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...year when hip hop artists are applying their music to political speeches, the Black Students Association (BSA) in conjunction with the Institute of Politics (IOP) hosted a panel last night to discuss hip hop’s political and cultural effect on the current generation. “Hip hop is important because of its influence; in that way, it has political power,” said co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records Damon Dash. “There’s an awareness that can be brought from hip hop.” Last night?...
...cover of British Sea Power’s third album boldly inquires, “Do You Like Rock Music?” It’s an awful album title, but frankly it’s a good question for Americans to consider. With the rise of hip-hop and dance-pop, rock and roll’s popularity in the United States is tremendously low when compared to Europe. Sure, there was talk of a “rock revival” around the turn of the millennium, but most of the bands hyped during that movement have...
...Settling” is bad. Men, on the other hand, are constantly enjoined to settle, and often. These philosophies cannot both work. The world is either filled with discriminating women wandering around with checklists and constantly rejecting men like Mystery, or with accessible, impossibly beautiful women just dying to hop into bed. These expectations combine to produce dissatisfying results for everyone. The gap between ideals and hormones produces the hook-up culture, which is frustrating to most sane people. The difficulty about instant gratification is that it is neither. But if men don’t run around like deranged...
...Saturday night contest against Brown, the Harvard women’s basketball team entered the locker room at halftime with a little hop in its step. Freshman Claire Wheeler had just connected on a baseline jumper as the first-half buzzer sounded, and the players exchanged high-fives as they jogged off the court. They knew, though, that coach Kathy Delaney-Smith would have some more serious words for them in the locker room. Describing the first half with “a word I can’t use in print,” the 25-year veteran coach...
...present to you an artist you might have heard of: M.I.A. The British-born artist’s latest album, “Kala,” is an ode to modern originality. Each song is a tenuous marriage of world sounds—Baile Funk, hip hop, rock, and many more. To some, these tracks may sound like no more than an amalgamation of other people’s prefab music. What M.I.A. creates, however, isn’t simply an amalgamation or a composite; it’s synthesis, and a personal kind of synthesis at that. It?...