Word: chuckly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...music is black America's TV station," says Chuck D, the group's lead voice, chief lyricist and moving force. It's a solid metaphor. Rap is cool music in a cool medium, carrying a blisteringly hot message of social outrage, as instantly accessible as the nightly news. It is also, frequently, as perishable: contemporary music that not only describes and comments on its time but passes with it. Rap is music for the emphatic now, rhythm without a past or future. In rap there is only the present, and the present is tense indeed...
...million copies; it hit No. 4 on the Billboard chart, with Can't Truss It sitting high at No. 3 among the singles. The heat, in every sense, seems to be following the group on its current tour. Disembarking from the band bus for a recent date in Oakland, Chuck D looked at the flames in the near distance and observed, "This is it. It's Apocalypse...
...thick sonic layering, which is playful, graceful and brutal by turns; in its roughhouse lyrics, which are part editorial and part rage, raw but keenly focused; and in its politics. "I think people got a connotation that hard-core rap had to have cursing or gangster stories," Chuck D, 31, reflects. "We've got neither. I wanted to show we could make a hard album without those connotations -- a positive hard-core record." A first step was to cool out on the language, which had been overworked and overbaked by the Geto Boys and the recent N.W.A. album. Explains Chuck...
...line like John Lee Hooker. It's a daft and reckless mix, but Morrison makes it work through sheer force of spirit, what he once called, in a memorable song, the "inarticulate speech of the heart." His rhythms are irresistible, his lyrics like an amalgam of Yeats, Kerouac and Chuck Berry. The Irish tenor John McCormack said what distinguishes an important voice from a good one is the indescribable but crucial quality that he termed "the yarrrrragh." The yarrrrragh, critic Greil Marcus points out, is "a mythic incantation . . . To Morrison ((it is)) the gift of the muse and the muse...
...then he got angry. Angry at his coach on the Detroit Pistons, Chuck Daly, who had passed him up for the national squad. Angry at Jordan, whose personal antagonism with Thomas has been blamed for Isiah's exclusion. And angry at the arbitrary, unmeritocratic process by which Thomas had been left...