The members of PleasrDAO are, well, pretty displeased with Martin Shkreli. The "digital autonomous organization" spent $4.75 million to buy the fabled Wu-Tang Clan album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, which had been produced as only a single copy. The album had once belonged to Shkreli, who purchased it …
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“Grindin’,” a song performed by legendary Virginia Beach group the Clipse, was the national anthem in 2002. The song’s sparse beat—which would be recognizable even without any accompanying lyrics or melody—was created by the hit factory duo known as the Neptunes, made up of producers Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams. …
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One assurance of navigating the vast expanse of social media is that The Discourse never stops. It's: death, taxes, and never-ending discourse. Mass consensus is all but extinct. More than anything, fandoms dictate so much of conversation today. Even so, spring has been a particularly fertile time for music drops: …
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