Word: hip-hop
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...doors and rallying in front of the Science Center with telltale orange posters every day of the campaign. Those same posters decorated the solarium alongside photos from the campaign’s kickoff party and Christmas lights. Dimmed overhead lights and a pounding party music mix consisting of popular hip-hop completed the celebratory atmosphere. “I’m ecstatic,” said Campaign Manager Tracy E. Nowski ’07. “We’ve been working harder on this than my thesis would like to discuss...
...performed two pieces, they appeared in two segments instead of one.“OutKast Medley,” the piece by the dancers from the Harvard TAPS, was well-intentioned but fell short. While the popular music from OutKast is conducive to certain types of dance, the loud hip-hop undermined the rhythm of the dancers. As a result, there was a constant struggle between the precise patterns of the tap shoes and the more erratic background music. Next was the Harvard Ballet Company’s “Parsons Etude,” which was also performed...
...that Snoop Dogg runs the most successful rent-a-thug service in hip-hop (see “Buttons”), why does he need to bother releasing an LP? While he could get real paid and even more famous by dropping more guest verses, he has cut another full album. This reason may be respect, money, or some contractual obligation, but it’s certainly not the music itself...
...featuring Dr. Dre and D’Angelo. It begins with a claim by Snoop that the album is so gangsta, that the tone needs to be settled down a bit. This is inaccurate. But the track bangs anyway, with Dr. Dre actually singing a verse about hip-hop being a mostly positive force for black Americans...
...whose questions challenge us as Bob Dylan’s challenged our parents. It is mere seconds before Mistah F.A.B. gleefully answers his own query: “Ghost ride it!” That, in fact, is the title of his song, a modern masterpiece that puts a hip-hop beat over the theme from “Ghostbusters.” Just like Dylan, Mistah F.A.B. is telling the world what we young people are all about: ghost riding, or the art of exiting moving vehicles and dancing beside them—or on top of them?...