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Kendrick Beat Drake With a Party Song

Kendrick Lamar | Not Like Us The Kill Shot Nobody Expected Rap’s most devastating diss track broke the genre’s own rules, it sounds like a block party, not a threat. That’s exactly what made it so dangerous. You can dance to the most devastating diss track in rap history. That fact alone tells you something […]

Prince Wrote a Country Song. It Became Purple Rain.

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Prince | Purple Rain The Song That Scared Stevie Nicks Prince sent Stevie Nicks a ten-minute instrumental cassette hoping she’d write lyrics for it. She sent it back, saying it scared her, that it was too much for one person. She turned out to be right, but not in the way either of them expected.

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