April 18, 2010
Tweet The woman with arguably the greatest album of all time by a female rapper/actor/singer (yes, that’s right), got booed off the stage at the Apollo in 1987. Today her debut album, “The Miseducation of Lauren Hill,” is considered a masterpiece and the golden age peak of female lyricism. Who was really “miseducated”?
January 23, 2010
Tweet \”Halo\” Beyonce killed it at the Haiti telethon Saturday. What’s that saying, “not a dry eye in the place”? Yeah, like that. The song was composed by Ryan Tedder, Evan Bogart and Knowles, although originally intended to go to Leona Lewis then Kelly Clarkston. According to Bogart, an accomplished songwriter, “Halo” was written in ...
August 12, 2009
Tweet When we heard the “smoove” soul of Maxwell come back earlier this summer with a decent resurrection, it sparked our appetite for the meat-and-potatoes of modern, sophisticated love-soul, aka, Ms. Lauren Hill. You don’t understand, we don’t want Lauren Hill; we need Lauren Hill. We need some “Miseducation” II. We need the extended, unedited ...