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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five was an influential American hip hop group formed in the South Bronx of New York City in 1978. Composed of one DJ (Grandmaster Flash) and five rappers (Melle Mel, Kidd Creole, Cowboy, Mr. Ness/Scorpio, and Rahiem), the group’s use of turntablism, break-beat deejaying, choreographed stage routines and lyricism was a significant force in the early development of hip-hop music.
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LCD Soundsystem has been anticipated since Murphy’s 2002 splash Losing My Edge/Beat Connection, and like it, makes clear that although his musical reference points (Suicide, Eno, Can, ESG, Talking Heads, the Fall, and on and on and on) are upfront enough to be conspicuous, they never quite cross the line into hipster-wallpaper. In fact, if anything, Murphy has a given a good name to cooler-than-thou poses, presenting his music, if not irony-free, then as earnestly as can be expected from someone emulating Mark E. Smith’s pronunciation-uh.
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Young star gets rich, grows up, and takes drugs: It’s a showbiz story about as old as time, and in rap music right now, seemingly no young star is taking as many drugs as Soulja Boy. Weed, syrup, pills, and who knows what else are his muses, and this year he’s found a woozy place where life seems perpetually submerged in a Styrofoam cup. The slow-mo re-work of Zan With That Lean gives you the full double-cup treatment, but it’s on the original where Soulja finds bliss in pure pop.
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Any successful artistic collaboration is going to rely to some degree on serendipity, but Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy” seems an especially uncanny intersection of timing and talent.
Though the partnership between producer Danger Mouse– fresh off the success of The Grey Album, his Jay-Z/Beatles mash-up– and Goodie Mob rapper/soulman Cee-Lo Green seemed like an intriguing match-up from the start, it hardly seemed like a recipe for an instantaneous worldwide smash hit.
Yet from the time it first appeared on the group’s website, “Crazy” became the virtual definition of a viral hit single, eventually becoming the first song to reach #1 on the UK charts solely through download sales. It went on to become the most played song 2006.
The song was originally a demo by Cee-Lo Green for girl group The Pussycat Dolls, as confirmed by lead singer Nicole Scherzinger but they instead chose the song “Don’t Cha” and released it as their lead single.
Sample from Gianfranco & Gian Piero Reverberi – Nel Cimitero Di Tucson (1968)
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I believe CeeLo is talking about ‘tripping’ [using hallucinogens like LSD since he is a bit of psychedelic musician. (Every line fits if this is the true subject.)