2012 has been an important year in the development of EDM exiting the raves and entering the mainstream conversation. While some diehards might see this as a bad thing, the most important part is that ...

Before the storm of best of lists start hitting the blogs, I wanted to take a second to put aside the artistic merit aspect of the year in review, and take a look at what happened in the cultural ...

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The President of the United States has many roles: commander-in-chief, head of state, chief comforter in times of tragedy, national model of the American dad. But President Obama has a unique role in ...

Former President Obama picked Kendrick Lamar over Drake when asked in 2016 who would win in a rap battle. Since his presidency, rappers have had an elevated, if informal, platform in politics, making ...