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Aretha Franklin 1942-2018<\/b><\/h2>\nAretha Franklin, the queen of soul, voice of the civil rights movement and feminist icon has died at the age of 76 of pancreatic cancer according to her family. Franklin not only defined her times with her powerful voice, but transcended them to become a key figure for social justice.\u00a0With more than one hundred singles on the Billboard chart over the course of her career, she become the most charted female in history. She also had a large collection of purses<\/a> that made many public appearances, with Franklin even taking them on stage on with her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
<\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><b>What happened to Azealia Banks last weekend?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to now deleted Instagram stories, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/azealia-banks-elon-musk-grimes-tesla-explainer\">Banks spent the weekend waiting for Grimes at Elon Musk’s LA home,<\/a>\u00a0describing the scene as a real live version of <em>Get Out<\/em>. Banks and Grimes were supposed to collaborate on a single for Banks’ forthcoming album, but when Grimes never showed, Banks went on a Musk-bashing tirade, claiming he tweets while on acid, that he is only dating Grimes because he needed a date to the Met Gala, and that she overheard Musk on the phone scrambling to find investors for his projects. Elon Musk responded by saying he has never met Azealia Banks and that her story is <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/music\/elon-musk-responds-azealia-banks-allegations-tesla-twitter-acid-threesome\/\">“complete nonsense.”<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/azealiabanksnews.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-25351 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/azealiabanksnews.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/azealiabanksnews.jpeg 660w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/azealiabanksnews-324x199.jpeg 324w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/azealiabanksnews-416x256.jpeg 416w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/azealiabanksnews-300x185.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/azealiabanksnews-200x123.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/azealiabanksnews-400x246.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/azealiabanksnews-600x369.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><b>The New New<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nicki Minaj dropped her fourth album <em>Queen<\/em> this week and although she is not the main artist listed on 6ix9ine\u2019s \u201cFefe,\u201d she\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/themuse.jezebel.com\/nicki-minaj-adds-cursed-collaboration-with-6ix9ine-to-q-1828385591\">added the song<\/a> as track 20, most likely to boost album sales.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cat Power has a new song called \u201cWoman\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/08\/14\/638672974\/cat-power-combines-her-powers-with-lana-del-rey-in-woman\"> featuring Lana Del Rey<\/a>.\u00a0Paul McCartney released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hear-paul-mccartneys-raunchy-new-song-fuh-you-711543\/\">\u201craunchy\u201d new song<\/a> called \u201cFuh You.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V_MXGdSBbAI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sd8nU87OCrA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oYnI--eSbnc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\">End Notes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Libertines announce their last gig <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/the-libertines-sharabang-last-gig-for-forseeable-future-2367463\">\u201cfor the foreseeable future.\u201d<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lily Allen announces a \u201ctell all\u201d memoir titled <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/lily-allen-details-memoir-my-thoughts-exactly\/\"><em>My Thoughts Exactly<\/em><\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Mike Ness was <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2018\/music\/news\/mike-ness-punching-pro-trump-fan-social-distortion-1202907995\/\">involved in an altercation<\/a> with a pro-Trump heckler at a Social Distortion show.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Gunshots were fired on the set of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2018\/aug\/16\/gunshots-6ix9ine-50-centc-video\">6ix9ine and 50 Cent’s music video<\/a>. 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