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...growth of affection for the baby, his young face animatedly begins to embrace the necessity of his own bottled emotions. Hood does a superb job of setting the scene, using color and music befitting to each of the film’s locations. In the township, angry hip-hop swirls through the streets along with brownish-orange dust. This combination of aggressive music and parched earth casts an overall red tone to the scene. In contrast, the metropolitan and suburban shots adopt cool blues, silvers and greens to project the diametrically different standards of living...
...there no room on exhibit posters for “People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm”?—this project affirms the long-overdue recognition of hip-hop’s historical relevance, especially given the involvement of the canonical American museum. Unsurprisingly, some of the most enterprising attempts to intellectualize hip-hop have been made by its own practitioners, not by tenured professors. KRS-One, the prototypical hip-hop teacher, brought political ideals more complex than “Fight the Power” into rap discourse; poet/rapper Saul Williams...
Aspiring Harvard MCs looking for “massive” exposure will lyrically spar with fellow Cantabrigians this Friday night. The hip-hop department of Harvard’s radio station, WHRB, in conjunction with Massive Records, is hosting its first ever hip-hop battle for students and locals to compete for a cash prize and airtime to showcase the night’s best acts. The record store and WHRB’s “The Darker Side,” say that they hope that the event will bring greater attention to Boston?...
...inside-Hollywood detour about the movie ambitions of Christopher (Michael Imperioli). (Though it does deliver funny lines: Chris describes his screenplay idea as "Saw meets Godfather II.") And subplots involving fundamentalist Christians and a superstar rapper are tendentious and cardboard. (The latter recalls a season-one story about how hip-hop culture fetishes mafiosi...
...some ways “Mimi” is manlier than previous Carey outings. Hip-hop impresario Jermaine Dupri produced the album’s chart-topping singles, including “We Belong Together.” Hip-hop is manly, right? It probably bears mentioning that Dupri is best known for his work with the pint-sized rap prodigy Lil’ Bow Wow. The kid is no Tupac, but he’s street, or at least pretends...