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RICHARD GEPHARDT House leader would fire up labor, but House needs him more. High blah factor...
Here is a rap album without much more on its mind than cars, hanging out and having fun. But when you get right down to it, are there other things to think about? O.K., maybe global warming, the upcoming presidential election, blah blah blah. Still, despite this CD's thematic simplicity, it boasts what many other current hip-hop releases lack: strong, sure hooks. The rhythms are vigorous, the production is crisp, and Nelly's rapping manages to be both laid back and engaging. It's been said that Nelly--who scored a chart hit with the punchy title track...
...from the cover of the New York Times magazine. "I think it really struck a chord because I think a lot of people are kind of bitter they didn't get in," she says now. "It was really trippy... Everyone was like, 'Oh, I didn't get in either.' Blah, blah, blah. So then it really didn't seem like a big deal...
Perhaps sensing that, the studio seems to be stressing the cutting-edge technology that made Dinosaur possible--1,300 effects shots, 3.2 million processing hours, 70,000 lines of computer code, blah-blah-blah. But this admirable effort doesn't quite make it to fully persuasive naturalism--something dead in the eyes, something not quite right in the ruffle of the monkey...
...Suddenly, over the din of the still, sad music of the slot machinery, I hear what I think is my name being called over the public address system. "Robert Coolbrith, please dial extension blah-blah-gargle-blah." I find an official-looking man wearing a cerulean blue coat and an earpiece, and ask him for some assistance. He leads me to a house phone. I speak with an operator and discover that I have not been paged. The blue-coated man asks me how things went on the phone, and I must report to him that...