Word: hipping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...languages and English. Elements of African tribal chants and Pygmy song blend seamlessly with Daulne's incredible lead vocals, which flow easily from breathless pixie to soul sister. But A Ma Zone should not be consigned to the world music section of record stores. It's a pop and hip-hop album, and it markets itself as such, down to Martin Ledyard's hip stylised cover art. "Songe" and the impossibly beautiful "Call Waiting" both blend in the stuttering backbeats of 90s R&B, while the inclusion of rapper Black Thought (from the Roots, Philly's famed hip-hop collective...
...timer: Easily identifiable by his practice of wearing striped crew socks all the way up to his knees. He looks as though he can breathe only with the assistance of an iron lung, but you are the one sucking wind as his spindly legs and reconstructed hip propel him past you faster than he can drive...
...darling store selling wood carvings of Biblical characters. In such a store, one is so taken by the statues that it's easy to forget one's surroundings--which is for the better, in this case, since even in this little alcove of Christian peace, a quiet but immutable hip-hop bass line whispered from hidden speakers...
What makes all this so uncommon is that classic rockers--especially the prodigiously talented psychedelia-tinged guitar slingers of the '60s and '70s--are usually considered by radio to be as irrelevant to today's pop- and hip-hop-happy world as Benny Goodman was to the Woodstock generation. Santana's biggest smash, Abraxas, came in 1970. Radio now shuns most of the greats of Santana's glory days--the Who, the Allman Brothers, even Paul McCartney. Who cares if you're in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? It's ratings they want...
...Davis roped in a marquee full of guest stars to lend a hip, young edge: Dave Matthews, Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean, Everlast and Rob Thomas of the rock band Matchbox 20. Radio is lapping up the star-packed bill, powering the album's rise. And, not least, the songs are flush with energy and redemptive beauty...