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When New Orleans rapper B.G. came home in September after serving an 11-year sentence following his guilty plea on two counts of possession of a firearm and one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice, the rap community rejoiced. He’s the man responsible for entering the phrase “bling-bling” into the pop culture lexicon, after all.
But nearly a year later, the founding member of ’90s rap group Hot Boys is facing an unusual legal challenge: On Friday (June 28), a U.S. District Court judge in Louisiana ruled that the New Orleans rapper must provide the U.S. Probation Office with a copy of the lyrics to his upcoming songs for approval before producing or promoting them.
The decision, handed down by U.S. district court judge Susie Morgan, came several months after B.G. (real name Christopher Dorsey) was arrested in March for performing at a Las Vegas concert alongside rapper Lil Boosie; apparently, B.G. needed prior permission from the court to associate with acts that also have felony convictions on their record, as Lil Boosie does. The probation officer in the case also cited B.G.’s work with Gucci Mane, another rapper/convicted felon with whom B.G. released a collaborative mixtape, Choppers & Bricks, in December.
B.G. was subsequently released on his own recognizance pending the judge’s decision. Shortly after, the rapper expressed his frustration in an Instagram post, saying in part, “It’s crazy how after paying my debt to society with 12 and a half years of my life I come home and still ain’t free…I been doing everything the right way and it seems like that ain’t enough.”
At a court hearing on June 18, B.G. and prosecutors confirmed they had reached a deal to modify the conditions of the rapper’s supervised release following his March arrest but “disagreed” over the prosecutors’ request to prohibit the rapper “from promoting and glorifying future gun violence/murder” in his music and at his concerts, according to the June 28 ruling.
“The Defendant argues that the additional condition proposed by the Government is an unconstitutional prior restraint of speech that is an overly broad condition of supervised release,” the ruling reads.
The judge ultimately found that the prosecutors’ request was “not sufficiently clear and specific to serve as a guide for the Defendant’s conduct and for those entrusted with his supervision,” instead imposing a special condition that B.G. provide the probation office “with a copy of the lyrics of any song he writes,” according to the ruling. All lyrics B.G. shares with the probation office will be passed to the U.S. government, which can then decide if his “conduct is inconsistent with the goals of rehabilitation,” the ruling continues.
A representative for B.G. did not immediately respond to Billboard‘s request for comment.
The ruling is certain to cause controversy at a time when the practice of lyrics being used against rappers in criminal court has become a hot-button issue. In November, a judge ruled that Young Thug‘s lyrics can be used during his YSL RICO case, saying that “the First Amendment is not on trial.” Bobby Shmurda and the late Drakeo the Ruler have also had their lyrics used against them in criminal cases. There have since have been laws passed and proposed on both the state and federal levels to stop the criminalization of rap lyrics; in September, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a statute restricting the practice, while similar laws have been proposed in New York and the U.S. House of Representatives.
Letting you know what recently released tunes, you need to check out. New music has landed on our lap and it’s only right to share the love. You may have your preference in music, but there’s a good chance you’ll hear something that peaks your interest. Check out some of the recently released music. If you’re in the mood to hear some chilled-out R&B this weekend. Then we suggest checking out the latest release from singer, Tianna. Rising talent, Tianna drops her first single of 2024, ‘Please You’. A laidback R&B bop, ‘Please You’ sees Tiana speak on her failed
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Assuming you’re not some TERF waster, Fibbers is the place to be in Dublin on Tuesday, 2nd July. Fend off the post-Pride blues with a stellar three-band bill in the basement, featuring Survival Horror, TTA favourites Touch Excellent and All Girls Piss (a) factual statement and b) great new band, well worth getting down to Parnell Street for.) Doors are 7pm, tickets are €8. Best of all, each ticket includes a donation to Trans Harm Reduction, a volunteer-run, grassroots organisation and charity that does truly great frontline work for our trans community in Ireland. Photo for The Thin Air by Monika Ruman
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Time and time again we’re shown how timeless Tim’s legacy truly is.
