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...happy to see [Harvard] in the top third," junior Andrew Malcolm said...
...football coach, a locker room of white and black kids join together in a rendition of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough." Denzel, Oscar-winning smart-guy actor that he is, doesn't join in. Of course, if I had delivered the performance that he did in "Malcolm X" in 1992 and still lost out to Al Pacino for his annoying role in "Scent of a Woman," (Hoo-hah!) I wouldn't be in the mood for singing for, oh, the rest of my natural life...
...Eric B. and Rakim took the art of rhyming to a new level of profundity, their trickster lyrical gymnastics cutting up and reordering the world, while others, such as Public Enemy, used the format as a platform for social criticism and a revival of the nationalist politics of Malcolm X. De La Soul and Tribe Called Quest were among the leaders of an imaginative school of abstract poetics that stretched the envelope of the hip-hop form and sought to connect it with earlier musical traditions such as bebop, but elsewhere 2 Live Crew were appropriating the frenetic Miami drum...
...CULTURE may be difficult to define, but it is pervasive nonetheless. It began simply as a combination of four art forms - deejaying, rapping, break dancing and graffiti tagging - but it quickly evolved into a cultural revolution in which young African-Americans literally remade their America. In the spirit of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers, they didn't simply demand to be admitted as an equal in Whitey's world; they created their own popular culture grounded in the lived reality and aspirations of black life in America. Far from demanding to join the club, the hip-hop kids created...
...Producer Malcolm Burn hews closely to the gospel according to Daniel (Lanois, that is, producer of Harris' previous studio effort, "Wrecking Ball") - murky layers of distorted guitars weaving in and out, punctuated by deep, throbbing bass and percussion evocative of the rituals of some future tribe. But while a distant, ominous pulse throughout sets an appropriately brooding atmosphere, the effect is eventually undermined by overuse and a lack of melodic variety that guest collaborators such as Rodney Crowell and Guy Clark don't do much to alleviate...