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Isaiah Rashad and Dominic Fike talk sobriety, sexuality, and the pressure that comes with being in the spotlight. Isaiah Rashad: "I feel like I'm the poster child for recovery, I'm the Black bi rapper now ... It doesn't come with any of the perks I thought it would come with. There are no Frank Ocean perks." Isaiah Rashad's album 'IT'S BEEN AWFUL' is out now, featuring Dominic Fike on the song "CAMERAS."
Pigeons & Planes165,353 просмотров • 7 дней назад
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.
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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.
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Swae Lee says a lot of great songs are getting overlooked in 2026 because of oversaturation and short attention spans. “The songs that 8 years ago probably would have went up, they’re not getting their proper light,” Swae Lee Lee Swae explains. “The game is oversaturated,” he adds. “It’s so many musicians. New musicians. AI musicians. Two-week musicians.” He’s still feeling optimistic about the future, though: “Good music is always going to win. And the good thing about it is, a song could blow up like two years later now. So you just never know now.”
Pigeons & Planes101,150 просмотров • 8 дней назад
LCD Soundsystem coming up with the melody for "Dance Yrself Clean."
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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 & Planes913,557 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад
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 & Planes1,647,029 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад
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.
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![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 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад
![Drake first reached into Lykke Li's catalog in 2008, when a brief email led to her collaboration "Little Bit" appearing on 'So Far Gone' (2009). Nearly two decades later, Drake interpolated her 2011 standout track "I Follow Rivers" on "Janice STFU" for his new album 'ICEMAN.' Lykke Li initially assumed the request was a joke. In an interview with Rolling Stone, she shared, "['Janice STFU'] has that raw, revenge, hip-hop energy." She had already been revisiting Drizzy's old music on her own terms. "Strangely enough, I've been really craving Drake," she said, citing "Marvin's Room" specifically. On "I Follow Rivers" more broadly, Lykke added, "It doesn't even belong to me. It has a life of its own."](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2057140984111132830/amplify_video_thumb/2057139896154812417/img/pV-S_4oJzdRkcnKX.jpg)
Drake first reached into Lykke Li's catalog in 2008, when a brief email led to her collaboration "Little Bit" appearing on 'So Far Gone' (2009). Nearly two decades later, Drake interpolated her 2011 standout track "I Follow Rivers" on "Janice STFU" for his new album 'ICEMAN.' Lykke Li initially assumed the request was a joke. In an interview with Rolling Stone, she shared, "['Janice STFU'] has that raw, revenge, hip-hop energy." She had already been revisiting Drizzy's old music on her own terms. "Strangely enough, I've been really craving Drake," she said, citing "Marvin's Room" specifically. On "I Follow Rivers" more broadly, Lykke added, "It doesn't even belong to me. It has a life of its own."
Pigeons & Planes71,988 просмотров • 14 дней назад
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
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Steve Lacy teases new single "The Feeling" set to drop next week.
Pigeons & Planes30,535 просмотров • 6 дней назад
Earl Sweatshirt is debuting his own limited-edition pizza with the SoCal pizzeria Prime Pizza. The pizza, titled Heat Check and crafted by Earl himself, will be available at all Prime Pizza locations from January 9 through January 23. Earl Sweatshirt will also appear for an in-person meet-and-greet at Prime Pizza’s Fairfax location on January 11, where fans can get signed pizza boxes and exclusive Prime x Earl Sweatshirt merch.
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Baby Keem and Kendrick Lamar have made a lot of songs together, but they approached "Good Flirts" with a different energy. "In the spirit of just doing something new and different together, I think Kendrick just made a lot of sense," Keem says of the song. He tells P&P about his reaction to hearing Kendrick's verse for the first time
Pigeons & Planes107,491 просмотров • 26 дней назад
We asked Earl Sweatshirt about “real hip-hop” fans who expect artists like him and MIKE to always approach music in a very traditional way. thebe kgositsile said he thinks these “real hip-hop” conversations are “amusing at best,” pointing out the importance for the spirit of hip-hop to "keep finding itself in different places."
Pigeons & Planes246,692 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад
![redveil spoke about the way in which white meme culture attempts to reduce Black art to a punchline, stripping it of the depth and intention behind it. In an interview with Deeeemurph of Mabfield, redveil explains, "There's a long tradition of this dynamic with Black art across the world, where white people engage with it in an incomplete way…[the artists'] vulnerability, their emotions or whatever is just like a part of some big meme." To further emphasize his point, redveil draws on André 3000's lyric from Outkast's "Hey Ya!"—"y'all don't wanna hear me, you just wanna dance."](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2046441125758509333/amplify_video_thumb/2046441062223486976/img/wnl9wKo6-0lbNNWd.jpg)
redveil spoke about the way in which white meme culture attempts to reduce Black art to a punchline, stripping it of the depth and intention behind it. In an interview with Deeeemurph of Mabfield, redveil explains, "There's a long tradition of this dynamic with Black art across the world, where white people engage with it in an incomplete way…[the artists'] vulnerability, their emotions or whatever is just like a part of some big meme." To further emphasize his point, redveil draws on André 3000's lyric from Outkast's "Hey Ya!"—"y'all don't wanna hear me, you just wanna dance."
Pigeons & Planes156,005 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
King Krule making his US television debut at 19 years old, playing "Easy Easy" on Letterman in 2013
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