Recently, the internet saw another clip in which time held its breath: Avicii, the legendary Swedish producer, playing at, what would become, one of the limited gigs he’d play along his tragically short life. The ten-minute clip features his set at the Tallriken in Malmo, dated August 2016, and shows him performing four tracks: ‘Without You’, ‘Hey Brother’, ‘Shame On Me’, and ‘You Make Me’. The footage, initially an Avicii Experience tribute museum exclusive, has now been made accessible to a wider audience.
Prior to his passing in April 2018, Tim was an icon of Dance music, learning to innovate through thick and thin. “Innovating” is a word that is so cheesily used these days, but trust me, Avicii was miles ahead of the curve, even receiving backlash on his most successful ‘Wake Me Up’ for a never-before-seen blend of Country and Dance music. That same song, along with other four of his discography, have now scored more than a billion streams on Spotify alone.
Klas Bergling
A BBC interview was directed towards Avicii’s father, Klas Bergling, in which he opened up about the times and events surrounding his son’s death. “I miss him every minute“, he says. “I talk to him every day. But, I admit, I get angry at him sometimes. Why did you do it? Why did you leave us?“. The interview shows Klas like never before, revealing memories and moments from Tim’s story that often happened outside the fire-filled stages and joyful social media posts.
Avicii’s father talks about his point of view whenever Tim went touring, how substances sometimes became his son’s escape to the trying times he was going through in between shows, and, ultimately, reflects on events following his decease, such as the release of Avicii’s posthumous album, Tim, and a concert held in his memory, among others.
Read the full interview right here. We miss you, Tim.
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard has taken to its social channels to announce Flight b741, the band’s hotly-anticipated 26th studio album. Set to fly from p(doom)–the group’s recently established independent record label–on August 9, the latest offering is still shrouded in intrigue, with no release accompanying its first announcement; fans will have to hold out until July 9 for the first single and an accompanying music video directed by Guy Tyzack, who previously created the video for “Black Hot Soup” from King Gizzard’s acclaimed leftfield 2021 project Butterfly 3000.
Given the band’s trademark breakneck release schedule, the 10 months that have passed since the group’s electrified 2023 project The Silver Cord and the forthcoming album have been an uncharacteristically long wait for King Gizzard’s passionate following. In the terse album announcement post, the band offers that it has “Been working real hard on this one. So excited for you all to hear it!”
While the genre-contorting psych-fusion expeditionaries have never stayed in one sound for long, its past few years have seen rapid shape-shifting, assuming influence from metal, trance, krautrock, thrash and more. While none of the 10 tracks on the new project have seen official studio releases yet, the band debuted “Mirage City,” “Sad Pilot,” “Raw Feel,” “Daily Blues,” and “Le Risqué” on its recent European tour. Sample the tracks via the fan-recorded videos below.
For more information on King Gizzard’s release history and tickets for its upcoming US tour, visit kinggizzardandthelizardwizard.com/. Read on for the complete tracklist from Flight b741.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Flight b741:
1. Mirage City
2. Antarctica
3. Raw Feel
4. Field of Vision
5. Hog Calling Contest
6. Le Risque
7. Flight b741
8. Sad Pilot
9. Rats In The Sky
10. Daily Blues
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Shady’s back, tell a friend! Eminem unveiled the second single from his upcoming album on Tuesday (July 2), and for “Tobey,” he tapped fellow Detroit natives Big Sean and Babytron as the featured artists. The song’s corresponding music video is set to arrive on Friday (July 5).
“Tobey” marks Em’s first collab with Babytron and fourth with Big Sean following their team-up in 2017 on I Decided’s “No Favors,” Detroit 2‘s “Friday Night Cypher” and ShadyXV‘s “Detroit Vs. Everybody.”
