Word: hip-hop
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...Five Harvard undergraduates moved bashfully from the dance floor toward Fat Catz’s stage. Their backs to the crowd, the students followed the instructions of the DJ and grooved to the hip-hop beat...
...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. And the UC’s Springfest Afterparty last year cost $16,000 but drew fewer than 200 people...
Everyone can stop the hand-wringing about that empty New York hip-hop throne. Thirteen years after the Wu-Tang Clan released one of pop music’s most bafflingly brilliant records, “Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers),” one of the Clan’s most durable members has shown that he hasn’t lost a step...
It’s hard to stabilize Ghostface’s characters, and in that sense they have an independence that is very rare in hip-hop. Stereotypes like Tupac’s reformed thug or 50 Cent’s muscled, gun-totin’, sex god aren’t characters; they’re devices a rapper can use to move a song along. Ghostface lets his characters get away from him. His stories are so exhilarating to listen to because he doesn’t seem to have complete control over them...
...mercially distributed, a huge problem for the music industry.“[Pre-release] piracy is a really big deal,” Samuel D. G. Jacoby ’08, who is also a Crimson editor and one of the heads of WHRB’s Hip-Hop department, writes in an e-mail. “You’ll find copies of major releases floating around [on the web] sometimes months in advance.”Under FECA, Thomas and Bowser could face up to eleven years each in prison.This increasing aggressiveness on the part of both...