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Making music with your favorite artist may hurt your career

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Since the revolution of music, artist have collaborated in order to exchange fan bases and create new sounds. Collaborations ultimately benefits both parties, most of the time one star isn't as popular in the media and the other needs to remain relevant in the media hence the collab. Recently major artist like Drake, Nicki Minaj, Kanye West etc... have been criticized by audiences addressed as vultures for hopping on popular songs and instead of helping the artist, stealing their artist identity while the artist rapidly declines in status. For example Kanye remixed Chief Keef's " Don't Like " Keef remained popular the entire year and now he's unknown, Drake hopped on Fetty Wap's " My Way " and completely took the Migos flow after " Versace ." Although they all were great songs, the business of music definitely left a bad taste with hip hop fans. We're seeing more seasonal artist versus long term hip hop develop in the industry. Ba...

Donald Trump is America's next president

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After months of campaigning and debating the 2016 Presidential race has come to an end. Donald Trump is declared the winner in a landslide victory over Hilary Clinton. Americans are in shock, because Donald Trump will be the first president who has never had any government or military experience. Trump is a business man and an entertainment figure, no one is sure about what to expect from him as the leader of the country. During the campaign Trump withheld his political plan and policies that he would try to enforce in order to change the country. Throughout his acceptance speech he promoted unity between nations and political parties, although this sounds beautiful we're still in the shadows about what actions will be taken to create this unified fare government. Hilary Clinton's supporters are in aw, everyone is trying to figure out what went "wrong," with the votes that determined her defeat. It's simple, Hilary doesn't appeal to majority of the populat...