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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Musical and lyrical honesty has always been a core hip-hop value--then again, so has exaggeration. On one hand, rappers want to keep their music true to life. On the other, boasting and roasting are also part of the tradition. Lately, exaggeration has ruled. It's often hard to...
On the CD Black on Both Sides (Rawkus), Mos Def's cultural concerns reveal themselves in every number. The opener, Fear Not of Man, delivers a manifesto: "We are hip-hop. Me, you, everybody... So the next time you ask where hip-hop is going, ask yourself: Where am I...
What's compelling about these acts is that they are not overtly focused on chart topping. "Follow your heart/And not mankind," Q-Tip raps on Do It, See It, Be It. Eclecticism is seen as a virtue. The Roots is working on a cover of Bob Dylan's 1976 song...
MTV has cybered up its programming before: Total Request Live takes e-mail video requests, and the network has held high-profile online auctions (as has Rosie O'Donnell, who's about as edgy as a Koosh ball). And Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy! and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire...
The network cites its own research to claim that the time for TV-online convergence has come for its audience: 56% of 12-to-24-year-olds with computers have a TV in the same room. But the knock against "interactive TV" has been that it's an oxymoron; no...