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‘My digestive system was a volcano’: indie star Youth Lagoon on surviving chronic illness to make a masterpiece

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The experience made Youth Lagoon feel a much less restrictive home for his music, and he began writing songs for a new album. He approached star XL producer Rodaidh McDonald (the xx, Adele, Gil Scott-Heron) and Heaven Is a Junkyard quickly swam into focus.

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Nov 08, 2023

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Sad Bois Club: Dissecting Drake’s Surprise ‘Honestly, Nevermind’

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So Far Gone cribbed off 808s & Heartbreak (the ur-text for singing-ass rappers). Take Care the song was a straight jack of a better Jamie xx and Gil Scott-Heron track, while Take Care the album was allegedly based largely on Weeknd IP. His world-conquering mid-2010s run owed as much to the Mi

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Jun 20, 2022

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The Rise of RJ begins on TSN

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onight with the Duke Blue Devils at the Champions Classic in Indianapolisto take on John Caliparis Kentucky Wildcats, all eyes will be on the Mississauga, Ont., native. The RJ Barrett revolution, Gil Scott-Heron, will be televised. The heir apparent is to Steve Nash is here and it's his godson.

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Nov 07, 2018

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'First Man' Review: Houston, We Have an Indie Blockbuster

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he backdrop of his film is full of people skeptical of the space program amidst disillusionment over the Vietnam War. (It also features an interlude of Gil Scott-Heron's poem "Whitey on the Moon.") The goal, it seems, isn't to show a great achievement, but to show one that happened amidst strife, th

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Oct 12, 2018

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Ryan Gosling’s ‘First Man’ Lands Early Raves: ‘Nobody Has Taken Us to Space This Way Before’

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th the majority seeing only the cost in lives and multibillion-dollar funding. Opposition is voiced to powerful effect in a sharp sequence cut to Gil Scott-Heron reciting his poemWhitey on the Moon, which weighs the space program against poverty and racial inequality in bitingly corrosive terms.

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Aug 30, 2018

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The 'Black Panther' Enthusiasts Who Are Changing Cosplay: 'We're Helping People See Us as Heroes'

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I really liked when I heard Gil Scott-Herons The Revolution Will Not Be Televised in the films trailer, said Ms. Kaufman, who regularly attends cosplay events with Mr. Okafor throughout Southern California. That happened in the 1970s when there was a revolution and people were upset. Thats

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Feb 15, 2018

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Tribeca Film Review: 'Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives'

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His rangewas extraordinary: Who else could devote himself to Patti Smith and Melissa Manchester, Gil Scott-Heron and Kenny G, Kelly Clarkson and the Notorious B.I.G.? He didnt draw the commerce-vs.-art distinctions that too many fans (and critics) do. In his ear-candy-is-king way, Clive Davis was

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Apr 20, 2017

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Hidden Figures takes us back to a place where computers were women and black

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This, of course, is far from the case. In 1970, in response to the Apollo landings, Gil Scott-Heron spoke of the contrast between two worlds in his song 'Whitey on the Moon': 'A rat done bit my sister Nell/With Whitey on the moon/Her face and arms began to swell/And Whiteys on the moon./You know, t

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Feb 18, 2017

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Gil Scott-Heron (born April 1, 1949) is an American poet, musician, and author known primarily for his late 1960s and early 1970s work as a spoken word soul ...

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