The double standard is almost as old as hip-hop itself. A decorated filmmaker gets laurels for his or her latest bullet-laden gangster movie. A rock or country star is proclaimed a songwriting genius for violent tales of man’s inhumanity to man. But rappers are held to a different standard, their …
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03 Greedo is back home. After his return from a Texas county jail in January, the L.A. rapper released Halfway There, a 33-track odyssey replete with Greedo’s melodic flourishes. He followed it up by performing at South by Southwest in Austin and, in June, a two-night stint at the Novo …
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Live Nation has failed in its first attempt to sink a series of lawsuits over the backstage stabbing death of rapperDrakeo the Rulerat theOnce Upon A Time in L.A.music festival in downtown Los Angeles. A Los Angeles judge sided with Drakeo’s brother in a key ruling Wednesday, saying Devante Caldwell …
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Snoop Dogg is asking a Los Angeles judge to reject a lawsuit claiming his company bears liability in the fatal backstage stabbing of fellow rapper Drakeo the Ruler at the “Once Upon a Time in L.A.” music festival last December. In new court filings obtained by Rolling Stone, a lawyer …
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Live Nation is raising the curtain on how it plans to fight a trio of lawsuits stemming from the backstage stabbing death of rapper Drakeo The Ruler at the Once Upon A Time in L.A. festival in downtown Los Angeles last December. The three lawsuits were filed separately by Drakeo’s …
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Rapper Earl Swavey, known for his collaborations with A$AP Yams and Grimes‘ brother Jay Worthy, was driving a car carrying multiple passengers when he was shot by someone outside a party in downtown Los Angeles and subsequently crashed into a parked motorhome, a final autopsy report obtained Monday by Rolling …
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