What a time to be alive! Kendrick Lamar can now put his ‘Pulitzer Prize award’ on the shelf with all of his Grammys, as he was named the latest recipient of the prestigious award yesterday. This is the first time in history for a rap artist, as the music award is typically given to works of the classical or jazz
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It wasn’t hard for me to make Princess Nokia my next ‘Muse of the week‘, because everything she is and everything she stands for inspires me. When I was working at a different publication, I had written about the situation of Princess Nokia coming face-to-face with a racist prick. A situation that we can all find ourselves, unfortunately, involved in.
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I’ve always loved this video because it shows the spiritual side of Jhene. Although it is evident that she is well in touch with herself and her spirituality, it is always a wonderful surprise to see her express it in her music and her visuals. Surprisingly the music video was directed by Childish Gambino (Donald Glover) and Calmatic. Childish has
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This video reminds me of a foreign black and white film, that I’ve seen a million times before. I always loved the cinematic imagination that Kanye West has always put in his music videos. Whether it has a comedic sense (The workout plan) or an enriched in fashion inspiration (Wolves), Kanye has always found a way to draw the attention
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Happy (early) Valen-bae’s day to all you sexy single and boo’d up ladies and gentlemen. Tomorrow is a day to show love to those you care about and even to yourself. Although Valentine’s day has become a Hallmark holiday of chocolate hearts, funny cards and bouquets of flowers, we still manage to spend billions of dollars each year expressing our
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After concluding his “Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin’” tour last month in Seattle, WA., Kid Cudi went radio silent again, appearing out in public only once with Kanye West in L.A. On Friday (December 15), Cudi ended his 10-month-long hiatus from social media and posted his first tweet on his twitter account since February. The “Surfin’” rapper uniquely tweeted, “Still
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Nostalgia is the feeling that I get when I watch this video. Being a fan of Pharrell since forever, this video shows both his creativity and his sense of humor with the floating heads of himself and his bandmates/partners. The song peaked at NO. 6 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart and features British TV personality, Alesha Dixon. Oh,
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Rapper 2 Chainz do not play when it comes down to his money or his brand, especially when someone else is making bank on it. Multinational retail corporation Walmart is on the receiving end of 2 Chainz’ wrath, after the retailer was caught selling the rapper’s products without his consent. The Atlanta rapper took to Instagram to blast the retailer
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This past Friday (November 10) marked the 10th year anniversary of the untimely passing of Dr. Donda West, the mother of Kanye West. KanyeToThe (@KanyeToThe) and TeamKanyeDaily (@TeamKanyeDaily), two of Kanye’s biggest fan accounts curated and helped successfully execute “#HeyMamaDay”with the help of hundreds of thousands of fans on Friday. The two accounts shared the plans and instructions over their social media accounts,
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Kanye West could be making big, big moves that can lead up to big, big money as new documents of a trademark application has surfaced online. The trademark application was filed last week and states the name, “Yeezy Sound” would be use for the purpose of “streaming music, audio, images, videos and other multimedia content over the internet, mobile device,
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