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Why Drake’s Beef With Kendrick Lamar Is An Excuse For Hip-Hop To Show the Disdain It Already Had For Drake
Leading up to his historic rap battle with Kendrick Lamar, the hip-hop community has been questioning Drake’s behavior.
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Bye Pumpkin— Christmas Music Season is Here!
Here are 18 of the Black Christmas albums you need to start listening to now!
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The Beautiful Ones: Before His Tragic Death, Prince Began a Memoir Detailing How He Became…Prince
Prince Rogers Nelson, a man of unmatched mystery, planned to give us a sneak peek into his surreal life. Three months prior to his tragic death in 2016, the then 57-year-old artist was starting his magnum opus, a memoir detailing just how he became the icon fans have come to love and admire. The man…
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Busboys and Poets’ Peace Ball DC Was Silver Lining to Crazies in Town for Pissauguration
Thursday night in Washington, D.C., was a clusterfuck for anyone traveling into or out of the city. As swarms of red-hat-wearing idiots embarked onto the city’s landscape to attend Friday’s Pissauguration, there was one silver lining to the dismal reality that Donald Trump is really becoming president. D.C.’s popular Busboys and Poets bookstore and restaurant…
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Esperanza Spalding on the Peace Ball, Trump and Life After Emily
“If a mountain has to erupt, it’s going to erupt,” so says musician Esperanza Spalding. These are not lyrics from her progressive 2016 single “Good Lava”; she is, however, speaking of unleashing the molten abandon of her inner self to give birth to her critically acclaimed 2016 album, Emily’s D+Evolution, as well as of America’s…