Word: funked
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...promise of his first album’s best songs. Indeed, save for a few bright spots, this album is never more than a guilty pleasure. The Game’s lyrical style is a straight-up rehash of the harder elements of early ’90s G-Funk, adding one element—an Eminem-esque fascination with other rappers and their feelings. The results are decidedly mixed. Game openly expresses his overwhelming desire to be liked and accepted by his mentor and former producer, Dr. Dre, and it weighs down the album...
...League, where it’s short bursts of Friday-Saturday [games] and then five days off,” senior center Brian Cusworth says. “It’s really easy for any sort of negative atmosphere to snowball. We got into a funk and we were a much better team than we represented last year, so we’ve been really establishing the fact that we can’t let anything like that happen [this year].”And while all of the Ivy back-to-back road trips are hard, the yearly...
Fergie “Fergalicious” Dir. Fatima Robinson What do you get when you cross Candy Land with an overtly sexualized one-time child actress turned ghetto-funk star? Fergie’s new video “Fergalicious” is Willy Wonka’s wet dream. Fergie prances through candy-cane forests and lollipop trees wearing the flouncy frocks that remind us of childhood—except they are a whole lot shorter than you remembered. She later titillates with the most revealing girl-scout costume you’ve ever seen. In the words...
...instrumental greats. Formed when saxophonist Wayne Shorter and pianist/composer Joe Zawinul left their prestigious positions in the Miles Davis quintet, the group, whose roster featured an ever-changing list of talented sidemen, began experimenting with the possibilities of jazz fusion—a bold mixture of rock music, funk, soul, and world music. In pursuing Davis’ experimental leanings as displayed on “In A Sentimental Mood” and “Bitches Brew,” the group created some of the most innovative and dynamic jazz on record over its 1970-1985 career...
...from Mattison’s interest in “roots music of all kind,” he explains. The group, which features Mattison and collaborator/multi-instrumentalist Paul Olsen—the two “met each other in Minneapolis in ’93 at a P-Funk Show” before relocating to New York—recently released its second album, “Alligator Love Cry,” on Landslide Records and is now touring behind it. But Mattison wasn’t always focused on music as a career. Indeed, when asked...