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Straight Outta Compton – Explicit Content Only

N.W.A’s Straight Outta Compton edited down to just its profanity.

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Fool’s Gold – Surprise Hotel

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Possessed

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The xx – Basic Space

Give the song some time — it builds up to something pretty great.

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Die Antwoord

Die Antwoord is a South African rap-rave trio that borders on parody. The third member in the group, DJ Hi-Tek Solarize (Leon Botha), is one of the oldest living sufferers of progeria syndrome. All in all, it’s a bizarro blend of shit that sounds pretty decent.

Warning: video has mild boner swanging (sort of not safe for work).

Edit: Thanks for the clarification, Jermaine.

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Fever Ray melty face acceptance speech

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Delegation – Oh Honey

I just heard this on the radio and I can’t get it out of my head. So good.

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Sound of Souleyman

Kiya introduced me to Omar Souleyman last night. Souleyman is a Syrian singer mixing the traditional styles of dabke dance with live instruments and weird frantic spazzcore keyboard synths.

Omar Souleyman is a musician from Syria. He began his career in 1994, working with a number of musicians with whom he still performs, and around five hundred studio and live albums have been released under his name. (Wikipedia)

Björk spoke highly of Souleyman during NPR’s You Must Hear This segment in June of 2009. You’ll also have to check out this montage video with group dancing; he also makes it rain money near the end of the clip.

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Let Love Rule

A mashup of Justice and Lenny Kravitz’s “Let Love Rule” directed by Keith Schofield. The extended video has a cheesier introduction.

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Rappers’ thoughts on the recession

I bookmarked this XXL Mag blurb that compiled quotes from rappers’ about their thoughts on the economic recession, and only got around to reading it now. There’s a goldmine of interesting things to infer and discuss from these responses, but I’ll just leave you with some of the ones I found most striking.

Buckshot: “There is no such thing as a recession, the recession is an illusion. And people like Buckshot and Steve Jobs and Bill Clinton and Bill Gates and all of these other people that deal with corporate business, we all know that it’s an illusion, it’s a scare tactic and it’s meant to do what it’s been doing to people.”

Here’s another gem:

Tru Life: “Oh nah, that shit [recession] ain’t touched me not a bit. It ain’t a game man. I just bought 4 or 5 brand new black cars and only because I felt like the haters thought I was doing bad or something. Now it looks like a funeral when I pull up. They just saw me being humble, I’m a real humble dude. You know I live by my needs, I don’t really live outside of my needs.”

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Brenda Holloway – Unchained Melody

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Distant Lover

(Thanks Adrienne.)

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SpottieOttieDopaliscious

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Ratatat – Shempi

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Transmission

A scrolling animation of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures cover.

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