Word: ghettoes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...What More Can I Say blare like processionals for a hip-hop king, and Jay-Z raps over them with effortless self-aggrandizing. He has kept listeners engaged all these years not with his humility but with a relaxed Brooklyn baritone that makes him sound a bit like a ghetto Sinatra (callous but with enviable style). His upbringing has also made fans a little more sympathetic about his avarice. Born Shawn Carter, Jay-Z grew up in Brooklyn's infamous Marcy projects, shot his brother in an argument at age 12, hit the streets to sell drugs soon after, dodged...
Marianne Moore said poetry is a world of "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." Shakur's poetry, spitting out violent imagery with an oracular tinge, was a summary and prophecy of his own brief life: an imaginary Uzi with real bullets. In his work, poignant portraits of ghetto misery (the brilliantly elegiac Brenda's Got a Baby) collided with cop-baiting insurrectionism ("Can't find peace on the streets/til the niggaz get a piece, f___ police, hear them screamin...
...universe where an undefeated Harvard didn’t drop two straight games against the weakest part of its schedule, you get to muse about how beautiful it will be for the Crimson’s flawless season to wrap up on a frosty afternoon in a certain Connecticut ghetto, and this paragraph isn’t being written...
...shithole” and “vomit-inducing” immediately sprang to mind. Upon further reflection, respondents added that New Haven also struck them as “seedy,” “scuzzy” and “ghetto-fab minus...
...let’s agree to take a cue from the divine Lauryn Hill, who reminisces fondly about the awkwardness of childhood in “Every Ghetto, Every City” and concludes, “You know it’s hot / don’t forget what you’ve got / looking back.” The next time some of your friends bring up that home video where your shorts are pulled up to your chest (thanks, Mom!), you can tell them, “Screw you! …I mean, yeah, that...