Kendrick Lamar Fires Up Another Shot at Drake With ‘Not Like Us’
The two rappers have been sparring via diss tracks for several weeks
The two rappers have been sparring via diss tracks for several weeks
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Kendrick Lamar Fires Up Another Shot at Drake With ‘Not Like Us’
The two rappers have been sparring via diss tracks for several weeks
The two rappers have been sparring via diss tracks for several weeks
Kendrick Lamar Continues Assault on Drake with “Not Like Us”: Stream
Kendrick drops his third diss track of the last 36 hours.
Kendrick Lamar Continues Assault on Drake with “Not Like Us”: Stream
Alex Young
Kendrick Lamar isn’t interested in a ceasefire. The Compton rapper has dropped his third Drake diss track of the last 36 hours. The latest one is called “Not Like Us,” and finds Lamar hammer Drake over his alleged preference for younger women. “Say Drake, I hear you like ’em young/…
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Kendrick Lamar Doesn’t Wait for Drake Response, Drops Another New Diss Song “Not Like Us”: Listen
Lamar quickly answered Drake’s “Family Matters” with “Meet the Grahams,” and he’s piling on with another new diss track
Lamar quickly answered Drake’s “Family Matters” with “Meet the Grahams,” and he’s piling on with another new diss track
Kendrick Lamar Doesn’t Wait for Drake Response, Drops Another New Diss Song “Not Like Us”: Listen
Lamar quickly answered Drake’s “Family Matters” with “Meet the Grahams,” and he’s piling on with another new diss track
Lamar quickly answered Drake’s “Family Matters” with “Meet the Grahams,” and he’s piling on with another new diss track
Band opening for Marilyn Manson respond to backlash before deleting comments
“No one is forcing anyone to go to these shows”
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A member of the band due to open for Marilyn Manson at three upcoming shows has responded to the backlash against the gigs in now-deleted comments.
In March, Manson announced his first live dates since a series of sexual abuse allegations emerged against him, opening for Five Finger Death Punch on a run of North American dates in August and September. Manson denies all of the allegations.
Added to those are three headline shows, for which the band The Funeral Portrait will serve as the opening act.
That band became the subject of criticism for accepting the gigs, and their bassist Robert Weston took to X to address the backlash (via Loudwire).
“I’m sorry my band that has consistently played 200 cap venues for 7 years + has a chance to open shows in front of thousands of people and people wanna be upset by it,” he wrote, before swiftly deleting the post.
“If you truly know the people we are and you know the grind we’ve been on, you wouldn’t be made,” he added. “If what we are doing isn’t affecting your life personally, then why get mad about it? You weren’t a fan before, and that’s fine. No one is forcing anyone to go to these shows.”
A raft of sexual abuse allegations were levelled against Manson in February 2021, including by his ex-fiancée Evan Rachel Wood, who made allegations of rape, torture, and threats. Separate claims of abuse from more than 12 women have also been made.
Numerous lawsuits have ensued since, with Manson consistently denying the allegations.
In March 2022, Manson brought a defamation case against Wood but the case’s key claims were dismissed last May.
In January, he was ordered to pay Wood’s legal fees of roughly $326,000. In addition, it was reported in February that Manson will pay the legal fees of artist Illma Gore, who is named as a second defendant and described as Wood’s “on-again, off-again romantic partner” in his defamation lawsuit.
Gore is reportedly owed over $160,000, bringing Manson’s total to nearly $500,000. The reimbursements were awarded under California’s anti-SLAPP statute, which says that defendants unfairly sued for their freedom of speech can have their attorney’s costs paid for by the plaintiff.
Other accusers include Game of Thrones actress and former girlfriend Esme Bianco and ex-girlfriend Ashley Morgan Smithline. The lawsuit filed by Smithline has since been dismissed, while Manson denied Bianco’s claims as “meritless” and settled with her in January 2023.
He was also accused by someone only known as Jane Doe in September 2023 – however, her case was settled a week ahead of going on trial.
Last September, he reached a private settlement with a Jane Doe plaintiff who alleged he raped her in 2011. Elsewhere, last month his former assistant Ashley Walters won a critical appeal that revived her case which was originally dismissed last year. In her suit, she alleges that Manson sexually assaulted her, whipped her, and threw her against a wall during a drug-induced rage.
Five Finger Death Punch guitarist Zoltan Bathory recently gave an update on Manson’s state of mind in an interview on The Jesse Lea Show (via Metal Injection). “Manson hasn’t been out on the road for a while, so a lot of people wanna see him. At one point he was one of the most iconic artists on planet earth. So he’s back on stage, back in the saddle. That’s gonna be amazing. He’s also sober and clean, so we always support that, obviously.”
For help, advice or more information regarding sexual harassment, assault and rape in the UK, visit the Rape Crisis charity website. In the US, visit RAINN.
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AURORA adds shows in Dublin and Edinburgh to 2024 UK and European tour
The tour will follow the release of her new album ‘What Happened To The Heart?’
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AURORA has added two extra shows in Dublin and Edinburgh to her upcoming UK and European tour – see all the dates below.
The Norwegian alt-pop singer is preparing to release her new album ‘What Happened To The Heart?’ in June, after which she will be playing a string of shows around the continent in September and October.
