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...hop??s dead when it’s still alive...
...said in ‘Blueprint’ that I’ll never change” our hero says in “Trouble,” and it’s true: Jay-Z will still tell you he’s “hip-hop??s savior.” He still raps about being the best in the game, and even uses a number of his old producers. Maybe “Kingdom Come” would be better if Jay at least tried to improve on his formula, even if just...
...with fierce energy and unbridled theatrics. Naturally, Loker Professor of English W. James Simpson thinks he’s awesome. Simpson admits that he’s not much of a hip-hop enthusiast, but Brinkman’s brand of rap—literary hip-hop, or lit-hop??is relevant to the medievalist; Brinkman translates “The Canterbury Tales” into the language of contemporary youth culture. “He preserves the kind of brilliance and surprise, the kind of linguistic pyrotechnics one finds in Chaucer,” says Simpson...
...poignantly and acerbically exposes hip-hop hypocrisy, spitting “Now come on everybody, let’s make cocaine cool / We need a few more half naked women up in the pool.” It’s clear that Fiasco could become one of hip-hop??s premier lyricists. He has tremendous range, scribing the light-hearted skateboard romance “Kick, Push” and Sturm und Drang issue songs like “He Say She Say” and “Hurt Me Soul...
...he’s in the rap game for the long run. “I want rapping to be my career. I’d like to get a record deal, and do my own thing. I don’t like the conformity in hip-hop??people just churning out singles that don’t mean anything,” he says. Nor is he shy about sharing the spotlight, frequently collaborating with other musicians, including Harvard’s rap royalty. One MC featured, Santiago Danino ’09, has nothing but love...