8/30/2011
Dolly Parton laid her cards on the table from the time of her very first Country charter, 1967's not-what-she-seems single "Dumb Blonde." Since then, she's never been anything less than true to her ins …
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8/23/2011
Giants still stride among us. After almost half-a-century of sharing his ideas with the public, minimalist deity Steve Reich is still challenging us to listen to music we've never heard before, in a wa …
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8/23/2011
Pretty much anybody with a mixing board and an open pair of ears has had a go at Reich, and that's no big surprise, since his music lends itself so well to electro-beats and sample play. In "2x5: III. …
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8/23/2011
Not only was 2Pac hip-hop royalty, but he was also a king of contradictions - a New York native who became a West Coast icon, a gangsta-leaning tough guy who embraced positive social change, and a star …
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8/23/2011
Like all great artists, 2Pac was a complicated character - he was a vital voice for positive change, but he was too street-savvy to shy away from the harsh realities that seemed to be constantly closin …
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8/23/2011
When Shaggy burst onto the scene in the '90s with his rough-and-ready style, he changed the game for dancehall reggae, pushing it to the forefront of mainstream pop and introducing elements of old-scho …
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8/23/2011
If all you know of Shaggy is the big, blockbuster hits, you've got some surprises in store. Somewhere between growing up in Jamaica and immigrating to Brooklyn, he must have developed a little Latin lo …
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8/23/2011
According to SPIN magazine, Lil Wayne dropped 864 guest verses and songs in 2007 alone. Considering he got his start as the youngest member (a scrappy 18 years old) of the Hot Boys way back in ' …
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8/23/2011
A quick scan of the top-notch MCs splitting verses with Lil Wayne in the following songs - OutKast, Ja Rule, Jim Jones, T.I., Snoop Dogg, and Juelz Santana to name just a few - is impressive enough, bu …
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