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Diddy Pays Surprise Visit To Bronx Charter School He Co-Counded
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Mike Coppola / Getty While Diddy has been on a serious promotional run he made sure also to lend his celebrity for good. He paid a surprise visit to his old charter school in the Bronx. As per The Bronx Times, the Bad Boy Entertainment mogul is back in New York City. On Wednesday, Oct. 19 Diddy stopped by Capital Preparatory Bronx Charter School in the Co-Op City section of the borough. He stopped in unannounced and took the entire student body by surprise while they attended a mandatory meeting in their auditorium. As expected, the kids were excited to see Diddy at their school and greeted him with screams and much applause. “I know that that’s a cure for what’s going on in our community — is education,” Combs said during the impromptu presentation....
Opp Kari Lake Claims MLK Would Be An “American First Republican” If He Were Still Alive
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Mario Tama / Getty White conservatives keep trying to claim Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as their Blackest bosom buddy who would certainly be in alignment with their beliefs if he were alive today. But all they really ever prove is that they know absolutely nothing about who King was before he was assassinated by a white supremacist, who, if we’re being honest, would be far more likely to be a dedicated right-winger. Think about it like this: If I were to walk up to some Republican MAGA minion right now and say, “Hey man, I just wanted to say that ‘in their relations with Negroes, white people discovered that they had rejected the very center of their own ethical professions,’” that person might think I’m just some Marxist, communist, anti-white, BLM-...
Fivio Foreign Bombs Brooklyn Nets Halftime Show, Blames Audio Crew
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Prince Williams / Getty Fivio Foreign’s rocky halftime performance during the Brooklyn Nets home opener had many questioning what went wrong, and the artist suggesting that the stadium’s audio crew might be at fault. On Wednesday night, the highly popular rapper and Brooklyn native took to center court during halftime of the Nets’ first home game against the New Orleans Pelicans. There was a lot of anticipation for his set, as it had been reported that he would be sporting a new diamond chain crafted to honor the team’s first decade in Brooklyn while rapping to the packed Barclays Center crowd. Other fixtures with ties to the franchise will also wear the chain throughout the 2022-2023 season. Fivio started to perform a medley of three of his hits – “Say M...
Travis Scott Privately Settles First Astroworld Lawsuit With Victim’s Family
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Joce jfizzy/Bauer-Griffin / Getty Victims of the Astroworld tragedy are starting to see some light at the end of tunnel. Travis Scott has privately settled his first lawsuit. As spotted on Vulture the rapper has started to offer compensation to those who suffered trauma and loss at his 2021 festival that left an alleged 5,000 individuals hurt or dead. On Thursday, October 20 attorney Tony Buzbee posted to social making the announcement that they settled on behalf of the family of Axel Acosta. “The Buzbee Law Firm announced today that the claims brought by the family of Axel Acosta against Travis Scott, Live Nation, and others involved in the Astroworld tragedy have settled” the caption read. “The terms are confidential. Victim Axel Acosta was a belov...
Ab-Soul Drops First Single From Upcoming LP “Do Better” Featuring Zacari
Ab-Soul has shared the first song off of his forthcoming album. “Do Better” hears the veteran rapper team up with a younger talent, the singer Zacari. Ab-Soul described the track as a reinterpretation of real-life events that have occured in the six years since he put out his last LP, 2016’s Do What Thou Wilt. “Shades stuck to my face, hoodie glued to my head / Hidin’ from the same world that made me who I am,” he raps. “Deep rest, can’t even get out of bed / Too blessed to be so stressed.” “Do Better” was produced by produced by DJ Dahi, Kurtis Mckenzie and Nick Hakim, and samples singer Hakim’s 2017 single “Green Twins.” It arrives alongside an official music video directed by Omar Jones, holding up an artistic lens to Ab-Soul’s transformation over the last few years. In 2022, Ab-So...
First Settlement Reached in 2021 Astroworld Festival Tragedies
The first lawsuit has been settled in the tragedies of Travis Scott’s 2021 Astroworld Festival. TMZ reported that one affectedfamily has reached a settlement with festival organizer Live Nation. Scott himself was not involved in the settlements and his team didn’t participate in any discussions related to them. According to the report, Attorney Tony Buzbee, who represents the family of 21-year-old Axel Acosta, one of the 10 victims who lost their life at the event, said that Acosta’s family settled out of court after naming Scott Live Nation and others in a lawsuit. Acosta passed away due to injuries suffered during a crowd surge at the November 2021 festival. He had traveled from Washington to Houston to see Scott perform. The settlement brings to a close only one of several lawsuit...
