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Listeners who only know the rapper Plies from his current hit, “Shawty,” might be shocked — happily shocked, one hopes — by his debut album.
Like so many songs on the radio “Shawty” is built around a toothsome refrain by the R&B cyborg known as T-Pain. But between those choruses lurks a marvelously uncouth rapper.
At a time when hip-hop is dominated by cheerful dance tracks and gooey love songs, Plies is a welcome anomaly: a foulmouthed, streetwise storyteller who seems eager to spoil hip-hop’s good mood.
Plies comes from Ft. Myers, Fla., and he earned himself an eager underground following with a series of mixtapes.
Now after a series of delays comes “The Real Testament,” Plies’ major-label debut that sounds about as raw as his mixtapes. In Plies’ deep-Florida drawl and elastic approach to meter, you might hear an echo of the gruff Miami rapper Trick Daddy. But Plies’ reedy voice and hot-blooded temperament give these songs a power all their own, whether he’s taunting a probation officer or apologizing to his mother.
No doubt the Atlantic executives are most excited about “Hypnotized,” a brisk and breezy Akon collaboration that may well find a home on the pop charts. But the album also includes a slow and woozy revenge track (”Goons Lurkin”), as well as “1 Mo Time,” in which Plies tries a notably unsentimental approach to seduction.
By Kelefa Sanneh, New York Times
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The pop queen Madonna is intending to mark her 50th birthday with a gig at Central Park in New York city. She is thinking about unique ways to celebrate the big day.
The Sun magazine was informed that:”"She is planning to kick off a world tour next June in America to promote her new album. Playing at Central Park would be the highlight. She sees it as a huge televised event.”
If you want to go big you go to the Big Apple, where else?
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“Let’s raise the stakes,” the 31-year-old rapper told hip-hop Web site SOHH.com in an interview posted Friday. “If Kanye West sells more records than 50 Cent on September 11, I’ll no longer write music. I’ll write music and work with my other artists, but I won’t put out anymore solo albums.”
Brian May, the lead guitarist from rock band Queen, is close to earning his doctorate in astrophysics — more than 35 years after quitting his studies to become a rock star.
That there’s a new audio format to buy it in. Pink Floyd’s 1973 album has become the unofficial metric by which one measures a new audio format’s likely takeup, as there’s an apparently insatiable supply of people ready to buy and re-buy it whenever it is re-issued.
Fascinating list of reasons why the case should be reopened, and how Kurt’s “suicide” just doesn’t add up. Prepare to be enlightened.
The following quote sums it up nicely: “The Artist Formerly Known as Prince should know that with behaviour like this he will soon be the Artist Formerly Available in Record Stores. And I say that to all the other artists who may be tempted to dally with the Mail on Sunday.” They really do sound like a bunch of petulant little kids, don’t they?
You start a rock band, which you just happen to name after spending several hours huffing paint and drinking bleach. You’re discovered by a major label and start selling a lot of records. And suddenly you realize that the stupid name you thought up when you were huffing all that paint is going to follow you around for the rest of your life.