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The New York Police Department has said good-bye to Spot—a canine-like robot from engineering company Boston Dynamics. According to the New York Times, the department had acquired about 500 models of the four-legged robot, which it nicknamed Digidog, back in August 2020 and had intended to test their capabilities for an entire year. Officials argued that the machine could […]
The Grammys nomination process will look much different from here on out. On Friday, the Recording Academy announced it has eliminated the nomination review committees in general and genre fields, including the Big Four categories: Album, Record, and Song of the Year, as well as Best New Artist.Variety reports the affected committees were primarily made up of […]
Moneybagg Yo has just shared some unfortunate family news. On Friday night, the Memphis-born rapper took to Twitter to reveal his mom had tested positive for coronavirus and was diagnosed with pneumonia. Though he didn’t provide details on his mother’s current condition, he told his followers he needed their prayers: “Dam mane how df My mama got COVID […]
Meek Mill didn’t disappoint. On Friday night, the Dreamchasers rapper released his own version of “Lemon Pepper Freestyle,” a Rick Ross-assisted track that originally appeared on Drake’s Scary Hours 2 project. Meek began promoting the release on social media this week, sharing snippets and clips from its official video, directed by Carters Vision. The visual is kept pretty straight-forward, as it begins […]
Toronto rappers Exmiranda, Dijah SB, and Keysha Freshh have teamed up on a new performance video for an exhibition on women in hip hop. The exhibit, “Women in Hip Hop,” showcases female MCs across time within the male-dominated genre. It is part of Toronto’s annual Myseum Intersections Festival and features interactive galleries with performances, videos, and mixed-media that spotlights […]
Iman Shumpert is an Illinois native, an NBA champion, and one of the league’s best ballers-turned-rappers. But even more than a basketball and hip-hop star, Shump is an outspoken champion of the Chicago food scene. Over crab legs and octopus tentacles, Shump and Dumbfoundead discuss the merits of Chicago deep-dish and Italian beef sandwiches, breakdown […]
NASA is taking the “better safe than sorry” approach. Earlier this week, the space agency kicked off a five-day “tabletop exercise” that simulates a hypothetical asteroid impact on Earth—a scenario that reportedly remains very unlikely at this point. The exercise, which is being lead by Center for Near Earth Object Studies, aims to test how experts and agencies […]
It seems Lil Durk is ready to purchase Chicago’s Parkway Gardens, an affordable housing complex where the rapper once lived, as did his late friend and labelmate, King Von. “I’ll buy it don’t matter how much it is,” Durk tweeted, in response to a photo of the Parkway Gardens and news that it was for sale. […]
You may have caught Smiley recently in Drake’s Instagram stories, working out with The Boy himself. Now, the Toronto rapper is back with his latest flex: a music video for his new single “In My Zone.” His first new music of 2021, the track finds the Warner signee rapping in his trademark laconic, stream-of-consciousness flow over […]
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, I had no idea when I’d ever be interviewing Michael B. Jordan. Not that it’d never happen, but with his trajectory—he’s not only starring in Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse, an action film that truly showcases Jordan as the leading hero, but he’s producing a number of projects, all while gearing up […]
