Sofia Sanchez, the 11-year-old girl who Drake visited last week at Chicago’s Lurie Children’s Hospital, received a heart transplant on Monday, the Associated Press reports. The rapper visited Sanchez after she appeared in a video dancing to Drake’s “In My Feelings.” Surgeons operated on Sanchez for nine hours. Cardiovascular surgeon …
Read More »Post Malone Broke a 34-Year-Old Michael Jackson Record. How?
Michael Jackson had to give up a little bit of space on his throne this week, when Post Malone broke a record that The King of Pop held for 34 years. The 23-year-old rapper whose name has crept slowly and then very rapidly into the mainstream in recent years just …
Read More »New Mexico Compound Suspects Charged, Given Bail as Baffled Community Reels
On Monday afternoon in Amalia, New Mexico, up a rocky stretch of dirt road, the land is quiet, the only noise coming from cicadas and news crews walking on clay to the entrance of an abandoned compound. The property is littered with debris from the people who once lived here …
Read More »Nicki Minaj Freestyled 90-Percent of 'Barbie Dreams' in One Take
Last Monday, Aubry “Big Juice” Delaine went into the studio for a marathon recording session with Nicki Minaj. He didn’t leave again until Thursday night, when they had finally completed the rapper’s new Queen album, which hit streaming services Friday around noon. Delaine has served as Minaj’s go-to recording engineer …
Read More »'The Meg' Review: Jason Statham's Man-vs.-Shark Blockbuster Needs a Bigger Boat
“Jason Statham fights a shark.” Say the phrase aloud, let the words swirl around in your mouth like a fine wine. Better yet, let’s up the ante a bit: “Jason Statham, he of The Transporter and Crank movies, fights a giant, toothy, prehistoric shark.” There is so much promise in …
Read More »Flashback: Elvis Presley's 'Aloha From Hawaii' Marks His Final Truly Great Moment
Elvis Presley stayed on the road until the end of his life, playing his final show at the Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, Indiana less than two months before his death on August 16th, 1977. But with a handful of exceptions, the gigs he played in his last years were …
Read More »XXXTentacion Shooting: Police Issue Warrant for 'Person of Interest'
Police in South Florida have issued an arrest warrant for 22-year-old Robert Allen, who was previously labeled a “person of interest” in the shooting death of rapper XXXTentacion, the Sun-Sentinel reports. Allen’s arrest warrant is not related to the July 18th shooting, but rather probation violations. He was previously charged …
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