1047 Nightcap: Drake, Viola Davis and Baltimore Close August 4
Tuesday night closes with the culture moving in several directions at once.
Drake is leading a widely circulated rap-chart snapshot while Future and Don Toliver hold the next two album positions.
Emerging singer Akeylah Simone is turning a deeply personal experience into a protest-minded R&B ballad. Viola Davis has signed on to star in and executive produce a new Paramount+ thriller built around the world of corporate crisis management.
Closer to home, Baltimore neighborhoods gathered for National Night Out, continuing a citywide tradition centered on resident connection and community safety. For tomorrow’s streaming queue, Ted Lasso returns with a fourth season and a new women’s-football chapter.
Then Power1047 slows the pace with ten 1990s and 2000s R&B records selected for tonight’s Grown & Sexy rotation.
Hip-Hop Lead: Drake Tops a Rap-Chart Snapshot With Future and Don Toliver Close Behind
Drake’s current run is stretching across new music and catalog favorites.
In a rap-ranking snapshot shared Tuesday by RapTV and republished by The Source, Drake’s ICEMAN held the No. 1 album position, followed by Future’s The Real Me at No. 2 and Don Toliver’s OCTANE at No. 3. Drake also occupied the fourth and fifth slots with Take Care and Views.
The corresponding singles list placed Drake’s “Janice STFU” first, followed by Lil Baby’s “Dead Fresh” and Yung Miami’s “Spend Dat.” Drake appeared again at No. 4 with “Shabang,” while Mac Miller and Ty Dolla $ign’s “Cinderella” completed the top five.
The distinction matters: this was presented as a current rap-performance snapshot, not as an official Billboard chart. Even with that qualification, the list captures a clear listening pattern. Drake’s newest material is pulling listeners back into the older albums that shaped his catalog, while Future and Don Toliver remain firmly inside the week’s most active rap conversation.
Don Toliver’s presence also has a second data point behind it. The same report noted that “E85” had become the first rap song released in 2026 to pass 300 million Spotify streams.
Read the chart report: The Source — Drake, Future and Don Toliver lead the week’s rap rankings
R&B Discovery: Akeylah Simone Turns Vulnerability Into “Black Women Feel No Pain”
Akeylah Simone is rejecting the idea that strength requires silence.
Her newly announced single, “Black Women Feel No Pain,” is described as a cinematic R&B protest ballad centered on vulnerability, survival and reclamation.
The song confronts the pressure placed on Black women to remain emotionally available to everyone else while treating their own pain as something to hide or postpone.
Simone’s framing gives the record its weight. She has explained that the song grew from experiences in which her resilience was used against her—an expectation that she continue carrying other people while making no room for her own grief, anger or exhaustion.
That makes “Black Women Feel No Pain” more than a title built for attention. It is a direct challenge to the myth of invincibility and a reminder that softness, rest and visible emotion do not cancel strength. Musically, the ballad positions Simone in a lane where personal testimony and cultural critique can exist inside the same R&B performance.
For Power1047 listeners, this is the kind of discovery record worth watching: focused enough to introduce an artist’s point of view and broad enough to start a conversation beyond the song.
Read the announcement: The Source — Akeylah Simone announces “Black Women Feel No Pain”
Entertainment: Viola Davis Will Star in and Executive Produce Ascent
Viola Davis is heading back into high-stakes territory with Ascent, a newly greenlit Paramount+ thriller.
Davis will play Catriona Vail, an elite corporate fixer whose ability to control crises has made her indispensable to billion-dollar clients.
The story turns personal when Vail’s estranged daughter is placed in danger, forcing her to use the same ruthless skills she has built for powerful companies to protect her own family.
The series comes from creator and showrunner John Logan, whose credits include Skyfall, Gladiator, Michael and Penny Dreadful. Davis and Julius Tennon will executive produce through JuVee Productions, alongside Logan and Michael Aguilar.
What stands out is the combination of role and control. Davis is not simply attaching her name to another thriller; she is helping shape the project from the executive-producer level.
A corporate-crisis world also gives her a character built around strategy, power and moral pressure rather than a conventional action template.
Production is scheduled to begin in Los Angeles in 2027. Paramount+ has not yet announced a premiere date.
Read the official announcement: Paramount — Viola Davis to star in and executive produce Ascent
Power Beat: Baltimore Neighborhoods Gather for National Night Out
Baltimore’s National Night Out returned Tuesday with gatherings across the city.
The annual event brings residents, neighborhood groups, violence-prevention partners and public-safety agencies into shared community spaces. Instead of reducing safety to enforcement alone, the program creates room for block-level relationships, local resources, youth activities and direct conversation.
Mayor Brandon Scott’s office called on community organizations to register events ahead of the August 4 observance. The city’s public calendar listed National Night Out as a multi-location event, while the Mayor’s
Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement identified gatherings that included a 5–8 p.m. event near Baltimore and Poppleton streets.
The value is local and practical. Trust is easier to build when residents know the people working in their neighborhoods, community organizations can share services face to face, and children see public spaces used for connection instead of crisis.
National Night Out lasts one evening, but the real measure is what continues afterward: relationships maintained, resources remembered and residents who feel more connected to the people around them.
City information: Baltimore City — National Night Out 2026Community event information: Baltimore City MONSE — Violence Prevention Events
Streaming Tomorrow: Ted Lasso Returns With a New Team and a New Challenge
Ted Lasso returns to Apple TV on Wednesday, August 5, opening a fourth season built around a different kind of rebuild.
The new chapter places Ted in charge of a second-division women’s football team. Jason Sudeikis returns in the title role, with Hannah Waddingham, Brett Goldstein, Juno Temple, Brendan Hunt and Jeremy Swift among the familiar faces. The season also introduces new cast members as the series expands the world around AFC Richmond.
The shift gives the show a fresh competitive frame without abandoning its central idea: leadership works best when people are treated as people before they are treated as pieces on a roster. After three seasons built around belief, promotion, relegation and personal growth, the women’s-team storyline creates room for the series to examine who gets investment, attention and patience in sports.
For viewers looking for a scripted alternative to reality television, this is tomorrow’s most recognizable streaming return.
Watch on Apple TV: Ted LassoRead the week’s streaming preview: Associated Press — What to stream August 3–9
The Grown & Sexy Slow Jams
Ten 1990s and 2000s R&B Records for Tuesday Night
Tonight’s set moves through harmony-heavy groups, unmistakable solo voices and slow records that still know how to take their time.
1. Jodeci — “Love U 4 Life”
2. Blackstreet — “Before I Let You Go”
3. Monica — “Why I Love You So Much”
4. Brandy — “Have You Ever?”
5. Johnny Gill — “My, My, My”
6. Tony! Toni! Toné! — “Anniversary”
7. Mint Condition — “U Send Me Swingin’”
8. Chanté Moore — “It’s Alright”
9. Rome — “I Belong to You (Every Time I See Your Face)”
10. Glenn Lewis — “Don’t You Forget It”
Keep the Night Going
Keep Power1047 playing for commercial-free Hip-Hop, R&B, Afrobeats and 1990s/2000s throwbacks.
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