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...nerd rap.” But that didn’t prevent Slug from recording “When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold,” another articulate album about feminism, sex, and working-class people. Slug, who along with producer Ant makes up hip-hop duo Atmosphere, is probably the only songwriter in contemporary hip-hop who writes about a woman who is “gonna pay all day but never get away from skinny white dick.” Slug is not the dawg in his songs; he’s more...
...spinning a fan like a tape recorder while being showered with kilo upon kilo of white powder, unites sex, drugs, money, and music in a single image. The geisha, not the Wu-Tang Clan, is the focal point of this video: she is the ideal of a high-rolling hip-hop lifestyle, an ideal that will long outlive the rappers who made it famous. —Mark A. VanMiddlesworth
...showcase for Latino and Latin-American creativity but also as a means of strengthening the entire community within Harvard. The show, which will take place tomorrow, features both traditional and modern acts presented by the winners of the show’s Latino/a of the Year awards: hip-hop artist Daddy Yankee and “America’s Next Top Model” winner Jaslene Gonzalez. The board members of Presencia Latina have been auditioning students, organizing celebrity guest appearances, and promoting the cultural show since late February. They hope that this show will open the Harvard community?...
...overall goal of the “Take Back the Music” contest is to help change the way that artists and the public approach hip-hop, both in its creation and its reception. This year’s grand prize winners, Jennifer “Nesi” Chanesi of Rhode Island and Justin “Jae Guttah” McGibbon of Pennsylvania, won full scholarships to the 2008 Berklee Five-Week Summer Performance Program. Through prizes like these, the “Take Back the Music” contest hopes to assist the participants in developing...
...When hip-hop was still a subculture, there was a lot more diverse set of music to offer,” Gordy says. “That people think there’s only this one type of music that can sell is ridiculous. [The contest] is in response to the cookie cutter, formulaic music we see today. Besides being misogynistic, honestly, it’s boring. This brings music that’s not only thought provoking, not only creative, but new and fresh...