Word: mc
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...unique experience—and not only because it started at 1 a.m, but because Seal was doing the color commentary. As if that wasn’t enough, ten minutes into the game the camera cut to the on-site reporter, who was none other than MC Hammer. The one satisfying part about watching the Super Bowl here was that all my British friends assumed that I was an NFL expert and fired questions at me like I was John Madden. As opposed to admitting that I didn’t know much more than they...
...star of Deep Water Slang, Vol. 2, the new album from Oakland hip-hop duo Zion I, is producer Amp Live. Amp juggles diverse textures, tempos and musical idioms, lacing the album with complex yet infectious beats. Though MC Zion’s nasal staccato and superior rhythmic sensibility are well suited for these rich backdrops, it’s ultimately the music—not the words—that fuel this lush and energizing record...
...Finger Paint” balances distorted guitar with warm female vocals. Thankfully, Amp rescues “Sorry” (an apology to Zion’s ex-girlfriends) from the realm of tired cliches, laying an ethereal flute and keys over violins and a crunchy boom-bip. MC Zion particularly shines on “Dune,” a haunting proclamation of socio-political apocalypse. The song’s chorus finds some hope among all the despair: “Cadillac, prison guards, Mumia behind bars / We in charge, live for God, no matter how hard...
...MC Hammer is back. Or as close to back as the balloon-pant pioneer will get, anyway, living it up in the blistering spotlight that is the WB’s “The Surreal Life.” Yet he’s still way below Lamar Alexander on at least one barometer of notoriety—the celebrity photograph page on www.benjaminbolger.com, where Alexander’s mug is pictured much higher on the list than Hammer’s. Benjamin B. Bolger, the 27-year-old proprietor of this personal webpage and teaching fellow...
Some have accused him of being nothing more than a novelty act. Some say that the only thing you can learn from an MC Paul Barman song is that Paul Barman is a smart...