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...Today, the impact of rural life on China’s cultural consciousness is dwindling. “The post-Zhang Yimou generation is much better equipped to show the dynamics of the urban texture, the urban lifestyle. They are very much in sync with global culture,” Wang says. “But everything comes with a price. That kind of larger cultural vision seems to have been lost...
...battles were a part of his high school culture in Atlanta. At Harvard, he tries to keep sharp by informally rapping to friends. “You have to rap a lot to yourself and that’s the only way you get better,” Shaket says. Though he isn’t aware of any substantial rap scene at Harvard, he notes that one exists in the greater Boston area; Shaket often competes off-campus in Allston, Boston, and East Cambridge. He claims that knowledge of upcoming rap battles is often spread via word-of-mouth...
...girls in particular to help out, as apparently there is a shortage of female hosts. Yet another, which stated that the Visiting Program had its largest attendance ever this year at 1,100 prefrosh, asked students already signed up to host if they would take in more students. What better way to get a taste of Harvard's trademark overcrowding? If FlyBy had n+1 (and an unreasonable amount of time to waste), we'd totally volunteer to host...
...star cast mainly provides gentle, melodious hooks laid over the upbeat electronic tunes that have infiltrated hip-hop full force as of late.As a result, “Deeper than Rap” has a softer overall sound than Ross’ first two albums. Better suited for the six-CD changer of a white Lexus on a sunny Saturday than the dusty tape deck of a black Impala on a dreary Monday, “Deeper than Rap” gives listeners the feeling that Ross is getting used to his new lifestyle. The “I made...
...from a song by Freddy Martin. In a poem entitled “Tuttie Frutti,” Wright quotes Little Richard—“A-wop-bop-a-loo a-lop-bam-boo,” concluding, “What could be better than that?” Wright is fascinated by the sensations conveyed by words, and these mentions to outside works help anchor poems that may otherwise be too abstract to a world the reader knows.One of the many references made throughout these poems is to Gerald Manley Hopkins, the 19th-century British poet...