Word: hops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those songs which go out on a limb that actually come close to recapturing or even surpassing the spirit of the originals. The English League's mildly hip-hop influenced version of Oingo Boingo's "Weird Science" is an appropriately goofy take on a goofy song, complete with a melodramatic repetition of "she's alive!," while F.O.N.'s Californianska take on The Cars' "You Might Think" is appropriately trippy. But these are few and far between. Instead, we get mediocre takes on "Pretty in Pink," "I Melt With You" and "If You Leave...
...Genre hopping is the favorite sport of today's pop stars, and few performers play the game better than Beck. On his major-label debut, Mellow Gold (1994), Beck helped re-energize folk motifs by combining them with hip-hop beats. On his new album, Mutations (DGC), Beck has mostly abandoned hip-hop. His new sound draws largely from older, traditional styles: pure folk, blues and, on the spirited song Tropicalia, bossa nova. The energy of Beck's hip-hop/folk experimentation is missed here; this is a ruminative album that's more about quiet revelation than sonic revolution...
Rapper-producer RZA has long enjoyed a reputation for being one of the most creative acts in hip-hop, and his new solo album lives up to his billing. A theme album, Bobby Digital looks at the exploits of a partially mechanized creature. As you might guess, given the B-movie setup, not all of the album makes sense, but RZA does create an atmosphere of sci-fi menace and scatological humor. The music is propelled by elastic rhythms and scattershot rapping. Several tracks are vulgar and misogynistic, but RZA tries to show his softer side with a hiccuping...
Gates says his daughter likes to listen to hip-hop music as he drives her to kindergarten. As a professor of Afro-American studies, he says it is important to know about black musical expression. But without his daughter, he wouldn't listen to hip-hop because...
...shouldn't need a $2,000 computer to listen to the radio, but that hasn't kept millions of people from tuning in to more than 1,500 stations on the Web. Now JAMTV/Rolling Stone Network is offering 12 channels of rock and hip-hop (at rsradio.com and plans to feature celebrity DJ David Bowie in early 1999. Listeners can rate songs, order a CD and read ads while singing along...