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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When I start my Zoom session with Adam Blackstone, he’s in the studio. He had spent all day there the previous day, working on a new version ofLegacy, his debut album from last year, re-interpolating melodies from singers like Kirk Franklin, Jill Scott, and Jazmine Sullivan. The album has already …
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It was an uncharacteristically cold and cloudy day in downtown Los Angeles as LA3C kicked off its inaugural festival on Saturday, but that didn’t stop thousands of attendees from flocking to Los Angeles State Historic Park for the event, albeit a bit more bundled than usual for festival attire. Headliner …
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The album title consists of four names that need no introduction: Snoop, Cube, 40, $hort. These rap icons justly claim themselves as architects of West Coast hip-hop. As Mount Westmore, they’re a supergroup whose presence is etched in the California landscape. Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, E-40, and Too $hort also …
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Rise and grind is a great morning mantra for Snoop Dogg and Master P, whose breakfast cereal Snoop Loopz has been stripped of its name following interference from an unnamed competitor cereal company. Distributed through the pair’s food label Broadus Foods, the marshmallow-filled cereal was supposed to be the first …
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For Joe Robert Cole, co-writing the Wakanda Forever screenplay with director Ryan Coogler was a personal and professional challenge wrapped into one. The duo, who also wrote the original Black Panther, finished a draft featuring Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa battling the water-logged monarch Namor (eventually played by Tenoch Huerta) before Boseman’s …
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Snoop Dogg is once again asking a federal judge to dismiss sex assault and trafficking claims from a Jane Doe accuser who first sued the rapper in February, voluntarily withdrew her claims in April, and then sued again in July. In her revived lawsuit, the unidentified woman alleges the rapper …
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Snoop Dogg has revealed he has a new album coming out, and it is produced by Dr. Dre. Missionary is set to arrive in November, the rapper told Stephen A. Smith on the new podcast K[no]w Mercy. Around 35 minutes into the podcast, they discussed Snoop’s longstanding friendship (“We’ve bonded …
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Did Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors actually consider the idea of a blockbuster trade to bring their former superstar teammate Kevin Durant back to the Bay Area? “Hell, yeah!” Curry tells Rolling Stone. Curry sat down for a series of wide-ranging conversations as part of Rolling Stone’s October …
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Over two decades after first collaborating, hip-hop trailblazers Snoop Dogg and Eminem joined forces on the MTV Video Music Awards stage Sunday to showcase their latest single, “From the D 2 the LBC.” The heavily censored performance — produced in conjunction with Yuga Labs, the company behind the viral Bored …
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