Okayplayer

...Williams," a funny, sad, wondrously alive exploration of the past-due credit-card blues that won a contest to appear on ?uestlove's first Okayplayer compilation. So it isn't surprising that he's traded in his prance-about stage moniker for...

In this article: Supastition, Vitamin D, Foreign Exchange, Khrysis, Nicolay, Phonte, Reality Check, and North Carolina

...cut that imagines what The Jets would've sounded like if they'd been singing about getting some instead of just having crushes". The website Okayplayer called "Do It" and the Loose tracks "Maneater " and "Glow" "electronic -influenced dance...

In this article: Do It, Loose, Timbaland, Gwen Stefani, Billboard, Promiscuous, Maneater, and Slant Magazine

...regular tours and an annual "Roots Picnic" all day event. 1. "Okayplayer" is the shorthand name for okayplayer.com. Okayplayer is not a record label. Okayplayer.com is an online community. This community is made up of like-minded recording...

In this article: Questlove, Foreign Exchange, The Roots, Little Brother, Thompson, Nicolay, and Phonte Coleman

...a teaser/promotional debut. A new version of the album would be released spring 2007, with updated songs and cover art. On October 17, 2007, Okayplayer reported, through discussions with Mos Def's management, that these rumors were...

In this article: True Magic, Mos Def, Geffen Records, Nolia Clap, Metacritic, Undeniable, MTV, Juvenile, and United States

...CMJ charts(4/3/2007) and was given press coverage in XXL, Goods, and Vapors magazines as well as countless internet zines and blogs. He was featured on the OKAYPLAYER website in early 2007. He is also a member of the Sputnik Brown collective.

...any more. Fortunately, Tanya Morgan (a partnership of Cincy's Ilyas and Donwill and Brooklyn rapper/producer Von Pea, formed on the Okayplayer message board) brings out the best in each MC-- "Bang & Boogie" is an unrelentingly good-natured ode...

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...them out near bookstores. She also promoted it in her signature when she posted on Internet forums. Founded the music-related website Okayplayer.com with Ahmir Thompson (drummer for The Roots). The website is currently the home of The...

In this article: Angela R. Nissel, Halle Berry, Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts, Okayplayer.com, Publisher's Weekly, Entertainment Weekly, University of Pennsylvania, USA Today, Down and Out in Paris and London, and George Orwell

...prolific drummer for the Roots ("Late Night with Jimmy Fallon"), channeled his feelings about Baatin's passing via a hip-hop love letter posted on Okayplayer.com. "?uestlove's Part Eulogy/Apology Letter/Manifesto on His Favorite Group Slum...

In this article: Baatin, Katherine Jackson, Questlove, Slum Village, Michael Jackson, Elzhi, Okayplayer.com, Free Press, and James Dewitt Yancey

...... i has a rolling circular piano line and no beat aside from the sawing of the lush, swelling string arrangement", and a review in Okayplayer called it "brilliant. It sounds like a portion of a ballet movement with a very dramatic...

In this article: Not About Love, Fiona Apple, Zach Galifianakis, Jon Brion, Extraordinary Machine, Mike Elizondo, Anita Baker, Brian Kehew, Orchestration, and Seattle Weekly

...think they are the first people to come on the board and make a post like 'Have ya'll noticed white girls been growing ass?!'" Okayplayer was born in 1999, the brainchild of The Roots' ?uestlove and University of Pennsylvania student...

In this article: The Roots, Erykah Badu, Facebook, MySpace, Rising Down, Talib Kweli, Common, and Mos Def