Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Song You Need: Rome Streetz is unrelenting on “Heart On Froze”
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My favorite moments on Kiss The Ring, the excellent new album from New York rapper Rome Streetz, are the ones where chaos very nearly takes over.
When the engine of ’90s east coast hip-hop and Streetz’s own well-earned braggadocio becomes so overpowered, the wheels of the song seem liable to fall off.
It’s an invigorating sound to bear witness to, and one the veteran MC taps into to a new degree on songs like “Heart On Froze.” Streetz unloads on the track from the jump with both barrels blazing. “You fuck niggas will never, ever get close to this / Rose out the coke, smoke to gold quote vocalist.” It’s more than confidence in Streetz’s voice: it’s a menace, the same hard-won protectiveness over his skills Big L displayed in his all-too-brief career.
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