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...Thursday’s show, at the unusually early hour of 10:30 p.m., the Quannam crew bid farewell to an adoring crowd, the lights came on and throngs of college students slowly filed out of the club. Ironically enough, the first song to blare from the club speakers was Kanye’s “All Fall Down,” a popular radio single. Gab expressed it best himself when he said, “at the end of the day it’s about good music...
...Battlefield Vietnam (Electronic Arts; $39.95) wades right in with the most harrowing historical multiplayer game yet created. Playing it feels like wandering onto the set of a chaotic Vietnam movie. The ambiance is pitch-perfect; EA licensed original period antiwar hits like Fortunate Son so the tunes could blare ironically across the jungle. As in its predecessor, Battlefield 1942, players compete with strangers over the Internet on an intricate 3-D map (representing the Ho Chi Minh Trail, say, or the city of Hue). Your aim is to capture as many flags and annihilate as many opponents as possible...
...final album is a typically magniloquent send-off, with production by the Neptunes and Eminem, among others. The hooks on tracks like What More Can I Say blare like processionals for a hip-hop king, and Jay-Z raps over them with effortless self-aggrandizing. He has kept listeners engaged all these years not with his humility but with a relaxed Brooklyn baritone that makes him sound a bit like a ghetto Sinatra (callous but with enviable style). His upbringing has also made fans a little more sympathetic about his avarice. Born Shawn Carter, Jay-Z grew up in Brooklyn...
...tenor of the room suddenly changes and the last song begins to blare: “I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord. I’ve been waiting for this moment all my life, oh Lord. Can you feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord, oh Lord...
...Mile soundtrack. Chock-full of thinly veiled jabs at Ja Rule and his label Murder, Inc., “Wanksta” is the latest opus in a complex longtime feud that involves stealing, stabbing, and four stitches. In other words, it’s the perfect song to blare from your shiny black Lexus...