I. sounds less compelling when he strays from the theme, bending to tired hip-pop trends not befitting a performer of his stature.
So on Black Light she conspires with hip-hop and pop producer-arranger Mike Elizondo on an album that seems designed to pay its respects to pop radio.
While the categories honored at the VMAs still include video of the year, best new artist, best video in the hip-hop, pop or rock genres and many others, the award show has become a celebration of the MTV family of programming and of the youth that it entertains.
If you believe that art and commerce and provocation and fun -- and hip- hop and disco and teen pop -- can all be one and the same, here's a record for you.
The recently opened Ministry of Sound plays music ranging from hip-hop to Chinese pop.
Fiasco embodies that ethos and should serve as an example for any grizzled rocker who complains about the lack of meaning in contemporary pop and hip-hop music.
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Since then, Akon has sold millions of albums around the world and collaborated with countless pop and hip-hop icons such as Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga, Snoop Dog and Eminem.
Drury helps people dance off their weight through routines set to the songs of Usher, Rihanna, Flo Rida and other pop and hip-hop music he thinks people can recognize and move to.
Following on the heels of heirloom tomatoes and heritage pork, old-world grains have begun to pop up on menus at hip, ingredient-driven restaurants, too.
From a business perspective, that might just make K-Pop the most commercially potent genre to emerge since hip-hop.
But as long as hip-hop's hold on pop culture remains strong, the number of rappers crossing-over into the movies is expected to grow.
It uses NFC-equipped tags that pop into the end of each club and a hip-mounted "GYG" device to collect the data with a battery life of two rounds (about 8 hours) -- and no need to pack a smartphone or tablet onto the course.
As a musician, his innovations in beat-making utilizing pop hooks and organic instrumentation shook up hip-hop and landed him shows with DJ Shadow, El-P, David Lynch and The Roots.
On either side of the road, up the green slope and down on the lake side, turnouts and driveways for lovely inns, kooky ersatz Austrian mini-villages, hip coffee houses and eccentric galleries appear invitingly like pictures in a pop-up book.
There's a crop of young American acts approaching the genre less as ethnomusicology and more like pop, from the hip-hop collage approach of New York's Balkan Beat Box to the emigre garage rock of Los Angeles' Dengue Fever, who headlined the festival's final night.
Minaj fans dismayed by her post-"Super Bass" turn toward pop will be cheered up by the red-meat hip-hop here.
By focusing on the rappers, producers and label owners including interviews with Lil Wayne, Gucci Mane, Big Boi, Scarface, Luke Campbell and other pioneers Westhoff makes the case for the cultural significance of southern hip-hop not only on its own, but as a driving force behind the elements of hip-hop currently working their way into mainstream pop music.
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Kraftwerk were at the forefront of synthesiser pop and had a huge influence on hip-hop and dance music in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
And, as in other parts of the world, certain aspects of hip-hop culture have made their way onto Chinese billboards and pop charts, as well as into Chinese theme songs and television advertising.
He fell out of step with the world of pop music, which, with the rise of hip-hop, had embraced black musicians who were proudly black, and decidedly uningratiating to whites.
During the past decade, Gillis has built a highly orignal body of work five albums and more than a thousand live performances that meticulously matches rock, pop and hip hop beats with verses and hooks from Jay-Z, Lady Gaga, Radiohead, Adele and other radio favorites.
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Even for the most hardcore in hip-hop, there was no shame in admitting love for the King of Pop.
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