Word: concepting
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...straightforward as his title--a night with him is not about cuddling, ladies--while on Missin' U he tells his dear, departed mother, "What I wouldn't give for one more day with you." Xzibit claims this contradiction is part of an allegory (Man Vs. Machine is apparently a concept album about the difficulty of maintaining both underground and mainstream success), but it's an allegory out of control. The nasty stuff sounds like the usual hard-core crassness, while the nice stuff comes off as treacly. The shame is that Xzibit wastes contributions from guests Eminem and Snoop Dogg...
...were thrashing out a shaky truce, but Ivory Coast is likely to remain divided. Gbagbo, like his predecessors, has inflamed racial tensions by pushing an "Ivoirité" policy, which favored natives and left many foreign-born residents with few rights. The rebels have targeted leading proponents of this divisive concept, including Interior Minister Emile Boga Doudou, who introduced new national identity cards that include digital fingerprints and photographs - and come in different colours depending on a person's origin. Doudou was shot dead in the rebellion. Government soldiers, meantime, have rounded up foreigners and police burned neighborhoods after President Gbagbo...
Judges awarded the Economics prize to all the corporations, such as Enron and WorldCom, that “adapted the mathematical concept of imaginary numbers for use in the business world...
...Court of Appeals is now considering a case from Governors State University in Illinois, where the dean of student affairs, Patricia Carter, cut off publication of the school paper when the editors refused to stop writing about issues like (gasp) grade inflation. This particular dean must have a warped concept of the role of the student press. She pulled the plug when the college paper started reporting real news...
...government is smiling because they smell the scent of death blowing / Just showing that their plan is running precisely / This nigger ought to fit into a wood box nicely,” he rhymes on “A Glimpse Of The Struggle.” Phantom is a concept album (as the belabored liner notes explain), dealing with the personal struggles of a young man and concluding with a nuclear holocaust. Yet Lif doesn’t let the overweening scope of the concept get in the way of his rhymes though, instead using it to rap about themes...