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...can’t limit its possibilities—something Common apparently understands and capitalizes upon in Electric Circus. Last year’s amazing albums from The Roots, Talib Kweli and Cody Chesnutt proved the place of electronica and the electric guitar in the music of this new hip-hop movement. But Common’s new album delivers the exclamation point on an already strong declaration. In “New Wave,” Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab delivers a stunning vocal hook as Common declares his independence from the music industry. Meanwhile, “Jimi...
After half an hour of mingling with the first-years, Summers made a short speech welcoming students back from winter break. Then, at about 10 p.m., the lights dimmed, and Summers, surrounded by a cheering crowd, started dancing to the opening chords of the hip-hop smash...
...opening cut, White America, the rapper whose lyrics preoccupied moralists in Congress in the summer of 2000--when they had more time on their hands--declared war on the Bush Administration and slammed his critics as racial hypocrites who discovered rap only when white teens started listening to it: "Hip-hop was never a problem in Harlem, only in Boston." It's Eminem's most political song, even if it is rooted in his bottomless sense of personal grievance, which seems to grow in direct proportion to his bank account. On Square Dance, he anticipated that Iraq would be next...
...ever made, rappers Run and D.M.C. made sure to include a verse like that, if not an entire song, about their favorite subject: Jam Master Jay. His real name was Jason Mizell, and though he wasn't necessarily the best DJ in rap, he was the first to fuse hip-hop beats with rock melodies, fueling Run-D.M.C.'s historic crossover to the pop charts (they were the first rap group to sell a million records) and changing the sound of pop music forever. Jay was shot and killed in his Queens, N.Y., recording studio in November. Police have...
...also had altruistic motives in reforming the Grille. “I was pissed off that there was no workable social center for everyone to hang out,” he says. He went for a “coffee house/bar atmosphere” with low light and a hip-hop soundtrack. Erlich insists it was accidental that many of the employees were among Quincy House’s, well, hottest (“It was coincidental at first that the staff may have been good-looking,” he says), but it certainly didn’t detract...