And now, she has confirmed that there will be two extra performances: in the National Stadium in Dublin on June 26, and at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall on October 5. Tickets for the shows can be found here.
Announcing the additions on her Instagram page, she wrote: “I’m so excited to announce that I’ll be adding shows in both Dublin and Edinburgh to my upcoming tour! (Which is fantastic, because the earth here feels so much like home).”
She added that fans who pre-order the new album here by 3pm UK time on May 7 will have exclusive early access to tickets for the shows.
AURORA’s 2024 UK and European headline tour dates are:
JUNE
26 – National Stadium, Dublin, Ireland
SEPTEMBER
18 – Alcatraz, Milan, Italy
20 – Gasometer, Vienna, Austria
21 – Sportovní hala Fortuna, Prague, Czechia
23 – Tauron Arena, Krakow, Poland
24 – COS Torwar, Warsaw, Poland
25 – UFO, Berlin, Germany
27 – Forest National, Belgium, Brussels
28 – AFAS Live, Amsterdam, Netherlands
30 – L’Olympia, Paris, France
OCTOBER
2 – Royal Albert Hall, London, UK
4 – O2 Apollo, Manchester, UK
5 – Usher Hall, Edinburgh, UK
Her new album ‘What Happened To The Heart?’ is set for release on June 7 via Decca Records/Glassnote/Petroleum and marks her first full-length LP since her 2022 release, ‘The Gods We Can Touch’. It is available to pre-order here.
AURORA recently told NME about the time that she asked The Chemical Brothers’ Tom Rowlands to “puke vomit all over” a song on the album.
“We feel like two little aliens walking around, and we have the same hunger for something exceptional,” she said when discussing her work with Rowlands. “I’m really grateful. I texted him one evening just saying, ‘Tom – puke vomit all over my song please’. And he did, for like four hours.”
She also expanded on the album’s title and themes, saying: “People knew that love is [in the heart], family is here, pain in here; we’ve known this for so many years. In ancient indigenous cultures, the heart was a symbol of spirituality: the gateway between us all.”
“But what happened to the heart? It’s the most important, beautiful and sad question I’ve ever wondered in my life.”
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Comedian Matt Mathews on His 2024 “When That Thang Get Ta’ Thang’n” Tour: Podcast
The comic previews his anticipated 2024 tour.
Comedian Matt Mathews on His 2024 “When That Thang Get Ta’ Thang’n” Tour: Podcast
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Listen via: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Podcasts | More Platforms Matt Mathews joins Kyle Meredith to talk about his comedy tour “When That Thang Get Ta’ Thang’n” (get tickets here). Listen to the new episode above, or wherever you get your podcasts. The comedian, who originally had no aspirations to…
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The Crow Returning to Theaters for 30th Anniversary
Ahead of the Bill Skarsgård-starring remake, the Brendan Lee original will return to theaters for two nights only.
It’s been 30 years since Alex Proyas’ dark superhero film, The Crow, first arrived. To mark the occasion, the film is coming back to theaters for two nights only. The theatrical re-release arrives as part of the “Scream Greats Series” by Paramount Scares and Fangoria. Specifically, The Crow will be…
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Post Malone and Morgan Wallen announce joint single ‘I Had Some Help’
The two premiered the song during Wallen’s headline set at Stagecoach Festival last week
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Post Malone and Morgan Wallen have announced that their collaborative single ‘I Had Some Help’ will be released next week (May 10).
The two premiered the song during Wallen’s headline set at Stagecoach Festival last Sunday (April 28), when Malone joined him as a guest for the song’s live debut.
Malone had also previewed the song with a 17-second clip beforehand, and now, in a joint Instagram post, the duo have confirmed that the single will get an official release in the coming days.
Check out some fan-captured footage of the song’s debut performance at Stagecoach below:
Malone also played his own set at Stagecoach, made up entirely of fan-requested covers of country classics. He was joined by Dwight Yoakam and Brad Paisley during the set, and played songs by Geroge Strait, Tim McGraw and Vince Gill.
He has been teasing the move towards the country genre for a while, playing a cover of Hank Willliams’ ‘Honky Tonk Blues’ during a surprise show in Nashville earlier this month.
Back in 2022, Malone told Howard Stern that he had been considering the shift in style. “To be honest, there’s nothing stopping me from taking a camera or setting up in my studio in Utah and just recording a country album and putting it on fucking YouTube,” he said.
In 2021, he also performed two country covers of songs by Brad Paisley and Sturgill Simpson for the We’re Texas relief fundraiser livestream.
The singer is having a big year, after being the featured artist on ‘Fortnight’, the lead single from Taylor Swift’s all-conquering ‘The Tortured Poets Department’, as well as collaborating with Beyoncé on the track ‘Levii’s Jeans’, from her album ‘Cowboy Carter’.
Swift recently shared a series of polaroids from the making of her album, including with Malone, to celebrate the record shifting over 2.6million units in the US.
Wallen, meanwhile, has apologised for throwing a chair off the sixth storey of a rooftop bar in Nashville.
“I didn’t feel right publicly checking in until I made amends with some folks,” he said in a social media post on April 19. “I’ve touched base with Nashville law enforcement, my family, and the good people at Chief’s. I’m not proud of my behaviour, and I accept responsibility.”
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