Throughout our hourlong conversation on the roof of mid-town Manhattan’s Starchild Rooftop, legendary rap producer Keith Shocklee veers through his encyclopedic knowledge of hip-hop history. Shocklee was around hip-hop before the culture had even coined itself. He’s most popular for being a part of Public Enemy’s six-man Bomb Squad production …
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In 1988, Boogie Down Productions, Eric B. & Rakim, Doug E. Fresh, Kool Moe Dee, and Biz Markie were in the middle of the Dope Jam Tour when an altercation broke out during a stop at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York. Concertgoer Julio Fuentes, 19, was stabbed once …
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An 18-year-old man charged with the death of Pop Smoke confessed to killing the rapper during a home invasion in 2020, the Los Angeles Times reports. The defendant admitted to a first-degree murder charge stemming from the Feb. 19, 2020, death of Pop Smoke, whose real name was Bashar Barakah …
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Taylor Swift unearthed yet another seldom-played fan favorite at the first night of The Eras Tour’s three-night stand in Philadelphia Friday, performing “Come Back… Be Here” by special request from Phoebe Bridgers. “I take requests if they are polite and decently worded,” Swift told the crowd from her piano during …
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Jamey Johnson, Chapel Hart, Jake Owen, Exile, and Randy Travis will all appear at June Jam 2023, Alabama’s long-running charity concert benefiting disaster relief in Alabama. Set for June 3 in Fort Payne, Alabama, it marks the revival of the festival, first held in 1982. Along with Alabama’s Randy Owen …
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Clairo has dropped Live at Electric Lady, a cozy EP released off Spotify. Clairo — a.k.a. Claire Cottrill — announced the EP on Thursday afternoon, hours before dropping it at midnight E.T. She wrote in her caption that the EP contains “all her favorites,” including her hit “Bags” and Sling …
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Deep inside every hard-hitting Pearl Jam grunge-a-palooza lurks a bluegrass hoedown dying to do-si-do. Eddie Vedder himself has proven this time and again by switching between the rock group and his own solo ukulele ballads. And now the long-running bluegrass quartet Iron Horse — who have strummed, chicken-picked, and mandolin-ified …
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Well, that was something. The 2023 ACM Awards ended on a Texas-sized downer, with Dolly Parton giving the premiere of the new song “World on Fire” from her upcoming rock project and showering the audience not only with confetti, but with a sense of impending doom while dancers twirled around …
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Detroit rap is the most hilarious subgenre in hip-hop right now. And the experience is even more palpable with an in-person Veeze ad-libbing bars as he recently did during a listening session of his upcoming album, Ganger, in Rolling Stone’s New York offices. “What’s wrong with that bitch?” he incredulously …
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BTS released “The Planet” as the theme song for Bastions, an upcoming South Korean animated series, on Thursday. The track will be used as the theme song for the new project, according to NME, and the show’s soundtrack will also feature work fromHeize,LE SSERAFIM, BB Girls (formerlyBrave Girls) andAleXa. “You’re …
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