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...despite the hurdles, the musicians go from gig to gig because they see they are having an effect. "Artists make political statements subtly and not so subtly and those statements have an impact on the audience," said Bakari Kitwana, who serves as Artist in Residence at the Center for the Study of Race Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago. "This is what hip-hop does at its best, so we we see young people gravitating toward hip hop, seeing their own conditions and have hip-hop giving them a voice...
...Harvard. Win one for Amaker. Win one for the program. Win one for the team against a big-name school. And win it did, stepping up to every challenge and looking adversity in the face in a 62-51 victory. Amaker, fired from the Michigan head coaching gig in April after six seasons in Ann Arbor, got sweet revenge against his old squad by handing the Wolverines their fifth loss of the season. When Amaker was hired at Harvard, people undoubtedly considered it a step down for him in the basketball world. Coming from Michigan, a program with a successful...
...rapper got his first acting gig, essentially playing himself--a likable city kid--living the lush life on the class-conscious sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Lassiter told him, "'Listen, if we're going out to L.A., we probably should have a goal,'" Smith says. "I said, 'I want to be the biggest movie star in the world.'" Lassiter, seeing promise that few others in Hollywood would, took his friend seriously and found a list of the 10 top-grossing movies of all time. "We looked at them and said, O.K., what are the patterns?" Smith recalls...
...stupid-smart: a clever man playing someone with misplaced self-confidence who didn't realize he was a buffoon. This guerrilla comic in a three-piece suit was daring the crowd to get it. And for a long time, there were no crowds. He had one 3 p.m. gig at a drive-in theater, in front of an audience in a dozen cars with speakers attached to the windows. If people liked a joke, they honked. Occasionally he played to dead-empty rooms...
...music producer and penning a few successful songs for TV (including the theme to “Who’s the Boss?”), Kraft was asked to score a movie. “I had no idea how to do it, and I accepted the gig. I did what I needed to do. I went to a bookstore, read about film scoring, bought some gear, and asked people who had scored films,” he said. “You make a lot of mistakes. But you always learn more from a lot of mistakes...