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Track:
Shake, Rattle And Roll

Artist:
Big Joe Turner

Album:
Atlantic 1026; wr. Charles Calhoun

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“Shake, Rattle And Roll,” Big Joe Turner

“After Yauch passed away at age 47 last week, the Boys’ Licensed to Ill hits the iTunes chart at Number Six and sells 19,000 copies, enough for Number 18 on the overall Billboard chart.”

The Beastie Boys’ ‘Licensed to Ill’ returns to the album charts in the wake of Adam Yauch’s passing - Rolling Stone
  • Rolling Stone

“I have a question I want to ask you, Mr. President,” I venture, once I catch his attention.

“Sure,” the president says.

“Kanye or Jay-Z?”

The president smiles. “Jay-Z,” he says.

“Although I like Kanye,” Obama continues, with an easy smile. “He’s a Chicago guy. Smart. He’s very talented.” He is displaying his larger awareness of the question, looking relaxed, cerebral but friendly, alive to the moment, waiting for me to get to the heart of the matter.

“Even though you called him a jackass?,” I ask.

“He is a jackass,” Obama says, in his likable and perfectly balanced modern-professorial voice. “But he’s talented.”

David Samuels, The Atlantic
High-res American Mozart Intense, emotional, and frequently out of control, the hip-hop superstar Kanye West allowed his antics to turn him into a national joke and to earn him the criticism of two American presidents. Would a massive concert tour with his friend and rival Jay-Z offer the troubled rapper a taste of redemption—or disaster? Read: The Atlantic

American Mozart

Intense, emotional, and frequently out of control, the hip-hop superstar Kanye West allowed his antics to turn him into a national joke and to earn him the criticism of two American presidents. Would a massive concert tour with his friend and rival Jay-Z offer the troubled rapper a taste of redemption—or disaster?

Read: The Atlantic