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Dan The Automator fans should get goosebumps while watching this preview for his new Pillowfight project with singer Emily Wells .

Paul "Prince Paul" Huston has made a career out of being humorously provocative, from devising a game show concept for De La Soul's seminal 1989 album "3 Feet High and Rising" to dishing out bad romantic advice on his Handsome Boy Modeling School albums with S.F. producer Dan "the Automator" Nakamura and making some funny and very off-color jokes ... (more)

Conceived as the first "virtual hip-hop group," Gorillaz blended the musical talents of Dan "The Automator" Nakamura, Blur's Damon Albarn, Cibo Matto's Miho Hatori, and Tom Tom Club's Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz with the arresting visuals of Jamie Hewlett, best known as the creator of the cult co... MORE

The Roots have always had this knack for finding a balance between necessary creative exploration and accessibility among even the most casual fans of hip-hop, of being able to bring joy and light in one breath and cerebral political discourse in the next, human darkness in the one after that.