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See Future and Metro Boomin Set It Off This spring, they detonated the most explosive hip-hop beef in ages with their two joint LPs. Now, they’re taking a victory lap with their 27-date We Trust You Tour (July 30-Sept. 9). Let Eddie Vedder Pick Your Tunes Yes, the Ohana Festival …

When Reece Feldman posted the TikTok that changed his entire career, he knew he was breaking almost every single rule imaginable. A Queens native, Feldman had spent the months after graduating from college floating from production assistant gig to production assistant gig in New York. On advice from a few …

Four years after gamer celebrity and streaming star Dr Disrespect, 42, was banned from Twitch for undisclosed reasons, reports emerged this week that he had allegedly used the Amazon-owned platform’s direct-messaging feature to send sexually explicit texts to a minor. Now, the internal response to those alleged conversations — long …

This story was originally published in the July 6, 2000 issue of Rolling Stone. I’ll ask you to picture me as a black dot in the desert, a period crawling across a straight line drawn on a vast white page, sweating literally and metaphorically, regretting everything, at ground zero in …

Elon Musk‘s X, formerly Twitter, has aggressively gone after watchdogs reporting on the hate speech that came to saturate the platform after he bought it in 2022. The company argues that such research is to blame for major advertisers — the ones Musk famously told to “go fuck yourself” — …

“We don’t teach our children anything,” the spiritual influencer Mami Onami proclaims in a TikTok. “Anything that they learn is in response to either their interest or their questions.” She has near-translucent blue eyes and razor-sharp cheekbones, with tattoos snaking across her neck, arms, and taut abdominal muscles; one of …

Richard Eagleton is ecstatic. The aspiring tech entrepreneur from Des Plaines, Illinois, has just shown off his great invention, KENN, the world’s first AI stand-up comedian, “powered by 5G for 100 percent accurate comedy.” After KENN delivers a couple of glitchy, half-baked jokes about self-checkout machines, bad dates, and being …

More than a decade ago, Jinkx Monsoon manifested her dream life. During her winning run on Season Seven of RuPaul’s Drag Race, she confessed that her biggest goal after the show was to “do drag on Broadway.” She’s more than made good on her word since. After finishing a celebrated …

Earlier this month, the sound of mooing rang out in the chambers of the Louisiana capitol when the House unanimously voted in favor of a bill legalizing the sale of raw milk in the state. HB467 also passed in the state Senate, and if Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signs it …

A lex Neville was one of those boys who was always in costume, wearing his obsessions on his sleeve. At three, he went around dressed as a mummy, earnestly explaining the embalming process to children in Aliso Viejo, a town in Orange County, California. At seven, he was SoCal’s shortest …