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Single of the Week: "Chopped and Screwed" Lil' O, T-Pain and Ludacris
Wire To Wire
Matt Sonzala et al. paid tribute to the late Pimp C last week on KPFT's "Damage Control." If you didn't hear it, download it here. As Mr. Sonzala is fond of saying, "It went down, mayne."
Arrest warrant issued for DMX. In related ne
According to a recent appreciation in Newsweek, if an American household has just one jazz record on the shelf, chances are it's Kind of Blue by Miles Davis. And we were thinking it was Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass' Whipped Cream & Other Delights.
Kind of Blue contains only five tracks. But those songs would define jazz for millions and represent - according to many fans and critics - the absolute pinnacle of artistic achievement for the mercurial trumpet player and composer. Kin
Tracey Deel was shot a dozen times by two teens who wanted her car. She dragged herself the length of three football fields determined not to be just another homocide statistic.
