Word: hops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...featured artist at the Lizard Lounge and his poetry will appear on a CD the Cambridge club is producing; tonight he is performing at the Underground, a club in Providence; and he will open for the Last Poets, a hip hop group, at MIT next weekend...
...defenders and I were kicking ourselves after that goal," Albers said. With 50 seconds left, Harvard led Princeton, 4-1. "It was raining and the shot was a header. It squibbed past me on sort of a tricky hop. I had no complaints, though. We had beaten Princeton and we were supposed to have lost to them...
...hop generation all about violence and degradation? are we collectively doomed to go the way of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls? I hope not, because I'm a member of that generation. In the weeks to come, as we try to make sense of the death of two of the youngest, richest, best-known black men in America, we'll probably succumb to a natural temptation to divide the "good kids" from the "hip-hop kids." I'm not buying it. I grew up listening to hip-hop. In elementary school I tuned my radio to the techno-influenced chant...
...Tribe Called Quest continue to blend phat beats, dope rhymes and intelligent ideas into high-powered rap, regardless of marketing data that say gangsta rap sells best. Who's pushing the rawest rhymes to No. 1 on the charts? For years now, the largest volume of hip-hop albums has been sold to white suburban kids who've deposed heavy metal and elevated hip-hop to the crown of Music Most Likely to Infuriate My Parents. The suburban rebellion--its record-buying tastes, its voyeurism of what too often it views as "authentic black culture"--has contributed to the primacy...
...music may be in white America's homes, but the violence is in black America's neighborhoods. That's why we, the hip-hop generation, bear the ultimate responsibility for reshaping the art form we love. Hip-hop used to lift us above the struggles we faced; then it tried to inform us about the struggles we faced; now it's become one of the struggles we face. I used to tell myself that the "thug life" portrayed in the music was just fiction. Now it's incontrovertible fact. We can do better than this...