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"You put confidence in all our hearts."

-THE WEEKND HEARSAY The R&B singer remembering A LOOK AT WHO'S Muhammad Ali on Twitter. SAYING WHAT IN MUSIC

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'As a true California "Call the mayor and girl, I know it's my have him shut civic duty AND down the block." privilege to go out - The rapper trying (and failing) to and VOTE." organize a late-night pop-up show in New York after his Governors -KATY PERRY Ball set was cancelled due to severe The pop star imploring her 49 million weather, as captured on Ins tag ram followers to vote Kim Kardashian's Snapchat. (specifically for Hillary Clinton) in the California primary.

"I'm taking classes at "I just know if the Harvard Business I have to pee, School - you're never I'm going to pee. too cool to learn!" I don't care where -LL COOL I it's going to be." The MC tweeting about taking an executive education course -DOLLY PARTON (alongside Channing Tatum, Chris The country star talking about Paul and Pau Gasol) in Harvard's North Carolina's controversial business of entertainment, media "bathroom bill" to CNN Money. and sports program.

"The only truth here "We're going to set that is that a relationship record straight once came to an end and for all: what it and what remains is really means to rage a huge amount of against the machine."

love and respect." -TOM MORELLO The guitarist telling 8/oombergabout -CALVIN HARRIS new supergroup Prophets The DJ tweeting about his recent of Rage's plan to "cause a ruckus" breakup with Taylor Swift - and, yes, at the Republican National she retweeted it. Convention in July.

BRAND NEW FACE 'S CO-SIGN mJmsaba (born Tahj Malik Chandler) C-TOWN CONNECTS After meeting fellow Chicago cm)21mm!)Chicago native Chance the Rapper at a local open mic, Saba Ee Saba learned to play the piano by tagging along ended up on his breakout 2013 mixtape . That while his father, an aspiring R&B artist named Chandler, led to work on Chance's latest, (together, recorded in his grandfather's basement on the Windy they performed lead single "Angels" on The Late Show City's West Side. By age 9, says Saba, "it evolved into With Stephen Colbert), as well as Donnie Trumpet & The producing songs myself." Social Experiment's Surf. "People like Chance, who have UNEXPECTED INFLUENCES The artist cites 1997 Notorious the spotlight, are spreading it to other Chicago artists," he B.I.G. and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony collaboration says. "A lot of the best stuff has yetto be discovered." "Notorious Thugs" as the song that "made me a rapper." W:f3i•U Following his single "G PS," which he recorded It's Bone Thugs, though - not B.I.G . - whom Saba says with his father, Saba is finishing his fourth mixtape. "I he takes after. "It's a hopeful sound," he insists. "A soulful hate to say 'My music sounds good' - but I think this is take on melodic hip-hop." the best music I've ever made." - NATALIE WEINER

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