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In the streets im bigger then jigga. Ima run me a B up easy.

— FUTURE/FREEBANDZ (@1future) December 18, 2021

Everything I do legendary or it want get done. Tuh

— FUTURE/FREEBANDZ (@1future) December 18, 2021

I’m the only one can get YE to pull up whenever wherever..tuh

— FUTURE/FREEBANDZ (@1future) December 18, 2021

Some of these kids do think & feel Future is bigger & better than jay-z & thats okay. It’s a different time they didn’t have our music experience.

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Posted on 2021-12-20

Lil Durk Engaged to India Royale, Proposes On Stage

Lil Durk is putting a ring on it.

The Chicago rapper is engaged after proposing to his longtime girlfriend India Royale in front of a packed crowd in his hometown on Saturday night (Dec. 18).

During his performance at WGCI’s Big Jam concert at the United Center, Durk brought the mother of his child on stage before getting down on one knee and presenting her with a ring.

Lil Durk just proposed to India! Congrats @lildurk and @indiaroyaletv

Posted on 2021-12-20

Drakeo the Ruler Dead After Stabbing at L.A. Festival

Drakeo the Ruler was fatally stabbed on Saturday night (Dec. 18) during an altercation at a Los Angeles concert. He was 28.

The West Coast rapper, whose real name was Darrell Caldwell, was scheduled to perform at the Once Upon a Time in L.A. festival at 8:30 p.m. local time. Paramedics responded to a call about a stabbing near the Banc of California Stadium in Exposition Park around 8:40 p.m., according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.

A publicist for the rapper, Scott Jawson, confirmed his death to The New York Times on Sunday.

Drakeo was rushed to the hospital where he died from his injuries. There are unconfirmed reports he was stabbed in the neck.

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The altercation happened in the “roadway backstage” of the venue. Festival organizers ended the show early before headliners 50 Cent, Snoop Dogg, and the Isley Brothers took the stage.

The LAPD is investigating the stabbing and it’s unclear whether any arrests have been made.

In February, Drakeo released his biggest album to date, The Truth Hurts, featuring a collaboration with Drake. Earlier this month, he dropped his latest mixtape So Cold I Do Em 2.

The hip-hop community is mourning the loss including Drake. “Nah man this sh*t isn’t right for real wtf are we doing

Posted on 2021-12-20

Episode 212: AURORA

“Runaway”

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AURORA is a singer and songwriter from Norway, who released her first EP in 2015, when she was 19 years old. It featured this song, “Runaway” and after it came out Aurora went on to win Norwegian Grammys for Best New Artist and Best Pop Artist. And she played the voice of the North Wind in Disney’s Frozen 2. This year, six years after that debut EP came out, Aurora’s song “Runaway” became a huge hit on TikTok. At the time this episode was recorded, between YouTube and Spotify, “Runaway” has been streamed over half a billion times. For this episode, Aurora looked back at how the song first began, and how it evolved over time, from the demo to the final version.

You can buy or stream “Runaway” here.

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I love this trend so much

Posted on 2021-12-17

Astrophotographer Creates 3D Views of His Space Photos

Photographs of space are usually flat, telling viewers nothing about the relative distances of stars and galaxies seen in the frame. Finnish astrophotographer J-P Metsavainio has decided to change that by creating amazing 3D conversions from his 2D photos.

“As an artist, I like to find new views of reality,” Metsavainio writes. “My models are not just guesswork — the conversion is based on real scientific data.

“For as long as I have captured images of celestial objects, I have always seen them three-dimensionally in my head. The scientific information makes my inner visions much more accurate, and the 3-D technique I have developed enables me to share those beautiful visions with others.”

Metsavainio first began planning the process of converting photos of nebulae into 3D back in 2008, and it starts with collecting scientific data about his target nebula.

Usually there is a recognizable star cluster that is responsible for ionizing the nebula. We don’t need to know its absolute location since we know its relative location. Stars ionizing the nebula have to be very close to the nebula structure itself. I usually divide up the rest of the stars by their apparent brightness, which can then be used as an indicator of their distances, brighter being closer. If true star distances are available, I use them, but most of the time my rule of thumb is sufficient. By using a scientific estimate of the distance of the Milky Way object, I can locate the correct number of stars in front of it and behind it.

Nebulae glow due to stellar radiation ionizing elements inside the gas clouds, Metsavainio explains, and the shape of each one can be estimated by looking at brightness at various parts of figure out “thickness” there.

“Many other small indicators can be found by carefully studying the image itself,” Metsavainio says. “For example, if there is a dark nebula in the image, it must be located in front of the emission one, otherwise we couldn’t see it at all.”

Using all of these data points, Metsavainio builds a skeleton model of each nebula and then uses his photos to turn each model into “a sculpture on a cosmic scale.”

You can find more of Metsavainio’s work on his website, Twitter, and Instagram.