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Kudos for interviewing 50 Cent [Sept. 24.] Learning that his nickname is "a metaphor for change" gives me greater respect for him. But I take issue with his claim that Kanye West's music is "aimed at a straight pop audience." West's hip-hop is less gangsta and therefore softer, but it is also more substantive. If anything, gangsta rap is more pop. I love a good 50 Cent beat, but I keep waiting for him to say something more meaningful. Instead of competing, 50 Cent and West should collaborate and sell even more...
...budding interest in hip-hop led Zornow to experiment with mixing music when...
...After two years of practicing, I started entering competitions. The Low Lives, which is based in New York, took me under their wing. They became sort of like mentors. But now I’m a member of them. I also perform with [Boston hip-hop group] Awkward Landing...
July 20, 2007 was a strange night in my hometown of Naperville, Ill. Normally adored by businessmen for its travel-guide beauty, reviled by teens for its mind-numbing monotony, and frequented by twenty-somethings for its moderately hip bar scene, downtown Naperville was alive on this night in a way I had never seen. The businesses cleverly changed their colors and names, the teens un-self-consciously donned outlandish costumes, and the drunken twenty-somethings made way for the flood of families who filled the streets, all in the name of a book. But what really caught my attention...
...wounded Spartan hoplite might have done while being treated on the battlefield. Anyway, he got it. And, by Zeus, he relaxed. So I pulled, lifting Nick and an ER doc off the stretcher, and while Nick waxed on about sterilizing old wine bottles, I felt his new old hip pop back into place. The leg came out to length and was straight again. Everyone was relieved - everyone but Nick, who seemed a little annoyed that I was leaving to order another x-ray. He was just getting to the important part about the yeast...