Word: hipped
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...literally went home to her mother, telling her husband, "I don't want to live with someone who thinks that is funny.") Altman continued to be pursued by this reputation as a prankster on all humanity, depantsing people of their pretenses and setting up an impregnable barrier between the hip and the square. And, as it happened, he earned...
...compulsive name-dropper, The Game repeatedly and inappropriately compares himself to hip hop all-stars from the past 20 years. On “It’s Okay (One Blood),” a high-energy head banger, he says, “I’m B.I.G., I’m Cube, I’m Nas, I’m Pac.” Does he actually believe that? I hope not. On the last track, the dazzling “Why You Hate the Game” with the real Nas and Marsha from Floetry...
...weighs down the album. And by “weighs down,” I mean “sinks.” What makes it all worse is that Dre doesn’t even appear on the album. He takes us out of that pseudo-fantasy escapist hip-hop world where you believe everything the rapper says—he’s the greatest, he gets all the hoes, he drives a Bentley, and so on—and brings us back into the real world, where rappers are just as petty and insecure as the rest...
...whether silent film’s D. W. Griffith or Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto—always come to lend their personal stamp to high-profile projects, and the level of specialization and differentiation in the market grows quickly. In the ensuing fragmentation, everything from ambient drone to hip-hop anthems enter into play.While “Gears of War” itself is hardly a masterpiece of subtlety—most of the game still revolves around shooting huge guns at bad guys—the mere fact that a company with Microsoft’s clout is acknowledging...
...been jammed into these three minutes of make-believe. And it all looks very good: dancers move in fast forward to appear like wind-up dolls, Stefani strums a key and sings to her own von Trapp band. This video is really a platform for the queen of hip-pop to chastise the imitators by showing them how it’s really done. Needless to say, I’m wound up. —Kathleen A. Fedornak