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Black Rob, 'Whoa!' Rapper, Dead at 52

Robert Ross, the rapper who performed as Black Rob and scored his biggest hit with 2000’s “Whoa!”, died Saturday afternoon at the age of 52 at Atlanta’s Grady Memorial Hospital. His death was confirmed by friend and fellow rapper Mark Curry, who was with Ross at the time of his …

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Diplo Has a New Job: Boxer

ATLANTA – Triller Fight Club’s shakeup of the boxing world will continue with the fighting debut ofDiplo. Yes,thatDiplo. The noted DJ, songwriter and record producer is targeted to lace up the gloves for a Triller Fight Club boxing match on June 5th in Miami, Florida. Diplo — a.k.a. Thomas Wesley …

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See Trailer for Director Barry Jenkins' 'The Underground Railroad' Series

Amazon Prime Video has shared the first teaser trailer for The Underground Railroad, director Barry Jenkins’ limited series about the Civil War-era slave-liberating network. Based on author Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning novel, the 10-episode series focuses on a slave named Cora Randall who, following her escape from a Georgia plantation, journeys …

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Song You Need to Know: Mustafa, 'Ali'

Mustafa is a secondary character in the short series of cover art he’s debuted since emerging as a solo artist a year ago — if he’s a character at all. His first single, “Stay Alive,”is visualized with a photo of the Toronto singer and poet surrounded by a troop of …

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How Lil Yachty Got His Second Act

Until the pandemic, Lil Yachty never stopped to think about how quickly he became famous. “It was a full year from walking across the stage in high school to then I’m in this penthouse in midtown Atlanta, I got this G-wagon, put my mother in a house,” Yachty explains. “It’s …

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