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Meg, hip-hop and the end of misogynoir

#ProtectBlackWomen: The Houston rapper receives justice for the 2020 shooting that polarized the hip-hop community

Salon

Through space and rhyme: How hip-hop uses Afrofuturism to take listeners on journeys of empowerment

It is perhaps only natural, as hip-hop celebrates its 50th anniversary, that people look to the genre’s future. But for some rappers, the future has always been part of the story.

The Conversation

"The N.W.A. attitude is we don't give a f**k": how Straight Outta Compton changed hip-hop, and then the world

Released on August 8, 1988, N.W.A.'s explosive debut album Straight Outta Compton remains one of the most powerful protest records ever

Louder

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Ice Cube on Kanye, cancel culture and conspiracies: ‘Hip-hop was pure – then the agenda changed’

The hip-hop pioneer and NWA alumnus speaks to Will Pritchard about antisemitism, performing with the greats, and where his politics lie today

The Independent UK

Snoop Dogg cancels hotly-anticipated 30th anniversary concerts at Hollywood Bowl due to actors’ strike

‘Gin and Juice’ rapper has been an outspoken supporter of the ongoing Hollywood writers’ and actors’ strikes

The Independent UK

15 years of Beats by Dre Studio, the headphones that changed everything

How a conversation about sneakers became the world’s most influential headphone brand.

TechRadar

13 great Apple Music Sing karaoke tracks to try with Apple TV and your iPhone camera

Use your iPhone as a karaoke camera when you're singing along to your Apple TV.

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Beats Studio Pro are still a G Thang — so why all the hate?

The Beats Studio Pro are many things, but they've also let a weird subsection of audio obsessives emerge from the gloom to decry them again. And that's sad.

iMore

50 Cent’s surprise birthday party with Dr Dre at London Somali restaurant

The rapper celebrated with Dre and fellow mogul Jimmy Iovine

Evening Standard

Artist Grayson Perry is planning a musical about his colourful life

“We’ve written 14 or 15 songs already” Perry has said

Evening Standard

Yellowjackets’ Melanie Lynskey Mourns Julian Sands, Recalls Their Dr. Dre Connection After Missing Actor's Remains Found

Yellowjackets' star Melanie Lynskey reminisces about her friend Julian Sands, whose remains were recently found.

Cinemablend

Dr. Dre to receive first Hip-Hop Icon Award from music industry group ASCAP

Dr. Dre will need to make room in his trophy case for another prestigious award

The Independent UK

Ice Cube: ‘Keep your reparations. It’s about access to capital, and we’re being shut out’

As he gears up to tour the UK this year, the rapper and actor answers your questions on racial injustice, what he’d say to Eazy-E, and how he wrote the ultimate diss track

The Guardian - UK

Remembering when Ben Folds caught John Mayer bootlegging his gigs and selling copies online, and how a cover of a Dr Dre song caused problems when they toured together

“My manager wanted to bust his ass for profiting off our music,” says Folds

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Still Dre is one of the top 5 songs that Americans want to learn on the piano, says new research

It can’t compete with Jingle Bells or Fur Elise, though

Daily Mirror

LAFC lose Concacaf Champions League final as Mortal Kombat tifo backfires

Hip Hop royalty witnessed the second leg of the Concacaf showpiece as an intimidating atmosphere was not enough to inspire LAFC on to turn the tie around after a 2-1 away defeat

Liverpool Echo

Curtis Jones meets rap superstar and Liverpool fan during LA holiday

Liverpool midfielder Curtis Jones is out in America enjoying the off-season and has posted a picture alongside rap great Dr Dre

The Guardian - UK

Snoop Dogg review – highs and lows from the D-O-double-G

The rapper drawls his way through his greatest hits and some cheesy near-misses in this long-delayed show. Shame about the unreconstructed objectification

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Evening Standard

Snoop Dogg at the O2 review: a megamix of rap classics though it all felt like a bit of a throwback

The show featured just one Snoop track released since 2011, while screening an advert and taking a weed break were not exactly what you’d call entertainment

Wales Online

'I name all my children after celebs including Dr Dre, Angel and Hannah Montana'

One of her children has a name inspired by Peter Andre while her dog is called Bailey Hondo thanks to TV show SWAT

Daily Mirror

'I named my kids after my favourite TV shows but had to change one as nan refused to use it'

Louise Hauton, from Boston, Lincs., looked to her favourite TV shows when it came to picking names for her children - including One Tree Hill and Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Daily Mirror

Janet Jackson's nephew TJ blasts her 'overly sexualised' shows as 'degrading to women'

Janet Jackson is one of the most iconic performers to ever grace the stage, but her nephew TJ Jackson has branded her shows as 'overly sexualised' and 'degrading to women'

The Guardian - UK

Still Shady: how did Eminem’s 2005 greatest hits become last year’s biggest rap album?

Released in 2005, Curtain Call: The Hits has spent 552 weeks in the UK album charts. Are young fans thrilling to his outrageous lyrics – or is the truth more prosaic?

Axios

Rihanna shows why it pays to perform at the Super Bowl for free

The artist's streaming downloads tripled after the big game. That's just the beginning.

The Conversation

Get Rich or Die Tryin': 50 Cent’s seminal hip-hop album 20 years on

It is January 2003 – many years before I began researching popular music professionally – and I’m flicking around the music channels on TV. Disillusioned by the usual paint by numbers chart fodder and ready to call it a day, I chance upon the video for a new song called…

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