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Some people only see that I'm white," gripes Detroit rapper Eminem. But what comes out of his mouth is getting more attention than the color of his skin. Not since the heyday of N.W.A. has hip-hop served up a feast of violence and fantasy as fiendishly witty as Eminem's The Slim Shady LP. On a song titled '97 Bonnie & Clyde, a ripping satire of Will Smith's treacly Just the Two of Us, Eminem raps about pushing his troublesome spouse off a pier while their daughter looks on. "There goes mama splashing in the water/ No more...
...review focused instead on my physical features. Your piece reflects the level of discomfort that many whites and some blacks feel when they discover that well-educated and well-to-do blacks have existed in the U.S. since the late 1800s. Your approach to black history (cover stories on hip-hop ghetto culture and attacks on me) perpetuates the notion that black people are nothing more than 1970s TV-sitcom stereotypes. LAWRENCE OTIS GRAHAM Chappaqua...
...eclectic /rupture and esp did not limit themselves to any one genre. They interspersed smooth experimental hip-hop and ambient noise soundscapes with beat-heavy jungle paranoia. And when esp began a live set, orchestrated on his laptop, he obliterated conventional genres of contemporary dance music. Looking like a mad scientist behind piles of hardware and cables, esp pushed the limits of electronic experimentation, turning the Advocate into a testing ground for revolutionary urban combat. Imagine the brain waves of William Burroughs playing Space Invaders--set to music...
...DJs/producers /rupture and esp are not new to Harvard. Jace Clayton (/rupture) and Mike Esposito (esp) started the Toneburst Collective while they were undergraduates here. The loose-knit collective spans multiple genres and media, uniting jungle, ambient, and hip-hop DJs and producers like DJ Flack, Embryo and Electro Organic Sound System with video- and installation-artists like Synergy Promixions. They organize numerous events in the New England area which are more like carnivals than raves or concerts, combining abstract beats, video experimentation and performance art in unorthodox spaces. A production last year, Junk, was staged in a church...
...exercise in stoic symmetry. Ten impressive clubhouses, guarding Prospect Avenue on either side like guards on the bridge over the castle's moat. There's something else, though, something looming thunderously in the background. Getting closer and closer, the thunder inside these castle-guards becomes more apparent. Thumping hip-hop beats; free-flowing beer from the tap; inebriated and unabashed social banter and excitement. It's college nightlife at its best. It's "The Street" in full swing. It's Princeton on a Saturday night...