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...There is archival footage of Shaft's director, Gordon Parks, coaching Hayes as he records the movie's funk-legend theme, and critic Elvis Mitchell explains how Curtis Mayfield's antidrug score for Superfly subtly rebuts the movie's pusher-glorifying plot (the same tension as exists in much gangsta rap). The documentary confirms blaxploitation's lasting influence on music and movies by interviewing Afeni Shakur (mother of late rapper Tupac) and Quentin Tarantino, the white boy whom blaxploitation made. The Oscars may not recognize the legacy of blaxploitation anytime soon. But, Julien shows, the world outside the academy...
...member of Grammy-winning R. and B. trio TLC, in a car crash while on vacation; in Honduras. The group's 1994 sophomore venture CrazySexyCool went quadruple-platinum. Lopes had recently signed to produce her second solo album under the moniker NINA, short for New Identity Not Applicable and gangsta slang for a 9-mm gun. DIED. LINDA BOREMAN, 53, better known as Linda Lovelace, star of the notorious 1972 sex flick Deep Throat who later turned antiporn activist, of injuries from a car crash; in Denver, Colorado (see Eulogy). DIED. PAM BAKER, 71, gutsy lawyer and human rights activist...
It’s probably a good sign that the feature seemed utterly irrelevant. What parent doesn’t already know about Eminem’s foul-mouthed verbal contortions and the whole Ruff Ryding suburban gangsta phenomenon? Never mind that hip hop has been, on and off, the leading artistic force in pop music for the past decade and a half. Never mind that Public Enemy and Timbaland have revolutionized our notions of musicality, that a multifaceted and vibrant youth culture has risen all over the world, and that fantastic new records are still released every couple...
...Best Part was shelved indefinitely by record companies, All Of The Above may be his magnum opus. It is a consummate progression of the Native Tongues movement (led by De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest) that was eclipsed in the early ’90s by gangsta rap. The album oozes with the legacies of jazz, funk and soul. Like Common’s Like Water For Chocolate or The Roots’ Things Fall Apart, it consciously positions hip hop as the latest development in a long line of soulful black music. But unlike the former, Above...
...Silkk the Shocker and a catchy bass riff courtesy of the Dub Pistols on “The One.” Groove Aramada delivers a silent nod to the Beastie Boys’ “Flute Loop” with their woodwind sample on “Gangsta Queens,” skilfully overlaid by Versace-lauding girl-rappers Trina and Rah-Diggah...