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In 1996 when 2Pac released All Eyes on Me, the album was a hit and went on to define rap of that decade. I always enjoyed the track Shorty Wanna Be a Thug but never gave it much thought. In 2006 I finally listened to Late Registration, the sophomore album from Kanye West and immediately [...]
If you get nothing else out of this post, I encourage you to visit whatiswhat.com, browse to the section titled what is… and read the faq. Bill Shannon was born with Perthes’ disease, aka Legg-Calve disease. In layman’s terms, where the thighbone connects to the hip, the top of the thighbone does not develop properly [...]
Aphex Twin is known for a lot of great electronic music. Windowlicker the track, or rather the accompanying music video, really turned me on to AT. Windowlicker was a great juxtaposition next to the growing popularity of bling rap videos and I was mesmerized. Another track I liked by Power-Pill (aka Aphex Twin) was a [...]