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The sound of popular rap is still skewing down south, as seen with Chamillionaire and Slim Thug. The dirty south sound will continue to be popular throughout the decade.
With Timbaland, The Neptunes, Danger Mouse, and Swizz Beatz, we're seeing a lot of established names in the world of music production popping up in the top 10. Timbaland was already a well-known producer in the 90's, especially his work with Missy Elliot, Aaliyah, Jay-Z, and other notable names in rap and R&B (cutting a lot of artists from this list; seriously he's very prolific). In the mid-2000's, Timbaland started working with more pop acts, like Justin Timberlake, Nelly Furtado, and The Pussycat Dolls (again, cutting a lot out), bringing more mainstream pop listeners to his sound. Like The Neptunes, Timbaland's production style is incredibly distinct and helped to shape what a lot of music in the 2000s sounded like.
This was also the year the second-generation iPod Nano was introduced. This is mostly notable to me because this was the year I upgraded to one from my Walkman, and I saw the music video for Gnarls Barkley's Crazy on that tiny screen and it blew my goddamn mind because I thought I was living in the future.
20 songs I listened to today, October 12, 2023, that I want to share (Spotify Edition, because I unearthed my last iPod today and am about to turn it on):
"Get Off (You Can Eat a Dick) " by Kittie
"One Beat" by Sleater-Kinney
"Johnny Guitar" - Peggy Lee
"4 Leaf Clover" by Erykah Badu
"I'm Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail" by Billie Joe Armstrong & Norah Jones (Everly Brothers cover)
"Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails
"My Confession" by Otep
"Unholy - Orchestral Version" by Sam Smith ft. Kim Petras
"Who Cares?" by Gnarls Barkley
"Of Wolf And Man" by Metallica
"Collect Call" by Metric
"Absolute Hope Absolute Hell" by Fit For An Autopsy
April 4th 2024:
Beyonce - COWBOY CARTER
Jamila Woods - Water Made Us
Marina - Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land
Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy
Anderson .Paak - Ventura
Blood Orange - Negro Swan
Summoning - With Doom We Come
D'Angelo - Black Messiah
Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere (2006)
Chelsea Wolfe's albums:
Birth of Violence
Hiss Spun
Abyss
Pain is Beauty
Apokalypsis
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(I heard She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She in February this year. Love it.)
Dedicated to all of you. To all human beings.
(And I apologize if i have to $P@M , but we've got a lot of catching up to do.
So hi! I'm the creator of the "CeeLoGreen Fans" page (Formely, "Gnarls Barkley Fans" on Youtube / Instagram. For almost 20 years I've been digitally collecting CeeLo-Danger Mouse-GoodieMob-Dungeon Family texts, images, videos and music! This days I had the honour of having not only The Mighty Goodie Mob follow me on social medias, but also CeeLo Green himself, and that's an honor. And now, a duty.
So I decided to post them to all who, just like me, truly enjoy their music, their art their poetry and contradictions. It's been an honor to be a fan of such characters, such artists with so much soul.
In hopes that someday we'll have a 3rd Gnarls Barkley album (which CeeLo has been 'announcing' for some years - and in the 2024's Grammys too) and other ventures and adventures by those artists - specially CeeLo Green, who made me love music, rap, soul.
Hope yall enjoy this trip back down memory lane, into the deep, the Dirty (South), the beginning, even in darkness of the before - but also into the future! Their future. Their music. 🖤
With love, from the greatest CeeLo Green fan out there,
@Joegrafia.