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TROPICAL DOWNPOURS: Passing light rain, downpours this PM
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The airport added to its already above-average rainfall total, receiving 0.32″ officially on Wednesday. There’s a decent possibility we add even more today.
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As we tap into good tropical moisture flow again today, scattered showers & downpours will develop. San Antonio’s rain chance: 40%. Otherwise, mostly cloudy & humid, with a high in the upper-80s.
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Yes, we’ll still see a few spotty downpours on the radar, especially for the first half of Friday. But, a drier setup will start to take over. That means firework festivities still look to be rain-free. Temperatures will be seasonal in the low-90s.
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Rain chances fall even more over the weekend to 10%. Partly cloudy skies will mean warmer weather. Highs are forecast to reach the mid-90s.
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Debbie Harry is reflecting on the pressures of image in the music industry, revealing in a new interview that undergoing cosmetic surgery “felt necessary” to maintain her career as Blondie’s frontwoman.
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The singer, who celebrated her 80th birthday on July 1, opened up about her decision to have cosmetic procedures in a new interview with Vanity Fair, acknowledging the pressures of being a woman in the music industry.
“It’s always been a tool for me,” Harry shared. “It’s not like I started having cosmetic surgery as a kid in school — I think nowadays a lot of girls are getting cosmetic surgery when they’re 10, 11 years old. God bless if it improves their lives and they feel happy. But as far as me having cosmetic surgery, it made me feel better about myself. Maybe it made me feel happy, or more confident.”
She added, “It was just something that I felt necessary at the time. I wanted to work, and so much of women being attractive, and being a selling point, is clearly showbiz. If you’re going to be in the business, be in it.”
The “Heart of Glass” singer also reflected earlier this year on aging gracefully. “The beauty of aging is that you learn how to live with yourself,” she said at the time.
Blondie fans have more to celebrate than Harry’s milestone birthday. The band is reportedly working on a new studio album with Grammy-winning producer John Congleton.
The news was shared back in December 2024 by guitarist and co-founder Chris Stein, who posted a black-and-white photo of lead singer Debbie Harry and Congleton in the studio on Bluesky, accompanied by the caption, “With John Congleton. New Blondie record next year.”
It marks the band’s first album since 2017’s Pollinator, also produced by Congleton. That record earned critical acclaim and featured collaborations with artists like Joan Jett, Charli XCX, and Johnny Marr. Known for his work with St. Vincent and Angel Olsen, Congleton’s involvement hints at a modern, innovative approach for Blondie’s upcoming release.
The album comes in the wake of drummer Clem Burke’s death in April following a private battle with cancer. Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock has been contributing to Blondie’s new music and performing with the band in recent years, including at Glastonbury 2023.
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The Department of Homeland Security said it’s investigating security camera video that allegedly shows immigration agents urinating in a Pico Rivera high school’s parking lot.
The El Rancho School Unified District released the security video from Ruben Salazar High School on Wednesday. School board president John Contreras said it happened in the morning on June 17 when school was not in session.
“ERUSD surveillance footage captured approximately 10 ICE agents urinating near storage containers on the Salazar campus parking lot,” Contreras said.
While the campus was empty, Superintendent Marco Villegas said the incident happened near a city park and an elementary school, which was hosting summer classes. Villegas said he is not sure if the federal agents were in plain view of the students.
The school district stated that Homeland Security did not obtain permission before entering the campus and did not provide a reason for its agents’ presence in the high school parking lot.
“Not only did ICE agents unlawfully trespass ERUSD school grounds, but they did not exercise sound and respectful judgment,” Contreras said.
Criminal defense attorney Neama Rahmani said urinating in public is typically a misdemeanor offense.
“Any normal person or civilian who was urinating on school property could be charged with trespassing,” Rahmani said. “They could be charged with indecent exposure. They’re misdemeanors. Obviously, subsequent offenses may actually be felonies.”
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London marked the slowest first half-year for IPO volume since 1997, a grim milestone punctuated by a report that AstraZeneca Plc’s chief executive officer wants to move the company’s listing to the US.
With companies going where liquidity is abundant, a steady drip of firms being taken private, and too few initial public offerings coming along to replace them, pressure is mounting to reverse the slow but inexorable shrinking of London’s historic trading venue. More than $100 billion worth of London-listed companies have announced or executed plans to move to New York in recent years, Bloomberg calculations show.
AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot wants to move the drugmaker’s stock listing to the US, the Times reported Monday, citing his frustration with the UK’s regulatory regime for drugs and concern that the country’s life sciences industry is falling behind the US and China. An exit from the exchange by the most valuable British company would send shockwaves across the financial sector, and risk inviting more firms to join the confidence-eroding flow of listings leaving the City.
That would make the job of attracting new IPOs even harder. Companies listing in London raised less than £200 million ($274 million) in the last six months, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, and turnover for stocks like AstraZeneca is far greater for its US depositary receipts than in London.
A move by AstraZeneca would accelerate the fearsome trend of companies voluntarily moving their listings to the US. Wise Plc is the latest of the bunch, revealing last month it would relocate its primary listing to New York in search of better liquidity and new investors, following in the footsteps of Flutter Entertainment Plc, CRH Plc and Indivior Plc.
Just as concerning is a trend toward UK-listed companies receiving takeover offers this year, potentially removing them from the exchange. Spectris Plc, Deliveroo Plc, and Assura Plc are among the 48 pending or completed deals since January 1 targeting London-traded firms, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
“The scale of M&A and lack of IPOs is resulting in a material reduction in the number of UK-listed growth companies,” Charles Hall, head of research at Peel Hunt said in a research note. “We are seeing continued outflows of UK capital, which need to be addressed through pension, ISA, and stamp duty reform.”
Turning the IPO Taps Back On
Dealmakers say the second half of the year may see a few more IPOs come to market, potentially paving the way for a stronger rebound from 2026.
“We are expecting a tentative recovery in the fourth quarter with a number of transactions not quite getting done before the summer break,” said Tom Bacon, a partner in BCLP’s M&A and corporate finance team. “This will not be the strong re-opening everyone is hoping for, but could start to build some momentum.”
Professional services firm MHA Plc was the biggest offering so far in 2025, raising £98 million on London’s junior bourse AIM. Meanwhile, Glencore Plc-backed Cobalt Holdings Plc called off what could have been London’s largest IPO in two years, and fast-fashion retailer Shein has shifted its IPO preparations to Hong Kong from London, people familiar with the matter have said.
Some companies that have been reported to be considering a London IPO this year are Italy’s NewPrinces SpA, Banco Santander SA-backed payments firm Ebury and Uzbek gold miner Navoi Mining & Metallurgical Co.
The biggest boost would come next year from the planned IPO of €19 billion ($22.4 billion) software giant Visma. Private equity group Hg Capital tentatively picked the British capital for the listing, attracted by London’s listing reforms, particularly an incoming rule allowing euro-denominated stocks into flagship FTSE indexes, Bloomberg has reported.
“It doesn’t feel like there’s a queue of IPOs lined up in London, but there are some candidates there,” Andreas Bernstorff, head of equity capital markets at BNP Paribas SA said.
A European Problem
London is arguably hardest-hit among European exchanges, but it isn’t alone. Europe suffered its worst first half for IPO volumes in more than a decade, with bourses in Milan, Paris and Zurich seeing lower volumes than London, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Part of the issue this year has been the bout of volatility unleashed by US President Donald Trump’s tariffs, which shut the market for weeks and prompted some issuers to delay their plans for going public.
Listings in London where capital was not being raised provided a ray of hope. Last month, Anglo American’s Valterra Platinum Ltd. completed a secondary listing in London, following in the footsteps of International Paper Co., which added a London listing as part of its takeover of rival DS Smith Plc. Greece’s Metlen Energy & Metals SA said last week it expects to start trading in London in early August, although it won’t raise any funds.
To be sure, the UK was the busiest venue in Europe for overall share sales volume so far this year given the boon in follow-on issuances, including £5 billion worth of shares sold by Pfizer Inc. in Sensodyne-maker Haleon Plc. Rosebank Industries Plc, which listed last year on the AIM exchange, was able to raise £1.14 billion from investors to fund an acquisition in the US.
“For companies that have a compelling equity story and a strong management team, the London market functions very effectively,” said Jonathan Parry, a capital markets partner at White & Case.
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Sean “Diddy” Combs, who turned a career as a music producer into a portfolio of businesses worth a billion dollars, has been found not guilty of sex trafficking and racketeering but convicted of a prostitution charges after prosecutors said he coerced women into sexual encounters with male escorts.
