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...Cube??s whackedout cousin, cranking out curveball rap that was the jungle gym to N.W.A’s roughhouse. After a psilocybin-and-videogames induced hiatus, he gifted hip-hop with the formation of his Oakland based funk-rap group Hieroglyphics. A few years later he joined forces with kitsch producer Dan the Automator and DJ Kid Koala to churn out the futuristic cult classic “Deltron...
...gimmick into an asset. “UH-HUH!” ad-libs aside (and who could imagine P-Troy without those?), these raps are musically and rhythmically sound, delivered right on the beat and with plenty of nuance. The reference points here are DJ Paul and Ice Cube??s delivery on N.W.A.’s “Dopeman;” he is that on-point, if not as (respectively) terrifying or revolutionary. Even with the lovely Sting-supplied acoustics of “Street Law?...
...Sudoku and I thought, “Harvard has the smartest homeless people.”12.FM: Do you think that there is anything that is going to come after Sudoku?WS: You know, it is impossible to predict crazes. The last craze was the Rubik’s cube?? We are living in the golden age of puzzles right now. Crosswords have never been as interesting in history as they are now.13.FM: How quickly can you solve a Rubik’s cube?WS: I am good in two dimensions. I am not good in three...
While sharing a cab with one of the heads of Dean Witter, Gardner solves the biggest puzzle of the 80s—the Rubik’s cube??and scores the internship. But with no steady income, he and his son go from a shabby apartment to a shabbier hotel to an all-out homeless shelter, and times become really, well, unhappy. Not to worry, though. There’s no question as to how this one ends...
...school legend Big Daddy Kane. In the song, a sampled white voice asks rapper Flavor Flav how he feels about playing “a controversial Negro,” a “servant who shuffles and sings.” He refuses indignantly, and accepts instead Ice Cube??s offer to go watch the 1973 blaxploitation classic “‘Black Caesar’ back at the crib.” In his verse, Kane extols Spike Lee as a model of how the black community can “make...