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Wednesday:
>> Yacht Rockers Supreme, Daryl Hall & John Oates, will be at the 9:30 Club. $55, 7:30 p.m.
>> Three Stars alumna Wayna will be making her Blues Alley debut during two sets. Instead of performing her own material, though, she'll be paying tribute to Billie Holiday for the entire night. $25+12.50, 8 p.m. and 10 p.m.
>> DJ Stylus is opening up a weekly event at Tabaq called "Refuge." Expect to hear some of the underground's most cutting edge music. Free, 9 p.m.
Thursday:
>> House of Soul returns to Bossa for a night of live house music. $3, 10 p.m.
Friday:
>> Eric Roberson will be back in D.C. to celebrate his alma mater's homecoming and the recent release of his latest album, Music Fan First. He'll be performing at Liv tonight and Saturday. $22, 8 p.m. (Friday) and 7:30 p.m. (Saturday).
>> Toronto-born rapper/actor Drake will also be in town for Howard Homecoming at Love, along with D.C.'s own Wale. $30-$200, 8 p.m.
>> Ed Dudes and Deep Sang host their "The Affair" party of dance music at the Rock and Roll Hotel's Hotel Bar. Free, 9:30 p.m.
Saturday:
>> "Sol Power" brings together DJ Stylus, Meistro and Deep Sang for a night of funky Afro, Latin and house music. It'll all go down at Dahlak (1771 U Street NW). Free, 10 p.m.
>> Continuing in the Howard Homecoming spirit, "True School: Jams" will be celebrating the hip-hop and R&B music of the late 1980s and early 1990s at Liv. On hand will be Grammy-winning producer and deejay 9th Wonder, DJ Cuzzin B, DJ Face and Jay*Clip. $15 in advance, 10 p.m.
Sunday:
>> One of the hardest working groups out, The Foreign Exchange returns to Washington with Darien Brockington, Carlitta Durrand, and Big Pooh. Also, they'll be performing at the Black Cat along side D.C.'s YahZarah, Three Stars alum Zo! and the ELs. Check Friday for an interview with Phonte and Nicolay. $20, 8:30 p.m.
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Yeah - there's always a bunch of things that aren't even close to hip-hop in This Week in Hip-Hop... But Hall and Oates? Now you're just taking the piss.
Oh come now. Grandmaster Flash, Bruce Haack & Russell Simmons, Rammellzee & K-Rob, and T La Rock have all pointed to "Kiss on My List" as their reason for staying in the Hip-Hop culture.
Hall & Oates are also respected for their ability to cross style boundaries. To this day, "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)" is a source of samples for many songs by R&B and hip-hop artists, being referenced by acts from Heavy D & the Boyz to Tamia to 2 Live Crew. Hall & Oates also helped with the 3 Tenors of Soul album. De La Soul sampled "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)" for the track "Say No Go", from their 1988 debut album Three Feet High and Rising, the title of which is one of Hall's vocal hooks from the hit song. Hall & Oates liked it so much that they replicated the De La Soul arrangement in their live 1990 performance at the U.S. Earth Day twentieth anniversary concert in New York's Central Park.
And since "M.E.T.H.O.D. Man" was on my iPod this morning, we can't forget RZA/Method Mand were borrowing from "Method of Modern Love."
There is a method to my madness...