The jury, made of eight men and four women, deliberated for nearly 14 hours after the 29-day trial on two-counts of sex trafficking, two-counts of transportation for prostitution, and racketeering charges.
The 55-year-old will remain in federal jail as he awaits sentencing on Oct. 3. The prostitution-related conviction alone carries a maximum sentence of 10 years for each charge.
Federal investigators in New York accused Combs of transforming Bad Boy Records, the label he founded in 1993, into a criminal enterprise. The indictment alleged sex trafficking, arson, and both emotional and physical abuse. He was indicted by a grand jury in September 2024 and has remained in federal custody since, following multiple unsuccessful attempts to post a $50 million bond.
During the nearly two-month trial, a predominantly male jury heard testimony from nearly three dozen witnesses, including former employees and associates of Combs such as Dawn Richard of the R&B-pop group Danity Kane, and Scott Mescudi, known professionally as rapper Kid Cudi. Jurors were also shown 2016 surveillance footage where Combs attacked and dragged his then girlfriend, singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, across a hotel hallway carpet.
Several high-profile supporters, including Kanye West and members of Combs’ family, made appearances at the Lower Manhattan courthouse during the proceedings.
Combs’ defense team opted not to present a case, but made at least two failedpetitions for a mistrial — once citing prosecutorial misconduct. The judge denied both requests.
Among the trial’s testimony were accounts from Ventura, and an unidentified woman, who said they were in an exclusive romantic relationship with Combs at different times. Both described being coerced into traveling across the country to participate in group sex acts thatprosecutors saidinvolved drugs and alcohol. These encounters — referred to in court as “Freak Offs” — were recorded on video. Prosecutors played excerpts of the recordings for jurors during the trial.
During the trial’s first week, Ventura — the prosecution’s lead witness — took the stand. Her 2023 lawsuit, which accused Combs of rape and coercion, is widely believed to have triggered the federal investigation. She testified that the suit resulted in a $20 million settlement.
Ventura delivered much of her testimony through tears as she recounted her decade-long relationship with Combs. At the time, she was a 19-year-old aspiring singer from Connecticut, pursuing a career in music. Ventura, 38, is now married, and took the stand weeks before delivering her third child.
“I can’t carry this anymore. I can’t carry the shame, the guilt,” Ventura said during her testimony in May, explaining why she chose to testify against Combs. “What’s right is right. What’s wrong is wrong. I’m trying to do the right thing.”
She testified that Combs used recordings of intimate encounters involving her, himself, and others to threaten her after their relationship ended. She said that he threatened to release the footage when she began dating other men, including Mescudi.
“He just wanted to hurt me,” Ventura said about Combs, according to trial testimony reported by multiple media outlets. “It’s horrible and disgusting. No one should do that to anyone.”
Weeks before prosecutors rested their case on June 27, a former romantic partner of Combs testified under the pseudonym “Jane” and discussed a series of text messages exchanged between the former couple. In one 2023 message, she wrote that she felt “obligated to perform these nights” with him “out of fear of losing the roof” over her head.
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MOSS LANDING, Calif.—Vernon Trindade learned the water from the well he was digging wasn’t safe to drink around 1985 when he and his wife were building a live-work space with enough room for a wood shop, two painters’ studios and his nine-foot canvases. Trindade, a master woodworker and abstract painter with shoulder-length gray hair and a beard, built the house from the ground up with his wife on an acre lot in Moss Landing, looking out across strawberry fields to Monterey Bay.
After the couple finished the rough frame of the house on Bluff Road, they installed a high-tech water filtration system in the kitchen, but it clogged around the mid-1990s. And, after years of working on the place, Trindade lacked the funds and the will to replace it.
His marriage broke up around the same time the filtration system backed up, and for decades, Trindade had to buy and haul several five-gallon jugs of water to his home every week for drinking and cooking. For the past several years, a state-funded program has delivered jugs to his door free of charge, but the challenges have continued.
Moving the 45-pound carboys of water didn’t bother Trindade when he was younger. But now, at 78, after losing 40 pounds during a month-long hospital stay to recover from heart surgery in March, he can barely lift the jugs.
Vernon Trindade stands next to his well in Moss Landing. He hasn’t been able to drink or cook with the water from the well for decades because it’s contaminated with nitrates and cancer-causing chemicals. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News
So when Trindade heard about a project to pipe safe drinking water to the taps of homes in Moss Landing and other unincorporated agricultural communities in northern Monterey County, he signed on. He’d have to figure out how to pay the water bill later.
