Snoop's decision to allow a generic bottle-tapping Neptunes beat and crooned hook onto a record in 2008 was perhaps ill-considered.

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In 2009, Billboard named the Neptunes the top producers of the decade.

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Williams, who turns 39 on April 5, formed the production duo the Neptunes with childhood friend Chad Hugo, and from there established his distinctive sound.

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We assume it also supports DRM'd WMA playback since the player will be launching with Ultra's, or should we say PassAlong Network's, NepTUNES music service which is PlaysForSure certified.

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Nearly 2, 000 years ago, the indigenous Northwest people inhabited the remote Anthony Island as well as other spits of land that make up the Queen Charlotte Islands, sandwiched between the Hecate Strait and the Pacific. (In the Haida tongue, Anthony Island is known as SGang Gwaay and Queen Charlotte is Haida Gwaii.) The tribes' people, whose population likely peaked at more than 7, 000 archipelago-wide, were Neptunes of the sea.

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