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Big Boi has dropped his new NSFW video for "Chocolate," the latest single off the Outkast rapper's new LP Boomiverse.





The video opens with a poorly disguised Big Boi pretending to be a Lyft driver hired to shepherd a group of women to the "Chocolate" video shoot.

From there, "Chocolate" explodes into a kaleidoscopic, unceasing assortment of images, including the now-naked women being doused by different varieties of melted chocolate, and a brown pug saying "Chocolate."

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When it comes to the price of fame, Liam Gallagher's limits stop at one celeb-friendly staple: Carpool Karaoke.




During an interview with British GQ, Gallagher was asked whether he would ever consider being a guest on The Late Late Show host James Corden's popular segment, which has featured everyone from Adele to Michelle Obama to the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

"No, thank you very much," he said, according to NME. "No fucking chance, mate. With that fat bloke from Kevin and Perry?"

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Thirteen weeks after Kendrick Lamar last topped the Billboard 200, the Rolling Stone cover star returned to Number One with Damn.



The greatest rapper alive goes deep on his obsessive studio habits, what Bono taught him and the temptations of stardom Damn. finished first with sales of 47,000 copies total, the second-lowest haul ever for a Number One album on the Billboard 200; only The Descendants soundtrack, with 42,000 copies in August 2015, sold less and topped the charts, Billboard reports.

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Jay-Z discussed his Kanye West feud, the recording of 4:44, the "Elevator Video" and his Anti-Defamation League–angering "The Story of O.J." lyric in a candid, hour-long Tidal video interview, the first of two installments where the rapper sat down with Rap Radar's Elliott Wilson and Brian "B.Dot" Miller.




During the interview, Jay-Z opened up about his rumored feud with Kanye West, which was detailed in the lyrics of 4:44's "Kill Jay Z": "You walkin' around like you invincible / You dropped outta school, you lost your principles / I know people backstab you, I feel bad, too / But this 'fuck everybody' attitude ain't natural / But you ain't the same, this ain't KumbaYe / But you got hurt because you did cool by 'Ye."

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Brian Johnson made his long-awaited return to performing AC/DC songs live when the singer joined Muse onstage for "Back in Black" during the band's Reading Festival set Sunday.




The surprise cameo marked the first time Johnson has tackled an AC/DC track live since March 2016, when the singer, on the recommendation of doctors, was forced to quit touring as he struggled with hearing problems that threatened "total deafness."

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After floods ripped apart the home of Paul Wall's mother, the Houston rapper is back home, rolling up his sleeves. Within five days of the destruction, Wall's got a list of appearances locked in to raise funds and gather supplies like clothing and diapers for displaced Houstonians. He said he's in the beginning stages of planning a massive benefit concert.




Through the emotional morass, one image kept returning to him: The words "Be Someone" graffiti painted on a railroad bridge just above the flood's waterline. "To see the water creep up to it, it's an image where it's like they're on our ass trying to bring us down, but they can't," said Wall. "Our survival game is too strong for them."

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Stone Temple Pilots will mark the 25th anniversary of their debut album, Core, with multiple reissue editions. The massive Super Deluxe edition houses live tracks from their 1993 MTV Unplugged performance, which includes an unreleased version of signature song "Wicked Garden" that Billboard premiered.



Bassist and co-founder Robert DeLeo told Billboard in an accompanying interview that their Unplugged performance was nerve-wracking. "There's something about volume and turning things up so loud that allows you to hide behind the wall of sound, and there we were doing something we'd only done together when we were alone in a room, just us," he said.

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Sampha won the 2017 Hyundai Mercury Prize on Thursday night for his debut studio album, Process. Honoring the best UK album of the past year, the Mercury Prize ceremony was held at London's Eventim Apollo, where he was awarded £25,000 (around $35,500).



Sampha, who has collaborated with a host of high profile artists (including contributions to Kanye West's "Saint Pablo," Solange's "Don't Touch My Hair," Frank Ocean's "Alabama" and Drake's "Too Much" among many others), released his critically acclaimed Process in February. He performed Process single "(No One Knows Me) Like the Piano" during the ceremony.

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Marilyn Manson played coy about his reported feud with Justin Bieber while letting Howard Stern read a text message exchange between the two on The Howard Stern Show Tuesday.





The tiff between Bieber and Manson centers around a Bieber t-shirt that features Manson's name and face on the front and the text "Bigger Than Satan ... Bieber" on the back (the shirt originally sold for $195). In July, the shirt's designer, Fear of God's Jerry Lorenzo, claimed on Instagram that Manson gave him permission to "reinterpret" the original image, though in a recent interview with Consequence of Sound, Manson offered a different story. The rocker claimed Bieber was already wearing the shirt when they first met and apparently told Manson, "I made you relevant again." Manson added, "He was a real piece of shit in the way he had the arrogance to say that."

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Justin Timberlake covered Sam Cooke's classic "A Change Is Gonna Come" at the singer's headlining set Saturday at Tennessee's Pilgrimage Fest, Timberlake's first full U.S. performance of 2017.




The singer opened his Pilgrimage set with the 1963 single, an anthem of the civil rights movement and Number 12 on the Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs.

While Timberlake didn't elaborate on his decision to cover "A Change Is Gonna Come," it was likely a show of solidarity with those fighting for social change and staging protests during the Trump presidency; Pilgrimage marked Timberlake's first U.S. show since the 2016 election.

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