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Nicki Minaj’s Middle-Age Reset – The Atlantic

Nicki Minaj’s Middle-Age Reset – The Atlantic

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When the hip-hop legend André 3000 confused the world by releasing an album of experimental flute music earlier this year, he offered a simple explanation for why he’s stopped rapping: “I’m 48 years old,” he told GQ. He gave examples of personal concerns that he found lyrically unusable: “I got to go get a colonoscopy’ … ‘My eyesight is going bad.’ You can find cool ways to say it, but … ” André was describing a challenge facing many artists in the year of hip-hop’s 50th birthday. The genre began as an outlet for young people on the margins—as Ye once rapped, “We wasn’t supposed to make it past 25”—but now its defining figures have reached middle age. Theoretically, rap can tell any sort of story. But artists of a certain age appear unsure about the value of channeling their experiences into verses. One of the year’s most acclaimed hip-hop releases, Maps, by the producer Kenny Segal and the rapper billy woods, is a meta-memoir about midlife burnout. The typically provocative Danny Brown recently put …

All people in England who have smoked to be offered middle-age lung screening | Lung cancer

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Everyone who has ever smoked in England is to be offered lung screening in middle age under plans to detect and treat cancer earlier. Lung cancer kills about 35,000 people every year, and is the most common cause of cancer death in the UK, accounting for one in five. It also has one of the worst cancer survival rates, which is largely attributed to diagnoses at a late stage when treatment is less likely to be effective. Millions of people will be invited for lung checks in an effort to improve survival rates. About a million screenings of people aged 55 to 74 will be carried out every year under the programme. It follows a successful pilot of the scheme in deprived areas of the country where people are four times more likely to smoke. It resulted in more than 2,000 people being detected as having cancer, 76% of them at an earlier stage compared with 29% outside the programme in 2019. “Identifying lung cancer early saves lives, and the expansion of the NHS’s targeted …