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Is Drake’s new album hip hop or house? Nobody knows but it’s provocative
Kendrick Lamar’s latest album drops down the charts and moves up our reviewers’ legendary list
For MaXhosa creator Laduma Ngxokolo there is nothing like a Drake or Eddie Murphy rocking his designs
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