Word: mc
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...like the conformity in hip-hop—people just churning out singles that don’t mean anything,” he says. Nor is he shy about sharing the spotlight, frequently collaborating with other musicians, including Harvard’s rap royalty. One MC featured, Santiago Danino ’09, has nothing but love for Mure. “I got a free copy of the CD for collaborating with him, but I bought one anyway because he’s so good,” Danino says. Upstart freestyler Hang...
...tired of this Harvard square / Yeah, they’re kinda smart but I’m hardly scared.” Liu gradually wins the audience over with his quick, aggressive lyrics. In the final round, he ismet by Mikal N. Floyd-Prewitt ‘06, aka MC Mikal.Floyd-Prewitt is the yin to Liu’s yang. His flow is relaxed, comical, more blatantly offensive. His oversized white sunglasses and white polo shirt—collar popped—provoke some competitors to roast him as middle-class, but he withstands the barbs through opponent after...
...unique,” says City Councillor Henrietta Davis of the exhibition. “I’ve never seen an exhibit that focused on the small world. It gives you a completely different perspective…I think that we’re all ‘Mc-Mansioned’ out, and it’s good to be brought back to a human scale. It makes it very personal, something you can really interact with.” For Oatman, it’s also a good chance to return to Cambridge and explore...
...hope that at the next battle, everyone will be back to challenge Hang’s throne. He’s a great a freestyler, and has a fantastic flow and intricate rhymes,” Jacoby said. “Hang is a very dedicated and creative MC who is clearly passionate about what he does—I’m looking forward to seeing him flourish within the next few years,” said Stona. Stona said that the freestyle competition was an effort by WHRB to reach out to Harvard students. “WHRB?...
...space and performance, the pedagogy plays into existing paradigms of hip-hop scholarship: only the music of the Beastie Boys and Eminem is featured in a lecture on “whiteness” in the genre. This atomistic treatment does a disservice to rap elders like the white MC Serch of old-school group 3rd Bass—who helped break the careers of Nas and MF Doom (both black)—and to the multiracial breakdancing crews seen in 1982’s “Wild Style.” Neither example conforms to the neat...