Word: hops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just interested. I love playing punk rock and I love playing disco and I love writing classical music...that's my background: I've been playing classical music since I was nine years old. And I played in hardcore punk bands, I was a hip-hop DJ for awhile and techno DJ for awhile. I've done a lot of different things and I like to bring all of that into the music that I make...
...almost every classic rock song has maybe four chords. People have been dismissing wonderful music by saying it's simple forever. Most people thought Billie Holiday [was] terribly simple and not worth listening to. Early rock and roll people said was too simple and wasn't music; early hip-hop same thing...
...ERYKAH BADU BADUIZM (Kedar Entertainment/Universal) Some singers can break your heart; Badu can put it back together again. Her neo-soul songcraft draws from soul, jazz, blues and hip-hop--but instead of a chaotic swirl of sound, the result is a slow-burning, meditative album that brings all these genres together. This is healing music about magic and love, racism and reincarnation, late-night parties and Afro picks. Badu's voice is a natural wonder, sharp and metallic, wounded and sad, yearning for empathy in one song, decrying injustice in the next. Her brilliant companion CD, Live, which captures...
...Portishead Portishead (Go! Beat/London) Distorted, wraithlike vocals, blaring Big Band noir horns and deconstructed hip-hop beats--Portishead's eponymous album is both bravely strange and weirdly compelling. This is futuristic and cerebral music, but always heartfelt. The sound of the next millennium, today...
...Mary J. Blige Share My World (MCA). The woman known as "the queen of hip-hop soul" proves with her most confident, sustained work why she wears the crown. The tracks on this CD are gems: expertly cut, with sparkling vocals. Blige's voice, with its oak-dark shadings and unforced, round-the-way sexiness, keeps it all real...