“Sweepstakes” is the twelfth track on Gorillaz’s third studio album, Plastic Beach. The track doesn’t incorporate a lot of lead vocals by 2D, but instead uses a spoken word part by rapper Mos Def. “The Hypnotic Brass brothers give us that full-on Chicago brass muscle, turning this track out into a ‘Quincy Jones’ version of hip-hop, MC’ed superlatively by Mos Def. An absolute gent. I first met him in The Box club on the Lower East side of NYC. I like his rap work, and I saw him in Be Kind Rewind.

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