In December, the Biden administration awarded a $20 million Community Change grant designed to help disadvantaged communities address environmental and climate justice challenges to the nonprofit Community Water Center, founded 20 years ago to help underserved rural communities without access to clean drinking water. That grant, combined with funding from the state, would have finally provided safe drinking water to Trindade and thousands of others like him who had contaminated wells or were hooked up to failing public water systems in the low-income Pajaro, Sunny Mesa and Springfield communities.
But the project barely had a chance to get off the ground.
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On May 1, the same day Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin claimed the Trump administration was “ensuring America has the cleanest air, land and water on the planet,” the EPA canceled the Community Water Center’s grant.
Now, community organizations are scrambling to find ways to fill the gap.
The State Water Resources Control Board really came through for the first phase of the project, said the Community Water Center’s communications manager, Maraid Jimenez. State funding will allow about 400 residents to get safe drinking water by upgrading the Springfield Water System, which has struggled with unsafe levels of nitrates and the cancer-causing chemical 1,2,3-trichloropropane, or 1,2,3-TCP, a contaminant in pesticides.
The grant would have helped build the infrastructure to link residents served by tainted wells or failing water systems with the larger Pajaro Sunny Mesa Community Services District to the north.
To see the Trump administration pull funding for the second part of the project was especially disappointing, Jimenez said, “because water shouldn’t be a political issue.”
More than 80 percent of the domestic wells in the region exceed safety limits for at least one contaminant.
Trindade’s well has 10 times the level of 1,2,3-TCP state health officials consider safe and nearly seven times the legal limit of nitrates, byproducts of nitrogen fertilizers that can cause “blue baby syndrome,” a potentially fatal blood disorder that inhibits an infant’s oxygen supply. Some wells in the area have up to 33 times the legal limit of 1,2,3-TCP, which easily evaporates from tap water, leading to particularly high exposures during hot showers.
“Water shouldn’t be a political issue.”
— Maraid Jimenez, Community Water Center
Jiminez said it’s puzzling that the administration would cancel the project’s grant while promoting its support of rural infrastructure.
The EPA announced $30 million in grants last month to strengthen drinking water systems and improve water quality for small and rural communities, which it called “the backbone of our country.”
Inside Climate News asked the EPA how canceling a grant designed to deliver safe drinking water to rural communities that have lacked potable water for decades is meeting its goal of strengthening rural water systems and making sure every American has access to safe water.
“Maybe the Biden-Harris administration shouldn’t have forced their radical agenda of wasteful DEI programs and ‘environmental justice’ preferencing on the EPA’s core mission of protecting human health and the environment,” an EPA spokesperson said in a statement, referring to the grant’s remit to fund environmental and climate justice under Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act.
“The Trump EPA will continue to work with states, tribes and communities to support projects that advance the agency’s core mission and Administrator Zeldin’s Powering the Great American Comeback Initiative, which includes providing clean air, land and water for EVERY American,” the spokesperson said, repeating verbatim a response provided to another outlet on a different issue.
The Community Water Center grant was among hundreds targeted in the Trump administration’s push to terminate $2.4 billion environmental and climate justice grants authorized by Congress under Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. At least three lawsuits have challenged the freeze on federal grants, and all are tied up in the appeals process. After initially ordering the release of all frozen IRA funds in April, a federal judge later allowed the EPA to cancel the grants, including all Community Change grants.
The Community Water Center officially contested its grant termination but has not signed on to any of the lawsuits.
Trindade, who grew up on a dairy farm in a small town in the Central Valley, thinks the EPA must feel bad about taking back the money that would have finally delivered clean water to the house he built with his own hands. But he figures the agency doesn’t consider getting water to people like him a priority and is going to let “little things” like Bluff Road wait a while.
A Persistent Problem
Driving through the Pajaro Valley on an overcast June day, strawberry fields stretch for miles in every direction, interrupted periodically by small, densely packed neighborhoods and trailer parks. Several dozen modest houses sit between fields along a stretch of country road a few miles south of Bluff Road. Just feet from their front doors, a tarp covers the field where growers would soon apply the fumigants chloropicrin and 1,3-dichloropropene, also known as 1,3-D or Telone, to sterilize the soil before planting.
