Word: doping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...listener into the complex drum and bass rhythms which are the defining characteristic of Tom Rowlands' and Ed Simons' music. Shortly, a dazzling fusion of "Block Rockin' Beats" and "Not Another Drugstore" dominate the play-back as the well-known beats from the U.K. chart-topper mix with the dope rap lyrics from the song originally found on the "Electrobank" E.P. One of the greatest moments of the album occurs about eight minutes into the first track--an intense distortion is imposed on "Block Rockin' Beats" as it crescendos and eventually relinquishes its dominating role...
...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...
...night, you would pick [the bus] up [at Dudley] and you'd get people who didn't want to pay. They're smoking dope and all that stuff," he says, describing what driving the number one used to be like...
...smuggled marijuana to make ends meet. When stardom hit, Rolling Stone repeated the old tales in a 1979 cover story, and Buffett was detained by the authorities in St. Barts, where he was then living. "Me and my big mouth," he says. "I had never been a dope dealer; I was just hangin' in the bars, tryin' to be cool...