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  • Friday Throwback – Everything’s Gonna Be Alright

    I had nothing today. I couldn’t think of anything for the Friday Throwback and all of a sudden, for some reason unbeknown to even me, the name Father MC just popped into my head. This is random y’all.

    – Look at K-Ci and JoJo looking like a couple of young bucks.

    – Damn, were they wearing those black Sox hats even back then?

    – When you hear the song you think Sugar Hill Gang, but you should really think Chic.

    – Father, make up your mind. Wear your sun glasses or don’t, but you shouldn’t change it in every other scene.

    – “Now I sign a couple autographs, take a few flicks, order Don Perignon and lay back with my chicks.” I want to be that man.

    – I kind of miss this haircut.

    – Do dat dance, do dat dance baby, do dat dance, let’s work it out.

    – Did he just name drop Andre Harrell?

    – Why is JoJo wearing a towel over his head?

    – Don’t tell me it’s a hood.

    – It is a hood.

    No matter what, that song is a party starter, even if it’s about 16 years old.

  • Listen To Britney Spears’ Circus

    Britney’s new album is on imeem if you want to hear the album before it’s released next Tuesday.

    We’ve embedded the play here so you don’t have to leave our site.

    Britney Spears – Circus

  • 808s & Heartbreak: Kanye West’s Headphone Masterpiece

    This was not set up to be a good move. Kanye West had made three of the finest hip-hop records of the past half-decade. Despite limited lyrical skills, he used relatability, a way with a punchline, and strong production values to make three classic or near-classic albums.

    I think it was Neil Young who coined (or at least inspired) the term “going straight from the middle of the road into the ditch” to be used whenever an artist with commercial success makes a serious left turn away from the sound that brought them accolades-think Young going from folk-rock to experimental electro and rockabilly, or Prince going from Purple Rain to Around the World in a Day.

    For his fourth album, Kanye promised to shake things up. Kanye singing? Using Auto-Tune throughout the entire album? Either West was seriously on some other shit or he was hell-bent on completely obliterating his audience.

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