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‘Right now I’m into Libyan reggae’: the music label delving into the Arab world's back catalogue

Jannis Stürtz has trawled Casablanca and rooted around a factory in Sousse for music. The Habibi Funk founder talks about his passion for Tunisian disco, Sudanese jazz and Lebanese soft rockNot long ago, Jannis Stürtz was at home in Berlin, checking the Instagram and Twitter pages for his record label, Habibi Funk. The former has 75,000 followers, testament to the treasure trove of information about “eclectic sounds from the Arab world” the feed contains: DJ mixes, old photos, posters, potted ar...
Tags: Music, Instagram, Berlin, World news, Culture, Middle East and North Africa, Pop and rock, Morocco, Vinyl, Sudan, Libya, Algeria, Drake, Reggae, Cassette Tape, Casablanca

Drake's $80 candle that smells just like the rapper is already sold out

Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP Drake is selling a six-candle line, complete with an $80 dollar candle that smells like him.  The rapper began teasing the brand earlier this year, including sending the brand to the Toronto Raptors. For now, the limited run is sold out. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Drake is expanding his empire. This time it's in the form of a new candle brand, called Better World Fragrance House (BWFH), complete with a candle that smells like Drake himse...
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Drake Defends The Weeknd, Says Grammys ‘May No Longer Matter’

Drake has come to the defense of The Weeknd amid his Grammys snub, saying the awards show “may no longer matter.” In a post to the rapper’s Instagram story on Wednesday, Drake sided with The Weeknd — who received zero nominations this year for his album “After Hours” — and suggested that there is a […]
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‘Uncharted’ First Look Photos: See Tom Holland as Nathan Drake and Check Out a Mysterious Artifact

After being in development for years, the big screen adaptation of the Uncharted video game franchise is finally on the way. Once slated to star Mark Wahlberg in the lead role of adventurer Nathan Drake, the movie now stars Spider-Man franchise lead Tom Holland, and the first photo of the actor looking as ruggedly handsome as possible has been revealed. Mark Wahlberg isn’t being left out in the wind either, because he’s still starring in the movie, but this time as Nathan’s mentor, Victor “Sull...
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Uncharted Photos Feature Tom Holland and Nolan North

BEGIN SLIDESHOW Uncharted Photos Feature Tom Holland and Nolan North Nolan North, who is known as the voice of Nathan Drake in the Uncharted games, took to Instagram to reveal the first official photos from the set of Sony Pictures’ long-awaited film adaptation of the hit video game franchise. One of the photos also revealed that North was able to visit the film’s set which featured North together with Tom Holland, who will be the live-action film’s Nathan Drake. Check out the full Uncha...
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Uncharted: Tom Holland Says ‘Filming is Going Well’ For Live-Action Film

Uncharted: Tom Holland says ‘filming is going well’ for live-action film After years of development, director changes, pre-production setbacks, and a production shutdown, it seems like things are finally looking up for Sony Pictures’ long-awaited film adaptation of Uncharted with MCU star Tom Holland sharing a new filming update as production continues in Berlin. In a recent Instagram live, the 24-year-old actor revealed that filming is actually going really well which sets it on track for it...
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In a startup reprise, Courtne Smith launches NewNew, a social network based on shared content

Since her departure from Drake’s entourage (where she worked as his longtime personal assistant) Courtne Smith has launched a line of hair products; a giveaway game that dropped swag like Yeezy shoes and Kardashian beauty products called Suprize; and now, NewNew, a social network based on the videos its users like and share. Think of the pitch as TikTok meets Facebook, where users congregate and create networks based on the videos, memes, and images they share. When Suprize launched in 2018 with...
Tags: Travel, TC, Facebook, Instagram, Toronto, Kardashian, Drake, Smith, My dad, Hea, Courtne Smith, NewNew, Suprize, Filip Diarra, NewNew Smith, Vogue Drake

Production Begins on Tom Holland’s Uncharted Film!

