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Umm...who's a better option for Jaheim to battle?

Umm...who's a better option for Jaheim to battle?

Pleasure i will never have ♪ >> kanye was a rock star. but he also makes it safe for rappers to be vulnerable. >> it's positive rap. he's not cussing every other sentence and not talking about shooting people up. he's talking about real things >> what kanye does is sort of bring in a new generation of hip-hop figures and you can see the difference going forward. ♪ i said ♪ i said baby ♪ we could do it real big, bigger than you ever done it ♪ >> drake took the kanye west blueprint. i'm going to bare my soul and my feelings on a record. ♪ best that i ever had ♪ best i ever had ♪ ...

♪ >> he has the moves and the style, and i think that he is a big hope for people at that time, that like here's a brother that's really doing it. >> we had trey songz and chris brown, usher. but the superstars of r&b are the women. absolutely. ♪ i keep on falling ♪ in and out of love with you >> alicia keys, uber talent. sings, composes, and plays. she's the total package. ♪ no one, no one ♪ can get in the way of what i'm feeling ♪ ♪ later r&b becomes much more rhythmic than that flowing as the traditional r&b song ♪

No one's thinking about new york as a center for interesting rock music anymore. but after 9/11 you had all these bands who were kind of bubbling beneath the surface who start popping up and it really starts with the strokes. ♪ she said ♪ ♪ i've never been so down >> after 9/11 the city was burning. it was smoldering. ♪ sunlight >> vulnerability, anxiety. all this became how the country felt. it needed that sense of defiance, that hubristic sense of promise that young bands can deliver. >> the strokes helped usher in a lot of acts.