L il Yachty and Tierra Whack are two of the more inventive artists in hip-hop today — two wildly original talents who have charted their own paths without following anyone else’s trends. If you’re going to compare them to anyone, though, it might as well be each other. Both started …
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J ohn Woo couldn’t miss. The godfather of gun fu, who helmed a number of balletic, bullet-riddled Chinese actions hits — A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, and Hard Boiled among them — before taking his talents to the States, was coming off four consecutive Hollywood smashes. First came the Jean-Claude …
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According to a statement from the U.S. Supreme Court, retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor passed away “of complications related to advanced dementia, probably Alzheimer’s, and a respiratory illness.” O’Connor, whose husband suffered from Alzheimer’s, first announced her diagnosis in 2018 in a letter explaining that as her condition progressed, she …
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Last night, rapper 21 Savage completed his first European headlining tour with a show at London’s O2 arena. The concert was the rapper’s veritable homecoming to his birthplace of London, where he lived until moving to Atlanta with his family at age seven. In October, 21 gained his permanent American …
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George Santos has, finally, been kicked out of the House of Representatives. The New York congressman — who repeatedly refused to resign in the face of his many scandals, including a federal criminal indictment — announced last month that he would no longer seek reelection in 2024 following the release …
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Henry Kissinger died on Wednesday at his home inConnecticut, his consulting firm said in a statement. The notorious war criminal was 100. Measuring purely by confirmed kills, the worst mass murderer ever executed by the United States was the white-supremacist terrorist Timothy McVeigh. On April 19, 1995, McVeigh detonated a …
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Shane MacGowan, the sandpapery-voiced former Pogues frontman who served as the bridge between traditional Irish folk music and punk rock, died on Thursday at the age of 65. MacGowan’s wife, Victoria Clarke, confirmed the musician’s death in a statement. The BBC wrote that MacGowan “died peacefully at 3.30am this morning …
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The House of Representatives voted in October to remove Kevin McCarthy as Speaker, with eight Republicans joining Democrats to vote in favor of the resolution. McCarthy was a staunch supporter of Donald Trump and Trump backed McCarthy’s initial bid to become Speaker, but the former president left the California congressman …
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Two years after leaving the top-selling Latin boy band CNCO, Joel Deleōn wants the world to hear the music that captures who he really is. After breaking away from a management team that he felt limited his musical output, the Mexican-American star is making his debut with the aptly titled …
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The ultimate year of Beyoncé and Taylor Swift is being capped off with one last epic crossover event. On Thursday, the music titans both appeared at the London premiere of Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé, the documentary concert film capturing the creation and execution of Beyoncé’s acclaimed 2023 world tour. …
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