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...February 25, 2006, the Harvard community was treated to the 21st annual Cultural Rhythms Show. With over 30 student groups performing in two different shows (Hayek was only present at the first), Sanders Theatre was transformed into a cultural medley that ranged from traditional Korean dancing to Latin hip-hop...
With a wide array of students performing both traditional and contemporary Latino dance, Candela Hip Hop was a likely candidate for most “pumped-up.” While the hip-hop troupe hoofed it to Ciara’s “One, Two Step,” their traditional component danced to a spicy salsa beat...
...part “Lose My Breath,” and one part “Tricky.” LL and Jermaine engage in rhyme-scheme and sound-scape rip-off so blatant that it simultaneously makes the listener forget the former’s significant contributions to hip-hop while somehow also eclipsing the mountain of crap that the latter has produced. Poor J-Lo is stuck in the middle (literally—the video splits LL’s still-impressive torso in two, with the aging ass queen wasting space, wearing strange towel-hats and barely...
...turf” feud: admonishment for stealing a style, lyrics or even a whole genre. The rap world is full of MCs claiming to suffer from “jacked” or “bitten” rhymes.The Sugarhill Gang’s breakthrough hip-hop hit “Rapper’s Delight” is a classic culprit; the song liberally incorporates lyrics from Grandmaster Caz’s—of old-school favorites the Cold Crush Brothers—rhyme book. Decades before Caz’s lament, Little Richard voiced a similar...
...something he has campaigned for ever since. At the now-defunct Opera Factory, he was famous for training his singers in yoga, primal screaming and Butoh dance, and his productions successfully broke down the image of a singer plonked on stage. (Musically adventurous as well, Freeman will premiere a hip-hop opera based on the life of Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi for the ENO in September.) "He's highly organic," says Potra, "and he doesn't believe in putting harnesses onto performers...