Robert Christgau

This is a tribute to the Dean of American rock critics

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Ab-Soul - He's just a gifted kid who likes his weed and his words, which he twists with palpable delight around sparse synth beats musical enough to layer on some delight of their own. @TopDawgEnt https://t.co/hRhMvyIrXD

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@yeproc

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Andre Williams - he's one of those old bullshit artists young musicians love because they're such great bullshit artists; he's an authenticity marker all the more convincing because he's also a known fraud. https://t.co/qD6DUX0taG

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Cypress Hill: funny, for one thing, which in hard guys amounts to a new vision @cypresshill @ColumbiaRecords https://t.co/NgxttFIQxX

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@cloudnothings he propels the frustration he's lamenting into Hüsker Dü. territory https://t.co/8WkwftZScy @carparkrecords @NoiseyMusic

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Jens Lekman: his words&melody project his innocence so unassumingly u have 2 assume that's who he is @secretlycndian https://t.co/QjTV4hDjYr

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Merle Haggard: After all, he does boast about "living off the fat of our great land." https://t.co/2wV7UwY151

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Merle Haggard: Don't hippie-haters worry that hippies might have more in common with Merle than they do?

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MC5: And drummer Dennis Thompson was a motherfucker. https://t.co/mN92Wljtmi

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Expert Witness https://t.co/aOlOX6pNPT @kendricklamar @AndersonPaak @aftermathonline @NoiseyMusic

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Beauty Pill: All his gentle tunes & surprising sounds contextualize lyrics that both parse & come at you from trick angles. @beautypill

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Expert Witness https://t.co/wSOZUzrKJu @beautypill @ButterscotchRec @wussymusic @shakeitrecords @ezrafurman @bellaunion @anmlcollective

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Gang of Four: Don't let's boogie--let's flop like fish escaping a line. @gangof4official @MetropolisRec https://t.co/hNElSUCZdc

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Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts: But he gets where he's going just about every time. @jefflewisband @NoiseyMusic https://t.co/7ir3wwkBF8

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@Mbongwana_Star This is African music as an object of Euro-American commerce w/no false aura of postcolonial purity. https://t.co/RSHdjRgTpg

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Luna: And of course I like the guitar, which is pretty and ugly in all the right places. @luna_theband https://t.co/ixZCsp6j0t

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Primus: Don Knotts Jr. joins the Minutemen http://t.co/PKG8gf5tQ1 @primus @CarolineRecords @Interscope

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Kenny Rogers: And you can tell he's heavy metal because he advocates murder. http://t.co/7BFeJCsxiI @_KennyRogers

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Leon Thomas: He has literally expanded the musical possibilities of the human voice. http://t.co/JymWLZnOWB Flying Dutchman

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The Velvet Underground: Lou Reed's singing embodies the paradox http://t.co/iZKUxKlwhK