Hard II Lovewas a hard shift back to the R&B-rap fusions Usher made his name on, but “Crash” skews closer to his pop-EDM work. Catchy melodies, his lilting falsetto, and the feeling of security that comes from Usher giving all of himself to a lover (“Would you mind if I hold ...
we could have chosen two other ATCQ albums in this spot – 1991’s The Low End Theory is another stone cold classic – but Midnight Marauders elevated Q-Tip, Phife Dawg and co to legendary status. Their jazz-rap fusions were nothing new, but this was them working at the top of their ...
While Caifanes might have been the leading band of Mexico’s rock en español movement, they were part of a cohort that included bands likeCafé Tacuba, Maldita Vecindad, and Fobia — which were experimenting with new fusions of traditional Latin American and rock sounds. Caifanes was at ...