Known for his catchy, upbeat tunes and club-ready anthems, he has been able to achieve massive commercial success by blending pop-infused hooks with clean raps. With over 100 million records sold worldwide and numerous chart-topping singles, his track record proves that you...
In addition, he established the non-profit initiative 501CThree, which provides clean water to communities in need. Smith's diverse portfolio of accomplishments at such a young age reflects his dynamic persona and his continuous pursuit of innovation and impact. Also ranks #1 on The Most ...
“B.o.B” showcases two of the only rappers on earth who could handle such a frenetic 155 BPM instrumental, and “So Fresh So Clean” slows things down for a funky dedication to flyness. OutKast was both dominating radio and moving in a way that seemed to completely ignore it – the...
he sheds that corporatized snakeskin for a few moments of genuine vulnerability: “I replay them nights, and right by my side, all I see is a sea of people that ride wit’ me / If they just knew what Scotty would do to jump off the stage and save him a child,” he raps somberly...
After their skull-snapping 1989 sample-go-‘round Paul’s Boutique flopped, the Beastie Boys wiped the slate clean. Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz, and Adam Yauch set up shop in their Los Angeles headquarters (complete with skateboard ramp and basketball court) and started jamming on the instru...
refining their gritty alchemy without scrubbing it too clean. Kempf and Balla trade yearning, hiccupy vocals across riffs that reverberate like heat waves off asphalt, as McGrady thuds away through the humid air. “If this is all that we get, so be it,” Kempf insists, a bit of wistful ...
Or should it be squeaky clean and sonically pristine? And do they always have to be so very over budget? View the latest CD and vinyl deals on Amazon Besides long hours of hard work, we consistently find that the best-sounding albums happen when the recording studio is used as another ...
“Everybody’s getting younger – it’s the end of an era, it’s true,” mourned frontman James Murphy on opener ‘Dance Yrself Clean’. The ageing hipster was done with the scene he created on 2002’s ‘Losing My Edge’. While intended to be LCD’s swansong, ‘This Is Happening’...
When it comes to gloriously tasty six-string instrumentals, no one does it better than GRAMMY-winning TexanEric Johnson. For his take on this timeless Christmas carol, the "Cliffs Of Dover" guitarist intermingles acoustic-based lines, sublime clean guitar passages andHendrix-y double-stops with ...
An unimpeachable pop-rap classic, “Bust a Move” broke the Top 10 and won the second Best Rap Grammy thanks to the squeaky clean and dazzlingly clever rhymes of Los Angeles-via-New York-via London wordsmith Young MC. The USC student already had two hits under his belt thanks to his ...