Eminem steps into the ring in new video for ‘Higher’
Eminem has released a new video for his ‘Music To Be Murdered By – Side B’ track ‘Higher’ – scroll down the page to watch it now.
The video sees the rapper – whose real name is Marshall Mathers – step into the wrestling ring and take part in a mock interview with ESPN’s Michael Eaves and UFC boss Dana White.
- Read more: Eminem’s ‘Music To Be Murdered By – Side B’: the big talking points
The clip premiered during the ESPN pre-show for Conor McGregor’s match against Dustin Poirier at the mixed martial arts event, which is taking place tonight (January 23) in Abu Dhabi.
After White predicted Eminem would lose the fictional fight he was gearing up for, the rapper responded: “People like you give people like me the fuel they need to succeed in the first place,” Eminem said. “The best part about your opinion is that it doesn’t matter.” Watch the video below now.
ESPN’s music director Kevin Wilson said in a statement: “It’s always been amazing to be able to work with Eminem for promotional and programming content on various ESPN properties over the years. To be able to work on this video together with his team – not only featuring our team’s great UFC coverage but also debuting it exclusively on ABC, is just invaluable.”
A clip of Eminem telling White his opinion “doesn’t matter” went viral earlier this week (January 22) after it was broadcast on ESPN’s Sportscenter show. Unaware of the upcoming music video, fans assumed the interview was real.
Meanwhile, Eminem recently gave a humble estimation of his legacy, saying he doesn’t think he’s as influential as some other rap legends.
“I know I’ve been around for a minute, but I don’t feel like honestly, in my heart of hearts, I don’t feel like anything I did, anything I’ve done up to this point is more influential than they were to their era,” he told Zane Lowe in a recent interview.
“To me, I will never mean more than they meant to their era.”
Marillion’s Fish lays into government over EU Brexit touring fiasco: “I genuinely despair at the dreams that are being broken”
Marillion’s Fish has laid into the government regarding the ongoing touring fiasco for UK artists in the EU after Brexit.
- READ MORE: Here’s an easy way to contact your MP about the ‘Musicians’ Passport’ for post-Brexit touring in just a few clicks
The government has come in for heavy criticism since the UK officially left the EU earlier this month over the Brexit deal’s lack of support for touring musicians, specifically in terms of the failure to implement visa-free travel in Europe for British musicians and their crew.
While Dowden previously told NME that the EU was to blame for not permitting visa-free travel for artists, the EU subsequently hit back by denying claims that they had rejected the UK’s “ambitious proposals” and saying that they had in fact offered the UK 90 days of visa-free travel – but the UK responded with their own proposal of just 30 days.
Despite widespread anger from artists and music industry bosses calling on the government to “take this seriously and fix it”, ministers rejected the idea this week – insisting that “taking back control” of the UK’s borders is their priority and that talks would only resume if Brussels “changes its mind”.
Over 100 musicians, including the likes of Elton John, Liam Gallagher and Ed Sheeran, signed an open letter yesterday (January 20) criticising the government for their failure to support touring musicians in the Brexit deal.
Now, Marillon’s Fish, real name Derek William Dick, has added his voice to the outrage, saying that Brexit will “destroy” UK artist’s ability to tour in the EU.
In a lengthy post, which you can read in full below, Fish said: “I’m still reeling from the new regulations revealed by the UK Government just over 2 weeks ago regarding touring in the European Union post Brexit. I’ve been trying to make sense of it all from all the sometimes contradictory and often vague information available on various websites that are constantly being updated and working out how this affects my own business and career. It’s quite frankly confounding.
“I’ve grown tired of hearing ‘So what did musicians do before we joined the EU then?’ In 1973 when the UK joined the EU I was 15 years old and the Global Music Industry revenues were around 5 billion US dollars.
“By the turn of the century they were around $25 billion and today worth around $21 billion with the UK music industry generating $7.5 billion. That is a figure that doesn’t even take in the vast independent network or all the ancillary workers and bolt on industries that contribute hugely these days to the International music business.”
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He continued: “It’s a huge industry generating nearly 4 times more than the UK fishing industry which despite a loud lobbying voice has its own valid frustrations at this time as we deal with all this weight of bureaucracy now foisted upon us by Brexit.”
