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...life-changing experiments with LSD during his undergraduate years, was filmed on location in Cambridge. And Toback was a key speaker in a conference sponsored by the Department of Afro-American Studies after the 1999 release of his film Black and White, which explored the popularity of hip-hop music in white suburbia...
...cases, their albums are as comfortable sharing pages with Blink 182 and John Mayer as they are with Grandmaster Flash and Aceyalone. For many people, the band provides their first (and in some cases, only) taste of hip-hop history and aesthetics. Chali 2na, the group’s most popular and outspoken emcee, calls Jurassic “the Ghetto Diplomats...
...Hip-hop began with DJs spinning music at parties, and Jurassic take this origin to heart, putting their collective energies into live performance. During their show at Brandeis University last month, they declared: “We don’t give concerts. We throw parties...
...dancehall diva. In fact, A Little Deeper only shows its two-step roots on the final two tracks, the offbeat and frenetic “Danger” and “Ramp.” Instead, most of the album offers track after track of MTV-worthy, melodic hip-hop gems. Dynamite’s been billed as the British Lauryn Hill, but this album blows away Hill’s recent self-indulgent acoustic offerings (as displayed on MTV Unplugged...
...Takes More” (featuring Jay-Z collaborator Keon Bryce) and the attitude-laden “Sick ‘N’ Tired.” Dynamite deals with abusive boyfriends, drug overdoses and black-on-black violence—standard fare on any generic hip-hop album, perhaps, but she rings truer than the bling-bling bragging we are usually fed. Ms. Dynamite only slips when she tries to be an R&B singer; on tracks like “A Little Deeper” she sounds a little like a worn-out Alicia Keys. But when...