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Brown University professor Tricia Rose wants you to know that no one is right about hip-hop. In her new book, The Hip Hop Wars, Rose takes on all sides, arguing that fans and detractors alike have advanced illogical, dishonest and offensive arguments about why the genre is bad and why it's great. She spoke to TIME about how radio is killing hip-hop, why artists need to take more responsibility and what the music used to be like...
...book, you credit American Idol for popularizing karaoke in America. What was once a dreaded barroom activity is now almost hip. But we had talent search shows before American Idol and they didn't help karaoke. What about Star Search? The thing with Star Search is that the people always seemed to be sort of creepy. There were a couple other shows in the '80s with ridiculous names and they sort of seemed all the same: a lot of creepily stage-managed kids and then a lot of people who are just trying so hard that they're pandering. There...
...mockable emblem of Eisenhower-era family values, a stand-in for geekiness, a pasttime so decidely unhip that it's hip," former Wall Street Journal reporter Stefan Fatsis once wrote about the best-selling board game Scrabble, which turned 60 on Tuesday. Fatsis would know: while researching Word Freak, his bestselling 2001 book about the game's most fanatical players, he became a self-proclaimed word freak himself, and he's not alone. More than 150 million Scrabble sets have been sold in 121 countries since its creation...
...dormant, assuming alternative aliases. There was simply too much uncharted territory, too much potential, not to keep exploring. So the style-that-dare-not-speak-its-name came to be known as house music, or simply dance music. Sampling and DJ culture immediately found refuge in early rap and hip-hop, and schism genres like dance-punk and techno emerged. From Prince’s “1999” and Madonna’s “Holiday” in the 80s, to Whitney Houston’s “I’m Every Woman?...
...What Them Girls Like” have been claimed by many others (including some of his collaborators on this album), the later tracks offer a more in-depth glance into the artist’s thought process. In “I Do It for Hip Hop,” Luda sheds some light on the motivation behind his career: “Luda do it cause it’s art.” And in all honesty, Ludacris does seem to believe in the art of his rhymes and beats, though that?...