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...songs in Take the Lead span a wider divide: Gershwin and Porter tunes laced with, and sometimes remixed as, hip-hop. The plot elements are virtually the same as in High School Musical: the main boy, who must juggle his old extracurricular activity (here it's thuggery) with a furtive itch to express himself through music; the class-conscious blond who needs a comeuppance; and a climax where three crucial events are occurring with implausible simultaneity. In HSM it's a basketball game, a scholarly competition and the final auditions for the show; in Take the Lead a dance contest...
Everyone can stop the hand-wringing about that empty New York hip-hop throne. Thirteen years after the Wu-Tang Clan released one of pop music’s most bafflingly brilliant records, “Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers),” one of the Clan’s most durable members has shown that he hasn’t lost a step...
It’s hard to stabilize Ghostface’s characters, and in that sense they have an independence that is very rare in hip-hop. Stereotypes like Tupac’s reformed thug or 50 Cent’s muscled, gun-totin’, sex god aren’t characters; they’re devices a rapper can use to move a song along. Ghostface lets his characters get away from him. His stories are so exhilarating to listen to because he doesn’t seem to have complete control over them...
...mercially distributed, a huge problem for the music industry.“[Pre-release] piracy is a really big deal,” Samuel D. G. Jacoby ’08, who is also a Crimson editor and one of the heads of WHRB’s Hip-Hop department, writes in an e-mail. “You’ll find copies of major releases floating around [on the web] sometimes months in advance.”Under FECA, Thomas and Bowser could face up to eleven years each in prison.This increasing aggressiveness on the part of both...
...November, the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC), a subsidiary body of the UC, cancelled its planned fall concert featuring hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean because of insufficient ticket sales, costing the UC between $25,000 and $30,000 in sunk costs...