Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never chased the limelight, accolades still came, largely due to--rather than in spite of--the decency he brought to his trade...
Basically, my boy argued that now that it has caught the world's limelight as the definitive music and culture of our generation, hip hop is not at a cultural peak but is instead marked for death. Since hip hop started as an urban counterculture of sorts, its current worldwide appeal has rid it of its most essential element, its countercultural defiance. It's now a genre up for grabs, a space for marketing frenzies. Consequently, its prominent products comprise not much more than mediocre commercial formulas devoid of the creative zeal of yesteryear, aimed instead at providing new images...
...still lived in the days when everybody listened to same hip hop music and when questions of hip hop's "Golden Age" or demise would be irrelevant. To my boy, myself and probably our Golden Age cohort, KRS is just illy. Who cares if others swallow up the limelight and clutter up the airwaves with garbage? As long as there's enough of us who want quality music, it will be made--maybe even by us ourselves. True, the day may come when artists give up on the industry, in the face of a seemingly insurmountable set of Mainstream aesthetics...
...regular season comes to a close, the Harvard women's tennis team has clinched a portion of the Ivy League title. Sharing the limelight with only Penn, sole ownership of the Ivy title is within the Crimson's grasp at home today against Dartmouth...
...regular season comes to a close, the Harvard women's tennis team has clinched a portion of the Ivy League title. Sharing the limelight with only Penn, sole ownership of the Ivy title is within the Crimson's grasp at home today against Dartmouth...