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11 Songs Younger Now Miley Cyrus Pop Sep 29, 2017 EDITORS’ NOTES Miley Cyrus moves fast. The fiercely inventive pop star has skipped from Disney darling to rebel-hedonist to tie-dyed hippie in less than a decade, celebrating each transformation with an album. Younger Now marks her next phase. A down-home, blue-skies blend of country and radiant pop, it’s a
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14 Songs All Things Work Together Lecrae Hip-Hop/Rap Sep 22, 2017 About Lecrae One of the leading lights in the gospel-rap movement, Lecrae also has the chart-topping records to prove it. For the typical music fan, his hard demeanor and hard beats might belie what his lyrics are really about: his adoration of Jesus Christ. The main tenet influencing
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Kid Cudi Kid Cudi is a Brooklyn-based rapper from Cleveland whose debut single, “Day ‘n’ Nite,” became an online favorite in 2008. Born Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi in suburban Cleveland, his career took off after he moved to Brooklyn and became affiliated with Fool’s Gold, the label of DJs A-Trak and Nick Catchdubs. The label released the Day ‘n’ Nite
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14 Songs By Any Means 2 Kevin Gates Hip-Hop/Rap Sep 22, 2017 About Kevin Gates Transferring the reflective style of rappers like Drake to the genre of gangsta rap, Louisiana-based MC Kevin Gates spent five-plus years on the mixtape circuit before climbing into the Top 40 of the Billboard 200 album chart with his 2013 release, Stranger Than Fiction. Born
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Coldplay After surfacing in 2000 with the breakthrough single “Yellow,” Coldplay quickly became one of the biggest bands of the new millennium, honing a mix of introspective Brit-pop and anthemic rock that landed the British quartet a near-permanent residence on record charts worldwide. The group’s emergence was perfectly timed; Radiohead had just released the overly cerebral Kid A, while Oasis
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Post Malone Dropping basketball references like the old-school but wrapping them in thoroughly modern beats, Post Malone hit in 2015 with his single “White Iverson.” Raised in Dallas, Malone was NFL before he was NBA thanks to a father who worked for the Cowboys. He loved music from a young age, and planned on joining a band thanks to the
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Thundercat Stephen “Thundercat” Bruner spent the last part of the new millennium’s first decade becoming the go-to bassist for practically every artist in black vanguard music. His nimble, syncopated, groove-heavy basslines were heard on albums by Erykah Badu, Sa-Ra, Flying Lotus, and others. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Bruner had the good fortune to be part of a
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A$AP Mob A Harlem-based hip-hop collective with a Ramones-like naming scheme, A$AP Mob are known for their smoky beats, their throwback vibe, their preference for Gothic and Masonic symbolism when it comes to fashion, and their most successful member, A$AP Rocky. Formed around 2006 by A$AP Yams, A$AP Bari, and A$AP Illz, A$AP Mob soon recruited A$AP Rocky into
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Janet Jackson Janet Jackson didn’t merely emerge from the shadows of her famous brothers to become a superstar in her own right. Starting with her breakout 1986 album Control, she became one of the biggest pop stars of the ’80s. Through the early 2000s, she was able to maintain her stature with impeccable quality control and stylistic evolution. Her singles,
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Slick Rick – Children’s Story Slick Rick Slick Rick foreshadowed and epitomized the pimpster attitude of many rappers during the late ’80s and early ’90s, with gold chains, his trademark eye-patch, and recordings that were no less misogynistic — “Treat Her Like a Prostitute,” for example, became an underground hit in 1988, though it was justly criticized for its view
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