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Akon’s Futuristic Senegal City Project Scrapped

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Akon’s Futuristic Senegal City Project Scrapped

Akon’s plans for a multibillion-dollar city development on Senegal’s Atlantic Coast has been scrapped. According to Bloomberg, the West African country has instead opted for a scaled-back project that will rely on private funding. Most of the land that had been set aside for a futuristic “Akon City” is now back under state control and that project “no longer exists,” Serigne Mamadou Mboup, head of Sapco-Senegal, the state-owned entity that develops coastal and tourism areas, told L’Agence de presse sénégalaise.Most […]

todayJuly 11, 2025

Clipse, Larry June, Boldy James and More

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Clipse, Larry June, Boldy James and More

It's the middle of the summer, but for this new music Friday, you can expect snow. This week, a veteran rap duo from Virginia drops their first album in 15 years, a Cali rapper puts out his second collab project of 2025, a prolific Detroit lyricist continues his epic run and more.Clipse Release Long-Awaited Let God Sort Em Out AlbumAt long last, the Clipse (Pusha T and Malice) return with Let God Sort Em Out, their first album since 2009. Preceded by […]

todayJuly 11, 2025

Benny Blanco Talks Working With Billie Eilish At 14

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Benny Blanco Talks Working With Billie Eilish At 14

Benny Blanco is still in his 30s, but he’s an industry veteran who has worked with just about everybody in pop at this point. That list includes Billie Eilish, and Blanco actually collaborated with her, and Finneas, at the very start of their journey, as he explained on a new episode of Therapuss The conversation got to Selena Gomez’s old show Wizards Of Waverly Place, and Blanco noted he knew the theme song because it inspired Eilish’s “Bad Guy.” Shane […]

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Oasis Share ‘Slide Away’ Audio From Their Reunion Tour

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Oasis Share ‘Slide Away’ Audio From Their Reunion Tour

The ongoing Oasis Live ’25 reunion tour will presumably make for a hell of a live album some day. In the meantime, Oasis have at least offered a taste of what that might sound like. Yesterday (July 9), they shared the audio of their performance of “Slide Away,” from the tour-opening show in Cardiff, Wales on July 4. This is the first official audio from the tour to be released. The song came late in the set, between “Cast No […]

todayJuly 11, 2025

Kendrick Lamar’s Music Is The Subject of a New Temple Course

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Kendrick Lamar’s Music Is The Subject of a New Temple Course

Kendrick Lamar’s music and cultural impact is the focus of a new course Temple University will be offering this fall. NBC10 Philadelphia reports that Timothy Welbeck, a professor for the Department of Africology and African American Studies and the Director for the Center for Anti-Racism at Temple University, is launching the course. Welbeck has taught at the university for 14 years, including classes on hip-hop, Black culture, and urban Black politics.“My current department chair was very open to the idea […]

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Billie Eilish Cried When Seeing Jake Johnson

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Billie Eilish Cried When Seeing Jake Johnson

In an interview from a few months ago, when asked to name her favorite actor, Billie Eilish had two picks: Steve Carell and Jake Johnson. She’s had the chance to speak with Carell before (as well as other favorites from The Office). She’s met the New Girl star, too, but before she did, she was very starstruck, to the point of tears. Eilish revealed this during a recent interview, explaining: “Last year, I was flying somewhere and as we pulled […]

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Larry June Interview on Being Yourself, Lifestyle Rap, Hustling

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Larry June Interview on Being Yourself, Lifestyle Rap, Hustling

Game for SaleFor 15 years, Larry June has done the slow-and-steady race to achieve hip-hop success on his terms. The West Coast rapper is a best-case scenario for the independent rap hustle.Interview: Peter A. Berry Editor’s Note: This story appears in the Winter 2024 issue of XXL Magazine, on newsstands now and available for sale on the XXL website. Larry June isn’t a life coach, but he sounds like one. For the last 15 years, the San Francisco native has supplied game from a […]

todayJuly 11, 2025

Mariah The Scientist Shares ‘Hearts Sold Separately’ Date

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Mariah The Scientist Shares ‘Hearts Sold Separately’ Date

Mariah The Scientist’s next musical experiment is coming soon. Hearts Sold Separately, the Atlanta singer’s upcoming fourth studio album, is officially set for release on August 22. Mariah kicked off the rollout for the new project in May, with the video for the first single, “Burning Blue.” It has been a while since we last heard from the Scientist, whose last album To Be Eaten Alive came out in 2023. While 2024 was a relatively quiet year on the new […]

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