Pharrell Williams: Next Steps

Editors' Notes These rap and pop party-starters emphasize not only Pharrell's unmatched ability to program a synth but his virtuosity behind the mic as well. On “Feels,” his light falsetto seems to hang-glide over a smooth Calvin Harris beat, while his verse on Future's “Move That Dope” sees him unleash a double-time flow about naked yoga and his iconic “Gandalf hat,” and still somehow find time to fit in a pointed anti-war message.