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Lift Off: Stream Cris Cab x Wyclef’s “She’s So Fly”
October 9, 2012
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The PUSH Artist of the Week, MTV’s initiative to highlight and support new talent in the music industry, recently put its spotlight on Cris Cab, but Large Up has been following the 19-year-old Miami artist for a while now. While Cab’s voice has an emo quality to it, his songs often have a pop reggae vibe not unlike that of his mentor and collaborator, Wyclef. Earlier this year, the pair collaborated on “Rihanna’s Gun,” a smooth response to “Man Down” also featuring Mavado that got our attention definitely took Cab out of any box we might have placed him in.
Clefstravaganza: Wyclef Drops New Video, Book, Explains Fugees Breakup
September 18, 2012
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His political aspirations and the Yele controversy behind him (for the time being), Wyclef Jean is back to focusing on music, and the personal. A suddenly ubiquitous Clef has spoken out publicly about the end of his relationship with Lauryn Hill, released his first book and dropped new music, all in the last 24 hours or so. The comments about Lauryn and the book are part of the same conversation, as Purpose: An Immigrant’s Story includes the detail that the Fugees ended due to Lauryn’s pregnancy with her first child with Rohan Marley—or, more specifically, Lauryn’s leading Clef to believe that the child was his.
Audio: Hear Wyclef’s “Justice (If You’re 17)”
April 13, 2012
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Wyclef Jean is the latest artist to address the Trayvon Martin case through song. “Justice (If You’re 17),” which blends ‘Clef’s impassioned, Marley-esque delivery with a dubstep-y riddim, definitely pulls no punches, with lyrics like, “Make no mistake there’s one like you in every city…he gon creep up from behind, have you leave earth before your time/By the time popo show up he gon say he so scared that he shot you up.” The artist has promised to drop what’s sure to be a provocative video for the song next Friday.
Three Men Down: Cris Cab, Wyclef + Mavado Hit by “Rihanna’s Gun”
January 26, 2012
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We’ve been hearing about Miami’s Cris Cab for a minute but, after hearing “Rihanna’s Gun,” we get the sense we completely had him twisted. While there’s a definite Wyclef (specifically Wyclef channeling Bob Marley) vibe to his single “Good Girls,” we had him mostly pegged as a Starbucks-y John Mayer type. But “Rihanna’s Gun” (produced by ‘Clef and his brother, Sedeck Jean) is some badman business, with young Cris (seriously, we’re not sure he’s even graduated high school) holding his own next to the MFin’ Gully Gad, Mavado, as he responds to Rihanna’s “Man Down.” As much as this song is about being humbled and wounded, CC turns the phrase “Rikers Island” like a hardened shotta. Count us officially intrigued by the possibilitie of his Echo Boom mixtape, featuring production from Pharrell and Supa Dups among others, out next Wednesday. Stream and DL “Rihanna’s Gun” below.
Heds and Dreds: Uncle Murda, “Warning” Video + More
August 10, 2011
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Can’t say I was much of an Uncle Murda fan, or had more than a passing familiarity with any of his songs, until his new single, “Warning” started gaining traction here in NYC recently. Simply put, it’s the hardest rap song to make it anywhere near radio recently, and its beat is one of the year’s most arresting. At the center of said beat is a chipmunked sample of Barrington Levy scatting his way through “Murderer” that actually makes you think maybe the corpse of chipmunk soul might still have some life in it ten years after The Blueprint and “U Don’t Know.” “Warning” had me revisiting a catalog of a rapper I’d always kinda avoided. Murda is not Caribbean but dude is so thoroughly Brooklyn he has to have at least several raggamuffin-y tunes to his credit, right? Sure enough, he does. Check the recently-dropped video for “Warning” and read on for mo’ Murda after the jump.
