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Year of the Fanboy Profile: Writers Fawning Over Subjects Because They Don't Have a Choice

Five years ago, I was an editor at Vibe, and I got an assignment to interview Usher. It was my second time profiling him for a cover story, but this setting would be more intimate than the previous one—instead of meeting in a hotel conference room, we’d talk at an outdoor bar at the Sunset Marquis in Hollywood, just…

Woman Artists Remix 'Hotline Bling,' Tell Drake to Sit The Fuck Down 

Recently, as if acting of their own volition or by the direction of some cruel puppeteer, my hands navigated to iTunes and purchased Drake’s single “Hotline Bling.” At first I bemoaned this purchase, which I was certain would result in nothing more than the foolhardy loss of $1.29 and some extra data languishing on my…

Drake Is Not Only Ripping Off D.R.A.M. on 'Hotline Bling' But Gaslighting Him About It 

With Drake’s goofy new video for “Hotline Bling” currently being blanketed with praise—Drake dances like... me, LOL, cry the masses, incorrectly—it is slipping by the wayside in our cultural parlance that the track is a blatant lift of the indie Virginia rapper D.R.A.M.’s breakout single from 2014, “Cha Cha.” Aiding…

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Drake Got So Upset When the DJ Played the Wrong Drake Song at Serena’s Fashion Show


Drake is sad. Some of his music was played during Serena Williams’s fashion show Tuesday, but the DJ messed up and played the wrong version of “Back to Back.” Out of respect for his girlfriend (as well as Anna Wintour), Aubrey had requested that the clean version be used, but the audience got the explicit one instead.

This Spanish Version of 'Hotline Bling' Is Better Than Drake's

So, I heard that Miley Cyrus dropped a 23-track Soundcloud album inspired by that one time Wayne Coyne was her dog or something, and I just can’t wait to get to it—the whole thing doesn’t sound exhausting in the slightest—but first let me sneak in 15-20 listens of this Spanish remix of Drake’s terrific sadboy shuffle…