Word: hip-hop
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...most artistic. With Hispanics poised to become America's largest minority group within the next few years, this music could be the sound of your future. Latin-tinged pop is blowing up because it fits the musical times: it has a bit of the street edge of hip-hop (Lopez worked with rapper Sean ["Puffy"] Combs on one track on her CD), some of the bouncy joy of dance-pop (Martin is hunkier than all the Backstreet Boys put together) and the fizzy fresh feel of that ever sought-for thing in modern pop, the Next Big Thing...
...Though it would seem to have little in common with bellowing Italian tenors and symphony orchestras, King Kong is, at heart, an opera. A hip-hop opera. An opera for modern audiences. Or should I say postmodern audiences...
Though it would seem to have little in common with bellowing Italian tenors and symphony orchestras, King Kong is, at heart, an opera. A hip-hop opera. An opera for modern audiences. Or should I say postmodern audiences...
...twin sisters were reared in France by members of the Fugees, the women might sound something like the French singing team Les Nubians. Sisters Helene and Celia Faussart have a warm, engaging sound that blends smooth jazz, soft pop and warm R. and B. with a dash of danceable hip-hop. There are an emotional generosity and a spiritual depth on this album that come through on every track...
...envigorating and problematic. Considerations had both a temporal and an essential feel: can overproduced music still retain an artistic impetus, what is hip hop without dancing, is there an establishment to battle against, do women have a greater place in the future of the music making? Many of these issues challenged the traditional fourpart definition of hip hop--and seem to demand some sort of line drawing. It is for this reason that discussions attempting to further define hip-hop for the current burgeoning and outwardly-branching musical movement appear to answer the wrong questions. One can be true...