Blxst Carries Torch for L A Hip-Hop, Continues Nipsey s Legacy
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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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“King Bibi,” a documentary tracking Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s 40 years of public life through the lens of his appearances in the news media, sold out both times it played at the Jerusalem Film Festival, which closed Sunday.
It was an easy sell: Israelis are obsessed by the media and by their long-serving prime minister, who is considered both a wizard of communication and a leader defined by his hatred of the press.
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12:55 PM, Aug. 09, 2018This article states that a video of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had been viewed on Facebook and Twitter about 200,000 times. That was based on traffic at the time the article was written, on accounts under Netanyahu’s name. However, his office says the video was viewed more than 1.5 million times as of Aug. 8, on a range of accounts associated with the prime minister.
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