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The 26-year-old Canadian singer, songwriter, producer, and music video director has always been blunt—often taking to Tumblr to opine on topics ranging from sexism down to the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge—but it took a lot of balls for her to admittedly tell The New York Times last fall that the material she was working on as a follow-up to 2012’s sublime Visions album “sucked,” so she tossed the The 50 Most Anticipated Albums of 2015 | Complex

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Grimes responded to an ALS Ice Bucket Challenge on her Tumblr account by saying the following:

Haha okay, [Richie Hawtin] is probably the nicest and coolest person I’ve ever met so i can’t really refuse him. however, I would like to say that I don’t feel great about wasting water in this california drought, but i will donate money. However I will not donate money to this foundation because of their record of testing on animals, but I will donate money to the Malala fund because education is the key to ending almost every issue that faces humanity and our world today. yep yep! do i have to make a video to nominate other people? if so I’ll do that later, but in the mean time Im calling out Detroit madness, Hana pestle and Blood diamonds

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producer, and music video director has always been blunt—often taking to Tumblr to opine on topics ranging from sexism down to the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge—but it took a lot of balls for her to admittedly tell The New York Times last fall that the material she was working on as a follow-up to 2012’s sublime Visions album “sucked,” so she tossed the material and started all over again. Though I don’t agree with frustrations some fans had with her single “Go,” which was originally intended for Rihanna, I do trust Grimes and her ability to mesh multiple influences and tones into The 50 Most Anticipated Albums of 2015 | Complex

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upon winning the Grammy for Best Rap Album early last year, even he recognized that it might not have been the right call. But in a recent Hot 97 interview, he came off as a pretty self-aware guy, admitting to his own privilege in the rap game and urging white people to question their own privileges. Musically, Macklemore laid low in 2014, but now that he’s had some time to re-appraise his goals (not to mention, now that you’ve finally The 50 Most Anticipated Albums of 2015 | Complex

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His Rolling Stone interview got a lot of publicity after he said the following:

If you’re going to be a white dude and do this shit, I think you have to take some level of accountability. You have to acknowledge where the art came from, where it is today, how you’re benefiting from it. At the very least, just bringing up those points and acknowledging that, yes, I understand my privilege, I understand how it works for me in society, and how it works for me in 2013 with the success that The Heist has had.

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with Ryan Lewis, his producer, engineer, and unofficial hypeman) was the white rapper du jour. The Seattle MC’s brand of earnest, socially conscious pop-rap may not have been without flaw; upon winning the Grammy for Best Rap Album early last year, even he recognized that it might not have been the right call. But in a recent Hot 97 interview, he came off as a pretty self-aware guy, admitting to his own privilege in the rap The 50 Most Anticipated Albums of 2015 | Complex

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His acceptance speech can be watched below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9mvw66a6yk#t=44

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one of the first rappers to leverage blog buzz into a legitimate mainstream career; he collaborated with Mark Ronson, Amy Winehouse, and Lily Allen, remixed blogwave darlings Justice, and crafted a critically acclaimed mixtape homage to Seinfeld, 2008’s The Mixtape About Nothing. But though Wale’s profile has only raised since then, things started to unravel a bit in recent years. His major label albums haven’t been received as favorably as his earlier work, and that didn’t The 50 Most Anticipated Albums of 2015 | Complex

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This snippet explains the Seinfeld reference.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQnaRtNMGMI

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In a few short years, Mike WiLL Made It went from producing mixtape cuts for Gucci Mane to changing the sound of hip-hop radio with Future’s trap ballads and producing massive pop hits for Miley Cyrus. Now, he’s focused on building his own empire with EarDrummers Entertainment, and started off 2015 with the label’s first album release through Interscope, Rae Sremmurd’s debut album, SremmLife. The 50 Most Anticipated Albums of 2015 | Complex

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People may recall the two of them collaborating on “23”, but Mike WiLL also produced many of Cyrus’s Bangerz tracks, including, “We Can’t Stop”, “Drive”, and “Love, Money, Party”.

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I wanna rock with somebody (Woo, yeah)
I wanna take shots with somebody (Shot, shot, shot, shot)
I wanna leave with somebody (Somebody, come on, come on)
And we ain't gonna tell nobody, we ain't gonna tell nobody (Nobody) Natalie La Rose (Ft. Jeremih) – Somebody

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Heavily inspired by Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)”, Jeremih lists off some of the things he wants to do with a lady at the nightclub: dance with her, drink with her, and (eventually) take her somewhere private to have sex.

(He doesn’t care who he seduces; as long as he achieves this, he’s good.)

The echo of “shots” in the background is intentionally reminiscent of Lil Jon repeating the word in “Shots” by LMFAO.

The last line pays homage to one of his earlier hits, “Don’t Tell ‘Em”.

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from that perspective, it changes the dynamic of the song. We kind of did something like that on "He Said, She Said," which was about the single mother and single parent talking to this father and they used the exact same verse but kind of switched the pronouns around, but it was the exact same thing but it came from two different sources. It's almost like the inverse of four, five albums later, you learn that switching out one word changes the dynamic of the entire song, and pizza becomes a metaphor for something else and the words Lupe Fiasco Talks New Album, Defending Iggy Azalea & Quitting Twitter: 'I Don't Want To Be Relevant' | Billboard

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long, you start to become -- I won't call myself a master but you become very proficient in being able to structure things in subtle but powerful ways. Take a song like "Deliver" and the pizza man.It's kind of also saying 'peace of man' like 'peace of man don't come here no more.' Once you look at it from that perspective, it changes the dynamic of the song. We kind of did something like that on "He Said, She Said," which was about the single mother and single parent talking Lupe Fiasco Talks New Album, Defending Iggy Azalea & Quitting Twitter: 'I Don't Want To Be Relevant' | Billboard

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Lupe actually tweeted about this about a month after “Deliver” was released.
https://twitter.com/LupeFiasco/status/544201798093770752

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of destroyed the atmosphere, right? It's just how are we going to react to it. You have people like Taylor Swift saying its like a science experiment she doesn't want to be a part, and it's like,they tell her you are going to lose $6 million this year if you don't do this. You are supposed to be on the artist side. If you wanted to be on the artist's side then you should have did deals directly with the artists, and not the labels. As much as you want to say, 'Well, Lupe Fiasco Talks New Album, Defending Iggy Azalea & Quitting Twitter: 'I Don't Want To Be Relevant' | Billboard

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The $6 million reference alludes to the amount of money that Spotify would give to a top-tier artist like Taylor Swift for the amount of plays she gets on their music streaming service.

After Swift took her entire music catalog off Spotify, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek had this to say on the website:

At our current size, payouts for a top artist like Taylor Swift (before she pulled her catalog) are on track to exceed $6 million a year, and that’s only growing — we expect that number to double again in a year. Any way you cut it, one thing is clear — we’re paying an enormous amount of money to labels and publishers for distribution to artists and songwriters, and significantly more than any other streaming service.

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