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...office on the Republican Party ticket—there were a few blacks there, but they seemed outnumbered and out of place. First opener Pigeon John is about as annoying as an actual pigeon, and was followed by Omni, who is inoffensive and interchangeable with hundreds of other underground hip-hop artists. Fatlip, one of the founders of playful West Coast hip-hop group The Pharcyde, followed by demonstrating his spectacularly unique flow, intermixing classics from his Pharcyde days with tracks from his recent solo effort, “The Loneliest Punk.” No one else...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Blackalicious Keep It Positive | 4/13/2006 | See Source »

...culture can turn us against ourselves, then why can’t we use it as a tool to uplift and build up one another?” The conference kicked off Friday evening with a banquet reception and film festival showcasing documentaries about the hip-hop movement on the African continent. Nearly 250 delegates attended the weekend’s panels and interactive workshops held in the Science Center, which were geared toward spurring dialogue about a wide range of issues facing the present day pan-African community. Conference chair Kelley N. Johnson ’02 said...

Author: By Ying Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Conference Challenges Students to See Africa in New Light | 4/10/2006 | See Source »

...songs in Take the Lead span a wider divide: Gershwin and Porter tunes laced with, and sometimes remixed as, hip-hop. The plot elements are virtually the same as in High School Musical: the main boy, who must juggle his old extracurricular activity (here it's thuggery) with a furtive itch to express himself through music; the class-conscious blond who needs a comeuppance; and a climax where three crucial events are occurring with implausible simultaneity. In HSM it's a basketball game, a scholarly competition and the final auditions for the show; in Take the Lead a dance contest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gotta Sing! Gotta Dance! | 4/7/2006 | See Source »

...they dedicate themselves to it, they can compete in the city-wide dance-off at the end of the term. One kids sneers: "Music is corny. There's no feeling." To prove he's wrong, Pierre bends and blends. When someone proposes to mix the standards repertoire with a hip-hop beat, Pierre says, "Two songs, working together. It is a beautiful idea." Like two people, dancing together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gotta Sing! Gotta Dance! | 4/7/2006 | See Source »

...November, the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC), a subsidiary body of the UC, cancelled its planned fall concert featuring hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean because of insufficient ticket sales, costing the UC between $25,000 and $30,000 in sunk costs...

Author: By and Alexander D. Blankfein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Once Rockin' the Suburbs, Now Rockin' the Yard | 4/6/2006 | See Source »

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