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...those of us who like to talk over beats (or what's better, to look for new acts). It might be at open mics where I feel hip hop to be the most alive: ciphers spring up everywhere with the occasional random battle, aided by the DJ spinning the illest new records between ameteur sets...

Author: By Andres A. Ramos, | Title: Notes on the Beat | 5/7/1999 | See Source »

...multitudes lovingly remember Run DMC shows; Goodie Mob's originality on stage is no secret; supposedly Ice Cube can move crowds; Common and Black Star seem to be starting a buzz; and, almost unanimously, heads across the planet rant and rave about KRS-ONE's act as simply the illest of all time...

Author: By Andres A. Ramos, | Title: Notes on the Beat | 5/7/1999 | See Source »

...constituted a staple in your diet as much as fast food, you'll fondly remember Show and AG's "Represent" from their 1992 Runaway Slave: the posse cut that features the recently deceased Big L (R.I.P.), among others, spewing out some of the illest battle rhymes to date. This head sets it off not giving a damn about anything: "Yo on the mic is Big L the brother who gives flames god/known for sending garbage MC's to the graveyard/I pack a gat not a slingshot/step to this you get an ass-whipping like Rodney King...

Author: By Andres A. Ramos, | Title: ETHNOGRAPHIC WRITING: The MC's Job, Apparently | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

...office to be the first to herald I ill," wrote Aeschylus, the Greek tragedian, in the 5th century B.C. By that standard, the director of the Congressional Budget Office occupies one of the illest offices in Washington. Since becoming the CBO's first director when the agency was set up in 1975, Alice Rivlin has had the thankless task of telling Congress how big future budget deficits will be and proposing various alternatives, most of them politically unpalatable, for reducing the shortfall. After eight often frustrating years, Rivlin, 52, last week turned that role over to Rudolph G. Penner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bearer of Bad Tidings | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

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