Subject: Roger Troutman

• The Year in Music: 2008's Top Ten Pop Songs

  By Annie ZaleskiPop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that's true. (Katy Perry, Danity Kane and the Pussycat Dolls, step right up!) But every year, a few irresistible bits of innovative ear candy rocket up the charts and seep into our subconscious. The following ten singles saturated the Top 40 -- or what passes for hit-oriented radio in this topsy-turvy musical climate -- while proving that accessibility doesn't necessarily preclude creativity. CHRIS

  December 17, 2008

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  June 25, 2008

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• Beats, Rhymes, and Laughs

  A failed record deal hasn't dampened the Mountain Brothers' sense of humor

  January 13, 1999