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Pick Up the Phone: Seven Songs that Want to Give You Their Digits

By Angela Pham on 7:00 AM on August 8, 2009

Singing a full seven-digit phone number in a song can mean the risk of plaguing innocent non-Jennys with your curious fan base's calls, but there's still no shortage of digits getting dropped into lyrics. Catchy, concise and a good viral marketing strategy if the number leads to a pre-planned voicemail, songs with a dial-ready number are usually a good call, at least for the artists, anyway. The following songs have got your number....  read more

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Back To Middle School: My 20 Favorite Rap Songs Circa 1991

By Steve LaBate on 2:00 AM on July 17, 2009

I graduated from elementary school in June of 1990. Almost immediately after, my Dad—who worked for Digital Computers—switched from manufacturing to sales, and my family moved from Marlboro, Mass., to Alpharetta, Ga. I'd already gotten into a little bit of rap music while I was still in New England, listening to more poppy stuff like DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, Tone Loc, Young MC, LL Cool J, and even a little Digital Underground. But when I got to Georgia and started at Taylor Road Middle School (which I attended from August 1990 to June 1993), I met some new...  read more

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A Survey of Rap Songs About Telecommunications

By Mark DiCristina and Nick Marino on 7:00 AM on February 25, 2009

This Soulja Boy song is very popular right now. It's a horrible song, almost horrible enough to make you think that rap songs about telecommunications are, across the board, a bad idea. Not true! Just to be sure Soulja Boy doesn't ruin it for everyone, here are 10 better hip-hop tracks about the world of telephonic communication:...  read more

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10 Songs Inadvertently About Thanksgiving Leftovers

By Steve LaBate on 3:47 AM on November 28, 2008

OK, just admit it. Thanksgiving was yesterday, and you've eaten leftovers every few hours since—for dinner, a midnight snack, even for breakfast. That's right. You crept stealthily into the kitchen, cracked open that tub of mashed potatoes, spooned out some of your mamma's now-solidified gravy, stuck a fork in a few strips of leftover dark meat, slopped it all on a sandwich, popped it in the microwave, topped it off with a little cranberry sauce and chowed down. Don't even try to deny it.  This time-honored holiday tradition gets its very own Paste list of the day, conveniently broken down...  read more

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