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With over 34 million hits on youtube/vevo, you’d think we’d all know of Belgian hip-hop/electronic artist, Stromae on his smash single “Papaoutai”. Don’t we all live online these days? But it just goes to show, what we don’t know can ALSO be legit, equipped n’ the shit! And indeed it is. Feel the international magnificence of this song w/its global fusion of electronic, dancehall, zouk n’ French hip-hop sensibilities, making it one of a few songs poised to represent BIG TIME for Brazil 2014 World Cup! The expressiveness of the dancers in this video is what makes this almost theatre-like, roping the viewer into emotions music was always meant to induce. Wonder how many followers he’s got on twitter? #UnafraidToShine

NELSON MANDELA:50 ten-meter high laser cut steel plates set into the landscape, representing the 50-year anniversary of when n’ where Nelson Mandela was captured and arrested, on August 6, 1962 prior to his 27 years of incarceration. Standing at a particular point, the columns come into focus n’ the image of Nelson Mandela can be seen.  The sculptor is Marco Cianfanelli, of Johannesburg.