At this point in his career, Kendrick Lamar isn’t exactly wanting for recognition. The Compton rapper has won dozens of awards, including 12 Grammys, a spot on Time‘s 100 Most Influential People list and a rock-solid position as his generation’s greatest rapper. Now he can add a Pulitzer Prize in …
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Ashanti makes a feisty return in her new “Say Less” video featuring Ty Dolla $ign.The clip opens with the R&B singer blasting the media, paparazzi and misleading headlines. “It’s amazing to me that people don’t even care about finding out the truth,” Ashanti says, as news shows circulate an inaccurate …
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M.I.A. said her former manager Jay-Z urged her to agree to a lawsuit settlement with the NFL that would have allegedly allowed the organization to keep 100 percent of her earnings if she earned more than $2 million. In an interview with Huck, M.I.A. discussed the lawsuit, which stemmed from …
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“You’re gettin’ all kinds of stuff out of me,” says DJ Khaled backstage at the Grammy Awards. He’s bluffing. The boisterous hip-hop producer hasn’t given away all that much about his imminent new album, the follow up to 2017’s Grateful, but he hints that it will involve Kendrick Lamar. “We’ve …
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Black Eyed Peas take aim at police brutality, the criminal justice system and immigration policy on “Street Livin,’” a sobering new boom-bap song from the group’s first album in eight years. The Black Eyed Peas became global superstars during the second half of the 2000s with a stream of turbocharged …
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“Let’s say you [are] going through something, and you tell me about it,” says Bronx rapper A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, sitting in a conference room at Atlantic Records, the hood of his Nike jacket pulled tightly around his head and a half-empty Red Bull in hand. “I would make …
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