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    Cardi B Dubs Rumors That Eminem Declines Her Collaboration Request 'Big Lies'

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    While setting the record straight on her Twitter account, the ‘Bodak Yellow’ raptress informs her online devotees that she hasn’t ‘sent no songs to no artist yet.’

    Mar 27, 2021

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    Cardi B has set the record straight on rumors about her collaboration with Eminem. Having heard speculations suggesting that the “Rap God” spitter rejected her feature request for her next album, the “WAP” hitmaker labelled the claims as “big lies.”

    The 28-year-old femcee offered her clarification via Twitter on Thursday, March 25. Retweeting a post that contained a shady report, she argued, “BIG LIES….I get off the internet and ya makin s**t up. I haven’t sent no songs to no artist yet. Love his work and much respect.This don’t even make sense.”

    Cardi B shut down rumors suggesting that Eminem rejected her collaboration request.

    The original post, which Cardi reacted to, read, “Insiders Report: that Eminem has now declined a ft request for Cardi B’s upcoming project: says ‘she doesn’t care about the culture or her craft.’ ” The user who brought up the fake news then added in another tweet, “Don’t shoot me I’m just reporting what the insiders said.”

    The “Bodak Yellow” raptress also set aside time to hit back at an individual who put out a since-deleted tweet. “CAUSE YA MAKE LIES ABOUT ME ALL THE TIME!!! Leave me the f**k alone !!!Ya be eating my d**k with mayonnaise even when I’m chillin then run with it,” she raged.

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    Cardi B urged one troll to leave her alone.

    Later on Friday, March 26, the wife of Offset made use of Twitter to tease her new project. “Since they like to make up LIES about me cause their so obsessed just know this .. y’all laughing about this fake rumor but wait until y’all see these next collab,” she pointed out.

    Cardi B teased her upcoming project.

    Cardi, whose song “Up” managed to hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, previously shut down rumors about whether or not her latest track landed on the first position due to radio-play payola. “They love to run with that ‘Payola’ to make them feel better,” she stated on Instagram. “Mind you, I didn’t [debut] number 1 because of my low radio play and ‘WAP’ barely made radio cause it was so explicit yet still made number 1.”

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    Justin Bieber Did This to Make Sure 'Justice' Has 'Its Own Identity'

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    According to his music director, the ‘Yummy’ singer scrapped leftover songs from his previous album and ‘started from scratch’ with his new studio installment.

    Mar 27, 2021

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    Justin Bieber “started from scratch” with “Justice”.

    The “Yummy” singer released his new album last week, just seven months after he brought out LP “Changes”. And though he’d always planned to make two records “back-to-back,” he was keen for them to be entirely separate projects and scrapped a number of songs leftover from the sessions for the earlier album.

    His music director, Bernard ‘Harv’ Harvey – who also co-wrote and co-produced “Somebody” and “Peaches” for “Justice” – told Vulture, “The original plan was to do two albums back-to-back (but keep them separate). We literally started from scratch. We wanted Justice to have its own sound, its own identity, so we put those old songs back on the shelf.”

    And to better establish the divide, Justin brought in a number of new writers, including Gregory ‘Aldae’ Hein.

    “People know Justin as a pop star,” Aldae said of the shift. “I think he crushes the R&B, but I personally love this style of music more with him.”

    And a high standard was set for the album early on in the process.

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    “It’s about making sure that this album is going to be the best album of the year,” Harv said. “Every producer and writer, we all had that same idea.”

    Back in December (20), the 27-year-old singer held a meeting with his collaborators to talk about how “important” the record was to him.

    “He talked about how important this album was to us, and how his name actually was translated to justice (from Latin_, and how important it was for him to make an impact, and how he was in this high position,” Aldae recalled. “He was calling on us to help be the vessel for what he wanted to channel into the world. He was very vulnerable with us about wanting to put that goodness into the songs.”

    Once the recording was complete, it was a careful process to choose the 16 tracks that make up the album.

    “It’s a format, how we track-list the album. We kind of let the album grow as you listen to it,” Harv said. “We literally sat down and listened to every song and made sure that they all sounded like they were on the same project.”

