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I can’t and don’t claim to be a musician, I can’t and don’t claim to be a music connoisseur, I can’t play music and I don’t know what’s cool in music (until Dustin tells me about it, that is). What I can claim is Brett Dennen’s album, So Much More, really is so much more better than any other album I have heard in a so much longer while than ever!

I must add, that being cut off from music, also means I’m cut off from the radio and “music TV” with all those flashy, noisy, fast moving pictures. The reason I’m telling you this is, Brett Dennen; I couldn’t tell you if he is on the radio or MTV or Much Music, or if he is some singer-songwriter that is well known in the singer-songwriter crowd…I just don’t know.

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On this podcast Benson focused on a genre yet to be addressed on Mixtape Songs: Hip-Hop. You’ll be hearing straight up, head bopping hip-hop, the way it was intended to be. No lyrics about making money, rolling on Spinnaz, or bustin’ caps… just keepin’ it real.

If the songs heard in this week’s podcast were more available during the 1990’s, would current mainstream hip-hop still be overrun by bling-blingers and cellphone-ringaz?

I don’t think so…

what do you think?

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Podcast #9 - Can I kick it?

Coolio, Spice Girls, Avril Lavigne…you can sing the lyrics, hum the tunes, recognize the faces…Yet, you would never admit to a friend such shameful things. Although I’m still divided on the admittance part, Lady Sovereign falls into the same category: catchy tunes and witty lyrics.

Lady Sovereign a.k.a. SOV, the self proclaimed “Biggest Midget in the Game”, is a 19 year old British hip-pop artist who’s latest album Public Warning released in 2006, is the epitome of what I call a “skipper”. When you find a skipper, the following scene usually unfolds: The first time you listen to SOV, all you hear is a little British psuedo-jamaican-accented girl spitting out profanities. So, what’s your first instinct? Skip!

But wait, another track comes on, your ears get tickled by the sound of the energizing blip-blop synth sounds of Love me or Hate me, the Ladys headliner track. After a few lines, you realize she’s quite fluid, could even say, not unlike the Nile, she flows; and her British accent seems to actually add to the already somewhat unique and humorous sound.

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