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Hip-hop isn't dead, and here are 2009's ten best albums

By Dan Leroy
Dec 31, 2009

Hip-hop isn't dead, and here are 2009's ten best albums
Top Hip-Hop Albums of 2008

In '08, rap didn't always equal pap.

By Dan Leroy
Jan 1, 2009

Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak (Def Jam) West's fourth album almost completely dispensed with rapping, thereby perplexing and vexing scores of fans and supporters. The music itself was low-key, chilly techno that featured West's Auto-Tuned croon as the most prominent element; inevitably, what support West loses from his fan base...
No One Ever Really Disappears

Pharrell Williams is happy to be just one of the band again.

By Dan Leroy
May 1, 2008

Name a pop music A-lister, and he or she has either worked with Pharrell Williams or probably wants to. Gwen Stefani, Jay-Z, Britney Spears, Kanye West, Snoop Dogg, and Madonna all fall into the first category. Need more proof? But as he has transformed himself into one of the three...
Duran Duran

Red Carpet Massacre (Epic)

By Dan Leroy
Dec 13, 2007

Duran Duran had two options when it set out to make Red Carpet Massacre, its first album in four years: Try to reclaim New Wave disco from contemporary disciples like the Killers, or go for the commercial gusto by teaming with a red-hot producer. And there are plenty of reasons...
Snap to It

Comeback kids, rhymin' Limeys, and songs about partying defined Hip-Hop Nation in 2006

By Dan Leroy
Dec 21, 2006

It was, according to no less an authority than the New York Times, the year rap went regional. There was plenty of recent evidence to support this claim, beginning with the suddenly paltry record sales by some of hip-hop's heaviest weights. There was also lots of historical evidence: Ever since...

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