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Former gang boss Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for orchestrating the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur. The rapper was gunned down on September 7 1996, after a car drove alongside him and opened fire as he travelled from a Mike Tyson boxing match. He died from his injuries six days later. While he did not pull the trigger directly, Davis was accused of planning the murder, as a result of his nephew Orlando Anderson being involved in an altercation with Shakur just hours beforehand. Davis denied the accusations and entered a not guilty…
Despite widespread criticism, a halted clinical trial of the hepatitis B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau moved forward last month for the most quotidian of reasons: $1.6 million in grant money needed by the Danish researchers conducting the study was expiring in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s budget, Rolling Stone has learned. The study seeks to examine whether the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine, used safely for decades, has potential negative health effects such as skin ailments or neurodevelopmental disorders. To do so, it plans to give the birth dose to only half of the 14,000 newborns enrolled,…
Dijon and Mk.gee have been tight friends and collaborators for a minute now, but the duo took their relationship to the next level over the weekend: they formed a wedding band. The nuptials of Jack Karaszewski and Danica Kleinknecht occasioned the big debut. The duo busted out some killer covers, including Big Star’s “Thirteen” (for the first dance), Wings’ “Let Me Roll It,” and Cat Stevens’ “Trouble.” Check out some videos from their performance below.Rounding out the onstage lineup were Paul Dally, Henry Kwapis, and Parker and Marshall Mulherin, all of whom have made music with Dijon in the past.…
Kanye West, the musician known as Ye, has been ordered to pay another $181,433 in his Malibu mansion debacle, seven months after a jury found him liable for $140,000 in damages to Tony Saxon at trial. In a new ruling obtained by Rolling Stone, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Brock Hammond ordered West to pay $147,000 in attorneys’ fees and $34,433.93 in costs to Saxon’s legal team at West Coast Trial Lawyers. The firm had sought substantially more, but Hammond initially proposed an even smaller award. After Saxon’s lawyer, Ron Zambrano, challenged the tentative amount as too low, the…
There’s a hollow space surrounding the guitar solo on “Shiver,” an absorbent deep cut on the second studio album from British indie-pop darling Rachel Chinouriri. The production is both distant and overwhelming as it mirror the 27-year-old’s inner turmoil. She’s feeling alone again, haunted by memories, and it’s like her words are vanishing into thin air before reaching anyone who will listen. Still, she sings, “Life goes on, and on, and on.” But what does she want that life to look like? Chinouriri realizes she needs to make some changes on I Think I Spoke Too Soon. It’s reflected in…
Three days after Kelly Clarkson started a public feud with the Brooklyn game shop Art of Play, the story is still ricocheting around the internet, with supporters on both sides weighing in on social media. But inside the tiny shop at the western end of Atlantic Avenue, just steps from an on-ramp for the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, things are placid and drama-free. As the door swings closed on a sunny Tuesday afternoon, muffling the sounds of traffic, the nook of curiosities comes alive. The theme pretty much boils down to: stuff that makes people stop and go, “Oooohhh!” Three small tables…
Grian Chatten has opened up about how it was a “career high” to work with Rosalía on Fontaines D.C.‘s new album, and shared that he believes that “her heart is similar to” his own. Yesterday (Tuesday October 13), the Dublin rock giants dropped the cinematic single ‘Where Is Gone?, which sees them join forces with the Spanish pop star. It marked the latest to be shared ahead of their upcoming fifth album ‘Dopamine Chamber’, following on from lead single ‘Marianne’ and eerie track ‘Tongue’. The album is the follow-up to 2024’s acclaimed and Mercury-nominated ‘Romance’, and set for release on…
It’s a shame that the Emmy for Outstanding Music Supervision was only instituted during its farewell season, because Girls really deserved to sweep for six years straight. The HBO series’ soundtrack, overseen by Manish Raval and Tom Wolfe, was a paragon of the form, punching up the show’s emotional moments and elevating its comedic beats to gut-busting, frequently excruciating heights. (“You can be my white Kate Moss tonight.”) Think back on that one Girls scene that imprinted itself on your psyche. Chances are, it was accompanied by one of Raval and Wolfe’s thoughtful selections. (For me, it’s when Aimee Mann’s…
Summer Walker, long unhappy with her record deal, has become embroiled in a series of legal disputes with her labels, LVRN and Interscope. The former, which also operates as her management firm, is the subject of a lawsuit from Walker alleging fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of contract, Rolling Stone reports. As Walker tries to escape that deal, Universal-owned major Interscope is preemptively suing her for more than $50 million in damages should she leave before fulfilling her five-album contract.Walker signed with LVRN and Interscope in 2017, when they operated as a joint venture. She has since released…
When the Eaton fires burned through Altadena in 2025, Lorely Rodriguez, better known as Empress Of, kept looking at the county fire map and checking in on her childhood home. Her family, including her mother and her brothers, had evacuated, but they held out hope that their house would make it through the blaze. “It happened so fast,” she says, recalling the moments when she watched the fire take over homes just a few blocks from her own. “At some point, we just knew. And then my brothers drove over and sent us a picture. They’re like, “It’s gone.”Rodriguez spent…
