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Poultry Emotion: A 20-Piece Bucket o' Classic Chicken Songs
In honor of golden-throated Kentucky chicken farmer Kevin Skinner, who won the million-dollar grand prize on America's Got Talent last week, we offer this squawkingly great list of songs about the animal this new pop-cultural phenomenon used to spend so much time looking after... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayNas & Damian Marley Release Trailer for Distant Relatives
Nas and Damian Marley have had a collaboration album in the works for a few months now, although the dynamic duo have been tight-lipped on the details. The project seemed to hit a snag recently when Nas pushed the release back indefinitely, citing the stress of his divorce and the expected birth of his son next month. Well, we can all breathe as easily as Nas and Damian in a reefer-clouded studio booth because the first official trailer for the album, titled Distant Relatives, has just been revealed.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsRock The Bells
Hip-hop tours are notorious for low production values and distorted sound... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesNas and Damian Marley collaboration album on the way
The mutability of hip-hop is old news in 2009, with the genre's best and brightest tripping over themselves to ditch their 808s and cross sonic boundaries. So, no surprise that nasty Nas is cooking up a collaboration album with reggae giant Damian Marley.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsSundance 2009: Music Round-Up
Cee-Lo is best known by hipsters these days as the vocal half o Justin Nozuka Justin Nozuka is a name that you will be hearing a lot in the coming months. A Canadian of Japanese and American descent who’s still just 19 years old, he comes across as a bizarre blend of Michael Jackson and Jeff Buckley...in a good way. His set at Tatou was a stunner, and certainly a harbinger of great things to come. Nozuka has a gift of being sensitive without cloying, pleading without whining. His vocals have a beautifully immediate quality; there’s no artifice to be... read more
Found in: Blogs, Festivus, Film FestivalTVotR, The Roots, Cee-Lo, more re-imagine Nat King Cole
Recently, Pitchfork announced that Capitol/EMI and King Cole Partners & Productions are set to release a new disc of reworkings of Nat King Cole tunes by some of music's heavy hitters. And with that the tradition of tribute albums for recently deceased greats (sup, Elvis, Cash, Biggie and Waylon) continues.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsMichael Eric Dyson to edit book about Nas' Illmatic
As hip-hop goes, calling Illmatic seminal is more than a simple understatement. Released in 1994, Nas' grim portrayal of his hardscrabble Queensbridge upbringing defined modern rap, and laid the groundwork for East-coast sound. Nasir Jones had changed the game at only 19 years old.... read more
Found in: Books, NewsDr. Dre says Detox will come out this year (no, seriously)
Dr. Dre has not had an album this millennium.Since Dre's Chronic follow-up 2001 (which, against the rules of logic, actually came out in 1999), the world's population has risen by approximately 80 million people, and assumedly at least half of these people have released a mixtape with a Lil Wayne feature by now.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsNas and Talib Kweli set out on small-venue tour
Sit back and press play on this video.And let the epic ride of Nas' 2001 single "One Mic" engulf you: the internal build-up, the sirens, the street scene. Now, the verse where Nas, poised as ever, has his message down to a whisper, saying "All I need is one blunt, one page, and one pen, one prayer - tell God forgive me for one sin." Picture the build up as he becomes so empassioned he has to shout over the frantic beat, searching for some sort of metaphorical balance until he finds "the right track" and his voice is once... read more
Found in: Music, NewsNas: Untitled
Hip-hop godfather brings controversy, stumbles with mixed messageAfter pronouncing an entire genre dead, the progenitor of New York hip-hop turned his eye to a broader horizon: race relations. To that end, Nas originally intended to name Untitled an unprintable epithet, and though the moniker has changed, the album it represents is still blazingly incendiary.... read more
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