Word: hops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most artistic. With Hispanics poised to become America's largest minority group within the next few years, this music could be the sound of your future. Latin-tinged pop is blowing up because it fits the musical times: it has a bit of the street edge of hip-hop (Lopez worked with rapper Sean ["Puffy"] Combs on one track on her CD), some of the bouncy joy of dance-pop (Martin is hunkier than all the Backstreet Boys put together) and the fizzy fresh feel of that ever sought-for thing in modern pop, the Next Big Thing...
...Though it would seem to have little in common with bellowing Italian tenors and symphony orchestras, King Kong is, at heart, an opera. A hip-hop opera. An opera for modern audiences. Or should I say postmodern audiences...
Though it would seem to have little in common with bellowing Italian tenors and symphony orchestras, King Kong is, at heart, an opera. A hip-hop opera. An opera for modern audiences. Or should I say postmodern audiences...
...sisters were reared in France by members of the Fugees, the women might sound something like the French singing team Les Nubians. Sisters Helene and Celia Faussart have a warm, engaging sound that blends smooth jazz, soft pop and warm R. and B. with a dash of danceable hip-hop. There are an emotional generosity and a spiritual depth on this album that come through on every track...
Like modernism in art, the definitional question may depend on who you ask. If saturation of a market leads artists to abandon the genre, comercial hip hop may be at odds with itself. When punk rock broke big with fluffy nuggets that received popular recognition, some mourned the loss of the political punk. Others proclaimed a new genre to exploit, an upbeat gleeful energy. But whether or not the movement had died rested on the definition of the movement. The NextLevel conference highlighted this question able future of hip hop culture.William...