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Big Music reprises classic hit 'ISPs need to stop their customers torrenting or we'll sue'  The Register

Judge Ural Glanville has been removed from Young Thug and YSL's ongoing RICO trial.Judge Rachel Krause issued the rule but did not reveal Judge Glanville's replacement or the change's immediate effects on the trial, which has become Georgia’s longest criminal trial in history. “This court has no doubt that Judge Glanville can and would continue presiding fairly over this matter if the recusal motions were denied,” she wrote via Billboard. “But the necessity of preserving the public’s confidence in the judicial system weighs in favor of excusing Judge Glanville from further handling of this case.”Thugger's lawyer Brian Steel welcomed Judge Krause's ruling, “Jeffery Williams is innocent of the charges brought in this indictment and to clear his name he sought a speedy trial, one in which he ...

Kendrick Lamar returns to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart with "Not Like Us."His Drake-aimed diss track logs its second non-consecutive week at No. 1 following the release of its official music video on July 4. "Not Like Us" received a 20% streaming boost with 53.8 million official streams, 40 million radio airplay audience impressions and 8,000 units sold in the week ending July 11. This marks Dot's first solo multi-week Hot 100 No. 1.In late June, Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. confirmed that the diss track is eligible for the GRAMMYs should Lamar and his team choose to submit it. He shared that he doesn’t “see any reason why ['Not Like Us'] couldn’t be” nominated or even take home a GRAMMY. “Obviously, it’s a hot record, it’s amazing artistry,” Mason Jr. said.Click here t...

Wale had just touched down in London, fresh off a cross-Atlantic flight, and was in the mood for some music. Fortuitously for Master Peace, a 24-year-old London-based artist, the track that happened to be playing on BBC Radio 1 at the time was “Start Me Up,” a cut from his own debut album How To Make A Master Peace, which was released earlier that morning. Even more fortuitously for Master Peace, Wale was transfixed. He messaged Peace on Instagram and not long after, the two were hitting London’s clubs together.The following week, the duo linked again for an official studio session: Peace already had a song in the works that he thought Wale would fit perfectly on. Eventually, Wale had to return stateside but Peace would later fly out to meet him in Los Angeles, where they put the finishing...

Musical pitch has a curious effect on our perception of brightness  PsyPost