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...difference between these bands’ ties to pop-culture history is fundamental to their difference as a band: whereas Oasis were plodding, incomprehensible lyrically but musically well-trained in writing hook-heavy guitar rock, Blur took a step back and refused to take on the high-mindedness that Oasis never quite seem able to convincingly pull...
...townie or you can be from another school, as long as you’ve got what it takes, you’re clean and you can give me what I want...who knows, I might even hook you up with a job someday. You won’t regret...
...ordinary man could hatch such an ambitious plan. The Massacre takes so much work that Walsh needs help—a couple of spies, like Herrmann and first baseman Mike J. Dukovich ’06—to get the dirt on his own players. Hook-ups, embarrassing weekend details—little is sacred...
...Piggy Bank,” a gritty diss track with a sing-song hook, 50 flaunts his success: “Clickety clank, clickety clank, the money goes into my piggy bank.” After disparaging Fat Joe (“My shit sold 11 mil/His shit was a dud”) and Jadakiss (“Jada, don’t fuck wit me, if you wanna eat/’Cuz I’ll do yo little ass like Jay did Mobb Deep”), he challenges his enemies to “do something...
...Arular’s sea of shouts and chants, “Sunshowers” alone magically manifests a falsetto hook smooth enough for a Ghostface single (the verse even has a 36 Chambers--style PLO shoutout!). On the moodily droning hidden track, “M.I.A.,” she mutters magnetically about Kate Moss and George Bush in the same breath. Each of Arular’s 13 tracks, really, is a standout—even the three skits—and its 40-minute run time is far too brief...