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...monthly fee, the content cops have no say in what's beamed down from Sirius' three satellites. And Sirius is taking full advantage of its outlier status to serve up fare you would never hear over the AM/FM dial, from frat-boy channels like Maxim Radio to hip-hop so crude it might make Eminem blush...
...Hip-hop savant Aesop Rock claims to have “never wrote or read poetry that much” while growing up. You’d never know it from “The Living Human Curiousity Sideshow,” an 87-page booklet distributed with his recent EP “Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives,” compiling all of the acclaimed underground rapper’s (neé Ian Bavitz) lyrics since his 1999 album, “Float...
While his ambivalence is probably genuine, it’s unclear if an art form has ever expressed as burning a desire to be taken seriously as contemporary underground hip-hop. “The Living Human Curiousity Sideshow” forms part of a larger trend of MCs including unpunctuated, vaguely cummings-esque lyrics in photocopy-chic booklets...
Spoken word posterboy Saul Williams has published three volumes of poetry, when not inviting “99 Problems” producer Rick Rubin to lay the beats down on his hip-hop records. DJ Spooky, a Bowdoin graduate with a double major in French and philosophy, who performed at Sanders Theatre in March, weaves webs of aural, visual, and textual references ranging from Derrida to De La Soul...
This discourse between hip-hop and academia is starting to flow both ways. Courses like Literature and Arts A-86, “American Protest Literature from Tom Paine to Tupac” pack lecture halls at Harvard. After reading Aesop’s lyric “the villain of my Kabuki hologram cuz I hobble with hollow hands” (from the titular track of 1999’s “Float”), an enthusiastic Professor of English and American Literature and Language Gordon L. Teskey felt compelled to mention that “a good...