Fish went on to specifically reference The Who, whose frontman Roger Daltrey had been in favour of Brexit and claimed that it wouldn’t have any impact on music but recently signed a letter supporting visa-free travel for musicians.
He continued: “To put things a bit in perspective ‘The Who’ between 1963 and 1973 played only around 55 shows in the current EU countries. I have 27 EU shows and 5 in Scandinavia rescheduled from last year going out across 43 days in the Autumn of this year. That is more than half of the 90 out of 180 days I am allowed to be in the EU under the new rules. If these shows had gone ahead as planned in 2020 I would have been booking further shows in the early part of this year, if the new regulations allowed.
“Taking into account any EU festivals which are normally a 3-day venture across a performance, plus any promotion trips…those 90 days in 180 fast disappear.
“The visa/ permit situation has a major impact. From what I’ve discovered so far we now need permits for every country in the EU.”
Fish went on to outline in detail the implications of the move for artists when amounting the individual costs of visas for touring in different countries, as well as the VAT on march sales in each country alongside further taxation and National Insurance.
“Some shows will quite simply become financially unfeasible on potential permit costs alone,” Fish said. “[It] means more accountancy bills, more middlemen, more bureaucracy.”
He added: “My heart goes out to musicians starting out in small clubs and at the beginning of their careers who have to find that money in advance of tours. Artists signed to major labels have a better chance but for independents it’s a killer.”
“How does the next young Iron Maiden, Simple Minds, The Cure or dare I say Marillion break into the EU market now? From where is the UK government going to replace those potential future tax revenues from successful bands? Do they care? It certainly doesn’t appear so, especially for the non-corporate bands.”
Fish concluded: “We, the music business, and industry of the UK are currently in a perilous state. After all we have given to the world over the last 50 years and more; the revenue and cultural recognition that has been provided to this country through the musicians and technicians and every ancillary member of the live music communities with their writing, creations, and performances. We deserve better than this from our elected government.
“We need a rethink, and we need it sooner rather than later as our future is in jeopardy.”
Dowden called a virtual meeting of representatives from across the UK music industry this week (January 20), with the Financial Times (subscription required) reporting that the Culture Secretary confirmed during the meeting that the government were looking into ways to support the music industry post-Brexit.
Announcing a “working group” in a bid to find solutions, Dowden reportedly told those in attendance at the meeting that he would consider the case for government support where artists faced extra costs – including possible support for the organisation of future live tours outside of Europe as part of a wider export drive.
The FT also reported that during the meeting Dowden urged musicians to use their “star power” to lobby the EU on new visa and work permit rules.
Following the meeting, UK Music Chief Executive Jamie Njoku-Goodwin released a statement in which he said that “post-Brexit we should be doing everything we can to help our world-leading musical talent tour abroad and fly the flag for Britain”.
“But the prospect of additional costs and red tape is already deterring many musicians from touring the continent in the future – which is a huge loss both our country and to Europe.”
Watch Best Coast perform ‘Master Of My Mind’ live on ‘Kimmel’
Best Coast have appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live – you can watch their appearance below.
- READ MORE: Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino: “I questioned whether I would ever be able to make music again”
The group played ‘Master Of My Mind’ from latest album ‘Always Tomorrow’ in a top-floor home rehearsal space.
Reviewing that album, NME said: “‘Always Tomorrow’’finds [Bethany] Cosentino…starting afresh in a new decade.
“For the first time she’s enlisted bandmate Bobb Bruno to write songs when she felt unable to do so: a move that culminated in the LA duo’s most closely collaborative work yet (Cosentino’s autobiographical lyrics notwithstanding).”
You can see the full Kimmel performance below.
Back in September, Best Coast shared a surprise new live EP, ‘Live At World Cafe’.
The EP was recorded at a show the band played in early 2020 at the titular World Cafe in Philadelphia.
“Today we share with you a new live EP from a show we played at World Cafe in Philadelphia in early 2020 before ‘Always Tomorrow’ came out,” the band said of the new EP in a statement.
“It was the first time we played new songs for fans, and the first time we stepped on stage as a full band in a really long time. 2020 obviously went a lil crazy and we were forced to put everything on pause, but we hope this ‘Live At World Cafe’ EP will make you feel like you’re hanging with us.”
Best Coast recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of their debut album ‘Crazy For You’ with a special live-streamed concert.
