Long Beach rapper Vince Staples has released his latest single, “Hell Bound.” The lyric video features a cartoon monster version of Staples traveling through — what else? — the flames of Hell. Staples released the single in conjunction with his new website, TheVinceStaplesShow+, designed as a parody of streaming services …
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Kali Uchis has a sordid desert trip in the video for “Solita.” Released in early December, “Solita” is her first bilingual single. Amber Grace Johnson — who has worked with Rihanna and Jorja Smith — directed the Los Angeles-set clip. The video opens with Uchis singing within a futuristic, glass-walled, …
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Kurt Vile will embark on his first North American solo tour in more than 10 years next spring. The musician — who usually hits the road with his band the Violators — will kick off the trek April 8th at Thalia Hall in Chicago, Illinois. The run wraps May 15th …
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Introduced by actress Lucy Liu and joined by Sesame Street legend Elmo, singer Thomas Rhett helped pay homage to the long-running children’s series at the Kennedy Center Honors gala Sunday night. Although its core audience might not be aware, 2019 has been a bittersweet year for the educational and entertaining …
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Fresh off celebrating her 30th birthday at Jingle Ball, Taylor Swift announced Sunday that she has booked a headlining slot at the 2020 Glastonbury Festival. The Lover singer will make her Glastonbury debut by filling the prestigious Sunday night slot at the U.K. festival, which is marking its 50th anniversary …
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The Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart is shaping up to be a tight and motley race next week as The Who and rising Compton rapper Roddy Ricch tussle for Number One, with pop star Camila Cabello close behind. The battle is not only one of genres and eras, but …
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The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office in Chicago delayed the release of the planned autopsy of rapper Juice WRLD on Monday as more details emerged surrounding the final hours of the 21-year-old rapper. Juice WRLD, whose real name was Jarad Higgins, died after suffering a seizure at Chicago’s Midway Airport …
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Following the release of his sophomore album Kirk in September, DaBaby made his first-ever appearance on Saturday Night Live this weekend. Accompanying host Jennifer Lopez as the show’s musical guest, the rapper performed two songs for the SNL audience in Studio 8H: “Bop” from Kirk and “Suge” from his debut …
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When you’re already the biggest artist on the pop-adjacent edge of música urbana, the next logical place to look next is up. As such, for his third album Nibiru, Ozuna aims for the stars with a loosely sci-fi derived concept guiding his skywards path. Considering how vital and commercially successful …
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In 1991, the Supreme Court fielded a case about two warring phonebook companies in northwest Kansas. Rural Telephone Service Company Inc. refused to license its local information to Feist Publications Inc., so Feist went ahead and copied part of Rural’s phonebook. Rural shrewdly placed false entries in its directory, caught …
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