Word: hop
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...from Texas," the DIXIE CHICKS collected five Grammys for their unrepentant single Not Ready to Make Nice and their album Taking the Long Way. While accepting the Best Country Album award, a vindicated Maines said, "To quote the great Simpsons: Hah-hah!" LUDACRIS, meanwhile, wryly thanked two VIP hip-hop critics when he won Best Rap Album for Release Therapy. "Special shout-out to Oprah, special shout-out to Bill O'Reilly," the rapper said. "I love ya!" Jimmy Carter, at the center of a controversy over a book on Israel, tied for Best Spoken Word Album. Carter...
...world increasingly immune to the horrors of war, how to engage audiences without turning them off? With Soundtrack and its 2006 sequel, Rampage, which follows a rapping Marine home to Miami and the hip-hop studios of New York City, Gittoes cracked the creative jackpot, with films that could just as easily play on VH1 as in the current documentary-obsessed contemporary art world. (Three years on, curators can't get enough of Soundtrack, which, from March 9, screens as part of the third Auckland Triennial, called "Turbulence.") Gittoes' use of popular culture to explore the Iraq...
...first evening show requires more ritual than the previous four. A quick change of outfit, and we are back. The zany but focused fashion week crowd has adopted a more carefree Saturday night attitude, and Venexiana plays to the crowd perfectly.Instead of Euro beats, the show begins with hip-hop throwdowns mixed with Beyonce and Justin Timberlake. Colorful lights flash everywhere, creating a club vibe in the tent and significantly more buzz than the daytime shows. As has come to be routine, the lights drop, the music pauses, and then both fire up again simultaneously. We almost see a model...
Only good things can come from mixing hard liquor with humor, so hop on the T and head to the Comedy Connection for The Jameson Irish Whiskey Comedy Tour, featuring Jeff Caldwell, Nick Griffin, Danny Bevins and Ralph Harris. Smuggle in a flask if you’re under...
...Most hip-hop fans want nothing more than that beat-plus-rhyme-induced euphoria. So when an album full of those overwhelmingly awesome moments comes along, we are powerless to resist. Forget the title: Nas’ new album, “Hip Hop Is Dead,” is a reminder of why “this rap shit is real,” as our hero declares in the aptly-named closing a cappella track, “Hope.” The record is simple, thoughtful, and classy as hell without being stiff or anachronistic...