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Perhaps because of Jones’ strong appreciation for the talent of contemporary rappers, he vehemently denies the rumors of Hip-Hop??s impending and inevitable demise. After one particularly declaratory comment, Jones responded, “Hip-Hop is dead? That’s what Michael [Jackson] told me in 1987. It’s not true, you just have to change. I’ve seen 60 years of groups go by and it’s all adding up to something more...
...childhood friend and fellow “idealistic, arrogant bastard” Gregory Keltgen) on 2001’s First Born could have easily been a tiring exercise in introspection over break-beats, their ontological and musical exploration was a welcome q-tip in underground hip-hop??s ear. After two years of intermittent touring and solo projects—Abilities scratched on El-P’s futuristic Fantastic Damage while Eyedea recorded the beautiful, too verbose The Many Faces of Oliver Hart—they returned to the studio with a blank slate...
...barely contained by hip-hop as a genre. In truth, “In Da Club” is the only joint from this past year still in my head, all mainstream and sewage-level underground productions of 2003 considered. That song, and 50 Cent, are redolent of hip-hop??s gradual ascension more than two decades in the making. They say 50 signaled the return of the hardcore thug emcee, the embodiment of the streets and the real and Tupac Shakur. But his rise reminds me more of Pac’s death, an epochal event everyone...
...That’s basically how I got into hip-hop??I wasn’t necessarily bred in a musical house, or around a lot of people who did hip-hop,” Maye says...
Features Del tha Funkee Homosapien, one of hip-hop??s most interesting musical innovators, who has pulled his posse, the Hieroglyphics, out of relative obscurity with a strong electronica-influenced MC style. With a strong sense of flow and solid rhymes indisputable to anyone who wants to see why underground hip-hop has a strong fan base, they bring the beats back into service for black culture and blatantly demonstrate the ridiculousness of the bling-bling culture. 8 p.m. $20 advance, $23 door; 18+. The Middle East Downstairs, 472 Massachusetts...