Rebecca Haithcoat

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Rapper Jonathon Marcou Lives Out of His Car. No, Literally

Standing outside his champagne-colored Saturn wearing a USC sweatshirt, Jonathon Marcou looks like just another good-looking frat boy. His khakis are pressed and cuffed, he wears Vans boat shoes with no socks and his long lashes almost brush the lens of his fashionable tortoise shell glasses. But the 31-year-old rapper......
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Waka Flocka Flame – Club Nokia – 11/4/12

Waka Flocka Flame Club Nokia 11/4/12 There's this great moment midway through rapper MGK's video for "Wild Boy," on which Waka Flocka Flame is featured. "You think you're a good rapper?" MGK asks Waka. "Fuck no," Waka replies. See also: Our slideshow of the concert That was the general consensus......
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Kendrick Lamar's Mood Music

See also: Our review of Lamar's show at Club Nokia, 10/17/12 Late one morning last month, it's muggy and the Carson sky is spitting rain. Not that Kendrick Lamar notices. The rapper has been holed up all night in his label Top Dawg Entertainment's windowless studio, in a nondescript house......
Close playing his Earth Harp

William Close's "Earth Harp" Is Pretty Neat

Five years ago, William Close's house in Malibu caught fire and burned to the ground. This was even more devastating because his life's work -- a collection of giant, almost sculptural instruments, including something he calls his Earth Harp, painstakingly constructed over the past decade -- acted as kindling. And......
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Kendrick Lamar – Club Nokia – 10/17/12

Kendrick Lamar Club Nokia October 17, 2012 From a distance, it looked like a lazy protest was being staged at L.A. Live last night -- a handful of people dressed alike in baggy white t-shirts wandered the sidewalk or propped themselves up on fire hydrants, occasionally waving placards that announced......