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Hip-Hop’s Unexpected Turn: Is rap losing its mojo in 2023? Here are the bleak numbers (including a first since 2012)…
(April 07, 2023). This may be hip-hop’s 50th anniversary year, but there’s very little to celebrate so far in 2023 about album consumption and Billboard chart numbers when it comes…
Former ‘mumble rapper’ Lil Yachty’s trippy rock performance would’ve been the highlight of most SNL episodes, but this weekend’s was too hilarious.
(April 3, 2023). When SNL announced weeks ago that “Abbott Elementary” creator and star, the Emmy winning Quinta Brunson, would be hosting this past weekend’s episode (Saturday, April 1) of…
The question no one is raising about the beatdown of rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine last week
(March 27, 2023). The rap world isn’t shedding many tears for the beatdown that one of its own took last week at an LA Fitness gym bathroom in South Florida.…
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Trump reaching No. 1 on Billboard’s digital songs chart—while a first—is not that impressive. Here’s why.
(March 22, 2023). It turns out being arrested—if it happens—won’t be the only first that former president Donald J. Trump can claim this week. The “song” he recorded in collaboration…
‘Dansette Dreams’: A review of “too young” Gilbert O’Sullivan’s recent intimate concert performance (ahh…those 45s)
(March 20, 2023). Gilbert O’Sullivan, 76-year-old singer/songwriter who shot to stardom in the early 1970s with a string of top-40 pop hits that began with one of the biggest singles…