Word: hip-hop
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...settled that the electronica revolution was a non-starter. Their songs are generally okay, and occasionally breach the lower depths of pretty good, but they're last decade's news; Rage Against the Machine brought rap-metal mainstream in the early '90s, the Fugees dominated the middle-'90s with hip-hop that borrowed from rock and pop, Ricky Martin filled every supermarket with his Latin-pop blend in the late-'90s, and yet groups still sell records and turn heads with forms of fusion pioneered in the Bronze Age. For some reason, "Group X Infuses Genre Y with Genre...
Spiderman has a big unitard to fill. Soundtracks for movies featuring Marvel characters have been clever, innovative and satisfying to date. Blade II succeeds in continuing the tradition of matching mutant-related subject matter with a recombinant-genre soundtrack. The album delivers an impressive list of strange bedfellows: Hip-hop heavyweights including Eve, Cypress Hill and the Roots overlay samples from Fatboy Slim, Moby, Groove Armada and others. The result is bound to entice and entertain both curious and skeptical listeners...
...Middle East, the skittering clicks n’ cuts more resembled microbes than beats, a forest of chirruping digital bugs clambering out of vinyl hell and into one’s headspace. Best of all, no two records sounded alike, with fleeting nods to such diverse styles as industrial, hip-hop, jungle and even dancehall...
...parentis—in the place of parents—apparently lives to this day. When the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) presented Outkast as the top possibility for a May concert, Associate Dean of the College David P. Illingworth ’71 suggested a different band, saying the hip-hop group’s language “may not be acceptable for many audiences...
...doesn’t really click that, hey, this guy could play something cool I’ve never heard before. A lot of people only want to dance to the songs that they know,” says Caleb S. Epps ’02, a hip-hop enthusiast. “I think people would have more fun at parties if they danced to what they heard even if they hadn’t heard it before...