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Paul McCartney Compares Kanye To John Lennon
The “Black Skinhead” rapper earned high praise from former Beatle and new collaborator Paul McCartney when the legendary musician gave an interview to the U.K.’s Sun newspaper.
“When I wrote with John [Lennon], he would sit down with a guitar. I would sit down. We’d ping-pong until we had a song. It was like that [with Kanye],” McCartney, 72, said.
The singer co-wrote West’s latest song, “Only One,” a reflection inspired by West’s late mother Donda C. Williams and his 22-month-old daughter, North. The pair also worked together with Rihanna on “FourFiveSeconds.”
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Princes Makes A Song For The People Of Baltimore
According to a press release, Prince’s song is a tribute to “all of the people of the city of Baltimore.”
It was recorded this week at Prince’s Paisley Park studio in Minneapolis, but it’s unknown when it will be released.
Prince is not the only artist speaking out following the uprising in Baltimore. Beyoncé posted a message on her Instagram account and her website, writing, “People are hurting.”
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ASAP Rocky Covers Billboard Magazine
Rocky is the cover boy on this week’s issue of Billboard. You can go here to check out a preview of the cover story before it drops this Friday, but the main takeaways are that Rocky isn’t really into the Kendrick album, Mark Ronson has been revealed as a contributor to Rocky’s new album ALLA and that album now has a confirmed release date of May 12th.
Adidas Partners With Spotify To Release First-Of-Its-Kind Running App
While running may not be the most enjoyable activity for some, one thing’s for sure: adding music into the equation makes racking up minutes on the treadmill or miles on the track better. German sportswear giant adidas, however, isn’t totally satisfied with runners just popping in their headphones and hitting shuffle. As a result, adidas and Spotify have teamed up to launch adidas go, and bring those looking to stay fit a unique and intuitive way to improve their running experience.
An app unlike any other available, the joint platform uses the iPhone’s accelerometer to instantly match a runner’s favorite music to their workout. To make this happen, adidas go calculates the user’s stride rate to automatically identify and play tracks with matching beats per minute from Spotify’s extensive music library.
Furthermore, the newly unveiled app also allows runners to effortlessly expand their running soundtrack to explore new music on the go as the app intuitively streams Spotify tracks that match the runner’s interests based on their preferred music taste. Once a workout is complete, users can then review and save their distance, time, pace and adidas miCoach Runscore as well as the new music they’ve experienced to add to their collection.
Adidas go is available for iOS only, for iPhone 4S or later.
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