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When you come out with an album titled Life is Good, you don’t expect it to tackle divorce. But that was what Nas dealt with in 2012, all the way down to the album cover. “I had a pretty public divorce. They’re not easy, divorces. And it took me a long time to really get through. The album cover gives you that; it gives you what’s been happening with me, […]

People would never associate country music with T-Pain. Even when he gave a pretty stirring cover of Chris Stapleton’s “Tennessee Whiskey”, you’d never imagine a full pivot into Nashville. After all, just about any and everyone loves “Tennessee Whiskey”. That doesn’t make someone country. However, what we didn’t know is that T-Pain had been quietly working behind the scenes in Nashville for some years. In a 2024 interview with Billboard, […]

The late DJ’s mixtapes will be uploaded weekly until the end of June Read More RSS: News News 

Lupe Fiasco is one of the strongest examples of endurance within the music industry. After a strong debut and sophomore album, he hit something of a wall with his label. All of his ambitious ideas were immediately shot down. They would even dismiss his attempts to do songs that the label would approve of. It made him eventually grow to hate how his third album, Lasers, turned out. “I don’t […]

Derwin Dicker’s follow-up to 2023’s The Work arrives next month Read More RSS: News News 

The 70s were a wild, drug-fueled time for music. Maybe no band was more well-known for this than the legendary rock band The Grateful Dead. In fact, one time, the band played a concert at San Francisco’s Winterland that ended with three dozen fans having to be treated for hallucinations. This was caused by the fans accidentally being dosed with LSD after they drank some spiked apple juice. The show […]

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