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Single of the Week: "We Here," Jay'Ton feat. Trae and Yung Quis
Wire To Wire: Nas is not a fan of Canada.
Akon, who has been quite the spokesman as of late, speaks out about Anti-Gun Violence. I wonder why he never spoke out about throwing kids off stages. Oh, yeah, that's right, probably because of this.
Photos by Chris Gray
Alone among its pretty-boy peers in the early and mid-'80s, Duran Duran was the blackest band to regularly hit the pop charts from either side of the pond. Only the Aussies in INXS had anywhere near the same level of interest in funk and disco, and the chops to pull it off.
Reading guitarist Andy Taylor's recent memoir Wild Boy: My Life In Duran Duran, it becomes clear just how much the band was influenced by black music - Chic rhythm section Bernard Edwards and Tony Tho