Production begins on Tom Holland’s Uncharted film! After going through a lot of major setbacks during its pre-production stage, production on Sony Pictures’ long-forthcoming film adaptation of Uncharted is finally taking off with MCU alum Tom Holland taking to Instagram to confirm that filming has begun on the long-in development project. This revelation comes four months after the studio decided to shut down the production on the film’s first day of filming in Berlin. In addition to this go...
Tags: Movies, Instagram, Nazis, Berlin, Mark Wahlberg, Sony, Drake, Sony Pictures, Antonio Banderas, Marvel Studios, Grey, Dan Trachtenberg, Joshua, Russell, Francis Drake, Zombieland

Make It Til You Make It with Owen Smith

If you happened to come across a Youtube video I put out not too long ago featuring Owen Smith, you’ll know the backstory how we connected for this episode of the Chase Jarvis LIVE show. Of course, we hoped to meet in person, but for now we’re coming LIVE to you from our living rooms. Owen Smith is a comedian, actor, writer, and the creator of a new YouTube show: Notebooks. He has performed stand-up on Conan, Colbert and is a regular at the Comedy Store Hollywood and Comedy Cellar in New York. H...
Tags: Art, Business, Photography, Podcast, New York, Hollywood, Abc, Creativity, Actor, Espn, Tbs, Drake, Joel Mchale, Writer, Chris, Owen Smith

No prom. No awards night. No graduation? Class of 2020 gets creative with celebrations

Isolated at home during the coronavirus pandemic with almost no chance for a prom or graduation ceremony, Eagle Rock High School senior Lincoln Debenham had an idea. He tweeted a message to former President Barack Obama, asking if he would record a national commencement speech to encourage the Class of 2020. A few days later, the tweet — liked 223,000 times — was picked up by ABC News and CNN and reached Obama, who reportedly was “very flattered” but made no commitment, Debenham said. “We experi...
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TikTok is breaking download records and taking over pop culture. But experts say it faces challenges in turning user growth into profit.

With 315 million downloads in the first three months of 2020, TikTok set a new record for the most installs by any app in a single quarter, according to the app analytics firm Sensor Tower. The short-form video app has entered mainstream culture in a big way in recent weeks, attracting new users outside of its core Gen-Z audience. Business Insider spoke to industry experts to learn more about whether TikTok's recent success is a short-term fad or a sign the app will become the next money-makin...
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BUSINESS INSIDER SPOTLIGHT: COVID-19 has enforced social distancing. Remote leaders Carol Cochran and Joel Gascoigne shared how they foster connectivity. Here's the full transcript.

We spoke with Carol Cochran, vice president of people and culture at FlexJobs, and Joel Gascoigne, CEO of Buffer, for the second episode of our Business Insider Spotlight Digital Live Event series. They told us about how they make employees feel special beyond work duties, get teams together while apart, and onboard new hires from afar. See the transcript below. Sign up here for next week's Spotlight on remote culture. The digital live event will feature Fernando Machado, the COO of Burger Kin...
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The 21 most influential digital creators based in New York who rule Instagram, YouTube, and other social-media platforms

Business Insider is recognizing the leading digital stars who live and create content around the Greater New York City area. We are highlighting these 21 top creators based on audience size, creativity, and their impact on the influencer business as a whole. These New York-based creators run successful digital businesses across platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok. Click here for more BI Prime stories. Los Angeles often takes center stage when it comes to the influencer world. Headli...
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How Esports Attracts Investors

The world of competitive video gaming, better known as ‘Esports’ is now said to be worth over £840 million and with great power comes great responsibility. The total audience in 2021 is predicted to reach 557 million people and for investors this translates into a captive audience, 557 million sitting ducks, providing multiple different revenue streams. What is Esports? In order to understand how esports attracts investors it is important to understand what it is! Esports is an acronym for El...
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Everything We Know So Far About Rihanna’s New Album

To say that 2019 has been a busy year for Robyn Rihanna Fenty would be an understatement. This year, the singer-turned-mogul launched a fashion line, Fenty Maison, with storied luxury giant LVMH—becoming the first woman to create an original brand for them and the first woman of color to front one of their fashion houses. She expanded her Fenty Beauty empire; starred in the film Guava Island alongside Donald Glover; hosted an inclusive fashion show for her Savage x Fenty lingerie line which...
Tags: Music, News, Instagram, Celebrity, Rihanna, Navy, Uncategorized, Vogue, Drake, Facetime, Sarah Paulson, Lvmh, Barbados, Donald Glover, Hollywood Life, Drizzy

