Ian Bavitz, a.k.a. Aesop Rock (born 1976), is a California MC that pretty much doubles as the patron saint of backpacker rap. His “word salad” diatribes have a love-it-or-leave-it effect on rap listeners. Some call him a god, others think he’s the poster boy for cultural appropriation. I think he’s okay.
Rakim Mayers, a.k.a. A$AP Rocky (born 1988), is an NYC rapper and part of the A$AP Mob collective of rappers, who, along with California’s Black Hippy, have been the most prominent posse in hip-hop in the twenty-first century. A$AP blends aspects of gangsta and popular hip-hop to huge commercial success.
Stevie Ray Vaughan (1954-1990), often known as SRV, was a guitarist and founding member of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, a power-trio who headed up the ‘80s blues revival in America. He had giant hands and played monstrous .13 guitar strings, too heavy for most players to bend!
Stevie Nicks (born 1948) is an American singer who joined the British blues-rock band Fleetwood Mac in 1975 and helped them find their own sound before embarking on a successful solo career. She’ll be guesting on American Horror Story: Coven starting in January 2014.
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Feel free to add your own tates! I don’t get the final say on any of this shiz.
Hello noobs! My name’s Whale and I’m a Mod here at RG.
I am here to educate and edify you, turn you around, and set you rolling towards being a well-rounded, non-noobish, straight-ballin' gangsta music listener and lover. Thank me later.
In future installations, which will be dropped each Sunday for the next x number of Sundays, I’m going to be looking at individual genres and artists and breaking them down for you. And there is an entire world of beautiful music you’ve never heard out there. But first, if you wanna lose the noob and gain the shrewd, I have a few basic rules for listening to music.
Learn them. Internalize them. Tattoo them on your genitalia. Maybe don’t actually do that last one so much.
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A G5 Wagon is a Land Rover-style luxury offroading vehicle made by Mercedes-Benz. Angel has a Komodo Dragon-colored one.
Komodo Dragon is the colour used by Mercedes but it actually refers to the world’s largest lizard… not to be fucked with. So Angel’s alluding to her car and the fact that she’s a giant badass.
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This is a very powerful compliment. I believe he is talking about his girlfriend Lowleaf and comparing her to the beauty and magnificence of the the Great Pyramids.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVx2RuANAyk
“If I Ever Stray” is the third single from England Keep My Bones. It begins quietly and builds to a huge crescendo of guitar and brass. The song is designed to be a pub song: something you can sing along to and get rowdy to. Frank uses it to assert that he believes in the life he’s living, and doesn’t want to change it.
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Of these talks, only a small segment from the radio broadcasts of Beyond Personality are available to download today; the rest, unfortunately, did not survive. The surviving snippet deals with prayer and its importance (the first nine minutes), and evolution and its place in Christianity (the remaining seven minutes or so).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MgsoWenaro
The Case for Christianity was published in England as Broadcast Talks.
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You can dress in Gucci, Givenchy, and Prada, but that doesn’t make you any less trashy. There are a ton of basic bitches on parade, but Angel sees through the masquerade.
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Angel does it her ‘'way’‘, and doesn’t give a fuck about what you say or think.
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