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Lenny Kravitz Talks New Music, Return to Touring and Teases “I’m Making My Own Film”  Hollywood Reporter

Kaytranada on New Album, Touring With the Weeknd, Producing Mach-Hommy  Rolling Stone

This article originally appeared in 'Hypebeast Magazine Issue 33: The Systems Issue.'“I wasn’t that confident growing up,” says Aminé. It’s not what you’d expect to hear from an artist known for his playful flow and easygoing charisma, one with a 3x platinum single (2016’s “Caroline”), a plethora of albums and mixtapes, and even a handful of sneaker collaborations under his belt. But the rapper, born Adam Aminé Daniel, is far from conventional. “In sports, I got cut from teams — nothing had really gone well for me, in a major way, and music was the first time I had felt, ‘OK, this is something I feel I’m good at and it’s actually making me happy.’”Born to Ethiopian and Eritrean immigrants, Aminé didn’t even rap until the end of high school when he started writing verses as a joke contest w...

Rolling Stone's damning exposé about Sean "Diddy" Combs has revealed that The Notorious B.I.G. was supposedly planning to leave the music exec's Bad Boy Records just before his death.Several people who were interviewed for the piece corroborated the story, stating that Combs was in a battle against the late rapper's lawyers as he was attempting to regain his publishing rights. “I will never give it up until I’m dead and my bones are crushed into powder,” the exec said as per the book The Big Payback. Hip-hop photographer Monique Bunn said, “[Biggie] was absolutely about to leave Puff. I know for a fact [because] he told me that,” while another unnamed source added, “Everybody wanted to leave Puffy. Everybody leaves him.”When Biggie Smalls was shot and killed in March 1997, Combs reportedly...