Chance the Rapper has removed his 2015 collaboration with R. Kelly, “Somewhere in Paradise,” from most digital streaming platforms including Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal, Pitchfork reports. The decision to pull the song comes after Chance appeared in the Lifetime docuseries, Surviving R. Kelly, which delves into the accusations of …
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In the spring of 2003, Steve Gunn spent two months drawing lines on a wall in Beacon, New York. He was in his twenties at the time, not long out of college and still years away from his current life as a highly respected singer-guitarist. The lines were part of …
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The 1975, Florence + The Machine, Jorja Smith and Dua Lipa each received multiple nominations for the 2019 Brit Awards, which honors music both released in the United Kingdom and worldwide. Ariana Grande, Drake, Eminem, Cardi B and Travis Scott were among the North American acts to receive nods ahead …
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R&B veteran Tank casually catalogs a sweaty night in his new single “Dirty.” This is a skeletal track, barely there at times: A few piano chords, a smattering of drums. The sparse instrumental puts all the focus on Tank’s erotic lyrics. But as the action heats up, the singer’s tone …
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Normani has no problem being honest. In a new interview, she doesn’t shy away from the hurdles she faced being a black woman in the world’s most successful girl group. At one point the “Love Lies” singer shares that she would cry during certain sessions, naming “No Way” as an …
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Jennifer and Sarah Hart, 38, were a married pair of crunchy white liberals who, by all outside appearances, seemed like dedicated mothers to their six adopted black children: Markis, Hannah, Abigail, Devonte, Jeremiah and Ciera. They moved around the country with their home-schooled brood, but in2017 they settled — for …
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Ryan Adamsmapped out big plans for 2019 as the rocker announced he would release three albums this calendar year. The first of the trio, Big Colors, arrives April 19th. After hinting about his 2019 plans on social media, Adams offered up details about Big Colors to the Washington Post‘s daily …
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Daniel Borden — an Ohio man charged in the beating of a black man during 2017’s Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia — has been sentenced to just under four years in prison, Associated Press reports. Borden, 21, who was one of four men charged with beating DeAndre Harris …
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Country singer Riley Green made his television debut on Monday, performing the Nineties-indebted single “There Was This Girl” during the fourth hour of NBC’s Today. Penned by Green with Erik Dylan, “There Was This Girl” appears on the Alabama native’s 2018 EP In a Truck Right Now, released in June 2018 …
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Morgan Wallen begins his If I Know Me Tour on Friday night in Rosemont, Illinois. Ahead of the kickoff, the Tennessee singer-songwriter has released a video for his song “Chasin’ You.” A cut off Wallen’s If I Know Me album, the song has become a highlight of the performer’s live …
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