In our culture, there's a narrative that says, 'Follow the athletes, follow the entertainers.' And that's cool but there should be something that says, 'Follow Elon Musk, follow [Mark] Zuckerberg.' | | | | Believe the hype: Public Enemy fans in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Nov. 6, 1990.
(Frans Schellekens/Redferns/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “In our culture, there's a narrative that says, 'Follow the athletes, follow the entertainers.' And that's cool but there should be something that says, 'Follow Elon Musk, follow [Mark] Zuckerberg.'”
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| | rantnrave:// I may have spent a few too many hours on Sunday watching a whipsmart 11-year-old hip-hop fan named RAURI and his laid-back ex-punk-rock dad, PAUL, listening to each other's music on YOUTUBE. H/T the DAILY BEAST's TAYLOR LORENZ for her insightful and wonderfully non-judgmental introduction to "YouTube's Favorite Music Critic." These are some of the reasons I still have hope for our future. Rauri on GANG OF FOUR: "It sounds like KING KRULE. Well, King Krule sounds like them." Dad on LIL PUMP: "'Me and my grandma take meds' is kinda funny." Rauri (in one of his many solo videos): "I don't really know how to explain cloud rappers. They just kind of sound like they're lazy and half asleep and they're, like, in this dreamy mood." Rauri, who films these lengthy but never boring clips on his IPAD and edits them in IMOVIE, is the brains behind the operation, and the star. But don't discount dad. This is good parenting (I'd rate it at least 9 out of 10, using Rauri's 10-point scale), good music criticism (9), good music education (8) and comedy gold (10). Bless the children and, hey, if an 11-year-old knows more about pop culture than you do, there's no reason to believe a 17-year-old doesn't know more about gun control than you do. So watch more and complain less. Speaking of which, the comments on Rauri's videos are amazingly positive and constructive. Bless you, internet... Breakout country star BRETT YOUNG on why he turned down an invitation from THE VOICE to compete on the show without having to audition: "It’s an interesting thing how that [show has] absolutely catapulted the career of all those judges. But as a contestant, you win the show, and then what happens after that?"... I'm unclear how it took more than a decade for someone to discover that someone actually caught the guitar that PRINCE threw straight up in the air after his ridiculous solo at the 2004 ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME ceremony and that appeared, by all available video evidence, to not come down. A roadie apparently caught it and, on Prince's instructions, gave it to OPRAH WINFREY, who was in the front row. Or so says THE CURRENT. But how was this kept a secret? Why hasn't Oprah ever said anything? And why, until the Current convenes an independent panel of physicists to prove the guitar did in fact come down, should I believe it? Until I see proof, I will continue to believe GOD caught the guitar and returned it to its rightful owner 23 months ago... The history of hip-hop on JEOPARDY... RIP BENTO, aka KEYBOARD CAT. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| For South Central native Nipsey Hussle, disrupting the tech and music industries is all in a day's work. | | |
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 | NPR Music |
| When the exhibit was first conceived, in tandem with Bowie's own collection, its success was far from guaranteed. In the five years since, it has outlived its subject and changed as much as he once did. | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| Ruairi’s ‘react’ videos on cutting-edge music trends—produced with his dad at his side—have gone viral thanks to retweets from rappers like Lil Yachty. | | |
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 | Noisey |
| We spoke to the women behind a growing movement against misogyny and rape culture within the high-decibel music scene, and asked: can metal change? | | |
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 | The Music Network |
| If 2017 was the year of the voice, 2018 sees the music industry finding new ways to embrace and cash in on voice-controlled technology. The immediate result was that it increased the amount of people who began streaming. | | |
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 | Variety |
| Earlier this week an uproar arose from the normally placid realm of performing-rights organizations - i.e. ASCAP, BMI, SESAC and Global Music Rights, which in the U.S. collect and distribute money earned by songwriters and publishers for the public performance of their works on the radio, in restaurants and venues, etc. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| The bluegrass duo Anna & Elizabeth’s new album, “The Invisible Comes to Us,” is future-facing, confronting the biases built into our archives of American music. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| I know I’m an old man screaming about how scary the future is but technology is ruining music. | | |
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 | AlterNet |
| Music gives us rhythm-and rhythm is sexy. | | |
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| Noisey |
| They’re the first new band from this generation who sound like no one else and make exhilarating, meaningful music for every damn age. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Mr. Levine, who was fired after accusations of sexual misconduct, claims that Peter Gelb, the Met’s general manager, had long wanted to force him out. | | |
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 | Pitchfork |
| But they should slow down so musicians can point out the many flaws in fine print. | | |
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 | Vulture |
| Can there be a cultural exchange between two minority cultures that exists without offense? Does “appropriation” have any place in this debate? And is Bruno Mars, at best, his generation’s most talented tribute artist or, at worst, a thief? | | |
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 | XXL |
| The new episode of XXL's Hip-Hop Moments of Clarity podcast discusses Lil Xan calling Tupac's music ''boring'' and whether new school should respect the greats. | | |
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 | Nashville Scene |
| Attorney Alex Little: "Hollywood is standing up for its own. It's time Nashville did the same." | | |
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 | Popehat |
| In Episode Four of the Make No Law podcast, I interview Simon Tam, founder of The Slants and victorious Supreme Court litigant, about his right to repurpose an epithet to fight racism and celebrate the fighters who came before him. | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| The hip-hop-heavy spin class has become a haven for women and men of color. | | |
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