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...Either they don’t know, don’t show, or don’t care about what’s going on in the hood.” One of my favorite lines from Doughboy in the 1991 blockbuster movie, “Boyz n the Hood.” For everyone reading this who “don’t know” what’s going on in the inner city school system, what follows is a brief glimpse of the situation based on visits to 8,500 middle school children in five...

Author: By C. FRANK IGWE | Title: Broken Schools | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

...what actually happens in the video? The question is, what doesn't happen? The French team and Sparks swagger in the desert to mystic bedouin music, dressed like a cross between MGMT and New Boyz in a Godard film. There is a closeup of the "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign. There is a collective swagger into Diddy's Vegas haunt, Vanity Nightclub, in which the artist formerly known as Puff Daddy appears to lick a fat stack of poker chips. Around the 2:40 mark Jadakiss raps an elegant ode to the eponymous beverage, "the best premium vodka ever...

Author: By Asli A. Bashir, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Chester French: "Ciroc Star" | 1/31/2010 | See Source »

DIED Jheryl Busby, 59, wisely said in 1989, "Motown can't be what it was in the 1960s." As president and CEO of Motown, Busby shepherded the careers of acts such as Boyz II Men and Queen Latifah and revitalized the flagging record label...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...claim that customers must wait longer and pay extra money for them because the videos come from Sweden. The movies include “Ghostbusters,” “Robocop,” “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Boyz in Da Hood,” “The Lion King” and “Driving Miss Daisy.” To Gondry, both his films and the Sweded videotapes express the particular identities of their creators. When making a movie, the director faces a million thematic...

Author: By Elsa S. Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gondry Talks MIT, DIY, and the Art of 'Sweding' | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

...Harlem streets and the implication that Jones can. Yet what we find in the tracks of this mixtape is not a window into the world of an American gangster from Harlem but a rehashing of trite gangsta-isms that anyone with a copy of the film “Boyz n the Hood” could have easily conjured. Each track vaguely covers all of the following topics: selling crack, making money, snorting coke, getting hoes, and of course, ballin’ in a fly car. The worst part is that Jones doesn’t even take the time...

Author: By Jessica O. Matthews, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jim Jones | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

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