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On this day 29 years ago, Missy Elliott released her debut studio album 'Supa Dupa Fly,' produced by Missy and Timbaland. For the music video for "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)," Missy wore an inflated patent-leather "Michelin woman" suit to match the futuristic vibe of the video's setting. However, the suit's construction fell flat on set when it was punctured, so her stylist, June Ambrose, used a small bicycle pump to keep it inflated. She sat out of the camera's view, pumping the suit continuously so it would not deflate. The two would go on to work together throughout Missy's career on the majority of Missy's music videos.
Pigeons & Planes158,138 views • 4 days ago
Eric André (Eric Andre) gives his honest thoughts on 5 rising artists 👀
Pigeons & Planes477,458 views • 12 days ago
Happy birthday to solange knowles, who turns 40 today. In multiple interviews over the years, Solange has spoken about her early obsession with Nasir Jones. At her Christian school in junior high, she was told to remove a shirtless poster of Nas from her locker that showcased his "God's Son" tattoo. The administration called it blasphemous. Solange pointed out that a student nearby had a poster of Justin Timberlake showing his cross tattoo, and she refused to back down. Her parents left the decision to her, so she took the in-school suspension—and kept the poster up. "I took that for Nas," Solange told NPR in 2014. By the time she met him in ninth grade, Beyoncé was on his label at Columbia, and he'd already heard the story.
Pigeons & Planes398,223 views • 25 days ago
Kenneth Blume (fka kenneth blume) shared that "Jesus Is the One (I Got Depression)"—his viral freestyle with Zack Fox—has been certified Gold by RIAA. The certification comes seven years after the track's release. The freestyle was recorded for Blume's YouTube series The Cave and features Fox rapping in a top hat and sunglasses about Thousand Island dressing and mental illness, among many other things. In a tweet about the milestone, Blume revealed that they donated half of the song's proceeds to The Trevor Project since its 2019 release, raising nearly $60,000 for the organization.
Pigeons & Planes175,443 views • 17 days ago
Happy Birthday to Daniel Johnston would've turned 65 today. 🕊️🩵 In the early ’80s, a young Daniel Johnston was working at a McDonald’s in Austin, Texas. Instead of just handing out fries, he was handing out cassette tapes, sometimes slipping his homemade albums into customers’ to-go bags. After Johnston’s appearance on MTV’s 'The Cutting Edge,' label executives started calling almost immediately, but McDonald’s was the only place he had reliable access to a phone. Word spread fast around Austin and soon people were coming in not for the Big Macs, but for Daniel Johnston.
Pigeons & Planes1,648,665 views • 5 months ago
LCD Soundsystem coming up with the melody for "Dance Yrself Clean."
Pigeons & Planes1,105,201 views • 4 months ago
JPEGMAFIA is claiming the throne as the king of experimental rap, which is why he named his next album ‘EXPERIMENTAL RAP.’ “I’m already the best in this space of experimental rap. There’s no one who competes with me. People cannot do what I do,” he tells P&P. “So me naming it ‘Experimental Rap’ is just me laying claim to something I already had.” “Other people in this genre, they want to pretend and try to be cool and be like, ‘I don’t want to be experimental rap. I want to be something else. I want to f**king rap like Lucki. I want to make songs that the young people make,’” he adds. “I’m not having a midlife crisis, musically, so I don’t really need to do that. I can just be myself, and I let other people try to figure out who they are at 40 or whatever.” Our full interview with @jpegmafia is coming soon.
Pigeons & Planes632,939 views • 2 months ago
Jason Mraz has been a working avocado farmer for over two decades. If you live in California, there's a solid chance his avocados have ended up in your Chipotle order. In 2004, Mraz bought an orchard near San Diego, eventually converting it into Mraz Family Farms. They’re a certified organic, fair trade, regenerative operation that has nearly 1,000 avocado trees on the property that date back to the mid-1970s, planted by the man who sold Mraz the land. The farm has since expanded to also grow passionfruit and coffee—notable given that Mraz first broke into music playing San Diego coffee shops in 2000. The farm produces over 30,000 pounds of avocados annually and supplies Chipotle directly. In 2021, Mraz joined Chipotle's Aluminaries Project as a mentor supporting sustainable food systems. He's also testified before the California Assembly in favor of carbon sequestration credits for farmers and climate resiliency legislation. Mraz shared his perspective on the whole thing in a 2024 interview with ‘Green Matters’: "If a farm is done right, it'll outlive its farmer."
Pigeons & Planes913,980 views • 3 months ago
LUCKI says he “has nothing” for fans who want him to return to his old Lucki Eck$ sound. "Some people that was Lucki Eck$ fans, they never expected me to grow up and be a responsible dad and have a family,” he tells P&P. “They never expected me to even wear jewelry or nothing. So I really have nothing for them. Everybody matters, but the people who understand evolution, it's really something more for them,” . adds.
Pigeons & Planes396,638 views • 2 months ago
Grimes shared her perspective on the flood of AI music now landing on streaming platforms. In an interview with FORTUNE, 𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ argues that the over-saturation actually works in favor of originality: "the worse we make the corporate music system, the better it is for art." As algorithmic slop multiplies, she sees an opening for local scenes and more experimental, harder-to-replicate work to matter more.
