The rapper, clearly hurt and angry, flatly refused! At the time, the AIDS epidemic was reasonably new, and scientists were still trying to understand the disease. But whilst Jackson resisted on numerous occasions to get hot and heavy with Tupac, in the end, she gave up and went a...
A Democrat was asked to stop using a song for a change when Sam & Dave's Sam Moore requested that Barack Obama stop playing "Hold On, I'm Comin'" at rallies in 2008. In a letter to Obama, he wrote that "it is thrilling … to see that our country has matured to the place where...
Townshend originally wrote “We’re Not Gonna Take It” as an anti-fascist song prior to conceiving Tommy, while “See Me, Feel Me” was inspired in part by memories of his abusive grandmother and released alone as a single after the Who’s triumph at Woodstock. With its heraldic, ...
Exacerbating the situation, lenders and investors who put their money into securities backed by these defaulting mortgages ended up suffering. Lenders lost money on defaulted mortgages as they were increasingly left with property worth less than the amount originally loaned. In many cases, the losses ...
[ editor’s note: foxy brown’s camp refutes teddy riley’s statement that jay z ghostwrote for her. ] havoc (from mobb deep) :“foxy was always passionate for what she did. she wanted to spit a hot rhyme. she wouldn’t just say anything; the bars had to be real hot. she was...
I originally wrote this piece in 2006. I’m dusting it off & publishing it now because I will soon announce big publishing news for yours truly. I am somewhat more sanguine about the book publishing industry today, now that I’ve broken out of the business how-to genre. But there’s ...
In August 2022, Iyanna and Jarrette released a joint statement on Instagram that announced they werefiling for a divorce. “While we have love for each other, our lives are going in different directions, and that’s okay,” they wrote. “Coming to this decision was far from easy and we...
Chris Stapleton wrote hisTravelleralbum while he was grieving the loss of his father, and "Daddy Doesn't Pray Anymore" is a particularly emotional meditation on the complicated love between a son and his late father. This song is a beautiful choice for the funeral of a man who leaves behind...
Ramon Sosa: Her attorney wrote up the orders that … I was abusive, that I hit her son. …That they fear for their lives -- for their lives, you know, living with me, staying in my house. Ramon was ordered to move out of their home and stay away from the...
“But not only said them out loud. He wrote a book about it. What is it called? Project 2025.” And it was Colorado Gov. Jared Polis' turn to lug out a giant copy of the Project 2025 book Wednesday, bashing it for infringing on “our most intimate freedom to decide when an...