    “For me, it was kind of hard, ’cause I had way more songs that were supposed to be on the album, but it just didn’t (fit together with the sound). That was a moment for me to be like, OK, it’s about the full body of work.”

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    Bruce Springsteen Scales Back Touring for Fears of Poisoning His 'Beautiful' Family Life

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    The ‘Dancing in the Dark’ singer talks about finding the right balance as he’s juggling his busy life as a musician and as a husband and father of three children.

    Mar 27, 2021

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    Bruce Springsteen had to cut back on the amount of time he spent on the road after becoming a father, because his absence proved to be “poison” to his home life.

    The “Dancing in the Dark” hitmaker shares three kids with his wife, E Street Band member Patti Scialfa, and admits it took him some time to find the right balance between his life as a rock star and as a husband and dad.

    Reflecting on the lessons he learned adjusting to new fatherhood in “Renegades: Born in the USA”, his Spotify podcast with former U.S. President Barack Obama, Springsteen recalled the drastic change he experienced whenever he would return to his New Jersey home.

    “You are the chauffeur! You are the short order cook in the morning,” he told Obama, in a Billboard.com preview. “And the thing is, you’ve got to be in the place in your life where you love it.”

    His role at home couldn’t have been more different than when he was on tour – and calling all the shots. “You get up when you want to. You go in the studio when you want to. You put your record out when you want to,” he said.

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    But he realised he couldn’t continue living that way once they had sons Evan and Sam, and daughter Jessica, who are now all grown up.

    Springsteen explained, “You can say, ‘I’m going to go away for three days, I’m going to go away for three months.’ But if you know, ‘When I go away for three months, it’s bad when I come back… When I go away for three days, it’s OK when I come back,’ I better start going away for three days!”

    “All we knew was that when we passed a certain point, it wasn’t good for our relationship,” he shared of how he and Scialfa eventually settled on the ideal touring schedule to suit their family.

    “We started to split… into other and separate lives…,” he continued. “The things that are destabilising my life, I don’t want those as a part of my life now because they will poison me… And they will poison my beautiful love here, you know? And so we slowly figured all this out together.”

    Episode seven of the podcast, “Renegades: Road vs. Home Life”, debuts on Spotify on Monday (29Mar21).

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    2021 NAACP Image Awards: Beyonce Leads Music Winners With Four Honors

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    The Destiny’s Child star wins big during the fourth night of the 52nd annual NAACP Image Awards, dominating the music categories with a total of four prizes.

    Mar 27, 2021

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    Beyonce was a four-time winner during the fourth night of the 2021 NAACP Image Awards.

    The “Lemonade” singer picked up the Outstanding Female Artist honour for “Black Parade” and Outstanding Music Video/Visual Album for “Brown Skin Girl”, which recently scored her a Grammy for Best Video. She was also feted for her work with Megan Thee Stallion, whose track “Savage Remix” landed the Outstanding Hip Hop/Rap Song prize.

    Beyonce’s proteges Chloe x Halle were double winners, claiming awards for Outstanding Soul/R&B Song for “Do It”, as well as Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration (Traditional) for “Wonder What She Thinks of Me”.

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    And Jamie Foxx’s “Soul” doubled its overall haul by landing two more trophies on Thursday (25Mar21) – Jon Batiste’s “Music From and Inspired by Soul” scored the Outstanding Jazz Album – Instrumental, while the “Soul Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” won Outstanding Soundtrack/Compilation Album.

    The week-long NAACP Image Awards will culminate on 27 March (21).

