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...A YouTube user called PluggingAI offers songs imitating the voices of the deceased rappers Tupac and Notorious B.I.G....
...Like Casa ML’s evolution from a B&B into something grander, the dish was testament to going with the flow. Slow Food Fast Cars is published by Phaidon at £39.95 @ajesh34...
...Put it right in the living room and your guests will have plenty to talk about. theberkelworld.com The Art of the Atlantic Salmon Fly by Joseph B Bates, £100I go to the tremendous bookshop Sotheran’s any...
...Spoken word, folk, hip hop and R&B are placed alongside traditional opera....
...It’s sort of was like a Lana Del Rey feeling, a kind of R&B feeling song. I really thought it was good. And I think she’s really, like, perennially good....
...Though the record, with its pioneering mix of lush electronics, boisterous pop and haunting R&B, was met with praise, Paul found the incident upsetting and he disappeared....
...Like the yawning sequence of R&B songs on 2018’s Scorpion, the 14 tracks find Drake mostly singing rather than rapping....
...For inspiration, see Drake’s classic Oxford button-downs, which come in a whole array of sunny colours....
...Brandee Younger is the go-to harpist of her generation, with credits ranging from veteran saxophonist Pharoah Sanders to John Legend, Drake and drummer/producer Makaya McCraven....
...Earlier in the summer, Drake also released an escapist house music-influenced album....
...His new album Un Verano Sin Ti set a Spotify record for most streams in a single day with 183mn, knocking Drake into second place....
...The rapper’s indulgent desire to break into R&B singing is kept under control, as is his habit of borrowing from the sounds of UK rap or Afrobeats....
...More recent hip hop, such as Jay Z and Drake, has evolved into more commercial music, the buyer said....
...“Dreams” was streamed more than 230m times in the fortnight after its TikTok renaissance, a 40-year-old hit becoming the sixth most popular song on Spotify, wedged between new tracks by Drake and Cardi B...
...With help this week from Lauren Fedor, Peter Barber, George Drake Jr, Gavin Kallmann and Mike Bruning. Theme song is by Metaphor Music. This transcript has been automatically generated....
...I love the painting “Party Frocks” by Arthur B Timothy, a Ghanaian-born and London-based architect and painter, whose work often draws on memories from his years growing up in Ghana, Sierra Leone and the...
...More commercially driven than Fela’s hybridised scene of more than 50 years ago, it unites modern west African pop with hip-hop, R&B, reggae and dancehall....
...The style is familiar to Toronto’s most successful musical export, Drake....
...At Warner-owned Atlantic Records, home to acts such as Cardi B, there is a president of Black Music, while Columbia Records, which houses Beyoncé, has an urban music department....
...A passage of crooned R&B songs, sung in a soft, wheedling voice, was briskly truncated. But the rapper worked both the venue and his material hard....
...But Scorpion really comes unstuck in the R&B side. Songs maunder on, a repetitive insight into the litany of come-ons and complaints that characterise the Drake wooing process and its aftermath....
...This a) stops users leaving the platform, as they'll have to reset their musical profile with a competitor and b) perpetually sharpens the instincts of its recommendation algo, attracting new users....
...In 2016, Drake released the song “One Dance” featuring the Afropop musician Wizkid; it is the second most streamed song on Spotify ever....
...Harriet Fitch Little, India Ross and Griselda Murray Brown discuss Drake, Cardi B and DJ Khaled - in particular 'Wild Thoughts' ft....
...“It speaks to the youth; it’s the energy, the R&B tempo and the happy vibe....
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