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Photo: Paras Griffin/Getty Images Chance the Rapper has responded to the lawsuit filed by his former manager . According to filings provided to Vulture and reported earlier by Pitchfork , Chance (born Chancelor Bennett) has filed to dismiss most of the claims made by Pat Corcoran and has filed a separate lawsuit against him — while slipping in a defense of his album The Big Day on top of it all. Chiefly, Chance is claiming his team does not owe Corcoran (a.k.a. Pat the Manager) outstanding fees through their agreement that Corcoran would earn 15 percent of Chance’s net profits. Corcoran’s initial suit, filed on behalf of Pat the Manager, LLC, claimed Chance’s companies owed him over $3 million in missed commissions, which were unpaid after his firing in April 2020. Further, Corcoran claimed he is owed money for three years after his termination, per industry standard; Chance’s team is attempting to have that claim dismissed. Chance is suing for over $3 million in response, citing breach of fiduciary duty, tortious interference with prospective economic advantage, and breach of contract. (Corcoran’s current suit against Chance also claims breach of contract, among other counts.) Chance’s new suit is separate from Corcoran’s and not a direct countersuit — Corcoran sued three of Chance’s companies on behalf of his company Pat the Manager, while Chance is suing Corcoran directly as an individual. In a statement to Vulture, Chance’s legal team called Pat the Manager’s initial suit “a groundless and insulting lawsuit that ignores his own improper self-dealing and incompetence.” Chance’s team added, “Mr. Bennett trusts the legal system to reveal the truth of the parties’ relationship in due course.” Corcoran’s lawsuit notably criticized Chance’s most recent album, The Big Day , released in July 2019. The suit called it “a freestyle-driven product of sub-par quality” and “a complete deviation from the meticulous writing process that brought Bennett fame … [Read more...] about Chance the Rapper Sues His Manager, Defends

February 17, 2021 - 16:50 GMT Rachel Avery Rightmove has released its most-viewed properties of 2021 so far, and the gorgeous houses all over the globe have to be seen to be believed. Although we haven’t been able to move much further than the sofa and the local park during the pandemic, that hasn’t stopped us dreaming of properties abroad. Rightmove has revealed its most-viewed houses of 2021 so far from overseas, and the interiors are utterly amazing! RELATED: Rightmove's most viewed UK home revealed - with a glass floor like Gordon Ramsay's Florida mansion for £16.5million This island retreat would make an epic holiday home This six-bedroom residence is the epitome of luxury, and some of its best features include a Koi Pond with magnificent fish, a waterfront summer kitchen, and a glorious outdoor swimming pool – oh, and room for a 100ft yacht! Everywhere you look the views are remarkable The stunning waterside home offers sublime views of Biscayne bay and Smugglers Cove, and inside it is just as impressive with a home movie theatre and amazing décor. Fancy a private screening in your own movie theatre? View the full listing here . New York townhouse for £36million This pad is right in the heart of the city To call this property unique would be an understatement, just one look and you can see that it is truly one-of-a-kind. The seven-storey structure is fitted with specially curved glass which has travelled from Europe where it was meticulously made, and it allows the building to have panoramic views. The windows are made from bespoke glass The cityscape vistas are of course a real selling point of the house, and inside the immaculate interiors make it a modern-day dream. How chic are these interiors? View the full listing here . GALLERY: London's narrowest home has to be seen to be believed … [Read more...] about Rightmove’s most-viewed homes around the world are epic – see photos

Photo: Rob DeMartin/Spotify It’s been just over two years since Spotify cannonballed into podcasting, marking its spendy February 2019 acquisitions of Gimlet Media and Anchor as a splashy first step in the company’s expansionary transition from a music streaming platform towards something that’s significantly more than that. It was a scaling up of ambition, one that founder and CEO Daniel Ek conceptually outlined in a blog post titled “Audio-First” published at the time. As has been chronicled at length in this newsletter, that transition went on to include a string of further acquisitions (Parcast, The Ringer, Megaphone), a steady drumbeat of buzzy content partnerships (Joe Rogan, the Obamas, Kim Kardashian, etc.), and a bevvy of product experiments that poke at the edges of the current on-demand audio experience (playlists, vodcasts, talk-music mixes, etc.). The past two years are abundant with Spotify-filled headlines, and they collectively exert the feel of a show of force. But the piecemeal nature of the story also sometimes led to a lack of clarity over how the company intended to structurally reshape the digital audio business as we know it and reinvent itself as a platform that, in Ek’s words, will “begin competing more broadly for time against all forms of entertainment and informational services, and not just music streaming services.” I keep seeing the shiny individual pieces, but I’m curious as to how they think it’s all supposed to fit together. Yesterday’s hour and a half-long livestream presentation didn’t quite give me that full picture I was hoping for, but it does feel like we’re getting closer. Plus, the event also gave me the opportunity to jump on the phone with several executives at the company who I could pelt a few questions at. There was a lot that was announced yesterday, but I’m going to organize this write-up around three main buckets and lump a bunch of remaining threads in a miscellaneous section. Spotify’s already … [Read more...] about Key Podcast Takeaways from Spotify’s Big Event

More musicals should end with a megamix. Photo-Illustration: by Vulture; Photo by Really Useful Films There is only one way for any musical to possibly begin: the sounds of an orchestra tuning to A, backed by the crinkles of the crowd unwrapping their Werther’s. From this place of reliable uniformity, there are any number of possible directions a musical can go, from commercial to experimental, from horny cowboys , to horny newsboys , to horny convicts in a Jazz Age women’s prison . And because Broadway is as a diverse art form as any — because there is an endless (pun acknowledged) variety of “I Want” songs and 11 o’ clock numbers and love ballads — composers and playwrights assumed they could just go ahead and end a musical any old kooky way too. But that is incorrect. Not to sound too much like some sort of scoldy Henry Higgins, but what I’ve come to realize is that there are only two acceptable ways for any musical to end. Comic or tragic, mainstream or weird, old or new, there are a ton of musicals that fall into the format of the Only Two Good Possible Ending Types. They cover the spectrum of human emotion and energy. Sometimes they encompass a reprise or encore, although they don’t have to. You might find that your favorite musical’s ending does not qualify as acceptable. The Sound of Music , for example, does not fit into either category. Its ending is therefore bad, even though it features the objectively Good Thing of its protagonists escaping literal Nazis. Les Misérables , as well, does not meet the Good Ending criteria; apologies to that ghost chorus. Since Broadway isn’t opening any time soon, I expect producers to take notes on this and adjust their shows accordingly, so that they can end in the only ways that matter: We’ve Come Full Circle Back to the Beginning But Now It’s Really Poignant As Hilary Duff once said, “Let’s go back, back to the beginning, back to when the earth, the sun, the stars all aligned.” Many musicals … [Read more...] about There Are Only Two Types of Musical Endings That Matter