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...GNARLS BARKLEY ST. ELSEWHERE Rapper Cee-Lo and producer Danger Mouse (he of the gene-spliced Grey Album--a mix of the Beatles' White Album and Jay-Z's Black Album) present the best psychedelic soul record since the P-Funk era. Cee-Lo has Bobby Womack-style chops and a willingness to get vulnerable, but Danger Mouse replaces all the moldering soul tropes--over-the-top strings, key-changing hysterics--with minimalist bass lines, trippy samples and planetariums full of crunchy galactic sounds. The result on Necromancing, Just a Thought and the superb Crazy (the first single...
...Gnarls Barkley “Crazy” Dir. Robert Hale “Crazy,” the first single from the team of Cee-Lo Green (the soul machine) and DJ Danger Mouse (“The Grey Album”), is so goddamn funky that it reached number one on the UK singles charts in its first week of release…before the single was even sold in stores. Downloads of the song alone outnumbered the sum of sales across all media of the nearest competitor (who was, ironically enough, Morrissey), making history in the process...
...good soiree, the guests leave sated with business cards and plans. Cee-Lo is collaborating with Dangermouse on an album named “Gnarls Barkley,” due early next year, and Iron Man-lover Ghostface (who drops the best guest verse of the album on “The Mask”) and supervillain Doom have plans for a collaborative project (tentatively titled “Iron Man meets Metalface”) as well. Here’s hoping they drop the gimmicks on future projects, and that Adult Swim fans new to the hip-hop savants...
...this day and age, there are very few opportunities to be great. I’m not talking about being a hero. Heroes sacrifice their well-being and sometimes their lives for the benefit of others, and should be emulated. Athletes are rarely heroic. As Charles Barkley famously noted, he is not a role model. However, I do believe that he was great...
Luckily, one of Obama's gifts is that he is meticulously self-aware, and he knows that the frenzy that surrounds him doesn't entirely make sense. Shortly before his victory, we met at his campaign headquarters in Chicago--sandwiched between his appointments with Charles Barkley and celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz. "What's going on? I'm not entirely sure," he said, looking tired but steady. "I think what people are most hungry for in politics right now is authenticity...