Eminem’s The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce) will serve as his 12th studio album and is slated to arrive on July 12. (The release date was announced the night before the arrival of “Tobey,” via a horror-themed trailer.) The album follows 2020’s Music to Be Murdered By, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 to give Eminem his historic 10th consecutive leader. He kicked off the highly anticipated album rollout for The Death of Slim Shady with his nostalgic “Houdini” single, which gave Em his highest charting track of the decade when it debuted at No. 2 on the Hot 100.
Em originally announced plans for the album shortly after his appearance at the 2024 NFL Draft in Detroit. He teased his own version of an Unsolved Mysteries episode featuring a cameo from 50 Cent. However, it was actually Dr. Dre who revealed the details about Eminem’s upcoming album during a late-night appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in March.
Stream “Tobey,” featuring Big Sean and Babytron, below.
Confessions of a Bartender
How strange it must have been for Moby to spend a decade making electronic music that moved dance floors globally, then punk rock that was met with revulsion, then an album that resonated so strongly across the world that it catapulted him, the unlikeliest of superstars, into the stratosphere.
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That multi-platinum album, Play, marks its 25th anniversary this year, and it is still the best-selling electronic dance music album of all time. To mark the occasion, as well as the release of his latest album, Always Centered at Night, Moby hosted a special two-night event at Los Angeles’ historic Masonic Lodge located in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, for a live taping of his podcast, Moby Pod, at the end of May.
Over the course of the two evenings, Moby shared humorous (and sometimes unsettling) tales about his life before and after Play. Interspersed through his anecdotes were stunning acoustic performances of material from Play and Always Centered at Night.
Moby was joined by his podcast co-host Lindsay Hicks for the narrative portion—and he mentioned SPIN was the only magazine that gave Play a nice mention upon its release, which was otherwise dismissed out of hand. Speaking particularly about his life after Play, Moby was painfully and brutally honest about using external validation to fix trauma and insecurity. He spoke about using alcohol, drugs, touring and fame to overcome his feelings of inadequacy. He admitted frankly to discovering cocaine after seeing Donna Summer and consuming 20 to 25 drinks a night on a regular basis, making vodka smoothies. He called it “nihilism and hedonism wrapped up.”
For the performance portion, Moby’s four superb vocalists (Julie Mintz, Laura Dawn, Nadia Duggin, and Choklate, the latter of whom is featured on Always Centered at Night track “sweet moon”) joined him, as well as cellist Maya Paredes and violinist Andrea Whitt. Lady Blackbird, another Always Centered at Night collaborator, made a special appearance to sing their song, “dark days.”
These poignant renditions brought new life to Moby’s familiar songs. The songs shined broken down to their spare elements, bringing the rapt audience close to tears. By the end of the second evening, Moby pointed out that, at almost three hours from the start of the taping, it was the longest show of his life.
While music and veganism are perhaps the two things he is most known for, the well-read and well-rounded Moby has countless interests, among them architecture. Here he lists his 10 most essential modern architecture buildings.
Sorry to start with something so obvious, but it really is one of the most remarkable buildings/houses/Aztec spaceships from the 20th century. And, if you think you haven’t seen it, well, you have. Is it modern? Yes, but… Is it a crashed spaceship from spacefaring Aztecs? Also yes, but… lastly, and creepily, it’s possibly where George Hodel buried the bodies of his surrealist serial killing victims.
OK, you’ve seen this in pictures, in sketches, but in person it defies any and all rules of physics, aesthetics, logic, and humanity. I’m glad it’s there, and I’m glad that [architect and designer] Eero Saarinen was a genius, but in person it simply seems like it shouldn’t exist. It’s delicate and flimsy, but also neither. It’s not just one of the greatest structures of the 20th century, but it’s near the top of the list of ridiculous and remarkable things that humans have ever built.
