Music
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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,…
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A Mystery ‘IV’ You: Are Beyoncé and Kelly Rowland About to Drop New Music?
At this point in history, we should already be accustomed to the fact that Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter has nary a piece of respect for our edges nor our bank accounts. At any given moment the Queen could drop a visual album and make the world stop, so it’s not too farfetched for her to be…
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Solange Fans Rejoice! New Music Is Coming Soon
My favorite Solange moment of this year was her joining her sister Beyoncé on stage at Coachella Beychella and dropping it so low so many times, my knees got tired. It wasn’t just the move itself; it was the attitude that poured out of it. That subtle “I see you looking, but I still don’t…
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Missy Elliott’s Ready to Get Us Dancing Again: Teases New Music for 2019
Twenty-nineteen is about to be titled the “Year of Dance,” because Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott is coming back with new music after almost 15 years. The woman who made the trash bag iconic took to Twitter to let y’all know that she’s about to come back and hit us with the hee! But we almost didn’t…