The gig saw the band perform the album in full, joined by guests including Blink-182‘s Mark Hoppus, Paramore‘s Hayley Williams and Chvrches‘ Lauren Mayberry.
Halsey cancels rescheduled 2020 tour: “Safety is the priority”
Halsey has cancelled her forthcoming US tour dates due to continued coronavirus concerns.
The singer’s tour, on the back of 2020 album ‘Manic’, began in Europe last spring before its summer dates were moved to 2021.
Now, she’s announced that the rescheduled dates are now cancelled, saying “safety is the priority”.
- READ MORE: Restarting live music in 2021: Gig and festival bosses on what to expect
“I wish things were different,” the singer wrote on Twitter, announcing the cancellation of the tour. “I love you. Dreaming of seeing your faces again.”
In a message attached to the tweet, she added: “Despite our absolute best efforts, there is no guarantee I’ll be able to tour the currently scheduled dates. I miss seeing all of you in the crowd every night more than anything, but I need to prioritise your health and safety.
Safety is the priority. I wish things were different. I love you. Dreaming of seeing your faces again. @halseyteamhelp can answer specific questions. pic.twitter.com/SA44izGQ9L
— h (@halsey) January 22, 2021
“That being said, the Manic tour is now officially canceled. As much as we wanted to hold out hope that this tour could eventually happen, our priority is now getting your ticket money back to you immediately.”
“This tour was supposed to be my most unique yet for a number of reasons,” she went on. “I was really looking forward to sharing this chapter of my life with you in the ways I best know how. But for now, I am dreaming of days where we can all be together again. I love you and we will adapt and grow and find new ways to connect despite the circumstances.”
The tour was set to run from June 1 to the end of July.
Reviewing Halsey’s ‘Manic’ upon its release in January 2020, NME wrote: “This album is very much a document of her life, her love, her pain, her hope, presented with all barriers down.
“The musician’s previous concepts have both been compelling in themselves but, by stripping back the stories to their very personal core, Halsey has made a record that is as thrilling as it is vulnerable, and her best effort yet. This is Ashley’s world; it’s really nice to meet her.”
NME spoke to several live music event workers and executives recently about the potential for live music and the UK’s festival season to reopen this year. With a number of vaccines now being rolled out in Britain – and the success of a rapid-testing gig experiment by Primavera Sound in December – some are hopeful of events returning in 2021.
However, Dr Michael Head, a Senior Research Fellow in Global Health at the University of Southampton, warned that the necessary level of vaccination nationwide might not be reached until the end of summer.
London Grammar drop CamelPhat remix of ‘Lose Your Head’
London Grammar have shared CamelPhat‘s remix of their latest single, ‘Lose Your Head’.
The huge @CamelPhat remix of Lose Your Head is out today! ⚡⚡⚡
✨ https://t.co/58GojpWh7k pic.twitter.com/Ij8cew95Pq
— London Grammar (@londongrammar) January 22, 2021
Where the original version of ‘Lose Your Head’ is a sensual, empowering track of euphoric feminine power delivered by vocalist Hannah Reid, the CamelPhat remix sharpens up the song’s message of toxicity in relationships with the production duo’s signature house style and brighter, pulsing rhythms.
Listen to the CamelPhat remix of ‘Lose Your Head’ below:
London Grammar dropped the original version of ‘Lose Your Head’ earlier this month, after teasing the new song on their social media accounts in December.
Today’s track (January 23) followed on from ‘Baby It’s You’ and the title track of their upcoming album.
The band intend on releasing their hotly anticipated third studio album, ‘Californian Soil’, on April 9. The follow-up to 2017’s ‘Truth Is A Beautiful Thing’ had its release pushed back from February 12.
- Read more: London Grammar – ‘Truth Is A Beautiful Thing’ Review
In a statement about the new album, Reid said it was about her “gaining possession” of her own life.
“Misogyny is primitive,” Reid said, “which is why it is so hard to change. But it is also fearful. It’s about rejecting the thing in yourself which is vulnerable or feminine. Yet everybody has that thing.
“You imagine success will be amazing. Then you see it from the inside and ask, ‘Why am I not controlling this thing? Why am I not allowed to be in control of it? And does that connect, in any way to being a woman? If so, how can I do that differently?’”
