Word: master
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Past efforts show that Master P, who is executive producer of Snoop's album, knows his way around a studio. There are a few songs on his CDs Ghetto D and I Got the Hook-Up that have an earthy seductiveness. But he tends to dwell on the same subjects (guns, drugs, women), and he does so with a numbingly brutal attitude and the same spare rhythms and catchphrases (one of his favorites is the primal cry of "Ugh!" to punctuate a song...
Throughout Da Game, Snoop strives to come across as hard, harder than the other charges on Master P's label. The refrain for one song goes "Kill, kill, kill/ Murder, murder, murder." Snoop says he's just being more "confident." But this CD has a stench of evil that's not present in Snoop's previous work...
Seinfeld scored best with riffs on the perils of staying up late (night guy vs. morning guy) and extreme sports ("What's the point of helmets in skydiving?"). Even the master himself occasionally flubbed, however, as with a moldy one-liner asking, What's so great about Australia's shark-infested Great Barrier Reef? Predictably--but sadly--the loudest roars came when Seinfeld agreed to impersonate characters from his show, including Costanza, Kramer and Newman. A crowd pleaser, but not exactly groundbreaking stuff...
...thought Johnnie Cochran, who happened to be in the audience, was a master of playing the race card...
...Thomas is, but what he has done and how he got into a position to do it. Those are matters Thomas declines to explore, for a very good reason: he may not consider himself an intellectual slave, but he has been lavishly rewarded for serving a particular political master. He has never made a serious attempt to engage his black opponents in a serious debate about his ideas. He owes his meteoric rise exclusively to the patronage of conservative white Republicans with little interest in racial equality. They first took notice of Thomas in 1980 when he cruelly--and falsely...