D Smoke made a come back last month with his sophomore album War & Wonders.  The Grammy-nominated rising star also released the video for “Shame On You.” Appearing on Rap Life Radio  with Nadeska, D Smoke reflected on how he felt before releasing the album. “Man, I’m feeling great. We’ve had an incredible year, despite…

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Rap undeservedly gets a bad rap. People sometimes associate rap music with drugs, violence, the degradation of women, sexual exploitation, etc., but this blanket stereotype for an incredibly diverse and culturally important genre of music is unfair. Of course, some rappers and songs do include content which could be considered as perpetuating a negative message…

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Two students who recently withdrew from St. David's School in Raleigh because of a video in which they made repeated racial slurs were merely reciting the lyrics to a rap song, the lawyer for one of the boys defended. The five-second clip of cellphone video showed one student holding a beer can, and both said…

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Tickets for Mount Westmore are now available for purchase. Four rap artists will visit Lexington in November as part of a supergroup performance. Tickets start at $62 and can be found on Ticketmaster https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/16005B3BA6E43311 West Coast rap icons Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, E-40 and Too Short will grace the event with are their supergroup Mount Westmore…

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A NIGHTCLUB in Oldham has made a detour on its decision to host an appearance from the highly controversial ‘Godfather of Grime’. Wiley, born Richard Kylea Cowie Jr, was set to perform at Liquid on Bank Holiday Monday, two days after Christmas. The nightclub on Retiro Street made this known in a post on social…

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Kali Claire’s latest single “Temporary Feels” with Jvck James embodies everything authentic R&B music should sound like and now the song has got its visuals to get the fans entertained! The beautiful, dreamy production by Loner Beats instantly grabs your attention before Kali enters and puts you in a trance. She sings about the difficulty…

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