Word: hops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard-core fans. Thursday nights are characterized as noisier and artier, while on Fridays, Douglas DeMay '94 plays gut-level, hard-core, emotional stuff to a very loyal audience. On Saturday night the Record Hospital becomes "Rhythm 95," and the music changes to a combination of rap, hip hop, dance hall and funk. Sunday nights the station returns to Record Hospital and plays songs that are more closely tied to the punk movement of the late 1970s...
Rapper Hammer is back with a new image and a new album, The Funky Headhunter. Chucking Las Vegas-style productions, he's into baggy jeans and a muscular street sound, hoping to hop on the gangsta-rap bandwagon...
...Fire, James Brown, Bell Biv Devoe and Prince. After a short introduction in which the Kids announce, "We've been away for a while, but we're back," the record gets off to a promising start with You Got the Flavor, which sets silky harmonies to a hip-hop beat before sliding into a bratty rap digression worthy of Wahlberg's younger brother Marky Mark...
...chel-lo). Not the usual stuff of rock stardom. Female rockers have a better shot, convention holds, if they are boy toys with cute, catchy names like . . . Madonna. NdegeOcello spent two years trying to interest record companies in her iconoclastic music, a shotgun marriage of funk, jazz, hip-hop and angry poetry that she calls "brokenhearted revolutionary love songs." Finally, in despair and ready to enroll in barber school, she got a phone call, and a record deal, rom the head of Maverick, who happens to be . . . Madonna...
Though she had been favored to win the national title, Kerrigan was forced to withdraw from the competition. Her doctors said she was suffering from * thigh contusions and swelling in the knee and was unable to control a simple hop, never mind a program that included several triple jumps. The assault cast a deep shadow on her ambition to earn a medal in next month's Olympics. However, even Kerrigan's rivals admitted that she deserved to be on the U.S. team, and on Saturday night officials in Detroit selected her over the runner- up, 13-year-old Michelle Kwan...