Word: hops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Your friend, a hip-hop junkie, celebrates her birthday soon. Also, suppose you could assemble the corpuscles of the hip-hop universe in any way you willed. What gift would you generate...
...your girl's at all like me--and she must be, since we both live partly for hip-hop and we're both Scorpios--she knows all of this. She also probably jocked Brand Nu's comeback singles this summer, in which all three lyricists obviously came up. She might've bobbed her head to the first one, "The Return," in part because it was produced by Premier, as every awaited East Coast comeback seems to require, but "Back Up Off the Wall" had a beat bordering on commercial, and it was still slammin', starting with the hook: "Mad 'cause...
...wrong: Foundation is far from aclassic. its tightest tracks are at best, cool; inother words, I can't see any of them alongside"Slow Down" and "Punks Jump up..." in the Hall ofHip-Hop Fame. If you think you can come up withsomething more glorious for your boo, since youg-o-d and all. . . Just don't hate when I give herthe album myself
...great part, the reinvention of the Cardigans has been enabled by their bold passage into the world of trip-hop electronica. Rather than the familiar panoply of flutes, horns and strings of their previous work, Gran Turismo grooves to the unfamiliar rhythmic contortions and techno loops of an electronic beat box. Impressively, the Cardigans integrate these new elements seamlessly, brewing a series of the catchiest pop songs this side of Alanis Morissette; every track sounds as if it were designed to rule the airwaves. Unlike the beat-driven atmospherics of classic trip-hop bands like Portishead, the Cardigans fix their...
...open text. In the '60s there was a guy named Alain Robbe-Grillet, a writer who developed what he called the unbound novel, a kind of idea where the theme, the story, is kind of series of interlocking loops and repetitions. The people who actually listen to hip-hop, dance music, techno, salsa, you name it, everything is so much more diverse than the corporations would have you think or the radio. Most people listen to a wide variety of music, whether they're black, white or Asian. It just gets to a point where sampling culture, especially...