30 Friday Lifestyle | Feature Friday, December 6, 2019 Rap mogul Jay-Z marks his 50th Rap mogul Jay-Z birthday with return to Spotify

ap mogul Jay-Z celebrated his fiftieth birth- the history of Billboard’s rankings chart with 14, day and surprised fans Wednesday by put- bested only by The Beatles, who have 19. “Happy Rting his catalog back on streaming giant Birthday, Hov,” Spotify tweeted Wednesday, using Spotify, after a two-year hiatus. The billionaire a nickname of the rapper born Shawn Carter, who artist, who owns rival streaming service Tidal, had grew up in one of Brooklyn’s most notorious pulled the majority of his discography from Spo- housing projects. tify in 2017, months before dropping his “4:44” There was no indication how long Jay-Z’s flow album exclusively on his own upstart platform. would remain available on Spotify, which has The introspective album prompted a surge of in- often come under fire from prominent artists in- terest in the paid subscription service Tidal — cluding Prince, Taylor Swift and Thom Yorke for which also exclusively carries his megastar wife its royalty system, which many musicians say Beyonce’s much-touted visual album “Lemonade” leaves them underpaid. In June, Forbes declared — briefly becoming a top downloaded app. Hov rap’s first billionaire, estimating $100 million Fans can now stream “4:44” on Spotify for the of his vast fortune came from Tidal. As of 2016, first time, along with classics like “The Blueprint,” Tidal said it said it had 3 million users. Today, “American Gangster” and “Watch the Throne.” Spotify says it has 248 million users, including 113 The rapper has the second-most top albums in million who pay for premium service.— AFP

First glimpse of latest Instagram to require birth dates in move to block underage use Bond film goes online nstagram said Wednesday it would require more than a billion users. new users to verify they are at least 13 It was not immediately clear how Instagram ar chases, machine gun fire and love Iwhen they join the visually focused, Face- would protect against young people providing interest: fans of James Bond on book-owned social network. The move aims to false information, which has been a persistent CWednesday got their first taste of the help Instagram comply with a US law and its issue for social media. The announcement came upcoming film featuring the fictional British own policies that require any user to be at least a day after a TechCrunch article which noted superspy, “No Time To Die”. A trailer on the 13. “Asking for this information will help pre- that Instagram did not follow the example of official 007 Twitter account shows sharp- vent underage people from joining Instagram, most of its social media peers in checking the suited Bond, played by British actor Daniel help us keep young people safer and enable ages of users, which could put the network in Craig, evading capture in his Aston Martin more age-appropriate experiences overall,” an violation of the Child Online Privacy Protection sports car and jumping off a viaduct. Making Instagram blog said. The company said the age Act. The article noted that Facebook and Insta- a return alongside the suave secret agent is information would not be visible to others but gram both employed moderators who may lock actress Lea Seydoux, whose character would help in creating “age-appropriate and the accounts of any users they suspect are Madeleine Swann provided the obligatory safer experiences” on the social network with under 13.— AFP love interest in the last film, “Spectre” (2015). “Why would I betray you?” she asks Bond as they hurtle through narrow streets at breakneck speed while being shot at. “We all have our secrets,” Bond replies. “We just didn’t get to yours yet.” The 25th instalment of the British spy An employee holds a saga, due out in April, sees Bond drawn out cup with the Insta- of retirement in Jamaica by his old friend and gram logo at Face- CIA agent Felix Leiter. He is asked to em- book’s corporate bark on a treacherous mission to rescue a headquarters during a kidnapped scientist, according to Universal media event in Menlo Pictures. Rami Malek, who won a best actor Park, California.— Oscar for his depiction of Queen frontman AFP Freddie Mercury in “Bohemian Rhapsody”, plays the villain in the long-awaited movie. Craig, 51, who had to undergo minor she says to 007, warning him to “stay in your ankle surgery after an injury on set, is ex- lane”. British actress and writer Phoebe pected bow out after eight years as agent Waller-Bridge (“Fleabag”) was involved in 007. The trailer introduces a new rivalry be- the script to help improve the portrayal of tween the ageing Bond and a new spy, women, after repeated claims of misogyny played by British actress Lashana Lynch. and sexism. — AFP “The world’s moved on, Commander Bond,”

‘The rapist is you’: Chile hymn against sexual violence goes viral

housands of women have mobbed the Na- wearing red scarves and blindfolds, converged on the cent weeks been staged around the country and demonstration. First created by the feminist collective tional Stadium in Chile’s capital for a flash de- sporting venue in the early evening after a call-out on around the world. Similar performances have been LasTesis, based in the Chilean seaside town of Val- Tnunciation of sexual violence-the latest social media networks. “The fault is not with me, nor staged by women as far away as Paris, Barcelona and paraiso, the performance began to be emulated after performance of a battle-cry that has seized public at- where I was, nor how I was dressed... The rapist is Mexico City. “It was a great experience to share this reports of police violence against women and as tention during weeks of national unrest. Women of all you!” the group sang, stomping their feet and waving with thousands and thousands of women,” 66-year- countrywide demonstrations against the government ages from around Santiago, dressed in black and their arms in a choreographed routine that has in re- old Jacqueline Saintard told AFP after Wednesday’s gained steam. —AFP