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Five MTV Video Music Awards performances that have influenced queer culture

The MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) are always an important date in the queer cultural calendar. And the 2024 event, which took place on September 11, was no exception. Chappell Roan’s performance of Good Luck, Babe! is already one for the ages; looking at it alongside four other VMA appearances…

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Piece by Piece review – Pharrell’s Lego biopic deserves to be a blockbuster

Toronto film festival: The endlessly inventive musician gets an unlikely yet deserving biopic told via plastic bricks – a big swing that more than pays off

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Rapper Fatman Scoop dies at 53 after collapsing on stage in Connecticut

Rapper Fatman Scoop has died after collapsing on stage at a show Friday in Connecticut

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What Really Happened to Fatman Scoop? Shocking Details Behind the Rapper's Final Moments

Rapper Fatman Scoop tragically passed away at 53 after collapsing on stage during a performance in Connecticut, leaving fans and the music industry in shock.

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US rapper Fatman Scoop dies after collapsing on stage mid-performance

New York-born artist, 53, known for collaborating with Missy Elliott, was performing in Connecticut on Friday

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Missy Elliott tours as a headliner − and it’s about time

Missy Elliott’s first-ever headline tour, which stops in Philadelphia on Aug. 5, 2024, comes nearly three decades after she released her debut album, “Supa Dupa Fly,” in 1997.

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Missy Elliott shares sweet message after Usher’s surprise gesture before her show

Hip-hop veteran is currently in the middle of her first ever headline tour

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Missy Elliott’s 1997 Hit Is The 1st Ever Hip-Hop Song To Be Transmitted Into Space By NASA

I guess it’s time to see if hip-hop is just as popular in far away worlds as it is on our planet Earth. The post Missy Elliott’s 1997 Hit Is The 1st Ever Hip-Hop Song To Be Transmitted Into Space By NASA first appeared on Bored Panda.

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NASA just beamed a Missy Elliott song to Venus

"The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” traveled 158 million miles (254 million kilometers) to our neighbor.

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The Most Unforgettable VMAs Moments Ever

Including, in one case, setting the stage on fire!

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R.E.M. reunite at Songwriters Hall of Fame ceremony also honoring Timbaland and Steely Dan

A reunion of R

The Independent UK

Missy Elliott Announces First-Ever Headlining Tour 'OUT OF THIS WORLD'

Missy Elliott announces OUT OF THIS WORLD tour with Timbaland, Busta Rhymes, and Ciara. Join her on a musical journey celebrating her iconic career!

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Tierra Whack: World Wide Whack review – witty, wild and from the heart

The Philadelphia rapper takes her Missy Elliott-gone-Sesame Street vibe to a darker place on her debut album proper

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Queen Latifah, Billy Crystal and others celebrated at Kennedy Center Honors

Billy Crystal, Dionne Warwick, Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees, Renée Fleming and Queen Latifah were given the star treatment as they received their Kennedy Center Honors.

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As the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame brings female artists to centre stage, is 2023 the Year of the Woman in music?

With Beyonce and Taylor Swift as pop’s reigning queens, and Kate Bush and Missy Elliott among the pioneers recognised by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 2023 feels like a banner year. Roisin O’Connor reports

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Missy Elliott, Willie Nelson, Sheryl Crow and Chaka Khan ready for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Fans of hip-hop, country, pop, funk, R&B and rock all have reason to cheer the 2023 class entering the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

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Missy Elliot pays the rent of 26 families on ‘Missy Elliott Day’: ‘I wanted to give back’

‘Just know that P-town is with me no matter where I go’

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The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Jools Holland returns with fresh musical goodness

Jorja Smith, the National and Say She She are among Jools’s guests. Plus, the recent female icons of the rap game are celebrated. Here’s what to watch this evening.

The Guardian - UK

The diaries of Amy Winehouse: ‘I’m the nutter of the class – loud and mouthing off!’

Using family photographs, journals, letters and handwritten lyrics, a new book sheds fresh light on the great singer’s life – while hinting at the tragedy to come. We publish exclusive images from the often heartbreaking work

The Guardian - UK

Magoo: rapper who collaborated with Timbaland, Missy Elliott and Aaliyah dies aged 50

Hailing from then unfashionable Norfolk, Virginia, Timbaland and Magoo’s partnership went on to become a decisive influence on 90s Black music

The Independent UK

Essence Festival of Culture 2023 kicks off in New Orleans

The 29th annual Essence Festival of Culture is revving up in New Orleans

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Missy Elliott becomes first female hip-hop artist to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has announced its 2023 inductees with Missy Elliott becoming the first female hip-hop artist to be inducted.

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Scientists see a star swallow a planet for the first time, new Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees, and Donald Trump won't call witnesses in rape case — as it happened

This is The Loop, your quick catch-up for this morning's stories as they happen.

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Kate Bush ‘shocked and honoured’ to earn place in Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

British singer is inducted alongside George Michael, Rage Against the Machine, Willie Nelson, Sheryl Crow, the Spinners and Missy Elliott

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