Professionalism in the Age of the Influencer

On October 24, 2019, I presented the Hawley Foundation Lecture at Drake University. It was an update and reexamination of a 2006 speech on professionalism I originally gave at Trinity University, and later that year at Drake. What follows is a pretty close approximation of my speech, but hardly a transcript. It’s long, around 14,000 words. My presentation originally had slides. I’ve included many of them, and swapped out others for links or embedded posts. If you’re familiar with the earlier s...
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Massive edits to the Last Mayor 6: The Laws

In the last couple of weeks I have been editing The Laws, Last Mayor book 6, and am almost at the final word count. It started off at 107,000 words. That’s a decent length book, bigger than an ‘average’ novel length of 80,000. It has great reviews on all vendors, basically a solid five stars. It may even be crazy to edit it at all – since something about it is working. And yet… I have now cut it down to 55,000 words. That’s basically chopping it in half. Here’s what I cut, and why: 13,000 words ...
Tags: Photography, Writing, Drake, Zombie Ocean, Last Mayor

Drake, famous for keeping quiet about his son, made a rare post about him on Instagram

Though the rapper is famous for keeping mostly quiet about his son Adonis, Drake couldn't resist wishing his kid a happy birthday on Instagram.         [Author: USA TODAY]
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Confirmed: Nike has picked up Russell Wilson’s Tally/TraceMe in a rare acquisition

Nike has long been synonymous with premium sneakers and other sports gear, but now the company could be extending its brand into another area — digital media — thanks to the rumored acquisition of a Seattle-based startup. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that the multibillion-dollar sports giant has acquired TraceMe, which originally built an app to let fans engage with sports stars and other celebrities before later pivoting into a service called Tally, a platform aimed at sports teams, bro...
Tags: Apple, Amazon, Startups, TC, Spotify, Fashion, Instagram, Sports, Tech, Nike, Adidas, E-commerce, Digital Media, M&a, Seattle Seahawks, Drake

Source: Nike has picked up Russell Wilson’s Tally/TraceMe in a rare acquisition

Nike has long been synonymous with premium sneakers and other sports gear, but now it seems that the company could be extending its brand into another area — digital media — thanks to the rumored acquisition of a Seattle-based startup. TechCrunch has learned from a source that the multibillion-dollar sports giant has acquired TraceMe, which originally built an app to let fans engage with sports stars and other celebrities before later pivoting into a service called Tally, a platform aimed at spo...
Tags: Apple, Amazon, Startups, TC, Spotify, Fashion, Instagram, Sports, Tech, Nike, Adidas, E-commerce, Digital Media, M&a, Seattle Seahawks, Drake

Gus Kenworthy’s singlet, Nyle DiMarco’s back, & Noah Centineo’s full spread

Here's what you missed on Instagram this week:
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How To Succeed On Spotify: A Playlisting Professional's Guide

In theory, streaming should provide all artists with a fair chance of organically building an audience, provided they can game the system. As with any game, however, success depends largely on the skill of the player, and raising your music's profile on a streaming services requires a carefully implemented strategy. __________________________ Guest post by James Shotwell of Haulix Streaming is as much a way of life for musicians as it is a game, and games are often won or lost base...
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Conspiracy theory: ‘Drake curse’ spreads from Arsenal to Sergio Aguero vs Tottenham

The ‘Drake curse’ conspiracy theory It’s one of the most viral and well-known conspiracy theories on social media. Drake, the Canadian rapper, is toxic when it comes to sportstars. Drake is a huge sports fan, who often appears on social media with athletes. For years conspiracy theorists have touted the claim that there’s a ‘Drake curse’. Put simply, if you’re a sportsman and you appear in a picture with Drake, bad things (i.e. defeats) follow. Even Drake knows about the ‘Drake curse’ – he’s pr...
Tags: UK, Instagram, Germany, Sport, Soccer, Premier League, Spurs, Tottenham, Arsenal, Everton, Bayern Munich, Harry Kane, Sergio Aguero, Drake, Borussia Dortmund, Messi

