Day: 28/11/2022

This story originally appeared in i-D’s The Royalty Issue, no. 370, Winter 2022. Order your copy here. How do we define Rick Rubin’s position in hip-hop history? DJ Kool Herc is the father; Afrika Bambaataa is the godfather. Rubin has never sought a title of such gravitas. Really, “the reducer” might be most appropriate, as the stripped-down […]

This story originally appeared in i-D’s The Royalty Issue, no. 370, Winter 2022. Order your copy here. São Paulo’s unforgiving nature is implied by the urban landscape you encounter on coming in to land at Congonhas, the city’s downtown airport, amidst an unending, Gotham- like sprawl of concrete. Once on the ground, however, the superficial bleakness of […]

AOMG has announced the Asian leg of its upcoming ‘Follow The Movement’ world tour. READ MORE: Yugyeom – ‘Point Of View: U’ review: a triumphant introduction to his artistic independence Today (November 28), the South Korean record label made the announcement via a graphic posted to its social media accounts. The purple-themed poster listed Simon […]

Blockberry Creative, the agency behind K-pop girl group LOONA, has issued a new statement about the firing of Chuu and denied reports that other members of the group are suspending their contracts. Last Friday (November 25), the agency released a statement sharing that Chuu had been “expelled and withdrawn” as a member of LOONA. In […]