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One of the first things we noticed about HBO’s new How To Make It In America show wasn’t its connection to Entourage (executive producers like Marky Mark) or the relative absurdity of Luis Guzman’s Rasta Monsta line. It was Aloe Blacc’s theme song, a slice of throwback soul that pretty much sums up an typical day at self-titled’s scrappy little office. It also suggests that the underground hip-hop vet may have a second life as ‘the next Sharon Jones’ when his Truth & Soul-produced Good Things LP drops later this year.
2 Responses to “TEST PRESSING: Stream Aloe Blacc’s “I Need a Dollar” Single”
on June 23rd, 2010 at 3:35 pm #
[...] by this Velvet Underground cover (available as part of a heavyweight 7-inch) and the song we offered last month, Blacc is bound to become Mayer Hawthorne’s successor in the throwback soul [...]
on March 15th, 2011 at 4:21 pm #
[...] may remember Aloe Blacc from his soul-stirring Velvet Underground cover or the theme song to the HBO show How To Make It In America. What you may not realize is that he finally released a [...]