On the eve of N*E*R*D's Australian tour, Pharrell Williams tells Ben Naparstek why he isn't a solo artist. IT'S become a cliche to bemoan the decline of hip-hop. The protest subculture of its 1970s pioneers has degenerated, traditionalists argue, into an antiseptic mainstream phenomenon. Rapper and producer Pharrell Williams epitomises this commercial turn. As 50 per cent of the Neptunes production team -- a partnership with his high-school homeboy, Filipino-American Chad Hugo -- he's perhaps...
Full Story: The Australian
