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Kendrick Lamar’s Music Is The Subject of a New Temple Course

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Kendrick Lamar’s Music Is The Subject of a New Temple Course

Kendrick Lamar’s music and cultural impact is the focus of a new course Temple University will be offering this fall. NBC10 Philadelphia reports that Timothy Welbeck, a professor for the Department of Africology and African American Studies and the Director for the Center for Anti-Racism at Temple University, is launching the course. Welbeck has taught at the university for 14 years, including classes on hip-hop, Black culture, and urban Black politics.“My current department chair was very open to the idea […]

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Larry June Interview on Being Yourself, Lifestyle Rap, Hustling

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Larry June Interview on Being Yourself, Lifestyle Rap, Hustling

Game for SaleFor 15 years, Larry June has done the slow-and-steady race to achieve hip-hop success on his terms. The West Coast rapper is a best-case scenario for the independent rap hustle.Interview: Peter A. Berry Editor’s Note: This story appears in the Winter 2024 issue of XXL Magazine, on newsstands now and available for sale on the XXL website. Larry June isn’t a life coach, but he sounds like one. For the last 15 years, the San Francisco native has supplied game from a […]

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Akon’s Futuristic Senegal City Project Scrapped

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Akon’s Futuristic Senegal City Project Scrapped

Akon’s plans for a multibillion-dollar city development on Senegal’s Atlantic Coast has been scrapped. According to Bloomberg, the West African country has instead opted for a scaled-back project that will rely on private funding. Most of the land that had been set aside for a futuristic “Akon City” is now back under state control and that project “no longer exists,” Serigne Mamadou Mboup, head of Sapco-Senegal, the state-owned entity that develops coastal and tourism areas, told L’Agence de presse sénégalaise.Most […]

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Hotboii Back in Jail Again, Five Arrests in Seven Years

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Hotboii Back in Jail Again, Five Arrests in Seven Years

Hotboii was arrested again on gun and trespassing charges in Miami yesterday.Hotboii Arrested AgainOn Wednesday (July 9), the Orlando, Fla., rapper, born Javarri Walker, was booked for firearm possession by a convicted felon and trespassing on school property with a firearm, according to police records obtained by XXL on Thursday (July 10). He has since been freed on a $2,500 bond. Few details have been released about the latest arrest. XXL has reached out to Hotboii's attorney and the Miami-Dade Police […]

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Ye Accused of Grabbing Ex-Assistant’s Genitals, Forcing Oral Sex

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Ye Accused of Grabbing Ex-Assistant’s Genitals, Forcing Oral Sex

Ye is reportedly being accused of sexual assault, sex trafficking, false imprisonment and more in an amended lawsuit filed by his ex-assistant, who claims he grabbed her vagina and forced her to perform oral sex on him.Ye's Former Assistant Files Amended LawsuitOn Thursday (July 10), TMZ reported that Lauren Pisciotta has updated the lawsuit she filed against Ye in 2024. The amended lawsuit includes claims of assault, battery, stalking, sexual battery, sex trafficking, false imprisonment and more. Specifically, Pisciotta says […]

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