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...like Tha League and WPP before him, believes firmly in the primacy of artistic vision. “If I want to do something substantial for hip-hop, and I see Lil’ Wayne is the one on the pop charts,” he says, “I’m gonna go somewhere else...
Part of Cublunk’s mission is to stress that artists like Kinkopf and Shiftee have everything to gain by giving at least a little bit of the spotlight to alternative styles of hip-hop, even if those styles are more mainstream, more traditional, more “street...
...It’s not like all college kids only listen to complex, abstract underground hip-hop,” Deleon of Tha League says. “If that were true, N.W.A., Mobb Deep, Public Enemy, and every hip-hop artist that’s ever been played on MTV would not be successful...
...Cublunk’s equation, Dave Mays made it big because he offered up a Harvard intellect to the existing materials of street hip-hop. Until the rest Harvard comes around to the other side of Boston hip-hop, though, he’ll remain pessimistic: “I’m waiting for some new Harvard kids to come into Boston and say, ‘I want to hear what’s going on here...
...scenes of the faux artistes. Director Harmony Korine’s work in “Living Proof” is of the latter variety, suffocating a graceful song.Korine’s attempt to make a surrealistic feminist document begins with a pseudo-parody of the modern hip-hop video, as a baggily clothed black man bounces his hand next to Cat Power’s Chan Marshall and points at his car’s rims. To emphasize this, the frame shifts to conceal Marshall’s head. Only her body can be seen. It?...