Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there is little beneath the surface. The album is a blur of repetitive basslines that bleed from one track to the next; the rhymes are lousy, and the braggadocio and self-references that make contemporary rap such flamboyant entertaining falls flat here. It is difficult to distinguish the three group members except that they all fall off rhythm. As a result, the majority of the tracks on the album resemble each other too closely. Two tracks stood out, mainly because they resembled other artists' work. Anyone who heard Missy Elliott's summer release will be furious upon hearing...
...clubs. It's obvious that even Lil Wayne knew he was better off as part of the flaming ones. Of the album's 17 tracks, 12 feature pairings with the rest of the Hot Boyz--Juvenile, B.G. and Turk. The four should have just gotten together for another group project; their stuff (or at least Lil Wayne's) just isn't that good alone...
...sure to catch the eye of any pre-teen, who make up most of the faithful watchers of the Pokemon TV cartoon, and the first track is the Pokemon theme (by Billy Crawford), again another appeal to younger kids. But the other songs seem to aim at another age group, that of the devoted fans of the new generation of pop that includes the various "boy groups" and artists like Spears and Aguilera--12-14 year old girls. But girls, if any of you are reading this, skip the album. It's not worth your allowance...
This is not to say that the chorus members don't work hard; they clearly do. Despite the obstacle of an imbalanced sound design, which often permits the band to drown out the lyrics, it is clear that the group has the potential to sing admirably. However, as a rule, they seem more aware of what they should be doing at a given moment (in terms of choreography) than why they are doing it. This apparently aimless motion-playing, agitated by the compromised intelligibility of the lyrics, does regrettable damage to the finished product...
...campus music scene is a beast of a strangely ephemeral nature. Though the groups themselves persist, the turnover of undergrads combines with the emphasis on performance to create an environment where the music made more than a scant few years ago is mostly forgotten. There is, however, one group devoted to the purpose of preserving music. Deep in the Pforzheimer House basement, tucked between practice rooms and HRTV studios, is one of the Harvard music scene's least known entities: Quad Sound Studios. QSS, or simply "the studio," as members refer to it, is ironically one of the youngest musical...