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The latest Grand Theft Auto Online (GTA Online) event has been revealed, offering players a chance to rake in double rewards on all of missions starring Dr. Dre. Announced yesterday (March 2), developer Rockstar Games has revealed that a number of missions and activities from The Contract, which was introduced with new music from Dr. Dre in 2021, will be “even more lucrative” during the latest GTA Online event. Running until March 8, the event will offer double in-game cash and RP rewards for completing F. Clinton &…

Interscope Records and Flipper’s Roller Boogie Palace are flipping the Hollywood Palladium to create an epic roller rink party to celebrate the re-release and 30th anniversary of Dr. Dre’s debut album, The Chronic. Grammy-winning singer and Flipper’s partner Usher, along with co-founders Liberty Ross and Kevin Wall, will host the event on Saturday, a day before the 2023 Grammy Awards. Flipper’s original roller rink will be re-created, featuring a 4,700-square foot skating rink, specially made rink-side…

Here to offer something a little different, rising singer-songwriter Dré Six has just dropped off his new single, “Another Life”. Offering self-conscious stories of block life delivered in a stripped-back sound without hubris, he recently caught the attention of Skepta, who’s been sharing the track on his socials.Dré has been steadily putting out music since at least 2020, toying with different sounds and ideas, but in the past 12 months he’s really hit his stride. His earliest drops were packed with trappy bass lines and…

Dr Dre has successfully blocked Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene from using his music in any context to do with her political career after she used his 1999 hit Still Dre to soundtrack a promotional video.In the nearly two-minute video, posted on 9 January with the caption, “It’s time to begin … and they can’t stop what’s coming”, the far-right Georgia lawmaker walks out of her office in slow motion to the familiar first notes of the song, which features Snoop Dogg.Billboard reports that Greene’s lawyers…

Dr. Dre is reportedly headed toward a huge payday. According to Billboard, the 57-year-old hip-hop mogul is preparing to sell a portion of his music assets for more than $200 million. Sources say the assets generate about $1 million annually, and will be sold in two separate deals; one with Shamrock Holdings and the other with Universal Music Group. The former is said to be looking to buy royalties from a couple of Dre’s solo projects, his share of N.W.A artist royalties, his producer royalties, and the writer’s share of…

The rapper Dr Dre has spoken out against the use of his song Still DRE in a self-promotional video by the Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene to celebrate her role in electing fellow GOP lawmaker Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House.“I don’t license my music to politicians, especially someone as divisive and hateful as this one,” the rapper and producer told TMZ on Monday morning.In the nearly two-minute video, posted on Monday morning with the caption “It’s time to begin … and they can’t stop what’s…

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene might be a fan of Dr. Dre‘s music, but the Grammy-winning rapper has no love for the Georgia Republican using his hits for attention on social media.Days after California Rep. Kevin McCarthy secured the House Speaker position early Saturday morning, East Coast time, Greene took her celebration to social media. Monday morning she tweeted a video of herself walking the halls of Congress in slow motion and smiling at the result of McCarthy’s election. The score to her victory lap was the iconic…

Dr. Dre called out Marjorie Taylor Greene for using one of his songs in a video, blasting the Georgia congresswoman as “divisive and hateful.”On Monday, Greene took to Twitter to post a clip featuring the congresswoman walking through the halls of the Capitol, entering and exiting elevators, and even fielding a phone call from former President Donald Trump, whom she refers to as “DT.” It’s soundtracked by “Still D.R.E.,” the Snoop Dogg-featuring single from Dre’s 1999 album 2001.“It’s time to begin.. and they can’t stop…

Illustration: jtstockimage (Shutterstock)In October, Elon Musk purchased Twitter for a cool $44 billion dollars. Among a variety of other assets and headaches, the deal came with one resource that’s gone under-explored: a vast data collection network spanning the sites of more than 70,000 Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, non-profits, universities, and more. Given Twitter’s history of security lapses, how safe is all that data?At least 70,772 websites are using a Twitter advertising tool called a pixel to send…

The top videos on YouTube for 2022 included eulogies for a passed Minecraft star, a coming out video, and a real-life Chocolate Factory.Screenshot: Technoblade/Jaiden Animations/Mr. BeastAs annoying as existing on YouTube seems to be in this day and age—when you’re halted ever three to five minutes by a State Farm ad—I still come back to the platform regularly. I can’t help it. There are many different video platforms, but as agonizing as it is to notice the increasing number of ads or know how little your decisions…