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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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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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