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Travis Scott surprised the crowd at Rolling Loud Miami when he took the stage with Future on Saturday night. Though Scott has performed at a few one-off shows recently, this weekend’s cameo marked the rapper’s first music festival appearance since last year’s Astroworld tragedy in Houston, where 10 people died and many more were injured during his set. Rolling Loud attendees uploaded video clips of Scott and Future performing together, starting with their collaborative track “Hold That Heat.” Scott then…

Future closed his performance at Rolling Loud Miami on Saturday night by bringing out Travis Scott, who earlier this week was asked to headline but couldn’t commit to the festival on short notice.The duo performed their Southside-produced collaborative single “Hold That Heat,” before Travis launched into a medley of his classic hits “Goosebumps,” “Antidote” and “No Bystanders.”Scott’s surprise appearance comes just days after co-founder Tariq Cherif initially said the venue wouldn’t permit the Houston rapper to perform in…

Kid Cudi stormed off the stage during his headlining set at Rolling Loud Miami on Friday (July 22) after being hit numerous times by objects thrown from the crowd. The “Day ‘N’ Nite” rapper, who was a last-minute replacement for Kanye West, was early into his late-night performance when he stopped the show after being hit in the face by what appeared to be a water bottle. Clearly rattled, Cudi gave the audience a final warning before ultimately exiting the stage. “Yo, I will walk off this stage if you all…

Less than a week after he replaced Kanye West as a headliner at Rolling Loud Miami, Kid Cudi stormed off stage during his performance on Friday night after crowd members repeatedly threw things onto the stage.Footage of the incident shows Cudi warning the crowd that he would leave if they threw one more thing at him. Seconds later, someone launched a water bottle, prompting the Cleveland rapper to walk off the stage.“Yo, I will walk off this stage if you all throw one more fucking thing up here, I will leave, I will leave…

Rolling Loud Miami is back.The 2022 music event kicks off Friday at Miami Gardens’ Hard Rock Stadium, where some of the biggest names in the game will deliver three days of live performances. This year’s festival will be headlined by Future, Kendrick Lamar, and Kid Cudi, who was recently tapped to replace original headliner Kanye West.“We were looking forward to Ye headlining Rolling Loud Miami 2022. We spent months working with him and his team on the performance,” Rolling Loud co-founders Tariq Cherif and Matt Zingler…

San Diego Comic-Con 2022 kicked off with a trailer for the movie Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, and it... actually looks promising? The upcoming film has an all-star cast with Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page and Hugh Grant, and blends action, fantasy, comedy and some of D&D's most iconic monsters.  "A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people," the description…

Kanye West will no longer be performing at Rolling Loud Miami 2022. The festival’s organizers took to social media on Sunday (July 17) to announce that the 45-year-old rapper and fashion mogul, who now goes by Ye, will not be headlining the event’s opening night on July 22. “Due to circumstances outside of our control, Ye will no longer be performing at Rolling Loud Miami 2022,” Rolling Loud tweeted, adding that Kid Cudi has been tapped as Ye’s replacement. Rolling Loud co-founders Tariq Cherif and Matt…

We don't hear of many major launches in the portable wireless speaker category these days. There also aren't a lot of big brands in the affordable part of this market anymore, with options from JBL, Boat, Anker Soundcore, and Sony dominating online listings and offline store shelves. That said, low-cost portable Bluetooth speakers still have plenty of appeal. Xiaomi has been present in this segment for a while now, but product launches have been few and far between for the past few years.The company recently made a…

Strong accusations.(A screenshot from an American Airlines ad) A screenshot from an American Airlines adDare I ask if you've flown lately?Dare I ask how it went?Dare I ask why you're sitting there with gritted teeth, mouthing curses toward high-flying brand names? Another week of airline disruption is supposedly becalmed. Before another week of airline disruption staggers into the air.To recap: airlines say they have staff shortages, the weather has been terrible and air traffic control is an understaffed mess.Yet…