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360 Staff Pick: Kid Sister goes Ultraviolet

Arts, Culture & Media

The prize for best booty-shakin’ performance of SXSW in Austin last week goes to Chicago rapper Kid Sister. Her first single, ‘Pro Nails‘ (featuring Kanye West), is just the tip of iceberg. Ultraviolet takes the best of high-energy 80s dance hip-hop and shoots it through a 21st century indie-electro filter: tight, fast beats, crazy synths, […]

Five Things You Had to See Online This Week

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Five Things You Had To See Online This Week

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2015 Will Be Hip-Hop’s Best Year

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Five Things You Had To See Online This Week

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They Slay: Five Queer Rappers You Should Know

Arts, Culture & Media

Hip-hop’s persistent homophobia hasn’t kept LGBTQ rappers from taking the mic. Here are five to watch out for.

Five Things You Had to See Online This Week

Arts, Culture & Media

Leo’s red carpet rampage, Bernie’s thoughts, and 2001: a musical odyssey win the internet this week.

Models pose during Kanye West Yeezy Season 3 at Madison Square Garden on February 11, 2016 in New York City.

The story behind the Rwandan refugee camp that inspired Kanye’s Yeezy Season 3

Culture

Two decades years after thousands of people were killed by government forces in Rwanda, a photo of a refugee camp in Kibeho became the inspiration for Kanye West’s fashion show/album release party, Yeezy Season 3.

TV celebrity Kim Kardashian gestures on her way to a hotel shortly after arriving in Yerevan, Armenia, on April 8, 2015.

Kim Kardashian (and the Pope) thrusts Armenia and its horrific past into the spotlight

Culture

Armenians have long been fighting for recognition for their darkest chapter, the mass killings in 1915 that they say were a deliberate genocide by the Ottoman Empire. And their cause got plenty of attention this week as the pope and Kim Kardashian both spoke out — in a way.

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