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The Slim Shady LP marked the rise of a rap legend


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Back in the ’90s, the hip-hop scene was mostly focused on East and West Coasts. On the West Coast, Tupac was blurring the lines between a rapper and a poet, Snoop Dogg wrote funky hits every single day and who could forget the mack daddy himself, Dr. Dre, who was cranking out hit after hit. […]

Maroon 5’s first album was its best


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One day, on a Sunday morning, my dad played a song called “Sunday Morning” and I really liked it. I thought the singer was really smooth, and all of the instruments that came together sounded like what a band that has great synergy should sound like. Even though I was young at the time, probably […]

99.9% makes for the perfect summer album


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During my junior year of high school, my friend Billy, who is my guru for everything in the world of electronic music, showed me something called a boiler room on YouTube after a session of mixing music. He explained to me that these were invite-only shows where an artist, usually a DJ-producer hybrid, would show […]

The Emancipation of Mimi evokes feelings of nostalgia


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The summer of 2005 was one of the best summers I’ve ever had. I had just finished my favorite year of school (third grade was all that and a bag of chips), and I was ready for watching sunsets at 9 p.m., Detroit Tigers games, sleeping over at friends’ houses and gluing my eyes to […]