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Lil Baby Talks Racism, Police Brutality In ‘Rolling Stone’ Interview
Source: Rolling Stone / Rolling Stone Lil Baby’s music is reigniting a firestorm of sociopolitical awareness in trap music lovers during an era where half of the country is struggling to understand why Black Lives Matter. His single “The Bigger Picture” amassed over 100 million streams since debuting on the charts, a clear indication that the world is paying attention to what the superstar has to say. Source: Rolling Stone / Rolling Stone If you ask him, though, he’s not protesting. He’s just keeping it real with us. In the latest issue of Rolling Stone, Lil Baby details the creative process behind the chart-topping single. “I just rap about my life — all my songs are basically about me,” he explains. “It was at a point where I felt I needed to say something.” When it comes to his vi...
MIT Engineers Create Reusable Face Cover As Effective As N95 Mask
Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Massachusetts Institute of Technology As COVID-19 continues to re-surge the world is taking action to ensure safety. One institution is saying they have created PPE that is built for multiple uses. Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Massachusetts Institute of Technology CNBC is reporting that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has announced that they have taken a major step in slowing down the spread of Coronavirus. According to the feature engineers and researchers at the school have made a mask that users can reuse without sacrificing the quality of protection. Generally N95 masks, which block airborne molecules and fluids that may contain the COVID-19 virus, are now hard to come by. MIT’s design is entirely made from si...
Wiz Khalifa “Still Wiz,” The Weeknd “Snowchild” & More | Daily Visuals 7.22.20
Source: The Weeknd performing at the SSE Hydro in the SEC in Glasgow Featuring: The Weeknd, Abel Makkonen Tesfaye Where: Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom When: 10 Mar 2017 Credit: Peter Kaminski/WENN.com Soooo is Wiz Khalifa is an anti-masker and anti-social distancer? Well, we don’t know for sure but from the looks of his latest visuals the man is living like the Coronavirus ain’t infecting people at an alarming rate. In his latest video to “Still Wiz,” the Pittsburgh spitter throws caution to the wind and throws a Cali pool party where bikini clad women join him for some fun in the sun, drinks in the pool and chronic smoke in the whip. Hopefully it wasn’t a puff-puff-give affair. Back in Canada where the Rona is actually under control and COIVD carrying Americans are banned from enterin...
Chicago DJ D2A Found Dead Months After Homicide Charge in Wife’s Death
According to a report by CWB Chicago, Brian Rosin, a Chicago DJ who produced music and performed under the pseudonym “D2A,” was recently found dead by suicide. Prosecutors had charged Rosin, 35, with first-degree murder in April 2020 following the death of his wife, Isabel. According to a story published in the Chicago Sun-Times prior to Rosin’s death, Cook County prosecutors said he had smothered his wife with a pillow during a mushroom trip because he was “worried her drug-induced screams would make his neighbors think he was abusing her.” Following the deadly incident, Rosin allegedly told officers that he was compelled to suffocate Isabel because she was having a schizophrenic episode after they ingested the drugs on April 28th, 2020. Cook C...
2021 Chevrolet Silverado Yenko/SC: An 800-HP Truck That Preempts a Hellcat Ram 1500
The modified Silverado starts (and largely ends) with a 378-cubic-inch LT1 V-8 with a blueprinted aluminum block, forged crankshaft and pistons, and CNC-ported heads, then adds a centrifugal supercharger and custom quad-tip exhaust system for a whopping 800 hp and 720 lb-ft of torque. The Yenko/SC Silverado can be had in either two- or four-wheel drive, but in either configuration you’ll get an upgraded heavy-duty six-speed automatic transmission. Both the engine and transmission come with a three-year/36,000-mile warranty. See all 7 photos Like other products from the Yenko brand, which is now owned by Specialty Vehicle Engineering, the Yenko S/C Silverado will be built in limited quantities. In this case, just 50 trucks will be built for the 2021 model year. And unlike other turnke...
Neumos in Seattle, in a Pandemic: ‘We Employ a Lot of People … I Paid 10,000 People Last Year’
Steven Severin, co-owner of Neumos in Seattle, says indie clubs contribute $35 billion to the music industry and that needs to be recognized with government funding during the crisis. As co-owner of Seattle’s popular independent venue Neumos in Capitol Hill, Steven Severin has been a staple in the Seattle music industry for more than 20 years. Roughly 10 years ago, he helped create the Seattle Nightlife and Music Association to bring together the area’s live event insiders, and for the past 16 years has helped run Neumos with its sister club Barboza and the accompanying Runaway bar. As part of Billboard’s efforts to best cover the coronavirus pandemic and its impacts on the music industry, we will be speaking with Severin every two weeks to chronicle his experience throughou...
