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Okayplayer Staff Picks: Best Songs of 2023 So Far
Without the constraints of choosing a completed project, the picks for best songs so far this year run the gamut. The Okayplayer staff pulls from some of our favorite albums this year, like Larry June...
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Disney Plans on Decreasing Marvel &‘Star Wars’ Projects Due to Box Office...
The future of Marvel and Star Wars hangs in the balance at Disney. On Thursday, the company’s CEO, Bob Iger, spoke to CNBC’s David Faber where he warned Marvel and Star Wars fans that Disney will be...
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How to Build Your Own Music Festival According to MIKE
When MIKE started Young World in 2019, it was a change of pace to what New York City is used to with rap-focused festivals. The event, born out of wanting to do something for 2018’s War In My Pen...
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Best Songs of The Week: ft. Jamila Woods, J Hus, and More
Scroll through selections from this week’s sequence below and subscribe to Okayplayer’s Spotify channel today.Eem Triplin - "What Da Opp Said"Eem Triplin slips into a late-night mood on this warped...
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Mixtape Monday: CITIES AVIV, Rob Cave + More
Another week, another lineup. andrew and PageZ kick things off with Smoke Chain, Rob Cave is on deck with THE SUN TAPE, JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown drop SCARING THE HOES: DLC PACK and Skipp Whitman...
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Drake Trolls 'Vogue' EIC Anna Wintour Months After ‘Her Loss’ Lawsuit
Despite Drake and 21 Savage settling a lawsuit with Vogue, the Champagne Papi isn’t letting up on the publication’s editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. During a recent stop on his It’s All A Blur Tour,...
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Dr. Dre Says Rap Forefathers Who Diss Newer Rap Sound Like "Somebody’s...
Kevin Hart has interviewed hip-hop heavyweights on his Peacock talk show Hart to Heart. Recently joining his slate of guests like JAY-Z and Ice Cube is Dr. Dre, who showed an openness to discussing...
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DJ Kay Slay to Be Honored With Street Renaming In East Harlem
The late DJ Kay Slay will be honored with a street renaming in his hometown of East Harlem next month. On Saturday (July 15), Kay Slay’s brother, Kwame Grayson, announced the news on social media....
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Fabolous Claims There’s ‘Only One Style’ of Female Rappers Being Promoted
Fabolous recently shared his thoughts on the state of female rap, saying that it’s gotten oversaturated with the same image and lyrical content. On Sunday (July 16), the Brooklyn native weighed in on...
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Alabama Woman Carlee Russell Found After Interstate Disappearance
The search for missing Alabama woman Carlethia “Carlee” Russell had led to the 25-year-old’s safe recovery on Sunday (July 16). After a nationwide search for less than a week, at 10:44 p.m. the night...
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Broccoli City Festival 2023 was a Beautiful Mess
Music festivals are cooked. In a time when inflation has strapped millennials and zoomers spending habits, the looming dread of student loan repayments restarting, the dead dream of home ownership,...
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MIKE's Young World III Was a Haven for Every Era of Rap Fan
Bed-Stuy’s Von King Park, like so many of the public green spaces dotting New York City’s map, serves an endless breadth of ever-evolving community needs. Most mornings, it’s a watering hole for the...
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Travis Scott Utopia Concert At Pyramids of Giza Canceled for Alleged 'Satanic...
Grand opening, grand closing. Just two weeks before Travis Scott’s planned ‘Utopia’ concert at Egypt’s Pyramids of Giza, the engagement was canceled by the Egyptian Musicians Syndicate on Tuesday...
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Nas & Hit-Boy Announce Latest Collaborative Project ‘Magic 2’
Nas and Hit-Boy are still on a superstar run. After rumors surfaced this week that Nas was planning a new album, the rapper dropped the artwork for Magic 2, his latest project with Hit-Boy. The...
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The 13 Female Rappers Who Dominated '90s Hip-Hop Fashion
During the ‘90s, female rappers continued to build upon existing trends that trickled in from ‘80s hip-hop fashion due in part to legendary acts like Salt-N-Pepa and Roxanne Shanté, who laid the...
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Fugees Have Considered a Biopic, But Wyclef Jean Says Their Story is Ongoing
Wyclef Jean gave a few words on the future of The Fugees while at NBC Studios on Monday (July 17). While stopping for autographs and photo-ops with nearby fans, the 53-year-old was asked about fellow...
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Justin Simien Has ‘No Idea’ About Updates On Donald Glover’s Planned Lando...
Plans for a Lando Calrissian series on Disney+ seem to be on hold. Justin Simien, director of the Haunted Mansion remake and writer for the Lando Calrissian series recently spoke to The Direct about...
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Aminé and Kaytranada Announce Dates For Collaborative 'Kaytraminé' Tour
Following their first collaborative album Kaytramine, which was released in May, Portland hip hop artist Aminé and Haitian-Canadian producer Kaytranada have just rolled out their plans to tour as a...
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Greenpoint Serial Litterer Identified As NYPD Sergeant John Trzcinski
The search for Greenpoint’s mysterious serial litterer has ended. On Tuesday (June 18), Gothamist published an article identifying NYPD Sergeant John Trzcinski, who was disciplined with a loss of one...
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Las Vegas Police Issue Search Warrant Over the Unsolved Murder of 2Pac
The investigation of 2Pac’s unsolved murder is ongoing. On Tuesday (July 18), Las Vegas police confirmed that a search warrant was issued in connection with the 1996 death of 2Pac, legal name Tupac...
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