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...musicians as successful as rap legend 50 Cent have ever been less innovative. Indeed, 50 has gained enormous and well-deserved fame by creating the archetypal song for many of hip-hop’s most fundamental clichés—in his 2003 masterpiece “Get Rich or Die Tryin’” alone, 50 brought the dance floor bump-n-grind to its apotheosis with “In Da Club,” painted the precise portrait of one of rap’s cardinal tropes with “P.I.M.P...
Nonetheless, 50 does make an effort at trying something new. The album’s lead single, “Baby by Me,” is a nod at the new synth-laden, auto-tuned electronic-rap that currently is dominating the hip-hop charts. A fast-talking Fiddy avoids subtlety, giddily rapping “Have a baby by me, baby! Be a millionaire” and “you can feel every inch of it when we intimate / I’ll use my tongue baby, I’ll leave you sprung baby...
...most significant failures on “Before I Self Destruct” are in the loss of the simple, catchy hooks that played a crucial role in vaulting 50 to his present position in hip-hop. Particularly poor showings can be seen in “Then Days Went By,” when 50 rhymes “rich,” “shit,” “hit,” and “shit,” or in that of “Could’ve Been...
...wasn’t like each dance was unusual, but we found the bizarreness of the dance in releasing the dancers’ strength, in trying to find new ways of responding to movement,” Jáquez says. Jáquez combined modern dance with hip-hop, classical, and martial arts elements, and his three dancers, painted as green monsters, counterpointed the music with their own flowing narrative...
...seems to construct a hip aura from its website’s nerd-cool font to the presence of members of the Donkey Show at the Grand Opening. Edwards, who was recently selected as one of the 25 most stylish Bostonians by the Globe, says the Lab has a “very anti-institutional feel...