DJ Khaled and Fat Joe are latest musicians to create OnlyFans profile
DJ Khaled and Fat Joe are the latest musicians to create a profile on subscription service OnlyFans.
- Read more: DJ Khaled – ‘Father of Asahd’ review
The UK-based site, which describes itself as a “subscription social platform”, allows fans to pay a monthly fee in exchange for content from its creators, traditionally amateur porn stars, but more recently the likes of fitness experts, chefs, artists and other celebrities have signed up.
Following in the footsteps of fellow musicians Cardi B (who charges $4.99 a month) and Tyga ($20 a month), Khaled and Joe have teamed up for a joint OnlyFans profile, charging $20 a month for “exclusive motivational and inspiration content”, beginning on January 25.
According to a press release, Khaled and Joe – who are “almost always together” – will be sharing behind-the-scenes pictures and video “of their personal lives, including playing basketball, dining together, hanging in the studio, special guests and more”.
“We wanted to create a community that’s full of positivity and hypes each other up! We want to get to know our actual fans,” said Joe.
Khaled added: “We’ll be sharing content that’s not anywhere else… it’s the light.”
Meanwhile, DJ Khaled has announced the title of his forthcoming 12th studio album, the follow-up to 2019’s ‘Father Of Asahd’.
Sharing the news in a 90-second clip on Instagram last year, the producer took fans on a journey through his lengthy career, ending with the big reveal of the LP’s title: ‘Khaled Khaled’.
The first two singles from the album, ‘POPSTAR’ and ‘GREECE’, which both feature Drake, arrived last summer.
Meanwhile, Lewis Capaldi has jokingly responded after being tipped to earn £2million a month on OnlyFans.
According to researchers at SlotsUp, the ‘Someone You Loved’ artist could be a huge success on the subscription platform that “enables content creators to monetise their influence” and hosts adult content.
K-Pop fans flood Twitter to drown out #ImpeachBidenNow hashtag
K-Pop fans have taken over the #ImpeachBidenNow hashtag on Twitter to weaken a Republican attack on the United States’ new Democrat president, Joe Biden.
- READ MORE: NME meets BTS – get to know the K-Pop sensations
If users follow the hashtag they will invariably be met with content unrelated to US politics, such as photos of K-Pop kings BST or silly memes posted in support of the sitting president.
Yesterday (January 21), Republican Congressperson Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced on Twitter that she had filed articles of impeachment on president Biden, who was inaugurated on Wednesday (January 20).
“President Joe Biden is unfit to hold the office of the presidency. His pattern of abuse of power as President Obama’s vice president is lengthy and disturbing,” the supporter of the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory wrote.
It’s not the first time K-Pop fans have gathered in huge numbers online to counter arguments many are diametrically opposed to. Last June, fans seemingly registered hundreds of thousands of fake tickets for a Donald Trump rally in Oklahoma only for the event to show attendance figures at way below the number.
Earlier that month they gathered in their droves to restrict a surge of #WhiteLivesMatter posts and crashed an app set up by the Dallas police department that allowed citizens to report “illegal activity at protests” by flooding it with FanCam videos.
Most recently, in November K-Pop fans trolled Trump’s ‘Million MAGA March’ with photos of pancakes. “We are not going to go and counter-protest in person,” one user wrote. “We’re gonna take over their hashtag instead.”
See some of the fans’ #ImpeachBidenNow posts below:
Look at these cuties today ? #ImpeachBidenNow pic.twitter.com/8Phhqj09bc
— heeseung’s lover (@sunghoonsmoles) January 22, 2021
Common K-POP stans, you can’t start this without Feel Special By TWICE.
???❤️#ImpeachBidenNow pic.twitter.com/Fr5h83nHFf— BECCA⁷ (@RebeccaRaii) January 22, 2021
Again, If anything related to #ImpeachBidenNow is on trending, spam it with this: pic.twitter.com/7a26kh55pB
— #1Procrastinator (@Ruby78732530) January 22, 2021
Tr*mp supporters after realising that the elite K-pop stans have actually taken over the hashtag lmfaoo??♀️#ImpeachBidenNow pic.twitter.com/6S96x1fdOX
— 7??||Lobes Seo Jun and Su Hoo equally? (@thepurpleame) January 22, 2021
In other news, a significant change in South Korean law has allowed BTS to defer military service until they are 30.
