In the nineties, two hippop record labels shocked parents and one over fan's selling tens of millions of albums. The battle between the two labels escalated as they fought to reach the top of the chart. You'll hear about tupo and biggy and doctor dray and snoop dog and puffdaddy and shugnight. And how that success leads to mo money, mo problems.
A US drone strike in Afghanistan was meant to take out an ISIS-K target. Reporting on the ground shows an aid worker and several children were killed. Matthieu Aikins, reporter at the New York Times, explains from Kabul.
Today’s show was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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