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Jillian Berman documents how hip hop artist Nicki Minaj caught the internet’s attention for offering to help out with some of her fans’ college costs and student loans. Minaj’s generosity highlights the challenges students face financing their education in an era of eroding public support for higher education. ...
Beef: It’s what’s on Twitter. Tuesday night & early Wednesday morning, Meek Mill’s Twitter became the very definition of zero chill. He accused Drake of using ghostwriters, and Rick Ross, OG Maco, Boi-1da, Roscoe Dash, Questlove, and Chrissy Teigan jumped in with their thoughts. The Rant After sharing a few choice words about girlfriend...
For the past 30 days, I’ve been a subscriber to Tidal, the new music streaming service launched by Jay-Z and a host of other partner artists back in March. Despite Jay’s best efforts to keep the focus on “restoring the value to music” and a more fair compensation model for creatives, writers...
Last night, I mentioned how my favorite player (yeah, I said it) in the NBA, DeMarcus ‘Boogie’ Cousins might have something to look forward to with new Coach—George Karl running things in Sac-Town. Today, I switch over to someone who’s absolutely balling off the court…MMG’s fire-spitter, Meek Mill. ...
Today marks 6 days into the New Year, which means we’re finally over the hangover and onto reflecting about what actually happened in hip-hop during 2014. We take a step back and immediately realize how rather unorthodox it indeed was. I mean no Kanye or Jay album, no Drake...