Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brought the world Hobo Junction, the Left Coast's indie response to the Wu-Tang Clan, drops his third album, The Hit List. Since his first solo album, The Boxcar Session, Saafir's been busy. Between teaming up with Ras Kass and Xzibit (who'll headline the Lyricist Lounge show in Boston on the 18th) to form the Golden State Warriors crew and recording Trigonometry, his second album, under the pseudonym Mr. No-No, one wonders where the Saucee Nomad has had time to come up with the tight lyrical flow and musicality a worthy hip-hop album necessitates...
...gripping the first time it was done...by Tupac. Both rappers came up in Oakland and blew up after short stints with Digital Underground. Both saw time on the big screen (for Saafir, Menace II Society), but Tupac was Tupac and Saafir is, well, not much relatively speaking. The Hit List, while featuring a few tracks worthy of transitional status on the turntable (most notably the head-nodding "Runnin' Man" and the opening monologue to the title track), is still light years behind the seminal 2pacalypse Now and doesn't even approach the pyrotechnics of his own earlier efforts...
...Your race wasn't an issue until you hit the real world," she says...
...Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands, this is textbook Burton--shadowy visuals, injections of visceral comedy, relentless darkness and a Lisa Marie cameo (she swirls in the wind!). The bad news is that it isn't the Gothic masterpiece that we might have expected. But it'll still be a gargantuan hit. Look for our special Sleepy Hollow feature next week with in-depth coverage and an interview with one of the film's stars...
QUESTION 6: You've almost hit the big time! But internal dissension is tearing your company apart. Specifically, your employees are sick of working for free. How do keep morale up without actually paying wages? A) Promise to distribute even more non-existent stock options; B) Give them all a business cards and a "Chief (blank) Officer" title; C) Beer; D) Screw it. Dump those deadweights and poster the campus, advertising your new "comp...