Word: gotta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reflection on death is original and, despite the depressing topic, exhilirating to listen to: "The quill from a buzzard/ The blood writes the word/ I want to know am I the sky/ Or a bird/Cause hell is boiling over/And heaven is full/We're chained to the world/And we all gotta pull/And we're all gonna be/...Just dirt in the ground...
...Jump n' Move," featuring Jamalski, is wildly frenetic and "State of Yo," featuring Black Sheep, is a dreamy reverie. And "Do What I Gotta Do" features Boston's own Ed O.G. On these tracks especially, fantastic vocal performances meld with fat beats and funky musical hooks...
...Shaw. It's been beaten back into the outlaw subcultures of rap and rock, where, precisely because it is taboo, it sells. And the nastier it is, the faster it moves off the shelves. As Ice-T asks in another song on the same album, "Goddamn what a brotha gotta do/ To get a message through/ To the red, white and blue...
...Finn is readier to satisfy the playgoer's yearning for a hummable phrase. In Falsettos he gives every character a big ballad, ranging from the tender What More Can I Say to the abandoned wife's showstopper I'm Breaking Down to the AIDS patient's edgy, sardonic You Gotta Die Sometime. In all, the three dozen musical numbers add up to the richest emotional experience offered by any musical on Broadway...
...gotta get rid of these hiccups," says Sipp...