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NOTORIOUS B.I.G.


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The stories behind all of Sean โ€˜Diddyโ€™ Combs' name changes as the hip-hop mogul heads to trial

Read full article: The stories behind all of Sean โ€˜Diddyโ€™ Combs' name changes as the hip-hop mogul heads to trial

In the criminal indictment for this weekโ€™s sex trafficking trial of Sean โ€˜Diddyโ€™ Combs, the document lists the hip-hop mogulโ€™s aliases.

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ABBA, Blondie, and the Notorious B.I.G. enter the National Recording Registry

Read full article: ABBA, Blondie, and the Notorious B.I.G. enter the National Recording Registry

Albums from ABBA, Blondie and the Notorious B.

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An arrest has been made in Tupac Shakur's killing. Here's what we know about the case and the rapper

Read full article: An arrest has been made in Tupac Shakur's killing. Here's what we know about the case and the rapper

The unsolved killing of rapper Tupac Shakur has taken a major turn.

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Grammy Museum to launch 50 years of hip-hop exhibit featuring artifacts from Tupac, Biggie

Read full article: Grammy Museum to launch 50 years of hip-hop exhibit featuring artifacts from Tupac, Biggie

The Grammy Museum says it is launching the โ€œHip-Hop America: The Mixtape Exhibitโ€, celebrating 50 years of the music and culture's global impact.

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After nearly 30 years, there's movement in the case of Tupac Shakur's killing. Here's what we know

Read full article: After nearly 30 years, there's movement in the case of Tupac Shakur's killing. Here's what we know

The unsolved killing of rapper Tupac Shakur has taken a new twist.

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Tupac Shakur's long-unsolved killing again under spotlight as Las Vegas police conduct search

Read full article: Tupac Shakur's long-unsolved killing again under spotlight as Las Vegas police conduct search

Authorities in Nevada say they have served a search warrant in connection with the long-unsolved killing of rapper Tupac Shakur in September 1996.

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Sean 'Diddy' Combs receives lifetime honor at BET Awards

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Sean โ€œDiddyโ€ Combs spoke about his own dream like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. while accepting the highest honor at the BET Awards.

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Sean 'Diddy' Combs to receive lifetime honor at BET Awards

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Sean โ€œDiddyโ€ Combs will be honored for his career achievements at the BET Awards this month.

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Vinyl records surge during pandemic, keeping sales spinning

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Music lovers sent vinyl record sales soaring during the pandemic, giving retailers something to cheer on Record Store Day.

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A journey back through the Kardashians as their TV show ends

Read full article: A journey back through the Kardashians as their TV show ends

There were tears, tantrums and plenty of togetherness over 20 seasons of โ€œKeeping Up with the Kardashians.โ€.

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Former girl group members unite on BET to form supergroup

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BET is forming the next big R&B girl group with the help of members from platinum-selling ensembles like 702, Total, Danity Kane, 3LW, Blaque and Cherish.

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After pandemic pullback, DJ Khaled shares his 'light show'

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When itโ€™s time to release one of his maximalist albums, DJ Khaled makes it an event.

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Billboard Awards: 16 nods for Weeknd, 6 for Morgan Wallen

Read full article: Billboard Awards: 16 nods for Weeknd, 6 for Morgan Wallen

The Weeknd was snubbed by the Grammys but heโ€™s the leading nominee at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards, where rappers Pop Smoke and Juice WRLD earned multiple posthumous nominations, including top artist.

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Tasty Tuesday: Bennyโ€™s keeps 28โ€ pizza popular across southwest Virginia

Read full article: Tasty Tuesday: Bennyโ€™s keeps 28โ€ pizza popular across southwest Virginia

Tuesday is National Pizza Day, and there are so many places around here that do pizza really well. We wanted to get a slice as big as our head from the Notorious B.I.G. While thereโ€™s Benny Nicolaโ€™s in Radford and Benny Marzanoโ€™s in Blacksburg, we stopped by Benny Marconiโ€™s in Roanoke. He keeps coming not just for the size of the pizza but the quality too. After humble beginnings in Blacksburg, they now have two dozen stores from as far north as Chicago to as far south as South Carolina.

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It was all a dream: Whitney, B.I.G. inducted into Rock Hall

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are among the inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 2020 class. (AP Photo)NEW YORK โ€“ In a normal year, the newly inducted Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class would have hit the stage and perform the well-known songs that made them famous and helped them enter the prestigious organization. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, this yearโ€™s all-star group was inducted Saturday night in a taped HBO special that told the stories of Whitney Houston, Notorious B.I.G. As she inducted Houston into the Rock Hall, Grammy-winning singer Alicia Keys gave a beautiful, heartfelt speech about one of the best singers in pop history. The Notorious B.I.G.

