Word: anthem
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...tolerance is being tested by frustration over the sharp rise in petty crime attributed to young, urban Moroccans and a general anti-Muslim feeling since Sept. 11. The result is the growing stigmatizing of a whole generation of Dutch-born Moroccans. So K__ Marokkanen has become something of an anthem among all sorts of foreigners living in the Netherlands. "So many people come up to me in the street and say they can identify with the sentiment expressed in the text," Raymzter says. Raymzter, whose real name is Raymon Renssen, 23, leads a pretty tame life for a rebel rapster...
...most confrontational, hoarse-throated manner possible. Lyrical prowess and mic charisma became tools for assuaging fears of dull futures, wrecked love and artistic failure. That songs such as Atmosphere’s tinkling piano ballad “Abusing of the Rib” and the startlingly mundane anthem “Like Today” could incite such gleeful abandon is an achievement that surely cannot be overlooked. It was as if hip hop’s towering wall of machismo had been doused with a bucket of water, leaving a shivering mess and a newfound urgency...
...title just about says it all. For all those who remember the blissful summer pop anthem of 2001, “Clint Eastwood” and its accompanying animated video, your favorite cartoon musicians are back—and this time they’ve brought friends. Dub remixes have a long and honorable history (for another classic see Mad Professor’s remix of Massive Attack’s “Protection”), and Laika Come Home leaves one wondering why everyone doesn’t go for a dub restyling of their albums...
WORST REWARD FOR SHOWING UP AT BROWN STADIUM ON TIME: Listening to the national anthem. Brown showcased an 11-year old kid who struggled with the hard-to-sing song. Don’t they have a cappella groups in Providence...
Members of the Chorus of the Boston Cecilia, of which Gould had been a member, opened the ceremony with an anthem composed for the 1882 internment of Charles Darwin in Westminster Abbey...