Conspiracy theory: Arsenal & Borussia Dortmund hit by ‘Drake curse’

The ‘Drake curse’ Drake, the Canadian rapper, is a global superstar. He’s also a major sports fan, who often appears on social media with athletes. For years conspiracy theorists have touted the claim that there’s a ‘Drake curse’. Put simply, if you’re a sportsman and you appear in a picture with Drake, bad things (i.e. defeats) will happen. Even Drake knows about the ‘Drake curse’ – he’s previously made fun of it on his Instagram account. View this pos...
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How To Make Smart Music Marketing Happen

In this final of a five part series on how to effectively allocate money in the correct places in order to benefit your music career, we hear from multiple industry experts on which creative marketing techniques can help artists can do to stay competitive in an increasingly challenging industry.   ___________________________ Guest post from AWAL This is the fifth and final piece in our five-part Decoded series in which we break down (1) a mental framework to help spend money in the ...
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Mel D. Cole Announces ‘GREAT: Photographs of Hip Hop 2002-2019’ Book

After 17 years of documenting hip-hop’s cultural dominance, photographer Mel D. Cole has announced his first book, GREAT: Photographs of Hip Hop 2002-2019. Read more after the jump… As the title suggests, the 144-page hardcover book compiles nearly two decades’ worth of Mel’s work, capturing many of your favorite artists in uniquely intimate settings. There’s Drake hanging out with Sade backstage in London, Kendrick Lamar tearing down SXSW in 2013, and D’Angelo and Questlove prepping for ...
Tags: Photos, London, Kendrick Lamar, Jazz, Drake, Questlove, Mel, Music News, Sxsw, Lens, DMC, Angelo, Ricky Powell, West Coast Punk, Mel D Cole, Harry Benson Jenny

How Has Playlist Culture Affected Our Listening Choices? An Experiment

In an age where playlist culture reigns supreme in our consumption of music, one curious music blogger from NYC took some time to investigate  what today's music consumers are listening to, on what platform, and most of all how they're discovering it.   ___________________________ Guest post by Noor Kalouti of Soundfly's Flypaper Have you ever really considered how you find the music you cherish so deeply? Music surrounds us wherever we go, throughout our day. But where do we go ...
Tags: Spotify, Music, Instagram, New York City, Guest Post, Streaming, Chris Brown, Drake, Griffin, Migos, Music Business, How I Listen, Frank Ocean, Urban Outfitters, Olivia, Christina

Grammys 2019: Kacey Musgraves wins over Cardi B and Drake for best album – live

The awards show hosted by Alicia Keys was dominated by live performances by female musicians, including Lady Gaga and H.E.R., and included a landmark win for rap – for an absent Childish Gambino 5.19am GMT Cardi B has been celebrating her big win over on Instagram in exactly the way you would expect while also paying tribute to Mac Miller Thank you @yg @sza @21savage @chancetherapper @jbalvin @badbunnypr @migos @kehlani !!! 5.16am GMT In case you haven’t seen Jennifer Lopez’s Motown trib...
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What a Crew! Kim and Kanye Celebrate Kid Cudis Birthday With Pete Davidson

What a group! Pete Davidson, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian and Timothée Chalamet came together on Wednesday, January 30, to celebrate Kid Cudi’s 35th birthday. Celebrity BFFs The KKW Beauty founder, 38, documented the intimate gathering on Twitter in photos that showed the four men laughing hysterically around a giant table filled with chopsticks, drinks — including tequila shots — and a plate of desserts. Happy Birthday @KidCudi pic.twitter.com/rPkAvTgDLE — Kim Kardashian West (@KimKa...
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Did J.D. Martinez contract the Drake curse? Red Sox can prove otherwise

Did J.D. Martinez contract the Drake curse? Red Sox can prove otherwise originally appeared on nbcsportsboston.com Did J.D. Martinez derail the Boston Red Sox's 2019 season before it even began? The Red Sox slugger posted an Instagram photo Saturday of himself hanging with rap superstar Drake in Las Vegas.
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