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Santogold: What The… Fruit?
Santi White, who records under the name Santogold, may or may not be the grooviest thing to happen to urban pop – a label I hate to use, but which seems wholly appropriate under the circumstances – since Gnarls Barkley. Like Gnarls, her self-titled debut record is wildly uncategorizable and just as wildly uneven, ranging from catchy new wave inspired pop songs to cosmic hip-hop hallucinations; and while she hasn’t quite acheived market saturation a […]
Something Tells Me George Michael Doesn’t Want This Publicized
Something even more embarrassing than getting caught soliciting an undercover cop?
A video from the early days of a popular singer/songwriter’s career that finds him sporting a white tee, a leather jacket, and no shoes…RAPPING.
While I’d been aware of Wham!’s “Fantastic!” album (and have owned it for years), I had no idea that a video existed for the duo’s first single, “Wham! Rap”, until my friend Dave alerted me of the fact a week or so […]
O’Neal McKnight’s “Check Your Coat”: This Has To Be a Joke
I’ll admit that I’m not much of a TV watcher anymore. Once sitcoms started to suck in the mid Nineties (and I went five or six years without an actual television set), my couch potato days were over. As of right now, my television watching usually consists of sports (or “Sportscenter”), “Law & Order” reruns, “Scrubs” and “30 Rock”. And VH-1 Classic and VH-1 Soul, pretty much the last things anyone over 30 has in […]