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“In April, 2015, Chaz Bear, then known as Chazwick Bundick, was backstage at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival when he met his first A-list fan. Until that spring, Bear—who has several monikers but releases music primarily as Toro y Moi—had enjoyed comfortable mid-level popularity as a darling of indie blogs like Pitchfork and discerning festivals like Coachella. But that afternoon Sean (Diddy) Combs approached him, and praised his work while dancing to the Toro y Moi track “Rose Quartz,” which played from a portable speaker that was hanging from his neck. “That was the trippiest time,” Bear recalled recently. “My reality was completely fucked up.” Combs asked Bear to work on his upcoming record, and months later, after their first studio session together, Bear found himself off the Miami coast, bouncing off the froth on a speedboat with the multiplatinum hitmaker and entrepreneur, surrounded by rap producers. Combs “was playing the best disco I’d ever heard—from the seventies, all seventies stuff. And he really knows his shit.”

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Keyamo slams N100m claim on blogger for story on Chaz B’s widow

Kemi Ashefon Lagos lawyer and human rights activist, Festus Keyamo, has demanded the sum of N100 million from Kemi Ashefon, the blogger who wrote and posted a story considered to be defamatory to the reputation of late Chaz B’s widow, Mrs. Roseline Chinyere Chukuma. In a letter of “Demand for Redress” sent to the blogger, Keyamo stated that meeting the conditions listed in the letter will suffice…