TMZ<\/a>, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced on Monday that Ball’s hit single, “Tweaker,” officially hit one million digital units sold, giving him his first platinum single.<\/p>\nThe 26-year-old now joins Drake, Lil Tecca, BigXthaPlug and Mariah The Scientist as the only other hip-hop and R&B artists to have platinum singles in 2025.<\/p>\n
“Tweaker” was released in January and immediately became an online sensation, earning Ball a music deal with Def Jam. The song reached the No. 1 spot on the US Rhythmic Billboard chart and became a staple in post-game locker room celebrations. Ball even scored a feature from Lil Wayne on the official remix.<\/p>\n
Ball’s first studio album, League of My Own, was released in July under Def Jam. He confirmed<\/a> the following month that he’s officially retired from basketball to focus on music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LiAngelo Ball reached rarified air less than a year into his music career after transitioning away from basketball.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-138584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}