"Beauty and a Beat" by Justin Bieber ft. @NICKIMINAJ rises to #2# on the Global Spotify Chart with 3,774,808 streams.
— The song also jumps to #26# (+6) on Spotify Daily Australia. Nicki remains the #1# streamed female rapper globally.
Pitchfork rates Tyga's new '$TARFACE' album a 0.0 out of 10:
"The rapper’s slop-pop concept album is smug and complacent and depressing. Its very existence has made the world a worse place."
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD ABOUT THE LIMP BIZKIT WOODSTOCK THEORY?
Limp Bizkit performed “Break Stuff” at Woodstock 1999 and the young White male crowd erupted into riots, fires, and chaos.
The elites saw firsthand the dangerous mobilizing power of angry nu-metal music on White men. They didn’t like the possibilities that the White man could rise up full of anger. They had to stop us before we realised ourselves what we could actually do together.
They responded by pulling back support for those bands. In the 2000s the music industry shifted heavily toward promoting rappers and hip-hop.
The goal was clear, stop White male anger and prevent it from rising up against the system. Rock was deliberately sidelined. This was cultural control.
🚨 NOW: American rapper Vanilla Ice SAYS IT PERFECTLY after artists bail on performing at America's 250th celebration in Washington DC
CNN: Why are you still planning on performing?
ICE: "I'm PROUD to be an American! [...] I don't like ANYBODY telling me I can't be proud of it." 🇺🇸
"We're celebrating the birthday of our country, WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL HERE?"
"This whole world is like a snow globe, but it shouldn't be that and music is here to bring people together, man. And, you know, it shouldn't be that this music is dragged into politics."
"I think this is a huge honor." 🔥
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