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Madonna has jumped on the latest remix from Beyoncé’s Renaissance LP, “Break My Soul (The Queens Remix).” The song prominently features an interpolation of Madonna’s 1990 hit single “Vogue” and name-drops a bevy of Black artists and ballroom legends. Listen below. Madonna’s original song and video for “Vogue” was a watershed moment for ballroom culture in the mainstream. In the new remix, Beyoncé calls out several ballroom houses, including the House of Aviance; she samples Kevin Aviance’s 1996 single “Cunty” on the Renaissance track “Pure/Honey.” Beyoncé released Renaissance late last month; she’s already edited two songs in response to controversies over credits and ableist language. Earlier this week, she shared a “Break My Soul” remix by Honey Dijon.  Check out “Catching Up With M...

Rae Sremmurd’s Slim Jxmmi was arrested at LAX on Sunday when border agents found a warrant for his arrest in Georgia, as TMZ originally reported. Slim Jxmmi’s lawyer, Steve Sadow, tells Pitchfork the warrant has in fact been dismissed and blamed a “miscommunication” between law departments.  The warrant pertained to an earlier arrest for marijuana possession with intent to sell. In that case, Slim Jxmmi had entered a plea in Cobb County, Georgia, and received five years’ probation, court documents show. In January, Slim Jxmmi was arrested for misdemeanor battery after a domestic violence report by his girlfriend, but the case was dropped when she recanted her testimony the following month.  In June, Sadow says in a statement that “someone filed an untruthful complaint [about [Sli...

Lamont Dozier, an all-time great pop hitmaker who supplied endless classics to Motown in the 1960s with the production team Holland-Dozier-Holland, has died, his son Lamont Dozier, Jr., said on social media. No cause of death was given. Dozier was 81.  Born in Detroit in 1941, Dozier was raised by his churchgoing grandmother, grew up listening to Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals and Nat King Cole, and made his first record aged 15 with a group called the Romeos. The following year, Motown boss Berry Gordy approached him, eventually bringing him in-house as a hitmaker.  He formed a production team with Brian and Eddie Holland, arriving in the studio at 9 a.m. and working until the early hours. “It was blood, sweat and tears,” he told The Guardian in 2015. “We pounded on the piano ...