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...Well, for this show we’re credited as co-songwriters. I was the principal lyricist, I would say, and he was the principal composer, but we both worked together on all of the songs. There was a lot of interaction—it was a very back and forth collaboration...
...only line in the song that doesn’t include a rap cliché is just as bad: “When I’m at the bottom / She like Hillary Rodham.” No one expects Lil’ Wayne to be a traditional lyricist, but there’s no excuse for such an abomination of a song, especially when he borrowed its core concept from another artist. However, I’m pretty sure that “The Best Rapper Alive” won’t make this drop in quality...
...Wave mybig fist at my friend androgyny.” CadenceWeapon proves himself to be a standoutvoice with a sharp sense of humor.With his infectious beats and clevercommentary on pop culture, it’s hard toimagine that Cadence Weapon won’t besuccessful. At once a savvy lyricist anddeft producer, Cadence Weapon is definitelyan artist to keep your eye on.—Reviewer Katherine L. Miller can bereached at kmiller@fas.harvard.edu
...Manuel Miranda, 28, the conceiver, composer, lyricist and star of In the Heights, had a bit more experience with musicals than Stew did--he got what he describes as a "lethal dose of musical theater" while acting in shows at his New York City grade school (the short Puerto Rican sixth-grader played Conrad Birdie in Bye Bye Birdie). He started writing In the Heights when he was living in the Latino house at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., incorporating the hip-hop that he had grown up listening to as well as the Latin styles of favorite artists like...
...more self-important Disney tales. Hans Christian Andersen gets a lot of the credit for that, but book writer Doug Wright (Grey Gardens, I Am My Own Wife) at least managed not to screw it up. Composer Alan Menken (with Glenn Slater replacing the late Howard Ashman as lyricist) has added several catchy new songs to his already fine score; the Broadway-razzmatazz number in which the Ursula, the sea witch (a sharp Sherie Renee Scott), celebrates her evil ways, "I Want the Good Times Back," would have made the Devil in Damn Yankees jealous. The young newcomer who plays...