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...feel the NBA has lost ground in popularity to other sports because it has become too synonymous with hip-hop ostentation? -Jens Jensen, ChicagoI don't think so. I think one watches the Grammys, one watches the fashion shows, and the reality is that sports, music, fashion - they're global trends. I knew that to be the fact when I saw Lee Iacocca appear in a Chrysler ad with Snoop Dogg. Or when water was being advertised by 50 Cent. You know, c'mon guys. We don't court it, we don't overly promote it. Charles Barkley took...
...kung fu became a dance, graceful and delicate despite the members’ giant swords and other weaponry. This play fighting popped up again in the Harvard Breakers performance, whose place in the show reminded us that culture is not simply limited to ethnic groups. The Breakers celebrated hip-hop culture and dance by featuring a combination of three different musical styles, united by a careful choreography of break dancing, popping, and locking. The best part of “Cultural Rhythms,” however, was not a single act by one performance group, but rather the finale, when...
...with the Kroks, and turned his back on black culture.The same category doesn’t really exist within the white community. A white kid wearing a G-Unit t-shirt may get snickered at on the street, but he’s still white. The fact that hip-hop (and, by extension, mainstream black culture) is embraced by non-black Americans has become undeniable. Hip-hop, then, is not dead, as rapper Nas recently claimed; it’s alive and well and dominating Top 40 radio. Where once the scope of black music’s influence...
...Amerykah Part One (4th World War)” is loaded with socio-political jibes designed to instigate and agitate its audience. If you’re looking for the sugary sentimentality with which Badu sang “Love of My Life (An Ode to Hip-Hop),” you should probably steer clear of everything but the final track and lead single “Honey.” The 11-song album doesn’t give listeners anything to play while jogging on a Sunday afternoon or standing idly in a steamy shower stall. Instead...
...club single with a heavy beat and a dark, slinky analog bass. We don’t hear much of Jackson on this track, as her vocals have been multitracked and processed into little more than a synthesizer melody. Production takes center stage, showcasing the talents of renowned hip-hop and R&B producers Rodney Jerkins and D’Mile. Stereo effects abound, and every open space has been filled with a breathy “sexy sexy sexy” or “wooh.” With lines such as “Got you feeling...