Chiddy Bang did a lot of things correctly right off the bat. Their tracks sampling MGMT’s “Kids” and Passion Pit’s “Better Things” (also Sufjan Stevens and Radiohead), were basically irresistible to music blogs/the internet, and quickly led to success in the UK and US. Their debut EP, The Preview, is out now via EMI.
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Barack Obama campaign spokesman, Bill Burton, spoke out against lyrics to a Ludacris track off of his new mixtape with DJ Drama, The Preview. “Politics” does support Obama, but also mentions Clinton, McCain, Bush, and Jessie Jackson.
“As Barack Obama has said many, many times in the past, rap lyrics today too often perpetuate misogyny, materialism, [...]