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With hard funk and hard raps, the Brand New Heavies prove they are no lightweights with The Heavy Rhyme Experience...
...team's offensive funk and defensive prowess in the game was evident in the first half, in which both teams battled fiercely only to go into the locker room with goose eggs to show...
Country music, in case you city folk haven't noticed, is where pop music went to live. When rock 'n' roll settled into the bustling ghettos of white metal and black funk, country claimed the ears of the pop-music homeless -- those who like songs to mix catchy melodies with prickly home truths. By reaching people raised on '60s folk music and Beatles rock, country has become suburbanized. It's as much at home in malls and vans as it used to be in grange halls and pickups...
...last campaign together. But they will have little time for nostalgia. Arrayed against them are obstacles greater than any they have faced in their three decades as a team. The economy continues to sputter, with unemployment stuck near 10% in the major industrial states and consumer confidence in a funk. The President trails Democrat Bill Clinton by 25 points in national polls. Many Republican lawmakers, frightened by local surveys that show Bush dragging them down, are skipping the Houston convention. And the G.O.P. is ideologically riven -- over issues from abortion to supply-side economics -- as it has not been since...
Rappers expressing their passion for justice and black empowerment are hardly uncommon. Rhyming over experimental jazz, funk, blues and reggae samples is no longer unorthodox. But the Atlanta-based group Arrested Development does both in a way that strikes a novel note. For one thing, consider its makeup. There are four men and two women (itself unusual, since rap groups nearly always divide strictly along gender lines): a lead rapper- singer named Speech, a deejay, another singer, a traditional African dancer and -- get this -- a 60-year-old spiritual adviser, who doesn't appear onstage with the group but draws...