Articles by Pierre Hamilton

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  Fabolous

  From Nothin' To Somethin'

  PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2007

  Fabolous has the kind of monotone flow that will put you to sleep. Conscious of his lack of personality, he ducks behind the status of othe...

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  Mark Ronson

  Version

  PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2007

  The brunt of the criticism circling Mark Ronson’s album says he was wrong to make these white bred indie rock songs strut in distinctly bla...

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  T-Pain

  Epiphany

  PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2007

  Five tracks into this disc, a woman reveals to T-Pain — in a musical interlude — that she has H.I.V. He blames her at first, before relenti...

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  Buddy Picture

  FILM

  PUBLISHED Jun 22, 2007

  Forget about Facebook, drop your remote and steer your web browser to clarkandmichael.com. There, in the tradition of so-awkward-it's-funny...

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  Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

  Strength & Loyalty

  PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2007

  In the pantheon of fast-talking, lyrical tongue twisters, the mid-’90s belonged to Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. Twelve years past their 1995 expir...

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  KRS-One and Marley Marl

  Hip-Hop Lives

  PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2007

  The Blastmaster teams with foe-turned-friend Marley Marl to breathe life into the dying corpse of hip-hop. "Hip-Hop Lives” is the obvious f...

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  Various

  Human Element: The World's First Human Beatbox Compilation

  PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2007

  American Idol runner-up Blake Lewis resurrected the art of human beatboxing this past year. And not since Officer Jones of Police Academy h...

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  Blue Scholars

  Bavani

  PUBLISHED Jun 12, 2007

  Beware of most musicians peddling "the sky is falling” protest music —but not the Blue Scholars. Passionate and preachy, the Seattle-based...