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...mine. BL: Duke’s J.J. Redick has established himself as something of a poet. You are a self-proclaimed freestyle rapper. What would you say if you met J.J. in a battle? CT: I would say, “You think you’re the illest baller in the land? / Let’s see what happens when I slice off your shooting hand!” Then I would remove a samurai blade and cut off his right hand. BL: Rumor has it that you’ve taken the NCAA’s RPI rankings...

Author: By Christopher J. Catizone and Chris Schonberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Cheddar Ted Suffers From March Madness | 3/15/2006 | See Source »

...tumbling measure, was a simple and immutably subjective judgment: “I like it.” As the academy warms up to the rigorous analysis of hip-hop, it is finally beginning to appreciate Aesop’s dedication to “spittin’ the illest shit,” whether he likes...

Author: By Will B. Payne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Aesop Rock, King Poetic? | 5/5/2005 | See Source »

...tumbling measure, was a simple and immutably subjective judgment: “I like it.” As the academy warms up to the rigorous analysis of hip-hop, it is finally beginning to appreciate Aesop’s dedication to “spittin’ the illest shit,” whether he likes...

Author: By Will B. Payne, | Title: Aesop Rock, King Poetic? | 5/4/2005 | See Source »

...somewhat worrying when your musical heroes talk about packing their bags during their own zeitgeist. In the New York Times earlier this month, Sasha Frere-Jones quoted Timbaland: “I’m tired of stuff now, even stuff that I do. Coldplay and Radiohead are the illest groups to me. That’s music. Norah Jones is music. I love real music that I can play and never get tired of. The stuff I don’t get tired of is the stuff that’s musical...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Has Hip-hop Come to This? | 2/20/2004 | See Source »

...Well, it used to be just trying to think of the illest rhymes that I possibly could,” he says. “For example, I was bagging change the other night, and while I was walking to the bank to get more penny papers, I thought of ‘My pickle pole was harder than a nickel roll...

Author: By Michael S. Hoffman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sometimes-Cerebral Rapper Mixes Palindromes, Politics | 2/21/2003 | See Source »

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