The Year’s Best Music Moments: A Mix of Performances, Videos and Song Snippets That We Just Really Loved
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Best Cross-Generational Collaboration: Betty Wright’s Gospel Hook on Rick Ross’ “Sanctified”
It supposedly took only 15 minutes for veteran soul singer Betty Wright to knock out this bit of goose-bump-inducing testimony, and she did it while seated on a studio couch. Her voice soars hoarse, nearly breaking around verses from Kanye, Big Sean and Ross that seem sort of dead-eyed and ghastly in comparison to her grace. But it works thematically; proximity to her belief redeems them all. — Jeff Klingman