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  M.I.A. Does It Well: Hear Switch's 'Bad Girls' Remix With Missy Elliott and Rye Rye

  June 21, 2012 – Ah, yes, here's further proof of the prescience of Beyoncé's 4 player-replacer "Run the World (Girls)." On Sunday night, the San Francisco pop-rock band Girls' music appeared on the HBO post-mumblecore show Girls, reversing an earlier apparent beef launched from the Twitter account of frontman Christopher Owens. Now, M.I.A. …
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  Rye Rye: 'I'm Trying to Be a Role Model'

  May 17, 2012 – In 2009, sassy Baltimore Club MC Rye Rye, a then-recent addition to M.I.A.'s N.E.E.T. Recordings entourage, was set to release her debut album to an eagerly awaiting audience. …
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  Rye Rye, 'Go! Pop! Bang!' (Interscope)

  May 15, 2012 – When Rye Rye first appeared, she seemed destined to explode — and she sort of did, briefly, bum-rushing the summer of 2007 with her frenetic, party-starting bounce anthem "Bang!" Wherein the artist born Ryeisha Barrain managed what seemed impossible at the time: She outshined M.I.A., who was sponsoring the 16-year-old's alleged fast track to fame. …
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  Hear Rye Rye's Slithery M.I.A. Team-Up 'Rock Off Shake Off'

  May 10, 2012 – Rye Rye and M.I.A. are together again, this time in a tantalizing taster for the Baltimore rapper's May 15 debut album on nascent beer-bottle designer Maya Arulpragasam's N.E.E.T. imprint (via the Hairpin). …
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  Rye Rye Rules a Video Game World in 'Boom Boom' Video

  March 22, 2012 – Call her Game Genie. Rye Rye cracks video game after video game in the new video for feather-light electro-pop earworm "Boom Boom," from the Baltimore rapper-singer's long-awaited Go! Pop! Bang! (due out May 15). It's a winning approach for the song, which already resembles video game music in its Vengaboys-derived hi-NRG simplicity. Where Lana Del Rey prefers to watch her man play "Video Games," Rye Rye would rather take over. …
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  Rye Rye Goes for Dance-Pop Jugular on 'Boom Boom'

  February 29, 2012 – The long and winding road to a debut album from the Baltimore rap's scene's most likely legitimate crossover hope has taken a day-glo late-'90s turn. It's been more than four years since Rye Rye started turning heads outside Charm City with the raw, youthful charm of Blaqstarr-assisted "Shake It to the Ground", more than one year since her eerily humming "Sunshower" collaboration with label chief M.I.A., and eight long months since her …
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  The 27 Winter Albums That Matter Most

  November 29, 2010 –  …
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  WATCH: M.I.A. and Rye Rye's Hot New Clip

  October 8, 2010 – Baltimore rapper Rye Rye's debut video "Bang" featured a guest appearance from her mentor (and label head) M.I.A. Now the Sri-Lankan MC has returned to co-star in Rye Rye's hot new video "Sunshine," from her first full-length, Go! Pop! Bang!, due next January. …
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  Terrific Twitter Trio of the Week

  May 14, 2010 – Lots of people tweet -- but all that Twitters is not gold. That's why you'll want to check out SPIN.com every Friday to see whose tweets we're reading this week -- then update your TweetDeck! …
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