Raoul Duke
12-18-2007, 12:56 AM
M.I.A. went global, Bruce returned to E Street, Lil Wayne and Devendra got smoky, while everyone else from Spoon to Chris Brown kept the party going
http://i.realone.com/assets/rn/img/0/2/0/2/17492020-17492022-large.jpg 1 M.I.A. (http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/mia2)
Kala (Interscope)
M.I.A.'s second album was an international block party with a sonic imagination nobody else could match all year. The Sri Lankan-born U.K. rapper's inspirations run all over the globe, with a Day-Glo sensibility rooted in the Native Tongues hip-hop of the Jungle Brothers and De La Soul, but with the political rage of Public Enemy. She dips into Sri Lankan temple music, Bollywood disco, the Pixies, New Order, the Clash, Wreckx-N-Effects — sometimes she even...
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http://i.realone.com/assets/rn/img/0/2/0/2/17492020-17492022-large.jpg 1 M.I.A. (http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/mia2)
Kala (Interscope)
M.I.A.'s second album was an international block party with a sonic imagination nobody else could match all year. The Sri Lankan-born U.K. rapper's inspirations run all over the globe, with a Day-Glo sensibility rooted in the Native Tongues hip-hop of the Jungle Brothers and De La Soul, but with the political rage of Public Enemy. She dips into Sri Lankan temple music, Bollywood disco, the Pixies, New Order, the Clash, Wreckx-N-Effects — sometimes she even...
More... ( http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17601851/the_top_50_albums_of_2007?source=music_news_rssfee d)