My admission here is that I haven’t seen Michael Heizer’s City up close and in person because, well, almost no one has. It’s very, very far away. Remote. Hidden on a different planet (Nevada). But Michael Heizer is my second favorite artist of the 20th century after Marcel Duchamp. The pictures I’ve seen of his city make me uncomfortable in the best way, as his work points at not just yours and my insignificance, but also the deep insignificance of our weak little species.
New York, to state the obvious, has a lot of buildings and a lot of amazing buildings. Many, like Lever House, are pristine and beautiful examples of mid-century commerce. Others, like the Woolworth Building, are towering metal pencils, but also examples of thrusting commerce. What makes the Tribeca Synagogue so remarkable is that it’s cryptic and understated and almost offensive but also sinuous in a way that gray flowing brutalism shouldn’t be.
Every city has its one iconic building. Rome has the Coliseum. London has Big Ben. NYC has the Empire State Building. And L.A. has the Griffith Observatory. It’s not just a spectacular—and spectacularly sited—building, but it’s a beautiful, absurd metaphor. Most cities have iconic temples of commerce or government or structure. Griffith Observatory is a functioning observatory built to look at the stars through, at times, impenetrable light and atmospheric pollution. It’s naive and grand and playful and fantastically pointless, kind of like my adopted town of Los Angeles itself.
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Is a crater a building? OK, yes. Also how fantastic that there are two humongous land-art crazy… buildings (Cities? Landing strips?) in the west? Michael Heizer’s City and James Turrell’s Crater. It’s also interesting that Michael Heizer works largely in the relatively permanent stone, whereas James Turrell works in the relatively impermanent—light. Both are remarkable, as artists, and as people who build beautiful monstrosities in the desert.
You’ve seen this too. In fact in The Simpsons it’s where Troy McClure lives with his romantic fish partners. When I first moved to Los Angeles, I had dinner at the Chemosphere with Tadao Ando (him next in the list), and I was standing with him at the railing looking at the valley and the mountains and I thought, “OK, Los Angeles is strange and great and collapsing and beautiful, and I guess it’s home now.”
Tadao Ando, Museum for Wood Culture
To be fair, this list should just be 10 buildings by Tadao Ando, but I can only pick one, and it’s the Museum for Wood Culture. Not just because it’s Tadao Ando, the greatest living architect, but because it’s a museum inspired by trees and wood. Tadao Ando is basically a poet. I know that sounds like gentle hallmark hyperbole, but it’s true. His work takes my breath away, no matter where or what it is.
Some architects build buildings. But look over here, there’s Oscar Niemeyer, and he built an entire city. The last time I was in Brazil, I actually scheduled a show in Brasília just so I could see Oscar Niemeyer’s city up close—and it didn’t disappoint, not at all. It’s utopian and odd and beautiful and unwelcoming and futuristic and kind of crumbling. It’s perfect, just like all of his buildings.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Farnsworth House
Ending with the obvious and the understated. Mies is the godfather of 20th century architecture, and to not include him in a list of greatest modern “buildings” would be like a list of best electronic music that didn’t include Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love.” The Farnsworth House, unlike the Seagram Building, is just poetry in right angles. It’s so understated and surprisingly small and humble (and happily restored after being flooded). I could include a few thousand other phenomenal buildings and architects, but I’ll leave it with Mies, as he kind of started the whole thing in the early 20th century.
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Photo: Electric Forest
Electric Forest, everyone’s favorite music festival in Sherwood forest, decided to do something special to unveil its 2016’s lineup. Sending #EF2016Reveal envelopes to some of its attendees, Insomniac decided to release the lineup through a collective work of its forest family.
These envelopes have the names of the first wave of artists, and are shared on social media for everyone to find out.
Looks like Bassnectar will be making his return to the forest, along with String Cheese Incident, following with Bonobo and STS9. This lineup is stacked with too many dope smaller artists, so that you can find music that you might have never heard! Check it out below:
Confirmed Aritsts:
Nahko and the Medicine for the People
Source: #EF2016REVEAL Reddit
Source: Electric Forest
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