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These days, the question "Shall we dance?" is both an invitation and a challenge. Hip-hop dance battles--much like the M.C. face-offs in the film 8 Mile--are becoming mainstream. The dance-battle scene has inspired a TV show (MTV's Wade Robson Project) and a film (You Got Served), and it even popped up at the Vatican (the Pope recently blessed an acrobatic bboy performance). "It's funny that it's being recognized on this level now, because it's been around, dominating in the urban centers for 30 years," says Crazy Legs, 38, a choreographer...
Reminiscent of the 2002 Super Bowl celebration, Kraft, Brady and Head Coach Bill Belichick did an awkward victory dance for the crowd, egged on by star cornerback Ty Law, who asked the deejay to put on the hip-hop song, “Encore” by Jay-Z. Linebacker Willie McGinest joined in, dancing the “Crip Walk,” while Belichick extended both arms forward with visible reluctance and made a Frankenstein-esque motion...
Josh Tyrangiel completely missed the mark in his article about [the hip-hop magazine] The Source and our investigation of racism in hip-hop music [Jan. 12]. Tyrangiel focused on an alleged personal vendetta between Eminem and me, but doing so obscures the real issues. It is The Source's journalistic responsibility to bring Eminem's multiple racist rants to light and publish excerpts of the song tracks. Our hope is not necessarily to topple a talented musician; it is to make Eminem accountable for his words and engage him and his fans in a real dialogue about racism...
...play both its own 20-minute videos and your own MP3s and videos, which you can copy onto blank memory cards that slide into the unit. Targeted at the video-game crowd, ages 8 to 25, the Zvue has a bright color screen and 20 different videos--mostly hip-hop performances, street car races and extreme sports like snowboarding. With videos priced at $15 for a 20minute clip, however, we would like content from more popular names like 50 Cent or ESPN Sports. And transferring your music and videos to the unit is more complicated than it should be. Available...
...just that Dizzee's East London accent is thick, though it is. It's that Dizzee (ne Dylan Mills), 19, speaks in a tangled local idiom in which choppah means knife, chaps are chains and sket means slut. In Britain, where most rappers still spit moldy American hip-hop cliches, Dizzee is celebrated as a rap original. (Boy in Da Corner beat out albums by Radiohead and Coldplay for the country's prestigious Mercury Prize.) But American audiences--who get Dizzee's album on Jan. 20, six months after the Brits--have a right to ask: What, exactly...