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...much independent hip-hop, from Rawkus to Rhymesayers, suffers from that tidy precision—hanging onto skeletons of forms long after the first experiments made them stick...
Lately everyone’s talking about Kanye West, the man who helped Jay-Z start a new classicist vision of hip-hop in The Blueprint. Initially that record seemed like a triumph of the same underground “backpacker” values in mainstream culture—its straightforward beats and soul samples heralded Jigga’s return to basics and the inner reflection of his own early classic Reasonable Doubt...
...very well known and it’s excellent. I found out about it from a friend who got it from a friend who got it from a friend, and originally we just had burned copies. It’s a Cuban group that does hip-hop, but with a really Cuban feel to it...with drumming and stuff, kind of like afro-cuban roots. When I arrived here [from California] they had just put out a second album in Miami, so when I got here I asked everyone from Miami if they had heard of them...
...very well known and it’s excellent. I found out about it from a friend who got it from a friend who got it from a friend, and originally we just had burned copies. It’s a Cuban group that does hip-hop, but with a really Cuban feel to it...with drumming and stuff, kind of like afro-cuban roots. When I arrived here [from California] they had just put out a second album in Miami, so when I got here I asked everyone from Miami if they had heard of them...
...while Summers may not be deeply rooted in hip-hop culture, he expressed his strong commitment to the visual and performing arts at Harvard...