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...though, Hikaru has taken leave from school (she plans to return soon) to focus on her music and establish her career in the U.S. She recently performed a song called Blow My Whistle, which was included on the sound track of the movie Rush Hour 2. Produced by the Neptunes, one of the hottest American hip-hop production duos around, the song features a cameo from gangsta rapper Foxy Brown. Hikaru said her producers were worried at first that she and Brown might fight, given their different temperaments and backgrounds. They got along just fine. The idea of having...
...industry is ruled by stereotypes: whites rock, blacks rap and croon soul, and few dare to cross the color line. There are hardly any Asian pop acts of prominence in the U.S. (no wonder some see Hikaru as mysterious). Hikaru is mounting a challenge to the status quo. On Blow My Whistle, her voice is more resonant than on her Japanese-language songs, and the track boasts beats that are more forceful. She leaves no doubt: she's got Mary J. Blige, 125th Street-type soul. There's another twist. The credits bill her as "Hikaru Utada"--using the Western...
Message-wise, unfortunately, hip-hop is devoid, at this moment, of any prominent, popular or radical spokespersons. To me, the things that appear in hip-hop today, unfortunately, are not radical. The things that the media blow up as being radical--whether it's homophobia or sexism or acquiring material possessions--in our society, I hate to break the news to people, but there's nothing radical about any of those things. Those things have been going on in a very mainstream way for a very, very long time here. What's far more radical is to actually get beyond...
...Robbason ran to the 20th floor roof of his office building, he remembered joking once to his coworkers at BuzzMetrics that if anyone tried to blow up the towers, their office would be crushed. Now he could clearly see the gaping hole where the plane had entered the building...
...wind in New York City shifted around to the south and began to blow smoke uptown, Harvard alumni across the country continued to update electronic lists of secure graduates...