10 Tracks You Have To Hear This Week - 30/07/11

1. Kanye West & Jay-Z – ‘Otis’ Who needs a chorus when you’ve got Otis Redding? Not Kanye and Jay-Z, who unveil the much-hyped ‘Watch The Throne’ by sampling the pipes of the world’s greatest soul singer. “Does it make it eeeeeeaasier?” he croons before a single beat has dropped. Not exactly, but it makes it a load better than hip-hop’s other behemoth, Eminem, unnecessarily staining the pants of the otherwise epic ‘Bad Meets Evil’ with a giant Bruno Mars-shaped skid mark....

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