Pigeons & Planes171,782 views • 1 month ago
Eric André knows that it seems “completely out of left field” that he composed a classical music album… and he loves how surprised everyone is by it. "I like it because nobody knew that I could compose music, let along classical music,” he says. Before comedy, Eric actually studied conducting and upright bass at the prestigious Berklee College of Music, and he’s always wanted to write something for an orchestra. This year, he finally checked that goal off his list and composed a classical music album called ‘Film Scores for Films That Don't Exist’ under the moniker BLARF, which he made with a full orchestra, alongside co-writer and co-producer Prateek Rajagopal. "All of the music I make, I do for my own creative fulfillment, not for money or popularity," Eric Andre tells P&P. "It's my night job. Comedy is my day job. When I make a movie or TV show, I want it to be successful and commercially viable, but with music, I want to just express myself without any pressure of popularity or financial gain. The fact that anyone's listening to it, besides me, is a win."
Pigeons & Planes60,172 views • 11 days ago
14 years ago today, Odd Future (Odd Future) dropped "Oldie"—one of their most iconic videos that almost didn't happen. It only did because T refused to let anyone turn the camera off. The members of the group told the story of that day in an oral history published by The Ringer in 2022. When Odd Future descended on Milk Studios in Chelsea, the session unraveled fast. The XXL staff "were understandably trying to contain a group of rowdy kids," Mike G recalled, "but we weren't having it." Someone plugged in an iPhone, "Oldie" came through the speakers, and director Lance Bangs kept his camera rolling over objections from the room. The moment Tyler realized what was happening, he called the shots: "No, f*ck that, Lance, keep shooting this sh*t.” What followed was a single, unedited take of the entire 10-minute posse cut performed live. For thebe kgositsile, freshly back from Samoa and still finding his footing, the whole day had a surreal quality: "It just felt like a cartoon, in the sense that n****s just was doin' whatever they wanted to do." For Tyler, zooming out in real time, the stakes were clearer: “I’ve seen music documentaries, this might be the last time everyone's together so we need to document this." He was right. "A f*ckin' balloon popped that night, and we all went in our own directions. That was the last time we was all together like that. Still,” Tyler explained. Frank, looking back, arrived at the same place: "The atmosphere reminds me of how it feels to be in a room full of musicians where everyone is improvising and for a brief period it's pure magic. It's the same rush." Bangs edited the footage on a laptop during a red-eye to Portland. It now sits at over 56 million views. It cost nothing.
Pigeons & Planes535,528 views • 4 months ago
![Turkish singer Nükhet Duru spoke on the impact of being sampled on The Weeknd’s track “Often.” “I really liked [‘Often’]. He apologized for pitching my voice up to fit his tone. I said it’s okay, you can do it [to my other songs] too. He is so loved and so sweet,” Duru said in a recent interview (translated). Her song “Ben Sana Vurgunum” was released in 1978 when she was just 24. Thirty-seven years later, The Weeknd released “Often” in 2014, also at age 24.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2031838403403079778/amplify_video_thumb/2031838257474920449/img/ntyfTNrd8tPtB-mp.jpg)
Turkish singer Nükhet Duru spoke on the impact of being sampled on The Weeknd’s track “Often.” “I really liked [‘Often’]. He apologized for pitching my voice up to fit his tone. I said it’s okay, you can do it [to my other songs] too. He is so loved and so sweet,” Duru said in a recent interview (translated). Her song “Ben Sana Vurgunum” was released in 1978 when she was just 24. Thirty-seven years later, The Weeknd released “Often” in 2014, also at age 24.
Pigeons & Planes472,033 views • 4 months ago
Mk.Gee's debut album 'Two Star and the Dream Police' was released two years ago today. As part of the album's rollout, Mk.Gee released a series of live videos directed by Danica Arias Kleinknecht, who also shot the album's cover when recording this video for "Are You Looking Up." - 📹 Danica Arias Kleinknecht
Pigeons & Planes541,792 views • 5 months ago
Dean Blunt, Elias Rønnenfelt, and Joanne Robertson have shared a new album, available for download via MediaFire ZIP file. The project features artists including A$AP Rocky, Jeremih, Vegyn, Wraith9, evilgiane, and The Last Artful, Dodgr. The 11-track project, titled ‘ancnt grz ‘22-25’ (though upon download the title ‘🔪🩸🖤’ also appears), runs just under 14 minutes. Some of the songs have been circulating online for a while, and fans have now uploaded the full project to Soundcloud and YouTube. The three first connected on ‘Backstage Raver,’ Blunt and Robertson’s 2024 joint album, where Rønnenfelt appeared on “repeat offenders.” Blunt and Rønnenfelt followed it up with ‘Lucre,’ released in 2025, which also featured longtime collaborator Vegyn. Blunt and Rocky go back well over a decade, with Blunt’s production and vocals appearing across several tracks on Rocky’s 2018 album ‘Testing,’ among many other collaborations.
Pigeons & Planes84,794 views • 24 days ago
On her new album ‘new avatar,’ Kelela traces a line from her own refusal to compartmentalize to what she wants for her Black queer fans. "The very essence of being queer is not existing within a binary," she shares in her new interview with Naomi Clément. That resistance to categories, she says, shaped how she built this album — one that folds guitar, rock, and hardcore influences into a sound rooted in R&B and Black musical tradition. She's speaking specifically to Black listeners who grew up loving genres coded as white or "other" (rock, metal, hardcore, etc.) and who learned to split themselves accordingly, showing up as "one of the only four Black people at the hardcore show." ‘new avatar,’ she says, is "a love letter" to those listeners. It’s an attempt to let them hold every part of what they love at once, without doing the work of separating it out. Kelela's new 12-track project is out now, with features from pinkpantheress, Fousheé, and A.K. Paul.
Pigeons & Planes31,383 views • 8 days ago