Word: funk
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...played in a funk,” captain Matt Stehle said. “It was like we had all just woken up from a long sleep...
...touch the sky”), the clothes and chest hair in this 70’s pastiche are indeed fly. As daredevil Evel Kanyevel, West does indeed try to touch the sky and does indeed die. And if this had remained a lively take on a funk-tinged hip hop song, it would’ve been fine. But such cannot be the case with the cinematic music video: the song is interrupted by an extraordinarily unfunny interlude in which West comments on his infamous remarks about the president (here symbolized by Nixon) and two women with afros berate...
...think in terms of that,” she said. “My team’s too young for that. From our standpoint, I don’t build any game up.” Just three weeks ago, Harvard entered its reading period break in a funk. It had lost convincingly to Dartmouth, a team of vast experience and superior efficiency on both sides of the ball. It had opened its season 4-10 and suffered an eight-game losing streak,?its longest stretch of futility in more than twenty years. And it had entrusted its season...
...time.? It was noon, five hours before the start of 48th Annual Grammy Awards telecast, and Stone sat, placidly, in the trailer car of a stretch purple motorcycle in the parking lot of a Beverly Hills mini-mall. Several hours later, the man known as the J.D. Salinger of funk emerged onstage at the Staples Center in Los Angeles for his first live performance since...
...likely, he’s just playing it cool. With a few embarrassing exceptions (please, Prince, start wearing shirts under your suit coats), he plays the tease well. The video certainly doesn’t break any new ground, but it isn’t trying to. The angular funk of the song, a throwback to some of Prince’s earlier work, calls for a video that is simply sexy and fun, and “Black Sweat” by and large delivers. I’m sure Jehovah, if not all of his witnesses, would approve...