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Method Man’s Daughter Spits Freestyle Over Classic Redman Beat

Method Man‘s daughter Chey kept it in the family as she kicked a freestyle over a Redman classic this week.The New York native stopped by Sway’s Universe on Shade 45 on Wednesday (April 17) and spit some bars over Red’s 1998 song, “Da Goodness.”“Tell them hoes stick to what they best at/Showing less ass, cooking shit like a meth lab/Walk on beats, I don’t need antics/Killing these hoes, I ain’t […]

todayApril 20, 2024 1

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Big Sean Flips Classic J Dilla Beat For ‘Anderson Estate’ Freestyle

Big Sean is getting over an illness but that’s not stopping him from putting his bars on display over a reworked J Dilla beat for a new freestyle — check it out below.Taking to Instagram on Wednesday (March 20), Sean put on for his fellow Detroit native as he went in over a slowed down version of The Pharcyde‘s “Drop” for his “Anderson Estate” freestyle.“I think where I lack most […]

todayMarch 21, 2024 2

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Andy Taylor Claims His Bodyguards ‘Beat the S—’ Out of Vince Neil

Andy Taylor has revealed a brief dust-up with fellow ‘80s rock star Vince Neil.Though Taylor’s group, Duran Duran, seemingly wouldn’t run in the same circles as Neil’s Motley Crue, the two reportedly had a confrontation. Taylor recalled the incident during a conversation with Classic Rock.“I never had the weird, pervy, fucked-up experiences that a lot of people talk about,” the Duran Duran rocker noted, looking back on his career. “The worst […]

todayFebruary 28, 2024

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Jadakiss Regrets Passing On JAY-Z’s ‘U Don’t Know’ Beat

Jadakiss has put out tons of notable songs during his career, but he passed up a chance to add one of JAY-Z’s hits to the list.In a recent appearance on the Clube 520 podcast, the LOX rhymer answered a question about whether there was “one beat that you passed on that turned into a hit” that he still had regrets over.“One of the Hov joints,” he answered before quoting lyrics […]

todayFebruary 26, 2024 1

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‘I need to feel that pulse of my own beat’

Katy Perry is leaving “American Idol.” Appearing on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Monday night, the “Firework” hitmaker announced news of her departure to an unsuspecting audience. After host Jimmy Kimmel asked the singer how long she plans to remain as a judge on the hit ABC show, Perry said that the upcoming 22nd season will be her last. “Well, you know, this fall, this September, I’m going to be doing this huge […]

todayFebruary 13, 2024

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Metal Vocalist Complains About No Moshing, Gets Beat Up by Santa

Even if you’re sick of all things Christmas, you just can’t miss this video. At a local show in Sacramento, Calif., the singer of Smack’d Up decided to cut a heel promo on the crowd, resulting in a beatdown by a man dressed as Santa Claus.Perhaps inspired by WWE’s Elias verbally decimating whichever town he’s in or Philip Anselmo’s “stop” gimmick to get fans more energetic, Smack’d Up’s Matt Kupers decided […]

todayDecember 24, 2023 2

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Creative collective We the Beat marks a decade of musical parties in Las Vegas

If you’ve discovered new music at a show recently, chances are good it happened at a We the Beat event. For the past decade, co-founders Kirk Reed and Blake Nania have built a reputation around their curated concerts, bringing unknown acts to Vegas before they go viral. “Yes, we are concert promoters, but I look at us more as a community, a culture that is here to support music discovery […]

todayNovember 2, 2023 5

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ON the Beat | Openings Week on the Serious Music Front

This edition of ON the Beat was originally emailed to subscribers on October 26, 2023. To receive Josef Woodard’s music newsletter in your inbox each Thursday, sign up at independent.com/newsletters. It is no surprise that October brings with it the ritual of concert season openers. This is the time when Santa Barbara’s fertile classical music season springs back to life and reopens its doors. Recently, we got a hearty double shot of this phenomenon […]

todayOctober 28, 2023 3

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The Beatles, beat music and East Germany – DW – 10/23/2023

When what was then called "beat music" reached East Germany, Wolfgang Martin, born in 1952, was a young teenager. He was fascinated by this new sound, which four young men were especially responsible for sending out into the world — and not just the western world. In the early 1960s, the Iron Curtain still divided Europe into East and West. There were two Germanies: the western-aligned Federal Republic of Germany, […]

todayOctober 23, 2023 2

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