I fell in love with Daddy Yankee. Almost everybody [in hip-hop] was African-American, but I saw Yankee was Latino and thought, 'OK, I got a chance.' | | | | Beastie Boys' room: Ad-Rock, MCA and Mike D circa 2004.
(Mick Hutson/Redferns/Getty Images) | | | | | | “I fell in love with Daddy Yankee. Almost everybody [in hip-hop] was African-American, but I saw Yankee was Latino and thought, 'OK, I got a chance.'”
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| | rantnrave:// Dear concert ticket industry: I know the entire world is heading in this direction, for better or worse, and I know you haven't done anything more yet than announce an acquisition, and I know this request is probably in vain, but no, I do not want you to store my face in a database and I do not want you to associate my face with my RIHANNA ticket, and I do not want you to scan my face when I walk into the show. For a million reasons, including convenience, flexibility and (completely justified) paranoia, I'd much rather show you a bar code (or, hell, even hand you a paper ticket). Also, I'm going to be really mad when it turns out the main benefit of knowing the exact identify of every soul in the arena isn't to fight scalpers or keep us safe but to sell our biometric data to advertisers. But hey, if you want to redirect the R&D budget you're using to get scanners to recognize my face as I stroll into the HOLLYWOOD BOWL and instead use the money to develop scanners that can automatically detect a bar code without me having to slow down, I'd be good with that... Here's a compelling argument for why major labels are dumping SPOTIFY stock like 18th century Americans dumping British tea into Boston harbor. OK, it's not that bad. And compelling doesn't automatically equal correct. But TIM INGHAM is playing solid digital-music-biz chess here. Key, possibly frightening, takeaway: The big streaming audience waiting in the wings is baby boomers. And Spotify may or may not be where they'll go... What if a band did this? Could LORD HURON claim the word LORD? Could CARDI B own her B? Who would get "LIL"?... Your next GOOGLE assistant: JOHN LEGEND... Layoff watch: UPROXX. REVOLT MEDIA. POPSUGAR... RIP BIG T, GAYLE SHEPHERD and DICK WILLIAMS. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| The majors have cashed in $1bn in shares despite optimism from Wall Street. Why? | | |
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| The term "deep house" has come to mean many different things to many different people. But the roots of the sound can be traced back to the musical innovations of one man: Larry Heard. In this video, we look at the techniques behind some of Heard's most iconic and influential music, explaining how he gave house music a sense of depth. | | |
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| He's on a mission to globalize reggaeton. Will the United States answer the call? | | |
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| To be clear, I don’t support these artists. But I also think it is too simplistic and a little disingenuous to retroactively declare that the music, film, television and comedy we once revered are now worthless. It is more complicated than the Twittersphere hive mind would have us believe. | | |
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| Years of allegations of sexual misconduct from underage women haven’t affected his standing in the industry but is the tide about to turn? | | |
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| I stood in a small room with a headset and felt like I was on stage with Fall Out Boy. Kind of. | | |
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| The American businessman and heir to the StarKist tuna fortune has become one of Jamaican music's most unexpected, and fervent, supporters. | | |
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| An interview with dance choreographer Sherrie Silver. | | |
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| When the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra started an after-school music program 10 years ago, it had 30 students. Now it has 1,300 - and counting. | | |
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| The country punk pioneer recently died at 63 after an extended battle with cancer. | | |
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| With her stunning new album, "Sparrow," the singer-songwriter has made the strongest project of her career. But how will Nashville respond? | | |
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| Jason Hardi's Muzik just raised more than $70 million from A-list backers, including Michael Jordan, Drake and French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault. Can a luxury version of its connected headphones beat Beats at its own game? | | |
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| It's a scorching April afternoon in Las Vegas, so hot that we're hunkered down in our hotel suite, waiting for an artist named Ozuna to swing by. But so far, despite multiple attempts, it hasn't happened. | | |
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| Hate the rapper's politics all you want, but writing off his "poopy-dee scoop" moment is shortsighted. | | |
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| Ye is still upset that his last album didn't get much airplay. Should he be? | | |
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| "We have so many forbidden things in Iran, but does that prevent us from doing them? If forbidden rap can tell good stories, go ahead and forbid it! The ban only means it's an opportunity." | | |
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| Music streaming services such as Spotify are freely available even where social media and search engines are banned, so the Uncensored Playlist has recruited journalists from five repressive regimes to spread the news via song. | | |
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| "In my mind, John Mellencamp is a rocking version of Merle Haggard," says Jake Owen. "He's able to say things simply about America in a way where everyone understood it." | | |
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| Having been oft-forgotten in other parts of the world for many a decade, over the past dozen years or so we've seen this country's musical output burst from the underground and make waves the world over. | | |
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| Pythagoras, metaphors, Leonard Bernstein and solresol all tell us that music means nothing in the traditional sense of semantic meaning, but it does give us a vehicle for expression quite unlike any other. Music means nothing, but also everything. | | |
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