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Diddy, Springsteen among rock hall of fame guest list

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FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2020, file photo, Sean Combs accepts the 2020 Industry Icon award at the Pre-Grammy Gala And Salute To Industry Icons in Beverly Hills, Calif. Combs will be among a star-studded guest list for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2020 induction. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)CLEVELAND โ€“ Sean โ€œDiddyโ€ Combs, Bruce Springsteen and Alicia Keys will be among a star-studded guest list for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2020 induction. The prestigious organization announced the guest list Thursday for the ceremony, which will debut Nov. 7 on HBO. Other guests will include Miley Cyrus, Jennifer Hudson, Gwen Stefani, Charlize Theron, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Adam Levine and Brad Paisley. The special guests will speak on how this yearโ€™s inductees impacted their personal life and careers.

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Ginsburg's impact on women spanned age groups, backgrounds

Read full article: Ginsburg's impact on women spanned age groups, backgrounds

Younger women and girls say they were inspired by the late justice's achievements, her intellect and her fierce determination as she pursued her career. โ€œShe was my teacher in so many ways,โ€ said Gloria Steinem, the nationโ€™s most visible feminist leader, in an interview. Younger women and girls also say they were inspired by the justice's achievements, her intellect and her fierce determination as she pursued her career. Julie Cohen and Betsy West, who co-directed โ€œRBG,โ€ saw firsthand how women of all ages quickly identified with Ginsburg. But also, Cohen added: โ€œShe became a huge symbolic figure for young women and even girls in a way that we hadnโ€™t anticipated.

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A rapper, an elevator and an elephant: stories Ginsburg told

Read full article: A rapper, an elevator and an elephant: stories Ginsburg told

This image provided by the Supreme Court shows Ruth Bader Ginsburg types while on a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship in Italy in 1977. Ruth Bader Ginsburg died at her home in Washington, on Sept. 18, 2020, the Supreme Court announced. Ginsburg liked to note they had one important thing in common. โ€œThey were much more reluctant to take a man away from his work than a woman," Ginsburg liked to explain. Ginsburg would sometimes ask audiences: โ€œWhatโ€™s the difference between a bookkeeper in New Yorkโ€™s Garment District and a U.S. Supreme Court justice?"

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Ginsburg, a feminist icon memorialized as the Notorious RBG

Read full article: Ginsburg, a feminist icon memorialized as the Notorious RBG

The Supreme Court says Ginsburg has died of metastatic pancreatic cancer at age 87. (AP Photo/Marcy Nighswander, File)WASHINGTON โ€“ Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg moved slowly. Ginsburg died Friday of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer at her home in Washington at 87, the court said. Late in her court tenure, she became a social media icon, the Notorious RBG, a name coined by a law student who admired Ginsburgโ€™s dissent in a case cutting back on a key civil rights law. Her mother, Celia Bader, died of cancer the night before Ginsburg, then 17, was to graduate from high school.

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Rap at auction: Biggie's crown and Tupac Shakur letters

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and Tupac Shakur are being united for an auction at Sothebys, the first-ever dedicated hip-hop auction at a major international auction house. Bidders will be able to vie for the crown worn and signed by the Notorious B.I.G. They'll also get to bid on an archive of 22 autographed love letters written by Shakur at the age of 15-17 to a high school sweetheart. Onetime friends who became rivals in a hype-fueled war between the East and West Coast rap scenes, Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. The crown has been in photographer Barron Claiborne's possession since he captured Biggie for the cover of Rap Pages magazine.

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Juice WRLD's posthumous album dominates Billboard charts

Read full article: Juice WRLD's posthumous album dominates Billboard charts

This cover image released by Grade A/Interscope shows "Legends Never Die," a release by the late rapper Juice WRLD. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart this week. (Grade A/Interscope via AP)NEW YORK Rapper Juice WRLD's first posthumous album Legends Never Die" is alive and well on the music charts. Juice WRLD, born Jarad Anthony Higgins, died of an accidental overdose of oxycodone and codeine in Chicago in December. The album also logs the biggest one-week sales for any album released this year.

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Tribute broadcast planned for late music exec Andre Harrell

Read full article: Tribute broadcast planned for late music exec Andre Harrell

NEW YORK A tribute to Andre Harrell, the influential music executive who discovered Sean Diddy Combs and died earlier this month, will air Sunday. It will air commercial free on BET, BET Jams, BET Soul and REVOLT TV, where Harrell served as vice chairman. Diddy often credits Harrell with giving him the tools to find success in music and life, even saying Harrell was like a father figure to him. In 1993, Harrell let go of Diddy, who then launched his uber-successful Bad Boy Records. Diddy posted multiple tributes to Harrell on social media following his death.

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