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Nigerian-born, UK-grown talent Kida Kudz is ready for a global takeover. His vigorous style of music—often led by xylophonic and bass-led sonics—has managed to encapsulate audiences in both Nigeria (and wider West African regions) and England, where he has resided for just over a decade. Travelling to the UK (via Essex-London) to live with his […]
Junia-T’s solo salvo Studio Monk was a record that almost never came to fruition. Mired in a creative funk in the wake of the release of his 2014 album Eye See You, the Toronto via Mississauga MC was on the brink of quitting music for good. However, linking with Toronto music maven Addy Papa’s Riot […]
Long before he was abducted by a gender-fluid thug in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Dan Marino was the victim of a crime even more heinous: his Miami Dolphins were robbed of the Vince Lombardi Trophy by the unstoppable San Francisco 49ers at Super Bowl XIX in 1985. To this day, he remains the greatest quarterback […]
It’s not a stretch to say that Old Spice’s “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like” commercial, which dropped in 2010, completely changed the way people viewed the 83-year-old brand. The viral clip — starring Shadowrunners and It Chapter Two star Isaiah Mustafa — was irreverent, funny, and seemed to be fluent in a comedic […]
Two years ago, Tokyo’s Revenge was homeless. Today, the enigmatic rapper’s breakout single “GOODMORNINGTOKYO!” is a viral hit, having peaked on Spotify’s Global Viral 50 and Rolling Stone’s Trending 25 charts at No. 1 and 2, respectively. At the time of this article’s publication, the track has accumulated over 26 million streams on Spotify (six million in […]
Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Garcia are hip-hop legends in their own right. In the ’90s, through their radio program The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show, the New York City-based duo introduced the world to younger versions of rap’s biggest stars, from Jay-Z to Biggie to Nas. Now, a few decades later, Stretch and Bobbito are ready to take their […]
There are basketball fans, and then there’s David Delooper. Delooper, along with his pal (and freelance photographer/filmmaker) Colin Kerrigan, are taking a love of hoops to new heights with an ambitious project that has them hitting 30 cities in 30 days to land on each team’s jumbotron. “To me, this trip has been a once-in-a-lifetime […]
When I listen to Port of Miami 2, it feels like you know what the people want from a Rick Ross album and how to deliver that. But when you get this deep into the game as an artist, sometimes there’s a difference between what fans want and what you want to do. Do you ever […]
New Zealand’s Stella Bennett, better known to the world as BENEE, has had a crazy year. After taking a leap to pursue music full-time in 2017—the Auckland native left after two weeks in a communications program at Auckland University of Technology—her career has grown at breakneck speed. Shortly after taking the leap, BENEE earned the […]
By now, Josh and Benny Safdie’s decade-long journey to making the most ardently celebrated film of the year has been well chronicled: Uncut Gems owes its feverish appeal to the Safdies’ many years of field research in New York’s Diamond District, their practical and psychological guile sharpened by making similarly rattling fare such as Heaven Knows What and Good Time, and […]
