Word: livin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mantra of the album is the refrain of its second track, "Good Life," where the women incant in a breezy calypso lilt, "I'm livin' a good life, no more trouble in sight." Beginning with their Calvin Coolidge duds on the CD cover, the ladies propound a hip-hop-capitalist work ethic throughout Brand New. Sure they are "Livin' good, like a Nubian Queen should," but only because, as honorary member Spinderella puts it later in the track, "I busted my ass to get to the cream...
...Livin' on a Prayer...
...Gave You Power, Nas shows some of the senseless horror of crime by rapping about it from the perspective of a gun. If I Ruled the World (Imagine That), which he performs with guest vocalist Lauryn Hill of the Fugees, presents Nas' vision of paradise as a "better livin' type of place to raise our kids in." The lyrics in It Was Written could be sharper, but the music, energetic and engaging on many tracks, helps drive his message home. --C.J.F...
...moved and awed by the music, I was bewildered to find only a handful of African Americans in the audience. When I asked an older gentleman why more in his community didn't attend, he put his hand on my shoulder and said solemnly, "Son, my people have been livin' the blues for 200 years; most see no sense spending their time listening to it." I agree with Isaac Tigrett's comment that it is a tragedy "the black community abandoned the blues and the audience became white." Bravo to Tigrett for taking this American art form...
...Soul on Ice, a swipe at buppies who refuse to date black women. "You want blond- haired, blue-eyed soul;/ Snow-white passion without the hot comb." Other songs deal with everything from love on the subway to what she sees as the unbearable whiteness of pop culture: "Livin' in a world where my TV shouts,/ 'Forget where you come from...