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Myron and Davaughn Nicholas have built their own online platform for their music and artistic pursuits. Hustle, they say, is part of the hip hop tradition.

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Hundreds of new Christmas songs are released every year, but each time December rolls around, the same small handful of classics races to the top of the charts. Will anything new ever break through?

YouTube will stop sharing music streams with Billboard starting midway through January 2026, it's going to have major ripples ...