    Thursday’s list of winners is:

    Outstanding New Artist: Doja Cat – “Say So”
    Outstanding Male Artist: Drake – “Laugh Now, Cry Later”
    Outstanding Female Artist: Beyonce Knowles – “Black Parade”
    Outstanding Soul/R&B Song: “Do It” – Chloe x Halle
    Outstanding Hip Hop/Rap Song: “Savage Remix” – Megan Thee Stallion feat. Beyonce Knowles
    Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration (Traditional): Chloe x Halle – “Wonder What She Thinks Of Me”
    Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration (Contemporary): Megan Thee Stallion feat. Beyonce Knowles – “Savage Remix”
    Outstanding Album: “Chilombo” – Jhene Aiko
    Outstanding Producer of the Year: Hit-Boy
    Outstanding Music Video/Visual Album: “Brown Skin Girl” – Beyonce Knowles feat. WizKid, SAINt JHN, Blue Ivy Carter
    Outstanding Jazz Album – Instrumental: “Music From and Inspired by Soul” – Jon Batiste
    Outstanding Jazz Album – Vocal: “Holy Room – Live at Alte Oper” – Somi
    Outstanding International Song: “Lockdown” – Original Koffee
    Outstanding Soundtrack/Compilation Album: “Soul Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste, and Tom MacDougall
    Outstanding Gospel/Christian Song: “Touch From you” – Tamela Mann
    Outstanding Gospel/Christian Album: “The Return” – The Clark Sisters

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    New York Theaters Are Dark, but These Windows Light Up With Art

    The Irish Repertory Theater is streaming poetry readings, and Playwrights Horizons and St. Ann’s Warehouse are showcasing art dealing with race and injustice.Like many cultural organizations, the Irish Repertory Theater in Manhattan has streamed pandemic programming on its website.But a few days ago, the theater added a new sort of broadcast to its repertoire, setting up two 60-inch screens in windows that face the sidewalk, installing speakers high up on the building facade and airing a collection of films that show people reading poems in Ireland, London and New York.On a recent morning, Ciaran O’Reilly, the Rep’s producing director, stood by the theater on West 22nd Street, gazing at the screens as they displayed Joseph Aldous, an actor in Britain, reading “An Advancement of Learning,” a narrative poem by Seamus Heaney describing a brief standoff with a rat along a river bank.“These are not dark windows,” O’Reilly said. “They are lit up with poetry, with music, with the words of actors who are performing.”In the past year, theaters and other performing arts institutions in New York have turned to creative means to bring works to the public, sometimes also injecting a bit of life into otherwise shuttered facades. Those arrangements continue, even as the State of New York has announced that arts venues can reopen in April at one-third capacity and some outdoor performances, like Shakespeare in the Park, are scheduled to resume.The panes of glass, though, have provided a safe space. Late last year, for instance, the artists Christopher Williams, Holly Bass and Raja Feather Kelly performed at different times in the lobby or in a smaller vestibule-like part of the building in Chelsea occupied by New York Live Arts. All were visible through glass to those outside.Three more performances by Kelly of “Hysteria,” in which he assumes the role of a pink-hued extraterrestrial and explores what Live Arts’ website calls “pop culture and its displacement of queer Black subjectivity,” are scheduled for April 8-10.The Mexican-American artist Ken Gonzales-Day’s photographs of sculptures are on display at Playwrights Horizons.Sara Krulwich/The New York TimesAnother street-level performance took place behind glass last December in Downtown Brooklyn, where the Brooklyn Ballet staged nine 20-minute shows of select dances from its “Nutcracker.”The ballet turned its studio into what its artistic director, Lynn Parkerson, called a “jewel box” theater; chose dances that kept masked ballerinas socially distanced; and used barricades on the sidewalk to limit audiences.“It was a way to bring some people back to something they love that they enjoyed that they might be forgetting about,” Parkerson said in an interview. “It did feel like a real performance.”She said that live performances were planned for April and would include ballet members in “Pas de Deux,” set to Jean-Philippe Rameau’s “Gavotte et Six Doubles,” with live music by the pianist Simone Dinnerstein.Pop-up concerts have been arranged by the Kaufman Music Center on the Upper West Side, in a storefront — the address is not given but is described on the center’s website as “not hard to find” — north of Columbus Circle.Those performances, running through late April, are announced at the storefront the same day, to limit crowd sizes and encourage social distancing. Participants have included the violinist Gil Shaham, the mezzo-soprano Chrystal E. Williams, the Gabrielle Stravelli Trio and JACK Quartet.St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn is displaying Julian Alexander and Khadijat Oseni’s “Supremacy Project,” public art that addresses the nature of injustice in American society.The word “supremacy” is superimposed on a photograph of police officers in riot gear, and there are images by Michael T. Boyd of Sandra Bland, Elijah McClain and Emmett Till.And at Playwrights Horizons in Midtown, the Mexican-American artist Ken Gonzales-Day is placing photographs of sculptures of human figures in display cases, encouraging viewers to reckon with definitions of beauty and race. Those displays are part of rotating public art series organized by the artist, activist, and writer Avram Finkelstein and the set and costume designer David Zinn.The aim, Finkelstein said in January when the series was announced, was to display work that “makes constructive use of dormant facades to create a transient street museum” and to “remind the city of its buoyancy and originality.”O’Reilly, at the Irish Rep, said the theater heard last year from Amy Holmes, the executive director of the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation, who thought the theater might provide a good venue to air some of the short films the organization had commissioned to make poetry part of an immersive experience.The series being shown at the theater, called “Poetic Reflections: Words Upon the Window Pane,” comprises 21 short pieces by the Irish filmmaker Matthew Thompson.“These are not dark windows,” said Ciaran O’Reilly of the Irish Repertory Theater. “They are lit up with poetry, with music, with the words of actors who are performing.”Sara Krulwich/The New York TimesThey show contemporary poets reading their own works as well as poets and actors reading works by others, including William Butler Yeats and J.M. Synge, and were produced in collaboration with Poetry Ireland in Dublin, Druid Theater in Galway, the 92nd Street Y in New York and Poet in the City in London.“I think there is something special about encountering the arts in an unexpected way in the city, especially an art form like poetry,” Holmes said.The readers in the films include people who were born in Ireland, immigrants to Ireland, people who live in Britain and a few from the United States, like Denice Frohman, who was born and raised in New York City.Frohman was on the theater’s screens on Tuesday night, reading lines like “the beaches are gated & no one knows the names of the dead” from her poem “Puertopia,” when Erin Madorsky and Dorian Baker stopped to listen.Baker said he saw the films playing in the window as symbolizing a “revitalization of poetic energy.”Madorsky had regularly attended theatrical performances before the pandemic but now missed that connection, she said, and was gratified to happen upon a dramatic reading while walking home.She added that the sound of the verses being read stood in contrast to what she called the city’s “standard” backdrop of blaring horns, sirens and rumbling garbage trucks.“I think it’s wonderful,” she said. “There’s something so soothing about her voice, it just pulled me in.” More

