It was Memorial Day weekend 2011, and Awad Bilal was twerking in front of a thousand people. Bilal was a touring dancer for New Orleans bounce queen Big Freedia at the time, and the band had rolled into a university-organized festival in Hartford, Connecticut, where they’d be opening for Snoop …
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“Everything happened so quick,” G Flip says. “I actually had a whole month of panic attacks while on tour. I just fully neglected remembering to eat and drink. Then I wasn’t sleeping. I was extremely unhealthy and stressed. It felt like the Hulk punching me in the chest.” The singer, …
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The other week, Sigrid went to a park. The rising Norwegian pop star had been touring for a while, and the cities were beginning to blur. “It’s a very intense profession,” she says. “You’re always on.” So, when her taxi passed a park on the way to another hotel, she …
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