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Calling the Biz: The 25-Year Class Reunion of Handsome Boy Modeling School

October 20, 2024October 20, 2024 Dan Weiss 0 Comments 1999, 25th Anniversary, Dan The Automator, Del the Funky Homosapien, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Prince Paul

How an old Fox sitcom informed a genre-bending hip-hop classic

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Hip Hop Psychedelics Rap 

Is He Weird?: Dr. Octagon at 25 

June 11, 2021June 11, 2021 Daniel Offner 0 Comments 1996, Blue Flowers, Bulk Records, Dan The Automator, DJ QBert, Dr. Octagon, Dreamworks, Earth People, Kool Keith

A quarter century later, hip-hop is still trying to keep up with this Kool Keith-sired psych rap classic

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Art Pop Britpop Hip Hop Pop 

Useless, But Not For Long: Gorillaz at 20

March 26, 2021March 26, 2021 Lily Moayeri 1 Comment 2-D, 2001. Damon Albarn, Clint Eastwood, Dan The Automator, Gorillaz, Jamie Hewlett, Miho Hatori, Murdac Niccals, Noodle, Russel Hobbs

Little did we know how bright the future was coming on for the groundbreaking collaboration between Blur’s Damon Albarn and Tank Girl creator Jamie Hewlett when Gorillaz was released on March 26, 2001

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