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After Empire: What’s The Future Of Hip-Hop On Scripted Television?
The recent announcement that Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson would be developing a single camera comedy called My Friend 50 for FOX was surprising for a few reasons. FOX has been breaking ratings records this...
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Getting The Drop On Us: The Year In Surprise And/Or “Surprise” Releases
Here in the future, we now know Andy Warhol was right about everyone getting their 15 minutes of fame, but it comes with some unexpected consequences. Benjamin Franklin taught us that time is money --...
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Kanye Added André 3000, Puff Daddy, 2 Chainz, & Kid Cudi To Waves Last Night
Instagram.com/hairweavekiller">Kanye has had quite a distracting week, but don't worry, he's getting back to his creative process. He's been keeping us apprised of his progress on new album Waves...
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Puff Daddy –“Blow A Check” (Feat. French Montana & Zoey Dollaz) Video
Last year, Puff Daddy released the absurdly, shockingly entertaining free album MMM, and today he's got a new video for "Blow A Check," one of that album's most kinetic tracks. The video, like the...
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Puff Daddy –“Auction” (Feat. Lil Kim, Styles P, & King Los) Video
Late last year, Diddy, going back to his old Puff Daddy moniker, released the shockingly strong free mixtape MMM. The videos he's released since have, by and large, been a lot of fun. Today, he's got a...
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Puff Daddy & The Family –“You Could Be My Lover” (Feat. Ty Dolla $ign &...
Honestly, I haven't messed with Puff Daddy or any of his monikers from a very young age. Even as a kid I would wonder who the annoying dude was on Biggie's songs. But those remnants of resentment may...
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Lukas Graham Is The New Ed Sheeran Is The New Jason Mraz Is…
Lukas Graham loves singing about his parents, which is appropriate because your parents are about to be asking you if you've heard of Lukas Graham. And now you have, though surely you've encountered...
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Watch Puff Daddy & The Family Reunite On Today
Instagram.com/TodayShow">Back in March, Puff Daddy announced that he's reunite with most of the '90s Bad Boy roster -- Mase, the Lox, Lil Kim, Faith Evans, 112, Total -- for a massive Biggie tribute...
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Bad Boy, Mobb Deep, And The Endurance Of ’90s Rap Nostalgia
Instagram.com/IAmDiddy">In the Bad Boy era, I hated Bad Boy. I loved Biggie, and the rest of it was an abomination to me. It was the cartoonish glitz of the videos. It was the obviousness of the...
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Till The World Ends: Britney Spears And The Extended Shelf Life Of The Modern...
No one remembers Debbie Gibson. Actually, perhaps the opposite is true: Memory is the only way most people experience Gibson anymore, not as an active concern but a blast from the past. Ditto Tiffany,...
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Watch Puff Daddy Bring Out Chance The Rapper, Jeremih, & DMX At Bad Boy...
Earlier this year, Puff Daddy led much of his '90s Bad Boy Records roster through a triumphant reunion show in Brooklyn. And now he's taking that roster on the road, doing big nationwide '90s-nostalgia...
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Watch Puff Daddy Bring Out Kanye West At Bad Boy Family Reunion In NYC
Puff Daddy successfully brought the Bad Boy family back together earlier this year at Barclays Center in his hometown of Brooklyn. That exultant reunion full of '90s NYC nostalgia was one hell of an...
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DMX Joins Puff Daddy’s Bad Boy Reunion Tour
When the troubled rap great DMX emerged as a seismic force in the late '90s, his popularity felt like a rebuke to the Bad Boy Family, the slick and flashy New York rap crew whose era immediately...
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Diddy Still Deciding Whether To Vote For His Stylish Friend Donald Trump
Sean "Diddy" Combs and Donald Trump have been running in the same New York new-money rich-celebrity circles for decades, and both of them have plenty of experience being both loved and hated by vast...
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In Memoir Excerpt Lil Wayne Writes About His Rikers Visits From Kanye West,...
Lil Wayne has a few things delayed thanks to his ongoing legal feud with Birdman and Cash Money Records, but finally one of his projects will see the light of day soon. Wayne's jail memoir, Gone 'Til...
