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Major Lazer

"Get Free"

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Dirty Projectors' Amber Coffman voices this dubby jam from Diplo's reggae project – a politicized lovers' rock ballad evoking post-Katrina New Orleans. "Never got love from a government man/Headin' downstream till the levee gives in," she coos. "Now we gotta swim." True, that.

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