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  • As for the other 13 songs, which he performs with a red-carpetful of A-list guests Eminem, Kanye West, Christina Aguilera, they range from dour, generic pieces that can't conceal his listlessness to a few pretty good-ish party songs with sharp hooks and crackling beats.

    T.I.: No Mercy - review 2011

  • Will. i.am of the Black Eyed Peas set an Obama speech to music and invited a red-carpetful of celebrities to sing along.

    Newsvine - Get Smarter Here 2008

  • An especially prized contribution of hers, many years ago now, was to tell me to look at a local shop which had "a lovely carpetful of windows."

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 1 1981

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