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    Yung Miami Reveals Who She's Rooting for in Possible Trina and Lil' Kim 'Verzuz' Battle

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    The talk about the Miami star and the Brooklyn raptress appearing on the song battle show starts after it is brought up during Trina’s interview in a recent episode of 103.5 ‘The Beat’.

    Mar 26, 2021

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    As soon as Trina talked about being down for doing “Verzuz” battle against Lil’ Kim, hip-hop fans and even fellow hip-hop stars couldn’t help but weigh in on the possible epic battle. Among those who were excited with the idea was Yung Miami who took to her Twitter account to share her opinion on the matter.

    In the tweet, the one-half of City Girls revealed who she thought will win should Trina and Kim go head-to-head on the song battle show. In response to a fan’s tweet that read, “I need this Lil Kim vs. Trina Verzuz,” Yung said, “Me tooooo I love Kim to death but I gotta go with Trina.”

    The talk about Trina and Kim appearing on “Verzuz” started after it was brought up during Trina’s interview in a recent episode of 103.5 “The Beat”. During her appearance, the “Love & Hip Hop: Miami” star revealed that she’d be down to go hit-to-hit in a popular song battle show against her former rival. The host name-dropped the Queen Bee and Trina immediately approved the idea.

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    “Kim is that b***h. Let’s be very clear,” so she said of the Brooklyn star. “When I came into the industry, this is who I looked at, looked up to. This is the lyrics that I recited, this is what made me know that it’s okay to talk that lethal s**t.”

