Word: ghettoes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Quite a while, no doubt. Already in the works is a one-hour special on Duke Ellington. Lear is, preparing yet another sitcom series for a possible January debut on CBS, this one about a black family named Jones. "Sanford isn't trying to reflect real ghetto life," Lear maintains. "Compared with ghetto dwellers, those two men live very, very well. What I would like to do is a real black-ghetto family show...
...eyeballing (as face-to-face meetings are called) local ham buddies over a beer at the neighborhood pub. "I gave up the Swiss climate that I loved," he says. "I thought: What use is the climate if I have to spend the rest of my life in a ghetto?" India and innovations have made him free...
...other performers that deserve attention: I can’t get the chorus of Moochie Mack’s “Ghetto Bounce” (“If you’re ghetto and you know it bounce bounce”) out of my head. What’s up with nursery rhyme in hip-hop choruses? Nelly’s “Country Grammar (Hot Shit).” “That’s Cool,” the new single by Silkk the Shocker and Trina, reminds me of a raunchier version...
...Music" was all about her ghetto booty, "Don't Tell Me" suggested a penchant for square-dancing cowboys, but now Madonna's third single off her new album-entitled "What It Feels Like for a Girl"-shows us that deep down the Material Girl still has some hardcore rage to work out. The wonderfully subversive video was banned by MTV which now refuses to air it because it's "irresponsible." The decision is befuddling for a number of reasons. First, MTV airs "irresponsible" shows all the time. "Undressed" makes me cringe with its inane, orgiastic storylines which are no better...
...Before Eminem came on to rap with Elton John, a grave man dressed like an adult - the Grammys' ambassador to Bennett-Leiberman Nation - delivered a dishonest sermonette filled with those "sure-it's-ugly-but-we-ignore-the-cry-of-the-ghetto (er, make that, of suburban white sociopaths)-at-our-peril" notes that are spoken to endow venality with social significance...