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Artist Essentials
2/8/2011
You know you're dealing with someone who's anything but ordinary when he starts out as a Motown sensation. All of 12 years old when he was signed by the legendary label, Little Stevie Wonder broke out …
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Artist Essentials
2/8/2011
He was born Steveland Hardaway Judkins, premature, soon blind, and destined to become one of music's most visionary artists. He mastered drums, piano, and harmonica by the age of nine, and only four ye …
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Genres & History
2/8/2011
Judging by its name alone, "I Promise Never to Get Paint On My Glasses Again" sounds like it's on some next-level tip. And it is, from the freaky, downright frightening free verse of Doseone to the pen …
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Genres & History
2/8/2011
While he might be better known for acting (Chappelle's Show, Be Kind Rewind) as of late, no starring role can dilute the raw power of Mos Def's music, from the Hitchcock-caliber score of …
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Genres & History
2/8/2011
One way or another, dancehall reaches into almost every era of reggae history. The first artists to point in a dancehall direction were still cutting their tracks with roots ruler Coxsone Dodd at his l …
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Genres & History
2/8/2011
If the roots sound is reggae's heartbeat, and dub is its soul, then dancehall is surely the flesh and blood that makes reggae real enough to feel in your gut, and infectious enough to make you shake yo …
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Artist Essentials
2/8/2011
Method Man may be attached to his hip now, but Redman was holding it down on his own back in 1992, when he debuted with a rhyme scheme calloused enough for the streets and a sense of humor that made hi …
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My Groove
2/8/2011
Eric Clapton may be on his knees for the love he can't have in the Derek & The Dominos scorcher "Layla," but when it comes to the ol' one-plus-one, most of our Classic Rock Love Songs artists are pairi …
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My Groove
2/8/2011
If anything plays with the powers of time, it's love - the way the hours pass like minutes when you're groovin' with your one and only, how the years fly by and the object of your affection looks as go …
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