music industry

VIP Records helped launch Snoop Dogg’s career. Now the shop owner wants to build a museum

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In the early 1990s, Kelvin Anderson Sr. built a makeshift recording studio in the back of his Long Beach record store, a vinyl-filled paradise called the World Famous VIP Records on the corner of Pacific Coast Highway and Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue. He wanted to give youth a creative outlet in the gang ridden … Read more

Kanye West called himself ‘Hitler’ and was abusive to ex-employee, lawsuit alleges

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Kanye West told a Jewish employee that he was a “Nazi,” compared himself to Adolf Hitler and fired her the day after she complained about his behavior, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles. West — who now goes by “Ye” and made similar remarks during a hate-fueled series of posts on X … Read more