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Danny Green continues to set himself apart. Not many can say they’ve won both an NCAA title and at least three NBA titles—in fact, just 10 other people can. After winning a championship with San Antonio in 2014, Green just won back-to-back titles with both the Toronto Raptors and Los Angeles Lakers. At 33, Green […]
E.M.M.A.‘s debut album, 2013’s Blue Gardens feels like a lifetime ago, and in the intervening seven years, a lot has changed for the Merseyside-born producer. A brief pause on releasing her own music saw her explore other avenues, launching the Producer Girls production camp with the help of Dexplicit, Ikonika and P Jam, launching an imprint, and unearthing a new desire to score […]
When a team wins a title, it changes lives forever. And not only those who played on the team or who work for the organization. Friends, family, fans, and anyone who had an emotional connection to the journey will hold a championship near and dear to their hearts forever. You can never take that title away, […]
“One of the things he told me before he passed away was to get the Persona brand going, that’s all he wanted,” says Maxo Kream over the phone. “In honor of him, I’m keeping it alive.” Persona is Maxo Kream’s way of honoring his late brother, Mmadu Biosah (aka Money-Du Kream), who was shot and killed in the Woodland […]
If you missed a FaceTime call from Drake at 1:00 a.m., what would you do? That was the question Yung Bleu faced the morning after he sent Drake his tormented Love Scars: The Five Stages of Emotion track “You’re Mines Still”—a viral confession about being the most toxic post-relationship guy in the world—earlier this month. […]
Jeremie Pennick knows he has something to prove. There’s a reason that the veteran Buffalo rapper known professionally as Benny the Butcher named his new album Burden of Proof. After years of grinding, releasing mixtape after mixtape (and being interrupted by occasional stints behind bars), Benny’s star has risen in recent years, alongside his cousins […]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many of the UK’s 1600-plus nightclubs and live music venues were facing indefinite closure before the government stepped in with a grant to keep them open. The pandemic hit the industry hard, and it may take months—years even—for normality to fully resume. For West London’s Tape London, however, their plan to merge nightlife […]
“You can’t always run from a bullet.” Those words would be a rallying cry if born from the lips of soldiers in a war. Those words would be vile if spewed from the lips of a police officer. They weren’t. Those words leaped from the mouth of 14-year-old Devin Walker out of the TV screen […]
If anyone’s got an informed opinion on the current state of the music industry, it’s Zane Lowe. The New Zealand-born DJ-turned-host certainly has the CV for it: he’s renowned for his intimate one-on-ones with the world’s biggest artists (first on BBC Radio 1, then on Apple Music’s Beats 1) and is currently the global creative director of Apple Music. So […]
J Balvin is on a roll. In March, just as the world shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Colombian artist released his fifth studio album, Colores. The project hit No. 2 on Billboard’s Top Latin Albums chart and earned J Balvin thirteen Latin Grammy Award nominations, the most of any artist this year. […]
