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Southerners know this, and they use it to great effect. Rappers are no exception. Nappy Roots, a six-man crew from Bowling Green, Ky., is the latest to make being from the South not just a fact in its bio but an agenda. To be fair, its major-label debut, Watermelon, Chicken & Gritz (last week's biggest gainer on the Billboard Top 200 chart), shows none of the crass preoccupation with pimping and cash that dominates rap from the coasts. On the laid-back Po' Folks, the guys rhyme through thick drawls, "All my life been po'/But it really...
...Live is considered by some to be a “living legend,” a modern maestro who scratches and spits peerless poetry over his own beats. Though his virtuosic debut The Best Part was shelved indefinitely by record companies, All Of The Above may be his magnum opus. It is a consummate progression of the Native Tongues movement (led by De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest) that was eclipsed in the early ’90s by gangsta rap. The album oozes with the legacies of jazz, funk and soul. Like Common?...
...swells suddenly into an awesome Wagnerian attack replete with synthetic symphony, choir and ovation. True to their name, Anti-Pop’s music borders on the absurd, thriving on its excesses. Arrhythmia is the consortium’s best work yet, eschewing the muffled bleakness of their debut Tragic Epilogue for an all-out attack on the senses...
...same is true of Stetson, a music concentrator, who is making her debut as music director. She attributes much of the staff’s success to the division of talent and labor. “Cary knows about musicals, but not about music, and that’s why we’ve worked so well together...
Headmaster, lawyer, sergeant, and first-time author Arch Montgomery graciously consented to an interview with the Harvard Crimson regarding his debut novel, _Hank...