Lizzo Is a Green-Haired Goddess in Starry New Photo
Lizzo‘s badass energy always has us green with envy–and now she has the hair to match our mood. The star took to Instagram on Tuesday (July 21) to share a golden hour photo wearing nothing but glittery gold stars, paired with green hair and matching green eyeshadow. “When they say ‘ima star’ this is what they mean..” she captioned the post, tagging her creative director Quinn Whitney Wilson. The “Good as Hell” singer followed up with another moment from the shoot, a video of the (literal) star posing in the sunlight as a voiceover is heard proclaiming, “Yeah, we Black and we fine / We do this all the time.” See it here. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins wi...
Annie Ross, Grammy-Winning Jazz Singer, Dies at 89
Annie Ross, the dexterous jazz singer and leading practitioner of the art of “vocalese” heard on her signature song, “Twisted,” has died. She was 89. Ross died Tuesday at her home in Manhattan of complications from emphysema and heart disease, her former manager, Jim Coleman, told The Washington Post. Ross performed with fellow vocalists Dave Lambert and Jon Hendricks in the acclaimed jazz trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross from 1957 to 1962. They made dozens of instrumental classics their own and recorded several albums, starting with 1957’s Sing a Song of Basie, which employed overdubs to multiply their voices. In 1952, Ross and vocalist King Pleasure had teamed on an album for Prestige that included “Twisted,” her treatment of saxophonist Wardel...
Dave Franco to Play Vanilla Ice in New Biopic
Dave Franco is set to play Vanilla Ice in a biopic about the “Ice Ice Baby” rapper. In a wide-ranging interview with Insider, Franco elaborated on the news of his casting and how he sees the film playing out. “We have been in development for a while but we are inching closer and closer to preproduction,” Franco said of the film, the news of which was quietly revealed last year. He compared the project favorably to The Disaster Artist, the 2017 movie about filmmaker Tommy Wiseau that starred Franco and his brother James. (Wiseau directed and starred in the 2003 cult classic The Room. In The Disaster Artist, James Franco portrayed Wiseau while Dave played co-star Greg Sestero, who wrote a book of the same name about his experience working on the movie.) “With that movie, ...
Erica Mena & Safaree Samuels Turn Up The Heat With A Steamy New Teaser To Promote Their Only Fans Account
Source: Prince Williams / Getty Erica Mena and Safaree Samuels have taken the art of thirst trapping to a whole new level. On Monday (Jul 20), the married couple and new parents began their onslaught of promotion for the adult-content themed Only Fans account. Dropping the link via Twitter, Erica Mena teased fans that they could “be a fly on the wall” with her and Safaree accompanied by a risque video that gives fans a glimpse of what to expect on the other side of the curtain. “Be a fly on our wall,” Erica Mena wrote. “My husband joins me on my OnlyFans.” According to fans, for $50, subscribers on the popular fan site can treat themselves to a video of the pair kissing, along with erotic kissing and rubbing while nude. Screengrabs from her OnlyFans account posted by The Shade Room sh...
AKAI’s New ‘MPC Beats’ Music-Making Software Is Here To Help Get Your Beat-Making Off The Ground
Source: AKAI Professional / MPC Beats Have you always wanted to become the next Pharrell, Timbaland, Swizz Beatz, Just Blaze, or old Kanye West? Akai is now giving you that opportunity and won’t cost you a dime. Akai, who is more well-known for his beat-making hardware like its popular button-mashing MPC machines, is now looking to push its software. The company announced its new ‘MPC Beats’, a streamlined digital audio workstation. The new software seemingly builds off its existing desktop software, making it more straightforward for the entry-level beat maker but for the price of free 99. Once downloaded and installed, users, will have access to Akai’s three virtual synths (Bassline, Tubesynth, and Electric) plus 80 effects plugins. On top of that, it comes loaded with 2GB of sampl...
HHW Gaming: Ahead of ‘Halo Infinite’s Big Campaign Reveal, Microsoft Shows Off The Game’s Box Art
Source: 343 Industries / HALO Infinite Your favorite Spartan, Master Chief, is back, and the box art for his new adventure is giving subtle hints as to what expect from the next Halo game. Ahead of Microsoft’s Halo Infinite campaign reveal tomorrow during tomorrow’s Xbox Games Showcase, the company showed off the box art for the Xbox Series X game. For one, it’s definitely taking a page out of the first game, Halo: Combat Evolved’s book. In it, we see Master Chief standing in a field with a destroyed Halo station in the background. Source: 343 Industries / HALO Infinite John-117’s pose is almost similar to his stance on the original Xbox game’s cover, but any gamer can clearly see Microsoft is going for a full-circle moment here for the game. Eagle-eyed fans also zoomed in on Master Chief’...
