How Kendrick Lamar and Drake changed rap beefs forever A series of diss tracks from hip-hop's two biggest stars, Drake and Kendrick Lamar, have animated the most high-profile rap beef in a generation, drawing global attention and an avalanche of online ... 05/11/2024 - 1:00 am | View Link
Timeless Tickets: Promoter recalls wild tale of bringing Notorious B.I.G. to Davenport in 1995 Local promoter Darryl Williams couldn't believe it when he booked Notorious B.I.G. for a gig in Davenport in 1995. 05/11/2024 - 12:30 am | View Link
When the Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar Rap Beef Burns Out “This Can’t End Well” Rap beefs are an essential part of hip-hop culture, but the recent battle between two of the genre's top performers has turned dark and ugly: "How far are we willing to go to win a rap battle?" ... 05/10/2024 - 8:03 pm | View Link
How AI is being weaponized in Drake and Kendrick Lamar's rap beef In what most rap fans would probably agree was a very confusing turn of events, Taylor Made Freestyle seemingly opens with verses from none other than hip-hop legends Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg ... 05/10/2024 - 4:02 am | View Link
Kendrick-Drake beef reaches Congress: ‘Gonna back the American’ They hold national hearings and craft legislation. They represent millions of constituents across the country and are some of the biggest decision makers in the world. This week, they voted on ... 05/10/2024 - 12:10 am | View Link
PADANG, Indonesia — Heavy rains and torrents of cold lava and mud flowing down a volcano’s slopes on Indonesia’s Sumatra island triggered flash floods that killed at least 37 people and more than a dozen others were missing, officials said Sunday.
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Monsoon rains and a major mudslide from a cold lava flow on Mount Marapi caused a river to breach its banks and tear through mountainside villages in four districts in West Sumatra province just before midnight on Saturday.
LOS ANGELES — Roger Corman, the “King of the Bs” who helped turn out such low-budget classics as Little Shop of Horrors and Attack of the Crab Monsters and gave many of Hollywood’s most famous actors and directors early breaks, has died. He was 98.
Corman died Thursday at his home in Santa Monica, California, according to a statement released Saturday by his wife and daughters.
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“He was generous, open-hearted and kind to all those who knew him,” the statement said.
A blast from the sun has created a massive geomagnetic storm that is creating an incredible visual spectacle for the US.
Many Americans across the country were able to see the Northern Lights.
For people in many places, the most visible part of the storm will be the northern lights, known also as auroras.
Enough is enough.
That’s the message from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia to the University of Chicago as U. S. colleges took a hard line against student protesters, resorting to arrests, suspensions and threats of expulsion to subdue unrest sparked by the Israel-Hamas war.
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Graduation season is underway and families are descending on campuses for the festivities, raising the stakes for administrators seeking to ensure public safety.
Vladimir Putin replaced his long-serving defense minister with a trained economist in an unexpected change of guard that signals the focus on growing the Russian war economy more than two years after the invasion of Ukraine.
Putin put forward his former economy aide and First Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Belousov, 65, to take over from Sergei Shoigu, 68, who was given a gentle demotion and put in charge of the security council.
Paul Manafort, convicted felon pardoned by Trump, has backed away from his role advising the Republican National Convention.
Paul Manafort, convicted and pardoned felon, has quit his again-unpaid role as advisor to the Republican National Convention.
“As a longtime, staunch supporter of President Trump and given my nearly 50 years experience in managing presidential conventions, I was offering my advice and suggestions to the Trump campaign on the upcoming convention in a volunteer capacity,” Mr.