    Further gushing over her former rival, Trina continued, “Therefore, I would feel like that’s equivalent because Kim is legendary, and she got mad records.”

    “I won’t even feel like a competition because it’s a family thing,” she explained. “I’m probably gonna be so much more engaged in her records than anything cuz it’ll go back to when I first heard her, so I’ll be in my vibe, like fanned out…That’s just what I would say. That’s just my little opinion, but nobody reached out.”

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    Taylor Swift Debuts Unreleased-Song 'You All Over Me' Ft. Maren Morris in Full

    The first song to be shared from the Grammy-winning artist’s ‘From the Vault’ series is produced by Aaron Dessner and will be included on ‘Fearless (Taylor’s Version)’.

    Mar 26, 2021

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    Taylor Swift has treated her fans to yet another never-before-heard track. The 31-year-old premiered her previously-unreleased song titled “You All Over Me” on midnight Friday, March 26 along with its lyric video.

    “You All Over Me” features backing vocals by Maren Morris and is produced by the National’s Aaron Dessner, who who collaborated with Taylor on her Grammy winning 2020 “Folklore” album and the follow-up “Evermore”. It’s co-written by Scooter Carusoe.

    The song is the first to be released from her “From the Vault” series that will be included on “Fearless (Taylor Version)”, the revamp of her second studio album. The track was recorded for the 2008 project, but it didn’t make the cut.

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    Taylor announced the song on Wednesday. Making use of Twitter, the “Love Story” hitmaker shared snaps of herself and Maren. Along with the photos, she wrote, “HI. I wanted to let you know that the first ‘From the Vault’ song I’m releasing from Fearless (Taylor’s Version) comes out tomorrow at midnight eastern. It’s called ‘You All Over Me’ (‘From The Vault’).”

    “One thing I’ve been loving about these ‘From the Vault’ songs is that they’ve never been heard, so I can experiment, play, and even include some of my favorite artists,” she went on sharing. “I’m really excited to have @MarenMorris singing background vocals on this song!!” She then ended with, “Can’t wait for you to hear it [love]”

    “Fearless (Taylor Version)” is due out on April 9. She previously released a re-recorded version of “Love Story”, the lead single off the album, which she released last month. She also released the “Elvira Remix” of the song.

    Taylor has opted to re-record a number of tracks from her back catalogue in an attempt to regain control of her work after Scooter Braun bought and later re-sold master recordings of her first six studio albums.

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    Sex Pistols Embroiled in Legal Dispute Over Royalties

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    The surviving members of the ‘God Save the Queen’ band are reportedly no longer on speaking terms as they launched lawsuits against each other over royalties.

    Mar 26, 2021

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    The Sex Pistols are reportedly locked in a fresh lawsuit over royalties.

    Steve Jones and Paul Cook have filed papers suing their ex-bandmates John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) and Glen Matlock for breach of contract, as they believe they are owed money from the pair, court documents have revealed.

    It’s also been claimed that the band members are no longer on speaking terms and only communicate through their lawyers, with an insider declaring the “Anarchy in the U.K.” rockers “over once and for all.”

    A source told The Sun newspaper’s Bizarre column of the suit, “The guys have always had a pretty fiery relationship, but sadly things are at an all-time low now.”

    “None of them are speaking – only through lawyers – and each reckons the other is to blame for various things over the decades.”

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    “As with most rows, money is the major factor here- Steve and Paul believe they have been denied royalties dating back years, whereas Glen and John think, if anything, they’re owed more money. They could counter-sue if needs be.”

    “There were chats about a reunion a while ago – but this is now off the table. The Sex Pistols are over once and for all.”

    The band has had several historic fallings out over money.

    In 1986, the surviving band members received a $1.3 million (£1 million) pay-out in a High Court battle with their former manager Malcolm McLaren.

    The Sex Pistols – which also briefly featured bass player and backing vocalist Sid Vicious, before his death from a heroin overdose in 1979 – released just one album, 1977’s “Never Mind the B****** Here’s The Sex Pistols”.

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