You can't really know where you're headed unless you know where you've been. For that reason, we're taking a look back at Pazz & Jop 2012 to drill down into the ballots of contributors and voters who participated. Maybe amongst the rubble we'll find clues about what lies ahead for music lovers in 2013. Here, music writer Dan Weiss defends his ballot.
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In the first two weeks of its new season, Saturday Night Live has given us a pair of polar opposites for musical guests: The Lumineers and Kendrick Lamar. The dichotomy goes beyond differences in genre and has more to do with the fact that one band showed up to work on a Saturday night and one didn't, as far as taste and talent are concerned. Instead of being all "HEY GUYS LET ME SHOW YOU HOW I FEEL THROUGH MY EYEBROWS" and stomping around emphatically over a few basic chord progressions as the Lumineers did last week, Lamar hit the SNL stage with a full band and eased into a set that flipped from cool and calculated to sultry and smooth in the matter of a downbeat.
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- Kendrick Lamar Wants Us All To Say "Bitch"
Kendrick Lamar
Last week, Kendrick Lamar had the whole world calling each other a bitch.
You may know young Kendrick from his good kid m.A.A.d. city album, which was executive produced by Dr. Dre and is apparently so wondrous a body of work that it was magically certified as a classic even before it was released. If you're active on Twitter then you certainly know Kendrick as the rapper responsible for the phrase "ya bish" littering your timeline. Ya bish, of course, is a thinly-veiled off-spring of "you bitch." Kendrick has openly confirmed that by bish he means bitch via his own Twitter account. Yet he's been given a pass on what amounts to encouraging the popular use of the word bitch.
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- Kendrick Lamar Arrives In New York, Takes Over S.O.B.'s
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