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Dr Dre thinks Hip Hop in 2019 is "quantity over quality".  Picture: PA Hip Hop icon Dr Dre revealed his thoughts about the current state of rap in a new interview. Whether you're listening to his work with NWA, his classic rap album 'The Chronic' or his production work with  Eminem  and so many more, it's undeniable that  Dr Dre  is one of Hip Hop's gems. The scene in 2019 is quite a different landscape from the one which Dre first entered back in the 1980s and in a new interview he's shared his thoughts on how the current roster of rappers shape up Speaking to Beats1 recently, Dre was joined by Jimmy Iovine, who appears alongside him in the hit documentary 'The Defiant Ones'as the pair celebrated the 20 year anniversary of Dre's legendary second solo studio album '2001'. According to the hit-making producer, he feels the last couple of decades have changed rapper's view on the Hip Hop scene and he claims ther...

In a 24-10 vote, the House Judiciary Committee approved a bill that would effectively end marijuana prohibition on Wednesday. The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act of 2019, or  H.R. 3884 , was introduced by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and currently has 55 co-sponsors. This is the first time that a congressional committee has approved a bill to make cannabis legal.  The MORE Act  would federally decriminalize cannabis by removing it from the  Controlled Substances Act , and would require the expungement of past federal cannabis convictions. The bill would also establish a Cannabis Justice Office to administer a program to reinvest resources in the communities that have been most detrimentally impacted by prohibition, funded by a 5% tax on state-legal cannabis commerce. Moreover, it will allow the Small Business Administration to provide loans and grants to cannabis-related businesses and support state a...

A case of vaccine-derived polio has paralyzed a child in Bamako, the capital of Mali, and an emergency vaccination drive is being organized to forestall an outbreak, the  World Health Organization announced  Monday. It is the first time the disease has been seen in Mali since 2011. The patient is a Guinean child whose parents traveled to Bamako seeking medical care. The child’s virus is a close genetic match to a strain last detected in a nearby region of Guinea in 2014. The child was not infected with the “wild type”  polio  virus, which the W.H.O. says has been eliminated from Africa. No cases of  paralysis  from wild virus have been found in Africa in a year, but it takes three years before a region is declared polio-free. Rather, it was a strain created when one of the three live, weakened  virus strains in the oral  polio vaccine  mutated to become dangerous again. Such mutations are a rare but persistent consequence of rel...

New York (CNN Business) A secretive   startup backed by Bill Gates has achieved a solar breakthrough aimed at saving the planet. Heliogen, a clean energy company that emerged from stealth mode on Tuesday, said it has discovered a way to use artificial intelligence and a field of mirrors to reflect so much sunlight that it generates extreme heat above 1,000 degrees Celsius. This is an existential issue for your children, for my children and our grandchildren." BIOTECH BILLIONAIRE PATRICK SOON-SHIONG Essentially, Heliogen created a solar oven — one capable of reaching temperatures that are roughly a quarter of what you'd find on the surface of the sun. The breakthrough means that, for the first time, concentrated solar energy can be used to create the extreme heat required to make cement, steel, glass and other industrial processes. In other words, carbon-free sunlight can replace fossil fuels in a heavy carbon- emitting corner of the economy that has been...

NEW YORK — The nominations for the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards were announced Wednesday. Lizzo led among nominees with eight nods. It was a good morning for music industry newcomers as freshman artists Billie Eilish and Lil Nas X scored six nominations each. Alicia Keys is set to host the ceremony and was on hand to announce some of the nominations on “CBS This Morning.” She was joined by singer Bebe Rexha and CBS’s Gayle King. Here’s a list of some of the Grammy nominees. The complete list of more than 80 categories can be found on Grammy.com . Record of the Year “Hey, Ma” — Bon Iver “Bad Guy” — Billie Eilish “7 Rings” — Ariana Grande “Hard Place” — H.E.R. “Talk” — Khalid “Old Town Road” — Lil Nas X & Billy Ray Cyrus “Truth Hurts” — Lizzo “Sunflower” — Post Malone & Swae Lee Album of the year “I,I”- Bon Iver “Norman F***ing Rockwell” — Lana Del Rey “When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go” — Billie Eilish “Thank U, Next” — Ariana Grande “I Used to Know Her” — H....

The music world is mourning the death of rapper Big Bank Hank, who delighted fans and changed the course of hip-hop with the Sugarhill Gang's 1979 classic,  Rapper's Delight . Big Bank Hank, who was born Henry Jackson but was also known as Imp the Dimp, died early Tuesday after a battle with cancer, according to TMZ. David Mallie, who manages the group's two remaining living members, told  Fox News  that Jackson died from kidney complications due to cancer. Mallie confirmed the news to USA TODAY, saying that he had seen Hank "several times" over the last several years and that his health had been declining as he went through chemotherapy and dialysis treatments. Wrote  DJ Funkmaster Flex  on Instagram. "Rest in peace... Big Bank Hank... Hip hop pioneer dies of Cancer .... Legend... Sugarhill gang August 5th-1957 / Nov11th-2014 ..... InFlexWeTrust.Com," wrote Flex."So sad to hear about our brothers passing. The three of us created musi...

Earlier this year, it was announced that Michael Bay was directing a movie for Netflix titled  Six Underground , which is set to star Ryan Reynolds and Dave Franco, among a few other big stars. However, a new report claims that the title  Six Underground  is actually just a cover up, and that it is secretly a live action  Thundercats  movie. The originally released premise for  Six Underground  said that the story revolved around six billionaires who fake their deaths in order to team up and fight evil. The project was given a $150 million budget, one of the largest budgets to ever be given by  Netflix , with the hopes that it would spawn a franchise, much like  Bright . The script is being helmed by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, who previously wrote both  Deadpool  movies for  Ryan Reynolds , hinting that the movie may be an action comedy. A reliable source connected to IGN has now claimed that that the movie i...

Dave East had a big album budget over $1 million dollars spent by Def Jam and right now its looking like a big L for Def Jam. First week sale projections are in and Dave East “Survival” album only sold 3,000 copies its first week. The album landed 164 on the billboard charts! People from Def Jam are telling us that the label is strongly considering to drop Dave East; because they are expecting to lose almost all of that $1 Million dollar Dave spent making this new album. Stay tuned for more updates! View this post on Instagram What’s Ya Favorite Song So Far??? OUT NOW!!!! A post shared by LONG LIVE MALIK & MUGGA (@daveeast) on Nov 8, 2019 at 7:39am PST View this post on Instagram SURVIVAL OUT NOW!!!! @kingjames 👑 A post shared by LONG LIVE MALIK & MUGGA (@daveeast) on Nov 13, 2019 at 3:07 4,868 views November 8, 2019 • N...