Until the 1990s, fumigants like Telone contained 1,2,3-TCP, a highly persistent chemical that can be hard to remediate. It pollutes so many wells in Monterey County, the state’s richest strawberry producer, because strawberry growers have relied heavily on 1,3-D and other fumigantsfor decades. They applied more than 91,000 pounds of 1,3-D and chloropicrin within a mile of that one row of houses alone between 2018 and 2022, the most recent state records show. Even as applications of 1,3-D fell statewide during that time, they rose by more than 80 percent in Monterey Country, an Inside Climate News analysis showed last year.
Monterey County is the richest producer of strawberries in the U.S. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News
Applications of the fumigants have poisoned residents’ water as well as the air they breathe.
California has known for decades that both 1,2,3-TCP and 1,3-D, now banned in 40 countries, cause cancer. Residents and their allies have fought for years to restrict use of 1,3-D, which can also trigger asthma attacks even in trace amounts.
When Saul Reyes, a community solutions advocate for the Community Water Center, talks with families about their drinking water, many tell him they worry about going outside when they see people covered in protective gear spraying fields.
Saul Reyes, a community solutions advocate for the Community Water Center, works with Monterey County residents served by contaminated wells or failing water systems to secure reliable sources of potable water. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News
They should probably stay inside, he tells them.
Reyes started working for the Community Water Center in August, but first learned about the nonprofit four years ago, when a staff organizer knocked on his parents’ door to tell them their tap water was contaminated.
Reyes lives with his parents in Royal Oaks, outside the safe drinking water project boundary, surrounded by strawberry fields. The landlord warned his parents about the water when they moved in nearly 30 years ago, and gave them a discount on the rent. They later learned their well has nearly three times the legal limit of nitrates. Reyes, 27, has been drinking bottled water as long as he can remember.
When Reyes started going to community meetings, he met some of his neighbors, who had lived in the area for 50 years. All their wells were contaminated. The only water they drank at home came from bottles.
Searching for Solutions
California codified the human right to water as official policy in 2012. At the time, more than 1.6 million residents living mostly in communities of color in agricultural regions relied on contaminated groundwater that left them with higher rates of asthma, heart disease, cancer and neurological and reproductive maladies, including birth defects.
California has awarded more than $1 billion in grants to deliver safe, reliable drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people. Yet about 750,000 Californians, primarily residents of small, rural, underserved communities of color like those in the Pajaro Valley, continue to lack safe drinking water.
Judy Vazquez-Varela, general manager of the Pajaro Sunny Mesa Community Services District, has handled more than her share of water contaminants since she started working on the Springfield project about a decade ago.
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But her district has faced multiple challenges beyond contaminated groundwater. Winter storms supercharged by climate change caused catastrophic flooding in 2023 that forced the water system to shut down for about two weeks. Then in January, a massive lithium battery storage plant in Moss Landing erupted in flames, sending huge plumes of smoke across the region that prompted evacuations and shelter-in-place orders.
Vazquez-Varela sent water samples to a lab after the fire, and the tests showed no evidence of contamination from the accident. But flooding remains a perennial concern, and the EPA grant would have helped the district invest in the type of climate-resilient infrastructure needed to cope with the next devastating storm.
It also would have helped the district provide safe drinking water to thousands outside the district’s current service boundaries.
The Pajaro system has enough high-quality water to meet the needs of people with contaminated wells like Trindade, Vazquez-Varela said. But delivering it to the smaller Springfield and Sunny Mesa water systems would require building a pump station, an additional treatment facility and a network of pipelines to connect Pajaro.
Judy Vazquez-Varela, general manager of the Pajaro Sunny Mesa Community Services District, has been working for the past 10 years to help residents of low-income, primarily Latino communities secure access to safe drinking water. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News
That’s why Vazquez-Varela and the Community Water Center applied for an EPA Community Change grant. When the grant was approved in December, organizers saw it as a huge win for long-underserved “last mile” communities that have historically lacked essential services and infrastructure.
When the Community Water Center learned the grant was terminated in May, it was “definitely a big disappointment,” said Roxanne Reimer, a community solutions manager with the center. “But we truly believe that this means that the state of California has a really big opportunity to step up.”
California now has the world’s fourth-largest economy, but it also has a $16 billion drinking water problem. That’s the estimated cost of building the infrastructure needed to deliver safe drinking water to hundreds of communities with failing water systems and contaminated private wells.
