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Music: Hip-Hop Noise Pop XVI: Electropop feat. Wale w/ Trackademicks and Nick Catchdubs

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Twenty-three-year-old Wale (pronounced "wah-lay") is being touted as hip-hop's next golden boy by The Fader, bloggers, and his DJ/producer and collaborator Mark Ronson. But all the fuss isn't for nothing: Wale's steely rhymes are delivered over the propulsive rhythms of his native DC's long-underground go-go scene. Rich Harrison may have sampled go-go for Amerie's "1 Thing," but Wale takes it a step further, employing a live band to deliver the punchy horn stabs and rolling drum fills that are the genre's hallmarks. To borrow a phrase from go-go legends Trouble Funk, tonight's show is sure to "drop" the proverbial "bomb."

– Matt Sussman

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