Word: hops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Teaching kids to read is the best juvenile-justice program I know," he said in an interview during a campaign-plane hop from Midland to El Paso a few days before the election. And if a disproportionate number of those failing are black and Hispanic, he says, "it's discriminatory. A poor education system denies people the opportunity to realize their dreams...
Then there's his lost hip-hop-influenced record. Not long after he wrote the Oscar-winning song Streets of Philadelphia, Springsteen all but completed a kind of hip-hop album. "I got together a lot of samples and loops and started to put this album together," he says. "It was fun; I enjoyed doing it, but I needed two or three more songs, and for some reason, I never got around to writing them. So I put it away. Eventually, I'm going to find a way to get this music out to people...
...interview, Springsteen, who says he's a fan of such younger performers as Chris Whitley and Ben Harper, asks what's worth listening to in record stores these days. You recommend the new Seal album (in fact, you give him your only copy), the sound track to the hip-hop movie Slam and rapper/singer Lauryn Hill's debut album (you point out that like him, she's a Garden State resident...
...heard, to have a voice that can be heard, that seems to be at the core of a lot of the music that I wrote," says Springsteen, who recently published Songs (Avon; $50), a compilation of his song lyrics. "More of those issues are dealt with in hip-hop today than in rock music. I don't know exactly why. Maybe those things are felt more in the hip-hop community, those kinds of immediate frustrations. Maybe that's the connection...
...opening bands, Ozmatli and the Pietasters, were both a pleasure to watch. Ozmatli mixed a Latino sound with bouncing hip-hop songs, while the Pietasters performed their usual repertoire, despite the lead singer's obvious (but good-natured) intoxication. Overall, the show was well worth braving the crowd that fills the Roxy every Friday on "Swing Night...