The Trump Administration is responsible for causing the largest reduction of protected public lands in U.S. history, according to a comprehensive study published this week in the journal Science. In 2017, the study noted, President Trump enacted two of the largest reductions of federally protected lands, shrinking Bears Ears by …

Frank Lucas, the Harlem drug kingpin immortalized in Ridley Scott’s 2007 crime film American Gangster, died Thursday at the age of 88. Lucas’ nephew Aldwan Lassiter confirmed his death to Rolling Stone, adding that Lucas died of natural causes. Lucas, the “Original Gangster” who was known to confabulate his own …

On Wednesday night, incarcerated rapper Max B released his second newly recorded song in as many weeks. “Don’t Push Me” offers a singsong update of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s seminal single “The Message;” along with the recently released “Hold On,” the latest track will appear on Max B’s …

Jay-Z will host a listening party for the upcoming posthumous Prince LP, Originals, during a June 6th Tidal event in Los Angeles. The streaming service will also offer its members the chance to attend celebrations elsewhere in the U.S., along with Spain, Poland, Brazil and other countries. The 15-track Originals, …

Americans are seemingly pushing back against a recent trend that has seen multiple states pass more restrictive abortion laws. According to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Sunday, 58 percent of Americans said, “abortion should be legal in most or all cases.” That is an increase of 8 percent from a …

Justin Townes Earle has spent a dozen years–beginning with his 2007 debut E.P. Yuma–working towards the cheeky, New Testament-referencing title he bestows upon himself on his new album. From the beginning, Earle has been a relentlessly principled artist, fixed in his old-fashioned ways of what it means to be a …

Teah Banks was born into an evangelical Christian sect called the Radio Church of God. Founded in the 1930s by an advertising sales representative turned minister, the insular group promoted an ultra-fundamentalist reading of the Old Testament, eschewing divorce, premarital sex and even wearing makeup. “It was a super closed …

Pink kicked off her two-night stand in New York City on Tuesday night, the final U.S. dates of her Beautiful Trauma World Tour, with a special guest: country singer Chris Stapleton. The Nashville star emerged from the shadows near the end of the show to re-create their collaboration “Love Me …

Hip-hop is currently awash in luxury dad rap. In the last decade rap has seen an emergence men with unresolved daddy issues dealing with the mundane and costly realities of becoming fathers themselves. Jay-Z faced the thought of losing his family in the wake of infidelity on 4:44. Kanye West’s …

Michael Pelchat is one of more than 40 million Americans who are active on the immensely popular app TikTok; like many others, he uses it to make madcap dance videos set to music, searching for a new kind of fame. In February, he uploaded a snippet of a then-unknown song, …