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Justin Charity

Justin Charity

Staff Writer at The Ringer

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United States
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  • English
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  • Music

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Rick Ross Is the Wild Card in the Drake-Kendrick Beef - The Ringer

Drake has a problem. It isn’t—at least not yet—Kendrick Lamar, who escalated a decade of tacit rivalry into open conflict with a diss verse on “Like That,” currently the no. 1 song in the country. (Kendrick has yet to answer Drake’s first response, “Push Ups (Drop & Give Me 50),” leaked last weekend.) Nor is Drake’s problem the larger onslaught of disgruntled collaborators who’ve suddenly teamed up against him, with disses of their own, in the aftermath of “Like That.” Yes, Drake is greatly outn…
7 months ago
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Six Reasons Drake Lost - The Ringer

Six years ago, Pusha T beat Drake in one of the most surreal rap beefs in hip-hop history—a standard exchange of diss tracks that ended very abruptly when Push shared a photo of Drake in blackface and also revealed the existence of his once-unclaimed son, Adonis, on “The Story of Adidon.” He beat him quick. He beat him clean. Easy money. Drake’s more recent collapse this past weekend against Kendrick Lamar and his merry coalition of haters—Future, Metro Boomin, Rick Ross, A$AP Rocky, and the Wee…
7 months ago
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We Still Don’t Know How to Talk About Amy Winehouse - The Ringer

We weren’t very kind to Amy Winehouse when she walked among us. She was a tremendous singer with a mesmerizing style, a strange case of a 21st-century pop star who was largely influenced by postwar jazz. She was also an alcoholic and, in her later years, a connoisseur of harder drugs, including heroin and crack cocaine. We know this much about Amy Winehouse because The Sun published photos of her at home in East London, smoking crack, sure enough, on a famous front page with the splashy headline…
6 months ago
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The Drake-Kendrick Beef Is Over, but Diss Tracks Remain Big Busines...

Seven years ago, Jake Paul—yes, bear with me here—released “It’s Everyday Bro,” a rap diss track about his ex-girlfriend, the Vine star Alissa Violet. The song was the product of a bad breakup and the all-consuming drive of everyone involved to turn every aspect of their lives into content; Alissa Violet and the YouTuber RiceGum would eventually respond to “It’s Everyday Bro” with “It’s Every Night Sis.” “It’s Everyday Bro” was an exceedingly cringeworthy song with a painfully generic trap beat,…
5 months ago
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‘The Death of Slim Shady’ or Not, You Can’t Kill Eminem. Not Really.

This past month in hip-hop, in the immediate aftermath of Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar, there has been a minor surge of disagreeable releases met with widespread mockery. You had Drake once again employing his signature patois to spoof “Hey There Delilah,” of all songs, with “Wah Gwan Delilah,” a confoundingly goofy ode to Toronto from local parody rapper Snowd4y. You also had J. Cole launching into a characteristically mortifying series of sex raps, e.g., She gon’ chew on this stick like it’s Wrigl…
5 months ago
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Donald Glover’s Childish Gambino Run Is Over. Who Was He, Anyway?

The indie novelty rapper turned funk-and-R&B extraordinaire has released his final album, ‘Bando Stone & the New World.’ If this really is the end for Donald Glover’s alter ego, it’s worth asking: What was that thing, anyway? And why didn’t it get the credit it deserved?
4 months ago
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Celebrity Is Once Again Core to an Election. That Cuts Both Ways.

Following her rise to presidential nominee, Kamala Harris has been embraced by mainstream entertainment. But the Democrats have been here before, and in their own way, so have Republicans—they just interact with pop culture in strikingly different ways.
3 months ago
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Is the Age of Video Game Console Exclusives Coming to an End?

Microsoft Gaming boss Phil Spencer seems to be driving Xbox into a radical new world without console exclusivity. Gamers aren’t necessarily happy about that.
3 months ago
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‘The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom’ Reactions

Ben summons Justin Charity to get into the new ‘Legend of Zelda’ game, catch up on some recent news in the world of TV and video games, and more
about 2 months ago
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The Year of Snoop Dogg

Snoop has long been a lovable figure, but he’s only recently become something bigger in pop culture—perhaps the closest thing we have to a national mascot
about 2 months ago
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Quincy Jones Was the Original Superproducer

Jones, who died on Sunday at age 91, possessed an excellence that was dauntingly varied; the sort of legacy that dares you to recall everything, every last contribution, lest you forget to touch upon some invaluable aspect of his genius
18 days ago