Word: mainstreaming
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Also, reports of the Benz/backpack dichotomy between mainstream and underground rap that Kanye West claims to have transcended seem to have been greatly exaggerated. Hip-hop legends like Wu-Tang Clan, Rakim, Nas and Notorious B.I.G. have been weaving abstract rhymes into their oeuvres for years (albeit less pretentiously), along with left-field heroes like De La Soul, 3rd Bass and the Native Tongues Posse (Q-Tip’s nickname is even “the Abstract?...
Also, reports of the Benz/backpack dichotomy between mainstream and underground rap that Kanye West claims to have transcended seem to have been greatly exaggerated. Hip-hop legends like Wu-Tang Clan, Rakim, Nas and Notorious B.I.G. have been weaving abstract rhymes into their oeuvres for years (albeit less pretentiously), along with left-field heroes like De La Soul, 3rd Bass and the Native Tongues Posse (Q-Tip’s nickname is even “the Abstract?...
...frustrating to me that there was such a divide between the two theaters,” Donahue says. “I would love to find elements of both and to not have to confine myself to a commercial, mainstream or explicitly art theatre, but to be able to work with elements of both...
Farley highlights an upcoming film, “Proof,” which is a story about the life of a mathematician, starring Anthony Hopkins and Gwyneth Paltrow. Although Farley is not directly working with the film, he notes that mainstream movies such as this are of interest to him and his consulting company...
...deal with themes that have always interested me and are vaguely esoteric in nature. But I'm going to try to make them dramatic. I'm going to try to make them emotional. How they're gonna turn out, I don't know. I know they won't be mainstream movies. Fortunately, I have built my facility here to work in. I've set aside a chunk of money to do my movies--that I figure will last me for 10 years, when I'll be seventysomething and I should probably quit. I'm sure they'll be just...