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How to Be Outside, Inside featuring Greg Banks

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How to Be Outside, Inside featuring Greg Banks

New Orleans-born, Brooklyn-based musician and vocalist, Greg Banks, knows how to find stillness in New York City. When he’s not on stage or in the studio, you’ll catch him running the trails of Prospect Park, savoring some rasta pasta in Flatbush, or digging for vintage finds in Brooklyn. Greg’s dialed-down version of New York is rhythmic, balanced, and restorative. Okayplayer: When you want to be “outside” without really being outside, where do you go in NYC.Greg Banks: When I want […]

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Alleged Mastermind Behind Young Dolph’s Murder Has a Trial Coming

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Alleged Mastermind Behind Young Dolph’s Murder Has a Trial Coming

The man accused of organizing Young Dolph's murder is scheduled to stand trial later this month.Hernandez Govan to Stand Trial for Young Dolph's MurderAfter rejecting a plea deal last December, Hernandez Govan is now set to stand trial on Aug. 18 following a postponement from July 28, Memphis' ABC 24 reports. Govan spent the week in motion hearings ahead of his trial. However, on Tuesday (July 29), Judge Jennifer Mitchell placed a seal on the motions and rulings in the […]

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15 Times Rappers Have Fought to Leave Bad Contracts

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15 Times Rappers Have Fought to Leave Bad Contracts

Editor's Note: This story was originally published in April 2020 and has been updated for comprehensiveness. Hip-Hop becoming big business has benefited a number of artists, producing multiple multi-millionaires and becoming an economy in itself. However, along with that success has come greed, financial impropriety, and other unsavory tactics and traits deployed by the very corporations and companies that profit off of the music. This has resulted in a number of rap artists and producers getting the short end of […]

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Your Fan Letter to Eminem Could Appear in New Movie STANS

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Your Fan Letter to Eminem Could Appear in New Movie STANS

Your fan letter to Eminem could be featured in the rapper's new documentary film, STANS.Eminem's New Documentary Features Real Fan MailOn Friday (Aug. 1), the film's director and executive producer, Steven Leckart, shared photos of hundreds of pieces of fan mail that Shady received between April and August of 2024 and revealed that Em gave him access to the mail for the documentary."A photo of this box appears in our film exactly as I found it," Leckart captioned the post below. […]

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The Listening: New Metro Boomin, Ciara Links With Latto, AI-Assisted Aaliyah and More

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The Listening: New Metro Boomin, Ciara Links With Latto, AI-Assisted Aaliyah and More

August means that summer is winding down and the youth are getting back to the grind of school days. But even as the dog days start to lose a little bite, the music is still hot as ever. And this week is a wide variety of new ‘ish from some of the best in hip-hop, R&B, and even blues. The legendary Buddy Guy is riding high off of his Sinners appearance as he drops his new project; plus Metro Boomin […]

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Inside a College Course Created to Study Kendrick Lamar’s Genius

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Inside a College Course Created to Study Kendrick Lamar’s Genius

From Compton to the classroom, Kendrick Lamar has inspired a new college course at Temple University in Philadelphia this fall. The genius of the West Coast MC's lyrics will be explored on a scholarly level thanks to Timothy Welbeck, Assistant Professor of Africology and African American Studies in Temple's College of Liberal Arts and Director for the Center for Anti-Racism. He connects with XXL in a new interview to discuss how a whole college class on Kendrick Lamar came together.Welbeck, who's taught […]

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