Day: December 19, 2025

Rock The Bells Cruise Sets Sail in 2026 on Norwegian Joy With T.I., Public Enemy, Jermaine Dupri, and More

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Rock The Bells is taking its Hip-Hop cruise into bigger territory for 2026, and the upgrade is not subtle. After three straight sellouts and a waitlist that keeps growing, Rock The Bells Cruise: A Hip-Hop Experience is back November 1 to 6, 2026, sailing out of Miami with a first-time stop in Montego Bay, Jamaica, plus an extra day at sea to stretch the whole thing into a full-on floating festival. The biggest change is the ship. For 2026, the cruise moves to Norwegian Joy, a newer, state-of-the-art ship that…

Von Venn Makes Sense of Growing Up

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Gary Cox’s second album under the Von Venn name landed on my desk at exactly the right moment. I’d been scrolling through news feeds feeling that familiar knot in my stomach, the one that comes from watching the world bend itself into increasingly absurd shapes. Then “Still Falling” came through my speakers and I thought, oh good, someone else gets it. “Forgetting the Fall” is the sound of someone who believed the adults had everything under control, then grew up and realized nobody really does. Cox doesn’t dress this up…