“Throw Some D’s,” released in 2006, was the lead single from Alabama rapper Rich Boy’s self-titled debut album. It samples R&B group Switch’s 1979 track “I Call Your Name” and went on to receive remixes from Lil Jon, Kanye West,Rick Ross,Lil Wayne, and Juelz Santana. It ...
Another solo album followed, along with a further spate of collaborations that would forever etch Pharrell’s name into the pop history books; Daft Punk’s Get Lucky and Robin Thicke’s much-maligned Blurred Lines, to name just a handful. By this point, there was no stopping the man, with...