Interview: Keith Murphy
Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in the Spring 2021 issue of XXL Magazine, on stands now.
It would simply be too easy to categorize 25-year-old Blxst as the latest rapping-singing product to break out of the West Coast hip-hop scene. Instead, the sleepy-eyed 1990’s baby, who has been compared to late O.G. hook king Nate Dogg and platinum-plus Compton phenom Roddy Ricch, is carving out his own lane. “The West Coast is really known for being gangsters,” Blxst says. “Now, we are experimenting. We are having fun with it.” The South Central, Los Angeles-born artist is also a beatmaker, songwriter and sound engineer. Blxst’s self-produced, 2020 debut EP,
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Subscriber only THE brutality of prison life was played out before Toowoomba District Court with CCTV footage of a Toowoomba man and an associate violently assaulting another prisoner in jail. Owen Keith Murphy, who turned 39 in jail on Tuesday, had been in Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre after being arrested for stealing a cash register from a Toowoomba nursery on January 8 last year. The CCTV footage from the prison s exercise yard on January 22, 2020, shows Murphy (on the left of three and in a shirt), his 24-year-old associate (bare chested) and the victim (in the middle) walking together in the yard when suddenly the victim is punched to the ground.
Wounded veterans bond through adventure therapy
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TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - The weather could’ve been better, but for eight veterans, today’s rain is nothing compared to what they’ve been through in their lifetime.
“I got hit by a roadside bomb,” Randy Nantz said.
Nantz lived to tell his story. He lost part of his leg when a bomb exploded while he was serving in Iraq in 2006.
“It’s a life-changing thing, so it takes some time to accept that, and it’s just taking one day at a time,” Nantz said.
One day at a time, with the help of people who have experienced similar life-altering events.
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Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds wants more spectators to be able to attend the state track meet.
The governor asked Drake University and the Polk County Health Department to allow participating students to have more than two ticketed guests, which is the current allotment set for the May 20-22 state meet held at Drake Stadium. The limit was imposed as part of social-distancing precautions related to COVID-19.
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Caption Digital Underground, led by Shock G, shown here in 1990, was one of the early rap groups to follow the example in sound and energy set by George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic.
Shock G, the rapper, producer and musician born Gregory Edward Jacobs who flipped the funk for a new generation and introduced the world to Tupac Shakur as the leader of Bay Area hip-hop collective Digital Underground, has died. His death was confirmed by the office of the medical examiner in Hillsborough County, Florida. He was 57 years old.
As the galvanizing force behind Digital Underground, Shock G wore many hats, literally and figuratively. An introspective songwriter and party starter, he corralled a hodge-podge of hip-hop talent the group s members included Money B and DJ Fuze within a big-tent collective that sounded like a carnival on wax.