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.
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.
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.
And still others say that the name comes from the sound the peas make as they pop and hop around the pan.
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.
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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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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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
The result is a fast, tough, deadpan-funny pop epic about the Queen of the Hop getting kidnapped by the Leader of the Pack and rescued by the Soldier Boy as well as a postmodern riff on the abduction of Helen of Troy.
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