On August 5th of 2011, 15-year-old Keith Cozart, better known as Chief Keef, released a music video for one of his first real songs, “Bang,” featuring he and his friends showing their gang signs to the camera. When released, this song took the online rap community by storm, with Chief Keef becoming a staple of […]
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Like any serious musician, Maynard James Keenan exorcises his demons and defends his beliefs through his art. This passion led him to create three popular heavy metal bands, each accentuating Keenan’s unique and distinctive sound, performance style, and visuals. The unapologetic eccentric also has interests that expand outside of music, all of which enrich his
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On warm Saturday nights in the summer when others go to the movies, hit the nightclubs with their friends, or hang out at the mall, I go to the football stadium. Everyone there is wearing head-to-toe red and black. Kids have numbers painted on their faces, and their moms carry the handmade “Go Daddy!” signs.
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For the first time in decades, the United States is seeing a major outbreak of avoidable diseases like measles, rubella and pertussis because some parents are saying “NO” to vaccinating their children for medical and religious reasons. All three of these diseases can be prevented with a series of MMR and TDaP vaccines given in
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In the 1960s, Bob Dylan refined an alternative approach to folk music that helped redefine the music industry generally. Dylan proved that a song didn’t have to rely so heavily on its musicality, whether acoustic or electric; the audience could focus as much or more on the lyrics and the story they told. Even with
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Krokodil will literally have you coming out of your skin. It’s worse than crystal meth, or any other street drug. Authorities first noticed Krokodil in 2002 on the streets of Russia. Now, addicts inject it all over the globe. Government officials have confiscated over 65 million doses and counted over a million addicts. The toxic
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