The Clipse Chalk Lynching Comments Up to Having a Rough Day

In an interview with MTV.com, the Clipse have spoken out on what they call "The Rolling Stone situation." The duo's incendiary comments to Rollingstone.com were copied on countless blogs last week, creating a mini-firestorm. Now, apparently the duo has backed off a bit.

"When I say things, I'm speaking from the emotional side of an artist," Pusha explains. "As far as the Rolling Stone issue goes, it was a situation where it was a rough day. And I feel like my core audience — the people who kept us relevant for all these years and the time on hiatus — is waiting. So, you know, for them to say that shit was pushed back, I was upset and I spazzed out." He went on to say: "Jive hasn't denied us much, not really anything that we've asked for,but the time frame in which they do things sort of fucks up the situation. They'll do it, they just do it a little late."

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Song Stories

“I'm Yours”

Jason Mraz | 2008

Jason Mraz re-emerged after his disappointing second album with this lead single, a Jack Johnson-esque ditty about giving yourself fully to someone else. The success of the reggae-tinged song (it earned two Grammy nods and a spot on the Billboard singles chart for well over a year) was something the folk-pop singer never predicted when he wrote it in 15 minutes at home. "I played a happy-hippie chord progression that would probably work without 50 different Bob Marley songs," he told Rolling Stone. "I thought, 'It's too novelty. This is a nursery rhyme,'" concluding that "you can never guess what's gonna be a hit."

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