Urban Music Guide

Flo Rida’s back! And he’s back with an all new single entitled “Low”!

To all dance and club fanatics, probably this song’s familiar to you, but to those who aren’t, then you must have heard this song some way or another on the radio or in music television. This song has hit the US Hot 100 by storm and was able to acquire the top spot for 10 weeks straight. Flo Rida featured T-Pain, and their team-up resulted to a single that has a mix of heavy dance beats and rap.

Flo Rida also has other hit singles namely “Elevator” featuring artist Timbaland, and “Roll”, featuring Sean Kingston.

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Mariah’s sexy voice did it all for her new single “Touch My Body”. The lyrics may be a bit vulgar for the conservatives but the beat has definitely taken the critics off their plush seats. They had nothing for Mariah’s “Touch My Body” but positive feedbacks. This single is actually Mariah’s 18th number 1 on Hot 100. Co-written by her, the style and tempo of the song lies in between the pop and R&B genres. It has been branded by some as one of the best sensual songs ever made, although opinions vary from person to person. Another note on this song is that it promotes “safe encounters”. It reminds the people that sex is a personal thing and not to be shared to anyone—more so in Youtube.

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They say all respectable things come to an end. And this week, one or our most much-loved iconic screen stars left Hollywood’s constellation. Let us take a moment to remember Paul Newman (1925-2008), one of the older generation’s certified major star. He died at home due to complications arising from cancer.

The younger generation may only know him as the voice of Doc Hudson from the Disney-Pixar movie Cars, since he had retired from film, but he is most remembered for his classic performances like Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, opposite Robert Redford. He is also a genuine philanthropist, founding Newman’s Own, a line of food products that donates all proceeds of the sale to charity. Too, he and wife, actress Joanne Woodward, is hailed as one of the most stellar examples of marriage, having achieved 50 years together, in a world where marriage is often transitory and fleeting.

Good night, sweet prince.

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Do you really think people don’t miss the uber schmaltzy and uber mushy songs of boy bands and girl bands? Think twice. When the Spice girls got back together for a one-time world tour last year, it proved that people STILL want to hear their sappy songs and reminisce the good old times. Now, another groupie wants to join the “bring back the old times” phenomenon: the New Kids On The Block. Yes, even though their youngest member is already turning 30 next year, they still want to get back to whatever they have left in the music industry. NKOTB as a group has sold a total of 70 million albums worldwide during the peak of their careers and became the icons of other teeny-bopper boy bands such as Backstreet Boys and NSYNC.

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Singer and producer Kanye West’s “The College Dropout” was declared by Rolling Stone magazine as the best album of the year in 2005. Spin magazine also voted this album as the best release in the same year. And last but not the least, Time magazine included this album in their 100 best albums of all times list.

Kanye West himself produced the album and did the dirty work himself to get the permissions of the veteran artists whom he used in some tracks. Even though artists like Lauryn Hill and Aretha Franklin did not permit Kanye to use their songs (it would have been great though), the album raked in positive reviews.

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Ja Rule is probably most notable for his duet with Jennifer Lopez. But apart from the duet feat he did, this rapper won a total of 9 awards (MTV Video Music Award, Teen Choice Award, World Music Award and so on and so forth) and sold over 20 million albums worldwide. He has also been nominated numerous times in the Grammy’s. He has had different feature duets not only with J. Lo, but also with Missy Elliott and Ashanti. His “Pain Is Love” album reached number 1 in the Billboard 200. Ja Rule is set to release his latest album entitled “The Mirror” in May 6, 2008. He stated in an interview that this album includes less feature artists as he wants the album to be about himself.

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Sean Paul is best loved by folks who do clubbing. His “Get Busy” single in 2003 has been heard all over the bars in town and has made boys and girls “shake their thing” on the dance floor like there’s no tomorrow. After two years, Sean Paul released yet another dance music entitled “Temperature”. This single again hit the dance clubs as well as the US Billboard Hot 100. Sean Paul’s dance tunes plus his unique style of singing the lyrics (sometimes inaudible but rhyming) indeed branded him as a man of talent. He also tends to sing fast (in a jibberish manner) and so sometimes, you wouldn’t be able to get the exact lyrics of the song not unless you search for it.

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Chris Brown has been active for the past 3 years since he first entered the entertainment world. In his whole music career, he has had several other acts with famed people such as Bow Wow, Rihanna, Ne-yo, Lil Wayne, T-Pain to name a few. His genre has always been hiphop but the music industry had seen him gradually try other genres like R&B, pop and pop rap. Although there were other singers who flopped after they switched genres (not their cup of tea perhaps!), count Chris Brown out. His single “With you” has reached number 6 on the United World Chart, and stayed there for 6 straight weeks. It has received a lot of applauses from critics too.

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Sean Kingston dominated the top charts worldwide in 2007, namely, Canadian Hot 100, EURO 200 Singles Chart, U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart to name a few. Although born in Florida, he spent most of his childhood life in Jamaica and that is the reason why his music has a reggae touch to it. He also pays tribute to where he grew up, Kingston, Jamaica, thus, the pseudonym (his real name is Kisean Anderson). Due to his popularity, he did some guest appearances and opening acts for some of the veterans in the music industry such as Gwen Stefani and Fergie. Teens have been fascinated by him and it was proven during last year’s Teen Choice Awards when he won the R&B track of the year for the song “Beautiful Girls”.

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