Loyle Carner Is Standing Up for the Things That Matter
Loyle Carner is all grown up. Speaking to Hypebeast from a U.K. music studio, the South London rapper finds a moment of solitude while waiting for his crew members to turn up for a session. Surrounded by amplifiers and microphones and talking into a Zoom screen, Carner opens up on the most intimate, soulful and altogether human album he’s ever made. Carner, real name Ben Coyle-Larner, reminisces on his almost decade-long music career, which originally sprung to life when he was 19. “There have been times when I have been high on confidence, then low on confidence. Times of being super happy and super sad. At the start of the album process, I was in a bad place, I was low,” he tells Hypebeast. In 2014, Loyle Carner released A Little Late, an E.P. packed with smooth jazz samples and an hones...
Seven Lions’ Debut Album Is a Cathartic Journey: Listen to “Beyond The Veil”
Despite tearing up stages across the world for over a decade, Seven Lions has only just begun to show his final form. Known as the godfather of melodic bass music, Lions has achieved world renown and even earned a kingmaker’s reputation for his work in developing artists through his flagship imprint, Ophelia Records. He’d done it all without even releasing an album, but that all changes with Beyond The Veil. Lions’ debut album sees him firing on all cylinders with seemingly greater conviction than ever before. “The best thing about working with Jeff is his consistent commitment to forging his own path,” Lions’ manager, Stan Shkrobor, said in the artist’s monumental 10-year anniversary documentary. That commitment is on full display in this hero̵...
Taylor Swift Releases 7 New Songs Just Hours After New Album Midnights: Listen
Only three hours after releasing her new album, Midnights, Taylor Swift has dropped seven more songs written during the album’s conception. Check out the “3am Edition” of Midnights below, with the added songs starting at track 14, “The Great War.” Among the additional batch are three songs prominently featuring the National’s Aaron Dessner, who did not contribute to Midnights after being a big part of Folklore and Evermore. Jack Antonoff, who Swift kept on board for Midnights, worked closely on the other four extra songs. Swift, who had promised a “special very chaotic surprise” at 3 a.m., wrote on social media: Surprise! I think of Midnights as a complete concept album, with those 13 songs forming a full picture of the intensities of that mystifying, mad hour. However! There were ot...
Taylor Swift Parties With Her “Anti-Hero” (Also Taylor Swift) in New Video: Watch
The morning after Midnights, Taylor Swift has released a video for “Anti-Hero.” In the video, which you can watch below, Swift contends with all the neuroses and anxieties described in the song, helped along by her anti-hero, also played by Swift. In the middle section, a trio of Swift’s fictional adult children argue over her will as she peeks out of a coffin. After dropping Midnights at midnight, Swift surprise released Midnights (3am Edition) at 3 a.m. That one features the original album plus seven more songs recorded “on the journey.” Jack Antonoff features prominently across the whole batch of tracks, and other guests include Lana Del Rey, Zoë Kravitz, Joe Alwyn (aka William Bowery), Jahaan Sweet, Red Hearse’s Sam Dew and Sounwave, and, on the bonus tracks, the National’s Aaron...
8 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Taylor Swift, Arctic Monkeys, Dry Cleaning, and More
With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming services. This week’s batch includes new albums and EPs from Taylor Swift, Arctic Monkeys, Dry Cleaning, Armani Caesar, Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn, Frankie Cosmos, Hagop Tchaparian, and Loshh. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday newsletter to get our recommendations in your inbox every week. (All releases featured here are independently selected by our editors. When you buy something through our affiliate links, however, Pitchfork earns an affiliate commission.) Taylor Swift: Midnights [Republic] After a pair of woodsy albums with Aaron Dessner and Jack Antonoff, Taylor Swift’s latest ...
Matthew Herbert and Barbara Panther Release New Album as Muramuke: Listen
Matthew Herbert and his longtime collaborator Barbara Panther have formed a project called Muramuke and released a self-titled album. The name is taken from a term meaning “good night” in Barbara Panther’s native Rwanda, according to a press release. They made the record in lockdown, through back-and-forth exchanges between Herbert in England and Barbara in Germany. Check out the album below, along with the cover art by the contemporary visual artist Rithika Pandey. The album, the press release notes, “is lyrically defined by Barbara’s lived experiences as a Black woman displaced by the horrors of war, then unable to escape the poisonous global reach of white supremacist anti-Blackness, in all its literal and coded forms.” Back in 2011, Herbert produced Barbara Panther’s self-titled debut ...
