Gary The Creator
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Steve Lacy Announces the 'Oh Yeah? Tour': 27 Dates, Radio City, Red Rocks and the Hollywood Bowl
Steve Lacy's first headline run in four years covers 27 cities from Minneapolis on Sept. 27 to Vancouver on Nov. 30, with Radio City, Red Rocks and the Hollywood Bowl on the routing. Full dates, plus how a kid producing on an iPhone in Compton got here.
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Termination Rights: One Sentence From 1986 Locked Salt-N-Pepa Out of It.
Copyright law hands every artist one chance to cancel a deal they signed decades ago. Here is the calendar, the trapdoor, and the fight over how much of the world comes back with it.
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Cordae and Anderson .Paak Finally Made the Joint Album "RNP" Promised Seven Years Ago
Seven years after “RNP” revealed their chemistry, Cordae and Anderson .Paak are finally turning one of hip-hop’s most natural recurring partnerships into a full album.
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Janet Jackson Is Filming CONTROL at 40, and the Setlist Is the Whole Career
Janet Jackson will film a career-spanning concert movie in December marking forty years of Control. Inside the album, the chart records, the contracts, the 2004 fallout and the run that followed.
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Usher and Chris Brown Add More Stadium Shows. They Are Now Playing 59.
Eight new dates take The R&B Tour to 59 shows, and four of them are markets stadium tours skip. Columbia, South Carolina on a Thursday in October is the number worth reading.
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The Lawsuit Became a Licensing Deal, and Your Split Never Got a Vote
Six weeks of AI settlements turned alleged theft into a revenue line. The money lands with rightsholders. Whether it reaches artists is a contract question.
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Megan Thee Stallion Switched Labels on Friday and Gave Up Nothing
Interscope gets the pipes. Megan keeps the masters and the publishing. Three ownership stories broke in seventy-two hours, and that is not a coincidence.
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The Womack Sisters' Debut Album Makes a Soul Legacy Their Own
Sam Cooke's granddaughters spent years driving rideshare in Los Angeles. Their Daptone debut opens with a song about it, and it is the best argument the record makes for itself.
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Three Trials in Eight Days, and the Evidence Is Something Somebody Wrote
Las Vegas Monday, Los Angeles Thursday, Dallas the following week. In all three courtrooms, the state's exhibit is the defendant's own creative work.
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The Best Rap Records of the Weekend All Had Two Names on Them
Our Thursday roundup missed four collaborative albums that landed August 14, and together they explain what rap is doing while the charts look empty.
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Tinashe's 'Melatonin' Is a Hazy Pop Spell With a Point
Tinashe's new single "Melatonin" turns a late-night mood into a sharply controlled pop statement. The song further proves that her most compelling era is not a comeback campaign, but an artist refining her instincts in public.
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Busta Rhymes Is Turning His J Dilla Archive Into a New Album. Where Does Lil Wayne Fit?
Busta Rhymes dropped "Talk Ya Sh*t" with Lil Wayne, the second single from an album built on 300 unreleased J Dilla beats. The real story is the archive, and who decides what comes out of it.
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