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Category: Rap and Hip-Hop
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Trugoy the Dove of De La Soul’s 10 Essential Songs
The Long Island rapper David Jolicoeur, known for his freewheeling rhyme style, has died at 54, just weeks before his trio’s catalog arrives on streaming services.
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Rihanna Returns on the Super Bowl Stage and Confirms Second Pregnancy
Rihanna did not bring any other artists to the stage, preferring to frame the set as a celebration of her dominant pop career. The performance also served as a pregnancy reveal.
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De La Soul’s Dave Jolicoeur, a.k.a. Trugoy the Dove, Dies at 54
The trio expanded the stylistic vocabulary of hip-hop in the 1980s and ’90s, but its early experiments with sampling led to legal troubles, and the group’s longtime exclusion from streaming.
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AKA, Influential South African Rapper, Is Fatally Shot
The rapper, whose legal name was Kiernan Forbes, was one of the most formidable songwriters in South African hip-hop. He and another man were killed outside a restaurant on Friday.
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Lil Yachty Breaks Boundaries and Takes on Rap Conservatism
A conversation about the hip-hop eccentric’s experiments, and the benefits (and perils) of collaborating outside an artist’s established genre.
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Lizzo and SZA Spin Up a Fresh ‘Special,’ and 7 More New Songs
Hear tracks by Luke Combs, Jessie Ware, Indigo de Souza and others.
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Hip-Hop Fashion Pioneers Reminisce About Clothes That Shaped the Genre
At an opening for a new exhibition at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, attendees embraced a musical fashion history.
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Quality Control, Atlanta Rap Powerhouse, Sells to Scooter Braun’s Hybe
The acquisition is the famed music manager’s first major move at Hybe America — a division of the South Korean firm — since he became its sole chief executive last month.
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On Hip-Hop’s 50th Anniversary, a Look at the Genre’s Fashion
A museum exhibition and book kick off the anniversary of a genre incubated in the Bronx and exported to the world.
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SZA’s View From the Top
Her moody, enigmatic music made her a megastar. Can she learn to live with success?