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Jon Pareles’ “A Southern Rapper With a Lot of Friends“:

In his music, Lil Wayne goes well beyond the basics of “dirty South” hip-hop. His hoarse voice gives his songs a texture that’s both weathered and slyly amused, for a glimmer of New Orleans R&B. He regularly changes up his delivery, borrowing Jamaican dancehall inflections or landing syllables on unlikely offbeats. He also has some quirky fixations: on food, on 1980s movies and on punning wordplay. Over the last few years, he has been ubiquitous, not only on his own albums but also on mixtapes and as a collaborator. He let the women in the audience enthusiastically sing the melody of “You,” a 2006 single by Lloyd that had a guest rap by Lil Wayne.

Accompanied by the marvelous piano, Nguyen Thao gives an astounding performance of “Khat,” the best track off Giang Son’s album. Have a great weekend folks!

better watch out 🙂

I am following you, Ray

Drinking blueberry smoothie

All alone at work 🙁

“Southside” featuring Kanye West and “Play Your Cards Right” featuring Bilal.

In my review of Ngoc Ha’s recent album, I said what I want to hear next from Ngoc Ha is a Pham Duy’s album with the collaboration of Duc Tuan. It has yet to happen, but Duc Tuan’s latest album has a few songs Ngoc Ha has recorded in the past for Thuy Nga. “Tinh Hoai Huong” was one of her big hits as well as one of his strong cuts on the record. The reason I never pay much attention to Ngoc Ha before she left Thuy Nga was very obvious: the productions always failed me. So placing Duc Tuan‘s and Ngoc Ha‘s version side by side, we could hear the differences in the orchestration. The digital arrangement in her version is nowhere near the lively orchestrated arrangement in his. Vocally, both are exceptional in their own rights. While he soars like a bird, she takes a flight down to nostalgia, especially when she wraps up the tune with “Que huong ay…” In an interesting contrast, Duc Tuan left out the last three words in his version. My prediction is that both Duc Tuan and Pham Duy are now living in Viet Nam so “que huong ay” isn’t relevant anymore. Any thoughts?

Nowadays celebrities in Viet Nam either get hooked up with Viet Kieu or non-Vietnamese. Even Hong Nhung has found her a Quiet American. I better hurry up and grab Dam Vinh Hung for myself before someone else would. So hands off guys, that bitch is mine.