The rule change extends the opportunity for the K-Pop group to continue their global dominance for at least two more years.
The Clash in New York: “De Niro took us out clubbing”
The new issue of Uncut – in shops now or available to buy online by clicking here, with no delivery charges for the UK – features an astonishing oral history of The Clash’s 17-date residency at Bond International Casino in New York, during which they caused riots in Times Square, went clubbing with Robert De Niro and kicked off a “punky hip-hop thing” with the city’s newest underground scene. Here’s a little taster:
DON LETTS (DJ/filmmaker): They were like four sticks of dynamite on stage. It was a beautiful thing to see these guys in sync. Off stage there was some friction here and there – a clash of identities, because they were very different people – but on stage it was like the whole Magnificent Seven thing. You do the fucking job. You draw fast, shoot straight and don’t hit the bystanders.
CHRIS SALEWICZ (NME journalist): I hadn’t seen The Clash for some time and I was stunned by their energy on stage. They were really firing, I’d never seen them as good or as powerful. I was there for about nine shows and the whole thing was just steaming. It was all part of how they just took New York. You’d turn on the TV and there’d be Joe and Paul, like some kind of royalty.
JOE ELY (singer-songwriter and guest artist): The sheer power of those shows blew everybody away. Of course the songs were good, but they were showing no mercy. That got around town, which only made the mayhem bigger and louder than it already was. Then there was the social scene that always goes with music events like that. Afterwards everyone would hang out at the Gramercy Park Hotel or another one down on 8th Street. Or the Chelsea Hotel, which was Joe’s favourite because it had so much history.
CHRIS SALEWICZ: There was a bar across the road from Bond’s called Tin Pan Alley, which had been used for one of the scenes in Raging Bull. That became Clash Central for three weeks. Joe and Kosmo [Vinyl, The Clash’s right-hand man] would hang out there. It was run by a lesbian bankrobber, which all added to the weirdness. At one point I remember meeting Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese, who both thought the whole Bond’s thing was fantastic. That’s how The Clash’s appearance in The King Of Comedy came about. One night, Mick threw a birthday party for [girlfriend] Ellen Foley at Interferon. I remember looking over at Joe and Mick and they just seemed like blood brothers, really tight. They were really enjoying themselves in New York.
DON LETTS: There was a club called Negril that we all used to go to, where Kosmo used to DJ. That’s where we met Rick Rubin, The Beastie Boys, Russell Simmons and Afrika Bambaataa.
PEARL HARBOUR (DJ/singer): The Beastie Boys would be drinking backstage and smoking. They were so young then, just funny guys who were all bowled over by The Clash. John Lydon was a good friend of Paul’s at that time, so he was with us a lot. We’d go to lots of different bars, drinking cocktails we’d never heard of, like Brandy Alexanders – chocolate milkshake with brandy.
PENNIE SMITH (photographer): Everybody popped in all the time, it was mayhem being around The Clash. I remember Scorsese having an oxygen cylinder sitting on the settee. I think he was asthmatic. I took a picture of De Niro talking to Strummer. He was just as much a fan of Joe’s as the other way round. It was a sort of parallel universe.
PEARL HARBOUR: De Niro and Scorsese came out with us a couple of times. Scorsese took us to a really posh Indian restaurant with [then-wife] Isabella Rossellini. When we were all sitting down for dinner, Joe said to Isabella: “Does everybody tell you that you look just like Ingrid Berman?” She said, “Yeah, that’s my mother.” Joe got so embarrassed, because he didn’t know. That was sweet. She and Scorsese thought it was cute. De Niro took us out clubbing one night and also gave us free tickets for a boxing match. He had these fancy $100 seats. I think he just wanted to show us a good time. He became a friend after that. He and Christopher Walken came to visit us in London not long after. We took them out with Joe and Kosmo and all got drunk at Gaz’s Rockin’ Blues. That all happened because of New York.
You can the full story of The Clash’s 1981 Bond Casino shows in the March 2021 issue of Uncut, out now with Leonard Cohen on the cover – buy a copy here!
Seth Troxler leads line up of first festival with rapid COVID-19 testing in 2021
Seth Troxler is among a host of artists set to appear at the first festival with rapid COVID-19 testing in 2021.
