GQ India

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The fashion film rose to prominence this year, as designers searched for new ways to engage with audiences that broke from the traditional runway. But none of these video projects were as essential and impactful as the film Virgil Abloh made for his

NPR

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The Atlanta rapper wants to tackle big issues affecting his native city, from affordable housing and employment opportunities to better education.

Electronic Musician

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Where drum samples are concerned, the bass drum is the lifeblood of dance music. If you produce house, techno or hip-hop, it’s the primary focus of the entire groove, which is why top-tier producers in those genres anguish over every aspect of their

NPR

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Collaboration is the bedrock of hip-hop. Watch some of hip-hop's best producer-rapper duos dissect how kindred spirits come together to create a unified vision with infinite possibilities.

Maxim

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His name is synonymous with southern Trap music, but T.I. is more than a three-time Grammy Award winner; and he’s more than the master collaborator with a who’s who of popular music to his credit, including Beyoncé, Rihanna, Drake, Lady Gaga, and 201

MAXIM New Zealand

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His name is synonymous with southern Trap music, but T.I. is more than a three-time Grammy Award winner; and he’s more than the master collaborator with a who’s who of popular music to his credit, including Beyoncé, Rihanna, Drake, Lady Gaga, and 201

Los Angeles Times

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Like many viewers during the height of "American Idol" fever over a decade ago, Cardi B was glued to the TV, imagining what kind of judge she would be if tasked with critiquing aspiring performers. "Everybody always wanted to be a judge on one of tho

NPR

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Go back to the year 2007, when NPR Music was born, along with classmates like Radiohead's pay-what-you-wish album In Rainbows and the very first iPhone.

Los Angeles Times

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A lawyer for a number of women who allege rapper T.I. and wife Tiny drugged and sexually abused them is calling for investigations of the Atlanta couple in Georgia and California. Attorney Tyrone A. Blackburn said in a release Sunday that he had been

MAXIM Australia

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His name is synonymous with southern Trap music, but T.I. is more than a three-time Grammy Award winner; and he’s more than the master collaborator with a who’s who of popular music to his credit, including Beyoncé, Rihanna, Drake, Lady Gaga, and 201

The Atlantic

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In the first episode of Netflix’s Rhythm + Flow, the aspiring rapper Inglewood IV delivers a furious verse about police brutality to a packed nightclub and a panel of superstar judges. Tears well in his eyes. Chance the Rapper complains that his song

The Atlantic

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Kanye West and Janelle Monáe are among those artists to stage rhetorical battles between red and blue America.

Future Music

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Dope album of deep house and disco excursions from the Austrian DJ and producer, featuring writing credits from Holy Ghost! boys. Worth it for the OG version of Hold My Breath, alone. ‘Hold My Breath’, ‘Out Of Control’, ‘Untitled’ 2009 electro st

Chicago Tribune

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If you believe the 2010 book "The Advanced Genius Theory: Are They Out of Their Minds or Ahead of Their Time?" by Jason Hartley, Kanye West fulfills at least one of the requirements of genius: He's alienated his original fans at least once. West has

NPR

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In the fifteen years since he released Trap Muzik, Tip Harris has reinvented himself a thousand times over. But the stories he recounts from that era make his Tiny Desk a memorable one.

NPR

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The debut full-length from this Memphis MC gives voice to a side of town long overburdened by its own buried legacy.

5280 Magazine

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Hip-hop has a reputation for often being homophobic and misogynistic. This rapper-singer’s latest album, 2021’s Tell Me, upends that trope by delivering sexy-yet-empowering musings on its eponymous track. The high-octane Caribbean beat of “Partyin &

NPR

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Quazarz vs. The Jealous Machines will be the second of two albums released by the psychedelic hip-hop group, both on July 14.

India Today

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A vocalist, rapper and multi-instrumentalist, the North Londoner has been hailed for ‘breaking the hip-hop mould’. The M.I.A. comparisons notwithstanding, Nayana’s complexity truly comes to the fore in her latest single, ‘Breaking Point’. The London

You South Africa

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So long, Logic. It feels like we barely got to know you. Six years after his debut album, Under Pressure, the rapper is retiring at age 30 to become a live-streaming gamer and a “great father” to his newborn son. The 15-track album is a smooth mix of

Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES - Up to the moment it aired, the status of this year's BET Awards ceremony was a bit of a nail-biter. High-profile acts such as Donald Glover and Janet Jackson are said to have pulled out of live performances near the last minute for reas

Future Music

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The heavyweight DnB duo dropped this set of bangers in 2008. Sure to have rubbed off on bezzy mate, Sub Focus, right? ‘Cant Get Enough’, ‘Music Club’, ‘Smash TV’ A ten-year chunk of this dude’s deep demented dance. Including examples of the [Roge

Electronic Musician

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The Big One: Techno $39 To celebrate the end of last year, and their own fourth birthday, the Catalyst Samples team have put together their biggest pack to date. Huzzah! It’s a whopping 3,000+ files, presented over ten of their best-selling sample pa

NPR

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The Roots drummer and Tonight Show bandleader picks apart exactly why fellow producer Just Blaze's talent for finding and flipping samples in unexpected combinations is both inspiring and infuriating.

PLAY

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Given the fact the developer’s CEO has recording and mixing credits on albums by artists such as Kelis and Snoop Dogg, it should be no surprise that sound is taken very seriously in this game, with fantastic 3D audio implementation. It impresses imme

NPR

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GoldLink is a man of the people. As a D.C. native, the skinny, stylish rapper acted as if his Tiny Desk performance was a family reunion and took the opportunity to invite everybody and their cousin in as his guests. To mark the moment, Link wore a

Slam

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GROWING UP IN Harlem, NY, a young TJ Porter had a vision. He was going to dominate the city hoops scene, earn a scholarship to Duke and go on to play in the NBA. The game was his first true love, which should come as no surprise if you’re at all fami

AppleMagazine

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BLOOD IN THE WATERBELOW DECK, SEASON 8 2502THE BACHELOR, SEASON 25 DON’T COME FOR ME UNLESS I’VE INVITED YOU THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF ATLANTA, SEASON 13 CONDRAGULATIONSRUPAUL’S DRAG RACE, SEASON 13 (UNCENSORED) IN JUSTICETHE ROOKIE, SEASON 3 T

NPR

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Whatever your goals, remember to move with your energy on ten. New tracks from Kari Faux, Yung Baby Tate, Odunsi (The Engine), Skepta and more will help.

GQ India

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AGE: 21 HOMETOWN: Novosibirsk KEY TRACK: “I’m Getting Drunk Again” “Production is 50 percent knowledge about how to make music, 50 percent the moment and mood,” explains Slava Marlow, the 21-year-old wunderkind from Siberia. “There is a lot of magic