Word: dope
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...Talib Kweli are Black Star dropped, and the praise continues. One of my boys wrote me an e-mail message from upstate Massachussetts specifically to confess his amazement: "Yo this LP is ridiculous. Every track is plain dope. The beats are phat, the lyrics are intelligent, and yet it still has the feel of a demo." To this day I wonder how he managed to italicize using Pine...
...beat sounds Casio." "Yo I don't know about this `Children's Story' remake," I heard someone else complain; "he didn't do jack with it." "And what about his monotone formats in `Brown Skin Lady?'" "Yo, what the hell is `Yo Yeah,' on the real?" "Yo, `Respiration' is dope and all, but you know them heads was on some weed talk when they came up with `the city's breathing...
...film about a dope-dealing poet from the soul-squashing projects of Washington was a winner on the chic slopes and shores of this year's festivals. The poet-pusher is Ray Joshua, played by a scrawny charismatic named Saul Williams; and the film, Slam, arrives in theaters laden with laurels from Sundance and Cannes. Burdened, really, for this is a small movie, as vulnerable as it is volatile, about young black men in trouble. Its underworldly corrosiveness can't hide a heart full of hope...
With Slam's surprise festival success, Williams has been flooded with offers--unfortunately, most of them calling for him to play dope dealers. Instead of cashing in, he is writing a new book of verse and his own script. Following the lead of actor-singer Paul Robeson, Williams hopes to become a multimedia sensation. "Robeson followed his heart to get closer to the hearts of other people," he says. Good words to live...
...stop mad beats from start to finish. The themes introduced at the end of the first track continue into the second as the familiar vocals blend with a prominently repeated bass riff. A few minutes later, the mix takes on a retro feel while incorporating samples from Kenny Dope, Badder Than Evil and Unique 3. This sound--which mixes several samples and songs together--is omnipresent in Brother's Gonna Work It Out and gives the record its live DJ performance feel. "It's brought alive some of the tracks that, maybe, weren't quite as powerful in their isolated...