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...album, “New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)” is loaded with socio-political jibes designed to instigate and agitate its audience. If you’re looking for the sugary sentimentality with which Badu sang “Love of My Life (An Ode to Hip-Hop),” you should probably steer clear of everything but the final track and lead single “Honey.” The 11-song album doesn’t give listeners anything to play while jogging on a Sunday afternoon or standing idly...
...asleep, and oh my, does Chingy have a dream! What no one’s told Chingy, I’d venture to guess, is that some dreams are best kept to oneself. The video for his new single “Gimme That,” is an ode to the unfettered sub-conscious. Generally, when the masturbatory tendencies of one’s deepest thoughts reach the point when they are freely allowed to rear their head in real life, you can be certain of two things. One, you’re crazy. And two, you might just...
...what’s to come.In justification of what may seem like youth-fueled naïveté, I present to you an artist you might have heard of: M.I.A. The British-born artist’s latest album, “Kala,” is an ode to modern originality. Each song is a tenuous marriage of world sounds—Baile Funk, hip hop, rock, and many more. To some, these tracks may sound like no more than an amalgamation of other people’s prefab music. What M.I.A. creates, however, isn’t simply...
...first song’s gallop slows to a canter. “Ode to LRC” begins with formulaic pop-country guitar chords, and despite the aggressive tone of Bridwell’s voice, the song feels empty. The last minute of the song is its best: Bridwell simply sings “The world is such a wonderful place,” adding “La-di-da” over a smoother, wistful guitar sound...
...After an hour, he is ready to respond. He does so first with a half-hour ode to the relationship between man and God that might have been dictated by the Persian poet Rumi. "I believe that Almighty God created the universe for mankind. Man is God's most important creation and it is through him that we appreciate the beauties of the universe. God has sent man here on a mission." That mission, he says, is to pursue love, justice, kindness and dignity. In fact, he repeats those works so often that it begins to sound like a mantra...