Major Lazer is an American electronic dance music trio composed of record producer Diplo, and DJs Jillionaire and Walshy Fire. It was founded in 2008 by Diplo and Switch, but Switch left in 2011.2017 was an odd year for Major Lazer as their fabled fourth studio album, ‘Music Is A Weapon’, never materialised, and instead the group released their ‘Know No Better’ EP featuring a disparate selection of collaborators from Nicki Minaj to Travis Scott — as if Diplo had scrolled through his Blackberry randomly selecting artists to work with.
The group’s fourth album may now never see the light of day after Diplo admitted he’s lost faith in the album format, and recently lambasted the commercialisation of DJ culture, which he described in a recent interview as “cheesy” and “embarrassing”.
Elsewhere, the group delivered an eye-opening documentary, Give Me Future, about their groundbreaking concert in Cuba, which attracted 500,000 people and saw the group become one of the first US acts to play in Cuba since diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba were reset under the Obama administration.
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