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...GLOBAL ADVISOR Holidays: Champagne supernova Kyrgyzstan: R and R in Bishkek Malaysia: Hip hotels in Langkawi...
...cover, motherfuckers.” Thus does Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott introduce her latest album, This Is Not A Test. The album is packed predictably full of boasts about outclassing every other hip-hop artist, but less predictably there may be something to the boasts. For their fifth album together, Missy Elliott and Timbaland have stripped their sound down to what might be called its bare bones, if it didn’t sound so funky and rich. The four best tracks on the album reduce hip-hop to its bare necessities: head-bouncing beats...
...Keep It Movin’” (with Elephant Man) and “Is This Our Last Time” (with Fabolous). If Missy is able to assemble a more impressive selection of guest artists than anyone else, it is because she outclasses most other hip-hoppers so comprehensively. Elephant ends mostly relying on the happy consonance between his name and Elliott’s, while Fabolous mumbles sullenly about Mike Tyson. Missy’s ballads are almost always her weakest points, so these are not huge losses, and Jay-Z’s guest spot...
...aptly titled Veritas Records Compilation Volume 1, features cuts from Harvard favorites like hip-hop group the Justice League, indie rock bands the States and the Half-Nelsons, Kyle E. Nasser ’05 and his jazz ensemble, Veritas President Dan J. Zaccagnino ’05, who plays acoustic rock, and several others...
...Keep 'em Guessing Roc-A-Fella's Damon Dash built a hip-hop music and clothing empire. Now he's moving into film and booze...