Various Artists, '...Clones" (Star Trak/Arista) / Spymob, 'Sitting Around Keeping Score' (Star Trak/Arista)
The Neptunes' class reunion and first rock band.
By Jon Caramanica 06.26.03 3:00 AM
Traveling is fun—you make loads of new friends, try all sorts of crazy things you can’t do at home. But the more you do it, the more the trips blur together. After a while, your tour of duty with N.O.R.E. blurs into your drunken spring break with Busta Rhymes.
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Five Spot: Saliva
Joey Scott of Saliva gets passionate
By Jon Caramanica; Spin Staff 06.25.03 3:00 AM
Joey Scott of Saliva gets passionate
Spin: What's the first record you put on in the morning?
Josey Scott: Alison Krauss' Forget About It. It's an amazing record. It's not crossbred pop country. Like Merle Haggard says--from when "Coke was still cola and a joint was a bad place to be."
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Common, 'Electric Circus' (MCA)
By Jon Caramanica 06.23.03 3:00 AM
Common has always had something of the faux-hemian about him. Once a plainspoken Chicago B-boy with an allegiance to hip-hop as it was, Common relocated to Brooklyn a few years back to see what hip-hop might become. Before long, he was rocking a bold granola-pimp wardrobe and canoodling with neosoul heroine Erykah Badu.
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Prince Paul, 'Politics of the Business' (Razor & Tie) / The Majesticons, 'Beauty Party' (Big Dada/Ninja Tune)
Indie rappers mock the house, y'all.
By Jon Caramanica 05.23.03 3:00 AM
Back in 1999, former De La Soul producer Prince Paul released A Prince Among Thieves, a concept album about a naive young MC chewed up and spit out by the game. A savage satire with a breakbeat laugh track, Thieves was bitterly funny and sharper than a box cutter.
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