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Watch Puff Daddy’s Message To The Notorious B.I.G. On The 20th Anniversary Of...
As of today, it's been 20 years since the Notorious B.I.G. was gunned down in Los Angeles. Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs was both Biggie's best friend and the man who discovered him. Shortly after Biggie's...
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Watch Diddy Unveil Barclays Center’s Permanent Tribute To The Notorious...
Twitter.com/BrooklynNets">This past Thursday was the 20-year anniversary of the Notorious B.I.G.'s death. And tonight, during their game against the New York Knicks at Brooklyn's Barclays Center,...
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No Way Out Turns 20
Puff Daddy couldn't rap. That was always the standard line during the era when Puff was dominating everything. He was a monotonal mushmouth with no particular sense of rhythm or flow, and he always...
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Diddy –“Watcha Gon’ Do” (Feat. Biggie & Rick Ross)
Puff Daddy, the newly minted highest paid entertainer in the world, would like to prove that he's still actually an entertainer. He's just premiered two versions of a new song, "Watcha Gon' Do" and...
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SoundCloud Rap Is Thriving While SoundCloud Is Dying
SoundCloud is in trouble. Earlier this month, the streaming platform laid off nearly half its workforce, positioning the move as what it needs to do to remain "independent." Since then, there have been...
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Stream Blood Orange’s New Album Negro Swan
Back in July, Dev Hynes announced the forthcoming release of the new Blood Orange full-length Negro Swan, the follow-up to 2016’s acclaimed Freetown Sound. Soon after that he shared singles "Charcoal...
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Plastic Crown Worn By Notorious B.I.G. Sells For $594k In Sotheby’s First...
The prestigious auction house Sotheby's held its first ever sale of hip-hop memorabilia tonight in New York, featuring items such as a one-of-a-kind Def Jam jacket and a DJ triptych by Fab 5 Freddy....
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Netflix’s Notorious B.I.G. Documentary Scales Back The Myth-Making Just...
One of the first things that comes to mind when you connect Jodeci and the Notorious B.I.G. is very loud sex. While “Feenin” plays in the background on the “Fuck Me” interlude, Lil’ Kim calls Biggie a...
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Stream DJ Khaled’s New Album Khaled Khaled Feat. Jay-Z, Cardi B, Post Malone,...
Chartmonger DJ Khaled missed out on the #1 spot with his last album, 2019’s Father Of Asahd — not for lack of trying — but, considering the lack of competition this week, it seems likely that the...
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Ranking The Songs On DJ Khaled’s Latest Celebrity Dogpile
DJ Khaled’s brand is excess, opulence, and over-the-top enthusiasm. For the better part of two decades, the man born Khaled Khaled has been rounding up as many famous rappers, singers, and producers as...
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BTS Covered Puff Daddy’s “I’ll Be Missing You” For BBC Radio 1
BTS are riding high. The Korean pop superstars and their Army have commandeered the Billboard Hot 100 in recent months: sending their single “Butter” to #1 for seven weeks, launching its follow-up...
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The Number Ones: Mariah Carey’s “Fantasy”
In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.
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We’ve Got A File On You: Toro y Moi
We’ve Got A File On You features interviews in which artists share the stories behind the extracurricular activities that dot their careers: acting gigs, guest appearances, random internet ephemera, etc.
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The Number Ones: Puff Daddy’s “Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down” (Feat. Mase)
In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.
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The Number Ones: The Notorious B.I.G.’s “Hypnotize”
In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.
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The Number Ones: Puff Daddy’s “I’ll Be Missing You” (Feat. Faith Evans & 112)
In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.
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The Number Ones: The Notorious B.I.G.’s “Mo Money Mo Problems” (Feat. Puff...
In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.
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The Number Ones: Mariah Carey’s “Honey”
In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.
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The Number Ones: B2K’s “Bump, Bump, Bump” (Feat. P. Diddy)
In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.
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The Number Ones: Nelly, P. Diddy, & Murphy Lee’s “Shake Ya Tailfeather”
In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.
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