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May 16, 2013 Eve, feat. …
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May 16, 2013 Eve, feat. …
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April 15, 2013 There's a lot to look forward to on the "executive produced by Jay-Z"-soundtrack for Baz Luhrmann's retelling of The Great Gatsby: a new Jigga track, Beyoncé and André 3000's Winehouse cover, the xx, Jack White, and more! Unfortunately, there's also schlock like Fergie's "A Little Party Never Killed Nobody," featuring Q-Tip and GoonRock (via Rolling Stone). …
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December 21, 2012 On Kendrick Lamar's good kid, M.A.A.D. City (SPIN's No. 2 album of 2012), Drake collaboration "Poetic Justice" examines the allure of written communications. The use of a sample from Janet Jackson's 1993 janet. slow jam "Anytime, Anyplace," though, clearly makes the title an allusion to Jackson's starring movie role from the same year, in writer/director John Singleton's Poetic Justice. …
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April 6, 2010 Kanye West is seeking rap redemption.
After Taylor Swift-gate and his soulful, Auto-Tuned 2008 release 808's and Heartbreak, he's returning to his hip-hop roots, recruiting Q-Tip, RZA, Drake, and Pete Rock for upcoming album, tentatively titled Good Ass Job and expected in June, Billboard reports. …
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August 29, 2009 THE BEST:
BEST DISPLAY OF FAN LOVE: PEARL JAMLet's put it this way: Nobody's walking around San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, the site of the Outside Lands fest, wearing a Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny t-shirt. …
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May 21, 2009 This year's Bacardi B-live tour will make 23 stops in cities across the country, featuring a rotating array of headliners including Q-Tip, Ghostland Observatory, Matt & Kim, Santigold, DJ AM, Tiga, and A-Trak. …
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December 4, 2008 More than 20 years after the release of his last record, 1988's On the Strength, hip-hop luminary Grandmaster Flash is readying his fifth studio album for release.The Bridge: Concept Of A Culture will drop February 23 with a very impressive guest list -- including Q-Tip, Snoop Dogg, and Busta Rhymes!
In addition, fellow legends KRS-One, Big Daddy Kane, and Grandmaster Caz turn in guest spots on The Bridge, as does indie rapper Princess …
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November 13, 2008 What's more indigenous to the college experience than total, abject confusion?
The mtvU Woodie Awards offered that in spades: Who is mumbling listlessly at the podium, Moby? (Yes.) Does this award show exist for any reason besides priapic puns? (Maybe.) What defines "college music" to the greying beast MTV and how did both Kanye and No Age fit through their voters' siphon? (No clue.) Do any of these artists even go to college? …
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November 4, 2008 What? In the rap game it's all about credentials, and Q-Tip has 'em: From his 1989 appearance on De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising to Tribe Called Quest's 1993 magnum opus Midnight Marauders and his collaborations with the likes of Slum Village, Busta Rhymes, and R.E.M., the New York rapper Q-Tip is a hip-hop renaissance man. …
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November 4, 2008 Here's a rundown of the new albums available online and in record stores today:
Little Joy, Little JoyLike a certain NYC rock gang, relaxing in the Cali breeze. READ REVIEW
Q-Tip, The RenaissanceLong-silent, iconic rhymesmith spreads conscious disco fever.READ REVIEW
Dragonette, GaloreHorny Canucks kiss girls (and boys) and make them cry. …
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Red Hare, Nites Of Midnite
Christopher Paul Stelling, False Cities
Big Eyes, Almost Famous
Japanther, Eat Like Lisa Act Like Bart
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, Mind Control
Pure X, Crawling Up The Stairs
pacificUV, After The Dream You Are Awake
Destroid, The Invasion
Marques Toliver, Land of CanAan
Roomrunner, Ideal Cities
Gene The Southern Child & Parallel Thought, Artillery Splurgin'
Human Eye, 4: Into Unknown
The So So Glos, Blowout
The Heliocentrics, 13 Degrees of Reality
Big Black Delta, Big Black Delta
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