Word: emo
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...with most bands the media labels “emo,” the Prom’s slower numbers are pretty but overly sentimental. Fortunately, they never reach the maudlin levels of more well-known bands such as Dashboard Confessional...
...doubts to the full impact of Slug’s work were quelled as the God Loves Ugly tour hit the Middle East. Brushing off notions that he is the rap equivalent of a whining emo boy, Slug lit the stage like a firecracker and had the hoodie-laden audience at his fingertips from the get-go. Sharing the limelight with fellow wordsmiths Blueprint and MURS (of Living Legends fame), he tore through a carefully orchestrated set of Atmosphere classics old and new, with the crowd belting out the choruses right along with him. The obligatory freestyle cypher was almost...
...virtuosity of Madlib and MF Doom and seething electronic grime of El-P (the anti-Timbaland) to the obtuse bohemian leanings of the Anticon clique. Though he’s flexed his lyrical muscles with nearly all of them, Slug brandishes his own critic-approved designations: “emo rap” and its unfortunately named cousin “smart...
...kind of funny because I’m not really that smart,” he says flatly. “When people peg me as an intellectual rapper, I think that’s hilarious. When I think about it, Tupac was the king of ‘emo rap’—so if people want to put me in the same category as Tupac, I’m honored...
Weezer is on a major label and has sold millions of albums, but despite these sins the band is beloved by emo fans, largely because Cuomo is an emo Everyman. After Weezer sold 3.9 million copies of its first two albums, Cuomo abandoned music, went to Harvard and put himself through an extremely painful surgery to even the lengths of his legs. When he realized that Harvard was not a cure for feelings of social inadequacy, Cuomo returned to Weezer and started banking song after song. What does Weezer's success prove? That emo kids--who pride themselves...