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When reviewers compare new artists with established ones, it's often not because they lack adjectives. It's probably because the new artists lack originality. So let's just say that hot-selling R.-and-B. singer Ashanti, 19, combines the hip-hop delivery of Mary J. Blige with the modulated control of Alicia Keys. Both are fine singers to emulate, but Ashanti needs to find her own voice. It doesn't help that the album's breakout hit, Foolish, is built around El DeBarge's keyboard sample from Stay With Me, a sample made famous by the Notorious B.I.G...
Despite efforts by the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC), hip-hop group Outkast will not be coming to campus this spring, commission head and Undergraduate Council President Sujean S. Lee ’03 said yesterday...
...fashion business probably wouldn't be an option, even if she wanted to. "You've jumped off the career train at a certain point," she says. "How can you come back at 36 or 37 and say, 'I'm here, guys--snap, snap, let me start another line of hip-hop clothing...
...most acclaimed artists, Plaid throw all pretensions out the door. Their music is quirky and experimental, even resembling some of the insectile funk and robo-talk that had preceded them. Yet it’s a perfectly logical extension of the Detroit techno, electro and old-school hip-hop that birthed virtually all of today’s electronic music. Every bone-cracking snare, shuffling high-hat and well-timed bass bomb was there for a reason—to loosen the body and spirit and push grooves to newfound heights...
...adrenaline and a breath of fresh air. The biggest response, other than to Mira dropping a booty ghetto-tech track at the end of her set, was the ominous “Pino Pomo.” From Rest Proof Clockwork, the track’s sinfully simple hip-hop pulse was a revelation in this context...