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Can TNA Get Over?
The second-largest professional wrestling promotion in the United States runs out of a 400,000-square-foot glowing red-brick building in Nashville’s SoBro neighborhood, not far from the Country Music...
View ArticleQ&A: Nas’s Brother, Jungle, on Life in Queensbridge and the New Doc ‘Time Is...
The most powerful scene in Nas: Time Is Illmatic doesn’t include Nas. Near the end of the documentary about the classic 1994 album, Nas’s brother, Jabari Jones, better known as Jungle, inspects a photo...
View ArticleThe Oral History of Jay Z’s ‘Annie’ Anthem, ‘Hard Knock Life’
There once was a time when Jay Z did not have it all. Flash back to late 1997: The half-a-billion-dollar fortune was closer to seven, low eight figures at best. Beyoncé was nowhere in the picture. Most...
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Family Business
Dr. Jerry Buss drew up a plan before his death. His daughter Jeanie would run his team, the Los Angeles Lakers, acting as president, overseeing business operations, and representing the Lakers on the...
View ArticleJohn Singleton Reveals How Ja Rule Blew His Chance to Be in ‘2 Fast 2 Furious’
When The Fast and the Furious, a mid-budget B movie about cars starring the injured quarterback from Varsity Blues and a man named Diesel, made $40 million in its June 2001 opening weekend, everyone...
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Messiah Music: Investigating the Hidden Meaning of Lupe Fiasco’s ‘Tetsuo &...
On January 19, the night before the release of his fifth album, Tetsuo & Youth, Lupe Fiasco sat for an interview with DJ Skee that was streamed live on YouTube. Over the course of a nearly an hour,...
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De’aundre Bonds Gets His Second Second Chance With ‘Dope’
Amid the ’90s nostalgia in Dope — the coming-of-age tale set in Inglewood, California, that was released recently to enthusiastic reviews — one of the most unexpected throwbacks in the film is a cameo...
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Follow the Leaders
It was just after 9:30 p.m., more than 30 minutes past Rakim’s arranged set time, when the staff in the Arie Crown Theater greenroom began to panic. “When he shows up,” a publicist muttered to a...
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Before #BlackLivesMatter: Remembering ‘Hip Hop for Respect’ and Rap’s...
Just after midnight on February 4, 1999, four plainclothes NYPD officers shot and killed Amadou Diallo in the doorway of his Bronx apartment building. Diallo, a 22-year-old street peddler from Guinea,...
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The ‘Perfect Guy’ for the Job: Why the Screenwriter of ‘Menace II Society’...
Shortly after Menace II Society was released in the summer of 1993, the Los Angeles Times profiled the film’s screenwriter, Tyger Williams. A 24-year-old wunderkind living his dream, Williams was no...
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