New Kids On The Block re-ignite passions

On the set of NBC's Today show, fans screeched the names of their favorites: "Joey!" "Jordan!" "Donnie!"

Alanis loves her lady lumps

ALANIS MORISSETTE loves her version of the BLACK EYED PEAS' hit tune My Humps
- as it was a welcome break from her own emotions.

The Canadian singer/songwriter released the down-tempo cover last year, with
over a million views in the first week it launched on YouTube.

And Alanis reckons the creation of her moody rendition was a therapeutic
experience.

The Ironic singer said: "I was in the studio with (producer) GUY
SIGSWORTH and he would say, 'What horse from the apocalypse are you
bringing in today, Alanis?' Because every song was this tsunami of emotions.

"So I said, 'I wish I could just write a really simple song - a song like
My Humps.' Then we had a pregnant pause, looked at each other, and said,
'All right, let's do it!'

"Within moments we were recording the piano version of it, and within a
week we were shooting the video in my garage here at my house."

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B Real

   
Artist: B Real

   Genre(s): 
Rap: Hip-Hop
   

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Discography:


   
 The Gunslinger Part II

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 19


   
 The Gunslinger

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 18

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With his work in the pioneering hip-hop group Cypress Hill, doorknocker B Real became something of a rap music fable for several reasons. Most immediately, his trademark riming style, featuring an hyperbolically os nasale skreak and a nothingness singer's acquirement at staying simply behindhand DJ Muggs' already sluggish beatniks, was one of the most instantaneously recognizable flows of the 1990s. Furthermore, B Real and his partners Sen Dog and DJ Muggs were the number one Latino rap music stars, ushering in a richly varied subgenre of rap that thrives to this day. Finally, Cypress Hill's fervent proselytizing on the subject of marijuana legalization both brought the topic to its highest world knowingness since the days of Cheech & Chong and paved the way for a generation of weed-happy bourgeoisie high gear school kids to discover and place with hip-hop to an regular greater academic degree than ahead. However, that B Real consequently is indirectly responsible in contribution for Kevin Federline should not be held against him.


Born Louis Freese in Los Angeles on June 2, 1970, Freese met Mellow Man Ace (Ulpiano Sergio Reyes) and his brother Sen Dog (%Senen Reyes) in high shoal in the mid-'80s, forming the triad that would eventually become Cypress Hill (named after a local resort in their South Gate hood) later Mellow Man Ace left to engage a successful solo career and DJ Muggs (Lawrence Muggerud) came in as producer and DJ. During this period, B Real and Sen Dog were involved in a local arm of ill-famed street gang the Bloods; B Real was snap in a drug-related incident in 1988, star both workforce to get out of the hoodlum life. However, those experiences formed the narration of the group's first album, 1991's Cypress Hill.


One of the start commercially successful gangsta rap albums, the record album was controversial contempt the trio's attempts non to glamorise gang life. 1993's Black Sunday was an instant hit due to the weirdly attention-getting exclusive "Insane in the Brain," and the same twelvemonth, the trio's share to the pioneering rap-rock soundtrack Judgment Night institute them working with bloke marijuana enthusiasts Sonic Youth, with whom Cypress Hill as well guest-starred in a classical Lollapalooza-parody episode of The Simpsons. Playing the actual Lollapalooza tour in 1994 and 1995, the banding added percussionist Eric Bobo (the word of legendary salsa drummer Willie Bobo) and pursued an progressively rock-oriented style on their eternally infrequent albums.


During this point, B Real as well created a hardcore gangsta side protrude, the Psycho Realm, cathartic 2 albums, 1997's The Psycho Realm and 2000's A War Story. B Real even teamed back up with Mellow Man Ace for the transitory Serial Rhyme Killers, which released one 12" undivided in 2002. Finally embarking on a solo calling, B Real released deuce reggaeton-influenced collaborative mixtapes, The Gunslinger and The Gunslinger, Pt. 2: A Fistful of Dollars, in 2006.