In life and art, death was never far from Earl Simmons.
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By Tirhakah Love
Mr. Love is a culture writer from Houston. His work on music, pop culture, and politics has been published in Rolling Stone, The Los Angeles Times and Entertainment Weekly.
April 10, 2021, 10:38 a.m. ET
If youâve ever attended a DMX concert, itâs more than likely that youâve seen him cry. As the adrenaline of the night would cool, the rapper born as Earl Simmons would pray, acting as the intercessor for the holy spirit on behalf of the audience, through a sheet of sweat and tears.
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Local Boy in a photograph
Dublin musician, producer, singer, and Burner Records co-founder Jake Hurley aka Local Boy has released his new single,
Al Bundy
Tell us three things about yourself?
I used to be really good at karate as a young boy but the pressure of the under nines semi-contact league got to me and I started doing music instead.
Local Boy: I suffer from that Irish cultural affliction of chronic self-depreciation.
In the period between my karate and music phases I tried to kickstart a Yu-Gi-Oh career by entering a competition at the plaza in Tallaght but was ultimately defeated by a grown man who held the arguably unfair advantage of having gone through puberty