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...West essentially said that it is impossible to “judge the worst of the present by the best of the past.” Like most people, however, he is not optimistic that many hip-hop fans will ever fully embrace innovative artists such as Mos Def, Lauryn Hill and Talib Kweli. Neither is he optimistic that there will be many more artists like them...
...music and global music aren't mutually exclusive categories. In the '80s Paul Simon, David Byrne and Peter Gabriel blended world beats. More recently, Sting scored a hit with Algerian rai star Cheb Mami, Lauryn Hill covered Bob Marley on MTV Unplugged, and Britney Spears has made a habit of working with Swedish songwriter Max Martin. Madonna, on her latest tour, drew from so many cultures for sonic and sartorial inspiration, it was a surprise Kofi Annan didn't join her for an encore...
...Records chief Chris Blackwell makes a deal with the group to release a record. The result is the album Catch a Fire, which melds reggae spirituality with rock-'n'-roll attitude. In later years, a wide range of acts, from rock guitarist Eric Clapton to hip-hop-soul singer Lauryn Hill, draws from the Wailers' work...
...number of other places, including Virginia Beach, Va. (where she embraced rap), and London, (where she launched her singing career in earnest at age 19). Her music reflects her itinerant upbringing: her album has some elements of hip-hop (it was mixed by Commissioner Gordon, who also worked on Lauryn Hill's hip-hop masterpiece The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill), but it also features some rock-'n'-roll guitars and a bit of country twang. "I'm a soul singer," says Seger. "But I like to rock...
...from the middle-aged Beatlemaniacs still shaking their imaginary moptops. It requires massive sales to the teenagers and twentysomethings who buy most records. The phenomenon of that album followed the success of Santana's Supernatural, which paired a survivor of the '60s with up-to-the-minute acts like Lauryn Hill, Everlast and Rob Thomas from Matchbox 20. And before Santana, there was Aerosmith and Eric Clapton, Neil Young and Tina Turner, Sting and Cher, David Bowie and Bruce Springsteen. All of them sustained long careers by adding younger fans to the ones who remember them from before they...