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...Accompanied by cleverly arranged samples of 1980s west-coast rap tracks, the modern LA kingpin takes jabs at Drake and also J Cole....
...Gordon, who is also a visual artist, sing-speaks Barbara Kruger-style slogans such as “Cement the brand” in a tone that’s hard to pin down. The targets are obvious....
...In the first room of Barbara Kruger’s new exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in London, entitled Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You, the walls are papered with pastiches of the artist’s work....
...Andy Hunter, the founder of Bookshop.org, says he is weary of the books world becoming “more of a hit-based business than ever”. However, he says, in the case of Maas, “she’s really pretty good”....
...But it also reflects the pair’s rise to the upper ranks of J-pop. They were recruited in 2019 by Sony Music to provide spin-off songs to short stories posted on a social media site....
...Jae5 has given it a London stamp, especially through his work with leading UK rapper J Hus....
...an associate cries to J Hus at the start of his third album. “Show them who you are.” The London rapper’s response unfolds over the course of the next 18 tracks....
...That’s the view I had when I was a kid: that it was too serious and you had to have a certain kind of taste to understand it,” says José Balvin, aka J Balvin, the Latin reggaeton superstar who ranks among...
...The pace slows with “Feelings”, an Afroswing-accented romantic duet with rapper J Hus, which is followed by the sultry pop-soul of the title track....
...He likes dropping everyday phrases in, a practice inspired by the artist Barbara Kruger....
...Speakers include the capital’s mayor Sadiq Khan and lord mayor Michael Mainelli US: Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, is due to make his initial court appearance on tax charges in Los Angeles, where...
...I’ll resist the impulse to use them to trim my beard. niwaki.com Ettinger Capra hunter’s flask with four cups, £150A flask is good. A flask with cups is better....
...But it was from his mother, Barbara Hutchinson, that Rothschild was said to have inherited his aesthetic sensibilities....
...“We call this the Coldest Table In London,” he announces, gesturing at the bare windows of J Sheekey in Covent Garden and the wind tunnel that is St Martin’s Court, in front of which I have nobly placed...
...Isobel Hunter of Libraries Connected, an industry association, says that in some of the largest services the annual revenue is as much as £150,000....
...At 5 per cent yields, Mortier said, those long-dated Treasuries were simply too good to miss; Amundi was among the many bargain hunters that bought at that level....
...It has a nice selection from Oregon’s Willamette Valley, Washington’s Columbia Valley and the Finger Lakes region of New York, which produces excellent Riesling (a personal favourite is Hermann J Wiemer’...
...Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythmby Dan Charnas with Jeff Peretz, Swift Press £20/Macmillan $30 Cut short in his prime by ill-health in 2006, J Dilla...
...I also like the look of a colourful 1930s still life by New Zealand painter Frederick J Porter, previously sold by Tony Bradshaw’s former London gallery The Bloomsbury Workshop (est £400-£600)....
...Maxeon Solar named Donald J Foldenauer as general manager of its billion-dollar manufacturing solar facility in New Mexico, which was announced in August. More on jobs . . ....
...Collectors can also look forward to artwork and photographs by Barbara Hepworth, Frank Auerbach and Lillian Bassman, as well as midcentury Brazilian furniture presented by Ana Escárzaga Gallery....
...“Reduced by Rick Rubin” was printed on the first album that he produced, LL Cool J’s Radio, a rap landmark from 1985....
...From The Notorious B.I.G. and Afrika Bambaataa to Mary J Blige and Eve (women’s contributions get a big nod), via Public Enemy, Nas and dozens of others, there are more than 200 photographs dated between...
...Dr Barbara Sturm face mask My skin gets very dry over winter, so I’ve started switching out my night cream for this intensive treatment every other day....
...It has a turn from reggaeton singer J Balvin. Other guests come from across the musical spectrum....
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