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Read more: Restarting live music in 2021: Gig and festival bosses on what to expect
Albania’s Unum Festival will take place from June 3 to 7 near the Riveria. Among the other acts on the bill of the five day bash include Ricardo Villalobos, Priku, Praslea, tINI, Sonja Moonear, Shaun Reeves, Raresh, Cesar Merveille, Dyed Soundorom, Leon, Nikola Vemic, And.Re, Cap, Alex Kostic, Rayo, Nikifor, Nemax, Fogg, George Adi, Hajdar Berisha, Hiroko Yamamura, Nikola Vemic, Dona K, Franco Cinelli.
You can find more information here.
“This event will 100% take place in a responsible way and Covid secure fashion as it has full government approval, regardless of restrictions in other countries,” said the organisers in a statement.
“So even if it has to become an event for just locals or those able to travel, then this is what will happen. This is thanks to Swallow Events, our partners in this, providing their rapid testing service for the festival to ensure everyone who enters is tested and virus-free beforehand. We are taking all measures required to ensure safety measures are followed at all times and there will be zero tolerance on this matter.”
It comes after the Primavera Sound festival held a successful trial concert with rapid testing for 1,042 people in a 1,600 capacity venue with local DJs Barcelona last month – giving hope that it could be rolled for other events.
Music industry insiders, festival bosses and medical experts recently spoke to NME about when live music might be able to return in the UK.
The UK Government say that they’re currently on target to vaccinate 14 million people by mid-February, with the current capacity for two million vaccinations per week. It is hoped that efforts will be amped up through vulnerable groups and tended to the rest of the country throughout the spring to allow for festivals to safely take place this summer.
Melvin Benn, managing director of Festival Republic and boss of events including Reading & Leeds and Download Festival, told NME: “I feel very positive because I know that it’s possible”.
“You’re monitoring everything every hour, if not every minute, so I was very confident about the early summer before Christmas – but the new strain is spreading quicker, so that knocks your confidence a little bit,” said Benn. “However, the rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine picks your confidence back up again. I suppose I’m taking Matt Hancock and the Prime Minister’s word.
“The Prime Minister has said that 88% of hospitalisations and deaths will disappear once the over-70s and frontline workers are vaccinated. The Health Secretary said: ‘When that’s done, cry freedom’ – I’m crying freedom. At that point, I’m saying let’s get on with it.”
Fall Out Boy are getting their own Funko Pop figures
Fall Out Boy are getting their very own Funko Pop! figures.
Three figures of Pete Wentz and Patrick Stump were teased ahead of Funko Fair, which is currently running until January 29. You can view the figures below.
They follow in the footsteps of the likes of the Pet Shop Boys, Ozzy Osbourne and My Chemical Romance.
Funko Fun TV Reveals: Fall Out Boy. All of these will be officially revealed and available for pre-order during Funko Fair 2021!#falloutboy #music #rocknroll #funkopop #popVinyl #funkofuntv #popvinyls https://t.co/20x9D7b8EO pic.twitter.com/jxXAcijrai
— Pop Vinyl World (@popvinylworld) January 19, 2021
Meanwhile, Fall Out Boy played ‘Centuries’ as part of a special pre-inauguration concert for the 46th US president Joe Biden.
The Chicago band were joined by James Taylor, Carole King and more at the We The People event, which was co-hosted by Keegan-Michael Key and Debra Messing.
Biden was sworn in as 46th president earlier today (January 20).
“This is America’s day. This is democracy’s day. A day of history and hope, of renewal and resolve,” Biden’s speech began.
“Through a crucible for the ages, America has been tested and it has risen to the challenge. Today we celebrate the triumph not of a candidate but of a cause, a cause of democracy.”
Bruce Springsteen, Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake and Foo Fighters are among the acts set to perform at various inauguration events later.
Elsewhere, the New Radicals are also set to reform after 22 years for a performance at the event, while Justin Timberlake recently revealed that he’s written a new song called ‘Better Days’ for his appearance at the ceremony.
Biden and his Vice President Kamala Harris also recently shared an inauguration playlist, which features Kendrick Lamar, Mac Miller and more.
The late MF DOOM also appears on the playlist, and a number of fans of the rapper, who died late last year, have shared their upset at his inclusion.
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