Music
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Some Asshole Tried to Rewrite Hip-Hop History and Alleged That Outkast Was ‘Dressed So Fresh, So Clean’
Like many a southern rap fan, I grew up on André and Antwan, better known as André 3000 and Big Boi, and even better known as Outkast. When all the players came from far and wide, I too wanted to attend the “Player’s Ball.” What’s the funkiest kind of music for my soul? Southernplayalistickcadillackmuzik, of…
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'Corny Tech Dude' to Blame for Making Drake Cry in the Car, According to Pusha T
As if exposing his secret love child to the world, ridiculing the mother of said child by calling her a porn star, and teasing the death of his best friend wasn’t enough, Pusha T continued his crusade against all things light-skinned and Canadian during his set last night at Tyler, the Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw…
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Sade Returns With 'The Big Unknown'
Earlier this year, Sade breathed life into Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle in Time with “Flower of the Universe”—her first new song in seven years. But thankfully the wait for new music won’t be nearly as long. As she’s back with another offering for Steve McQueen’s highly anticipated new film, Widows. “The Big Unknown,” complete with…
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Juvenile’s 400 Degreez Is Turning 20. You Thought It Wasn’t Gon’ Change the Game, Ha? You Were Wrong, Ha
There are a few songs that I can remember exactly where I was the first time I heard them. Juvenile’s “Ha” is one of them. I remember sitting on the futon in my house in what must have been early October 1998 (because of when the single was released) watching Rap City, while on a…
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Outkast’s Stankonia Is Still a Banger With No Skips 18 Years Later
While everyone is dressing up, passing out candy, and taking their children out trick-or-treating in celebration of Halloween, there is another holiday that we cannot neglect to mention. Today is the 18th anniversary of the release of Outkast’s fourth studio album, Stankonia. For the uninitiated, Stankonia is the album that gave us such hits as…
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Pharrell Williams Sends Cease and Desist to Donald Trump for Playing 'Happy' at Rally Following Synagogue Massacre
Pharrell Williams has joined the ranks of Steven Tyler, Adele, Queen, Prince, and Earth, Wind & Fire—all of whom have asked Donald Trump to stop playing their music at his events. On Monday, an attorney representing Williams filed a cease-and-desist against the president, calling Trump out on his use of Williams’ mega-hit, “Happy” at a…
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Drake Breaks the Beatles Record For Most Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 Hits In the Same Year
In 1964, the Beatles set the record for having the most top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 in a single year. They held that record for a solid 54 years until rapper Drake broke it just in time for his 32nd birthday. Billboard reports that Bad Bunny’s “MIA,” on which Drake has a…
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Drake Threw Himself a 2000s-Themed Birthday Bash and We Officially Feel Old
We don’t know how old you were during the “Y2K” scare, but some of us were already fully grown adults with emerging careers (and, in some cases, families). So leave it to borderline-problematic fave Drake to throw some peak-millennial shade, reminding us that he was but a tender 14 years old at the turn of…
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The Soul Train Music Awards Will Be Hosted By Besties Tisha Campbell and Tichina Arnold
The 2018 Soul Train Music Awards will be a throwback to the ’90s—at least as far as its hosts are concerned. Tisha Campbell and Tichina Arnold—real-life best friends who also played besties on the hit comedy series Martin—will host the event BET Presents: 2018 Soul Train Awards, which will air on BET in late November.…
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Ye Stay Oblivious: Hands Out Yeezys to Dictator, Orphans in Uganda
In one of his recent daily missives via TMZ (do the Jenner-Kardashians partially own that site?) Kanye West said he was getting off the Twitters; alas, he has not. Ye and his wife Kim Kardashian, and eldest daughter, North West, are in the East African nation of Uganda to record and complete his next album,…