California finalized its state budget on Monday. But advocates say the state could still help offset the loss of federal dollars with alternative funding sources, including the $10 billion climate-resilience bond voters passed last year.
“There’s certainly areas that we can pull money from, but you can’t replace federal dollars,” said Monterey County Supervisor Glenn Church.
The federal government typically provides support for big infrastructure projects, he said. With so many disadvantaged communities like Pajaro across the state, Church said, “the competition is fierce for a few dollars.”
California is already providing $130 million a year to get projects shovel-ready through its Safe Drinking Water Fund, and has faced significant budget pressures exacerbated by federal cuts, said Jennifer Clary, a longtime water and climate justice advocate with the nonprofit Clean Water Action. She said it appears the federal government is targeting California, along with poor people of color, because it makes no sense to cut a program that would ensure people have safe drinking water.
“Funding water infrastructure tends to be a bipartisan issue,” Clary said. “You’d think that would be the kind of thing they would want to fund in all states.”
By canceling a grant that would have provided critical support for clean drinking water in disadvantaged areas, the EPA and Trump administration have “once again demonstrated a troubling disregard for the communities most impacted by the climate crisis,” said state Senator John Laird, whose Central Coast district includes the Pajaro Valley.
Even as the state navigates budget constraints, he said, “I remain committed to working with my colleagues to push for the resources necessary to assure that every community in California has access to safe and reliable drinking water.”
Vazquez-Varela and her Community Water Center partners also remain determined to solving the region’s drinking water crisis.
“We are doing everything that we can possibly do to be able to reach as many people as we can with a reliable source of water,” said Vazquez-Varela.
She has the plans, the engineers and technical advisors ready. The only thing standing in her way is funding.
Vernon Trindade is seen at his studio in Moss Landing. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News
Back on Bluff Road, Vernon Trindade still showers with water from his well and fills his dog Bagel’s water bowl from the tap. He’s trying to regain the strength to carry his giant water bottles into the house.
He’d like to leave the place to his nephew but doesn’t want to saddle him with water that’s not safe. He just hopes he lives long enough to see the day when “good water” reaches his house.
Inside Climate News reporter Marianne Lavelle contributed to this story.
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A living icon. A lyrical architect. A founding member Wu-Tang Clan, the most influential Hip Hop collective in history. It’s safe to say that Raekwon The Chef has carved his name into the granite of rap’s Mount Rushmore. Continue reading to find out what’s next for the Staten Island native.
From Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…, a street masterpiece that redefined mafioso rap, to his critically acclaimed catalog that spans decades, Raekwon has consistently elevated the art form. His voice is unmistakable. His storytelling is cinematic. His presence is untouchable. He’s influenced generations, mentored titans, and remained a razor-sharp lyricist through every era of the game. Now, with his eighth solo album The Emperor’s New Clothes, he plans to remind the world why he’s permanently embedded in the elite tier of hip-hop royalty.
Set for a July 18th release on Mass Appeal, The Emperor’s New Clothes features a stacked line-up of guests, including: Westside Gunn, Conway The Machine and Benny The Butcher of Griselda, fellow Wu-Tang Clan members Method Man, Ghostface Killah and Inspectah Deck; rap icon Nas; singer Stacy Barthe, plus British soul star Marsha Ambrosius. Production comes courtesy of super producer Swizz Beatz, Nottz, J.U.S.T.I.C.E League and Frank G and Roadsart.
Raekwon The Chef confirmed that The Emperor’s New Clothes is more than an album — it’s a statement. A declaration of evolution, mastery, and the raw essence of New York soul. The Chef is cooking at the highest level, blending timeless bars with fresh soundscapes, proving once again that greatness doesn’t fade – it adapts, conquers, and reigns. The Emperor’s New Clothes is also the latest instalment in Mass Appeal’s Legend Has It… series of albums by New York hip-hop’s trailblazers.
8 albums deep. Platinum plaques. Global stages. Cultural impact that can’t be measured — only felt. Pre-save The Emperor’s New Clothes here before it’s July 18th release. The 18th also happens to be the last date of Wu-Tang Clan’s Run The Jewels: The Final Chamber Tour, which concludes in Philadelphia, PA. Congrats to the guys on their success and the Raekwon for the upcoming release of his eighth studio album.
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