Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surprise that he intends to avoid being trapped in lightweight pop: he's 28 and wants a long career. But Humming's dark overhang of melancholy and shortage of buoyant tunes make this just a good album, when there may have been a great one waiting just one hook away...
...seems to be either relationships or random hook-ups which don't lead anywhere," says Edmondson, who is also a Crimson executive...
...expectancy: first Christ, then Rakim, then Black Star. These cats managed to be interviewed by everybody, even when we thought the album was supposed to be an EP. Then they put forth "Definition," a first single that achieved the seemingly impossible--i.e. reusing BDP's "1-2-3" hook and still coming off--and then slowly gave the world little tastes of glories to come, such as tracks featuring Common and underground hero Wordsworth's best appearance on wax to date. Everyone I talked to was in concurrence: This album is gonna be bananas...
True indeed, oddly enough; and Black Star's is no exception. But this time I agree, five mics were not due. One of my roommates made one reason clear: "Why Mos Def gotta sing so much?" The revamped 1-2-3 hook in "RE:Definition" tries to be too Sinatra--just as annoying as his uh-uh-uh's in "Hater Players"--"plus," I always add, "the beat sounds Casio." "Yo I don't know about this `Children's Story' remake," I heard someone else complain; "he didn't do jack with it." "And what about his monotone formats...
...speeches were weightless, the arguments stale, the attendance sparse, the outcome rigged--largely because, as a White House veteran put it, "no one really believed what they were saying anyway: the Republicans don't want to impeach Clinton, and the Democrats don't want to let him off the hook." And so both sides went through the motions. One of the oldest Democratic members wandered out into the Speaker's gallery, coughed and spit on the floor. It was a day for disposable cameras, not oil paint...