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...will we remember the last days of the '90s? Most likely, to the rough-hewn beat of rap. Just as F. Scott Fitzgerald lived in the jazz age, just as Dylan and Jimi Hendrix were among the rulers of the age of rock, it could be argued that we are living in the age of hip-hop. "Rock is old," says Russell Simmons, head of the hip-hop label Def Jam, which took in nearly $200 million in 1998. "It's old people's s____. The creative people who are great, who are talking about youth culture...
...became Grandmaster Flash. He played his turntables as if he were Jimi Hendrix, cuing records with his elbow, his feet, behind his back. He invented "scratching"--spinning a record back and forth to create a scratchy sound. He tried rapping, but he couldn't do it, so he gathered a crew around him--the Furious Five, rap's first supergroup...
...closet). The Bed is covered by a silky black comforter and framed by a leopard-print valance and bedskirt. The leopard-print motif also saturates the room's black, blue and orange patterned rug as well as its black and yellow window drapes. Black lights illuminate posters of Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley while to the side a "Cosmic Circle" light radiates gently...
Although some politicians still find it worth their while to campaign against the 1960s, there's a sad silence now from the other end of the line. John Lennon, Abbie Hoffman, Janis, Jimi...where is everybody? Even the sassiest of them all has fallen publicly silent, which makes it a pleasure to pick up his voice again, or at least its echo, in David Remnick's haunting new book, King of the World: The Rise of Muhammad Ali (Random House; 336 pages...
...Hasidic rock movement is alive and well, as we found out when we spoke to aleph-list guitarist Yosi Piamenta, who has won comparisons with Jimi Hendrix from New York audiences...