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 …
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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, …
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Despite calls for Madonna to boycott Eurovision 2019 because of its location in Tel Aviv, Israel, the singer delivered what has been dubbed a controversial performance at the annual event Saturday. At the beginning of the night, the Madame X singer vaguely acknowledged the divisiveness of her appearance telling the …
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Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus play a pair of time traveling cowboys in the outrageous, cameo-filled new video for their “Old Town Road” remix. The Calmatic-directed clip opens with Lil Nas X and Cyrus running from the law with a fat bag of cash. After the duo make …
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Rising K-pop group NCT 127 (a sub-group of the much larger NCT) stopped by The Late Late Show with James Corden on Tuesday night to perform their song “Superhuman” and play a very fun game of Flinch with the late-night host. In Flinch, three members at a time stood behind a …
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Is Woodstock 50 proceeding? Depends who you ask. For the beleaguered three-day event, scheduled for August in Watkins Glen, New York, there was good news and iffy news on Wednesday. Woodstock LLC, the organizers of the festival, had filed a petition for an injunction against Dentsu Aegis, the Japanese advertising …
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Stamped hands, bar bands and fake IDs all figure into Keith Urban‘s new song “We Were.” A slice of earnest nostalgia, the vibey mid-tempo ballad yearns for those romances that we all know won’t last but are essential to our formative years. Urban runs through a roster of vivid imagery …
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DJ Snake, Offset, 21 Savage, Gucci Mane and Sheck Wes bring lyrics to life with the visuals for their all-star collaboration, “Enzo.” Directed by Daps, the black-and-white clip opens with a shot of a rearing horse that suddenly transforms into the famous Ferrari logo as Sheck Wes bellows the name …
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