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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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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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