This just in and really it kind of speaks for itself:
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Even in death, rapper Notorious B.I.G. continues to surprise. The artist, a.k.a. Biggie Smalls, who died in a March 1997 shooting, "duets" with fellow deceased music legend Bob Marley on a new single, "Hold Ya Hand," which was released Monday via AOL Music. It will also appear on "The Notorious B.I.G. Duets: The Final Chapter," due November 29 via Bad Boy.
"Hold Ya Hand" includes a sample of Marley's "Johnny Was." The rest of the album is still coming together, although Bad Boy promises participation from "some of music's greatest vocalists and MCs" and "the industry's top producers."
Apparently, Tupac will provide backing vocals and Kurt Cobain will rock out on the middle eight. Now that's what I call music.
I mean seriously, has the world gone mad? Answers on a postcard to the usual Lapland address.
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
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This kind of thing is becoming common in the music industry as it tries to wring every last cent out of the paying public. It's ghoulish and cynical. But that didn't stop the Eva Cassidy industry.
Eva Cassidy doesn't rile me so much. That was a woman who had a body of work that was released. Fair enough. This is just messing with crap, creating "new" material, which seems like one step beyond.
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