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...whole, the album blends R&B melodies, hip-hop beats, and dance music into a fairly novel sound for the hip-hop genre. It is both a refreshing break from familiar beats and trite expressions and it is easy to listen to continuously because the songs follow a natural progression...
...guest appearances that Legend used on his first album to help establish himself as a top-shelf artist are definitely missed in this attempt. While not every song needs a hip-hop beat or a rapper cameo, the work of Kanye West and Snoop Dogg were definitely welcome variation on Legend’s previous album. Legend’s attempt to be truly classic and stand alone on the album is admirable, but this album lacks the frit and variety necessary to pull this...
...just wants to see his sisters." [A few days after Time published his story, Ali was evacuated to Kuwait and then to London where he was treated in hospital and where he now lives.] Los Angeles Aug. 15, 2005 After taking advanced classes and getting a private drama coach, [hip-hop singer André (Andre 3000)] Benjamin went to auditions. They did not go well. Once, in front of a group of Fox executives, he got so frazzled that he couldn't stop sweating. "I was supposed to be playing this ultra-cool guy," Benjamin says. "I was supposed...
...WHRB also plan to take advantage of the new broadcasting equipment.“It’s going to be pretty great for the entire station,” says Alwa A. Cooper ’08, the director of The Darker Side, WHRB’s hip-hop department. Cooper is also a Crimson editor.“The in-studio performances will be just one more way in which WHRB can spread musical diversity on campus,” says Steve Lin ’08, pianist and vocalist for the student rock band The Dharma Seals...
...stage. He name-checks Redman and Old Dirty Bastard. He wears his cap backwards and spits rhymes with fierce energy and unbridled theatrics. Naturally, Loker Professor of English W. James Simpson thinks he’s awesome. Simpson admits that he’s not much of a hip-hop enthusiast, but Brinkman’s brand of rap—literary hip-hop, or lit-hop—is relevant to the medievalist; Brinkman translates “The Canterbury Tales” into the language of contemporary youth culture. “He preserves the kind of brilliance...