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...mainstream American black culture (like “Collateral” and “Superbad”) use their tunes when they need a rap song to soundtrack an onscreen party. Hell, the Roots have even sampled Radiohead. On “Rising Down,” Roots MC Black Thought says “They can never take the pen away / I’m LeRoi Jones.” But if these guys are aiming to please Amiri Baraka, they’re probably missing their mark. Assimilationist tendencies aside, the Roots have done little over...
...laughter. Tam, in particular, stood out—not only because he was the sole Asian in a predominantly white, Jewish cast. His renditions of “Ten Copecks” had the audience doubled up in laughter from the start, as did his performance as a vaudeville MC in the second act. Tam, who starred in last term’s production of “Urinetown,” successfully managed to belt out a number of Yiddish songs while prancing about. Caplan, whose roles in the play ranged from Jewish immigrant father to wannabe tango star...
...slur, taike - which Taiwan's mainlanders used decades ago to describe the uncultured locals they found on the island - has become something cool. Taike now means a "Taiwanese character" (as in "that guy's a real character"). In his hit rap song I Love TW [Taiwan] Girls, taike icon MC Hotdog even snubs a supermodel for the down-to-earth Taiwanese...
...Between albums like this, the canonization of Scarface and the late Pimp C, and the rise of rappers like T.I. and Lil’ Wayne, maybe the South will soon get its own pantheon of rap gods. Maybe Pastor Troy will be hovering somewhere nearby, a Spice 1 or MC Shan waiting in the wings. —Reviewer J. Samuel Abbott can be reached at abbott@fas.harvard.edu...
...fair, with the Osbourne family doing the MC'ing, the Brit committee hardly needed to worry about that last point. We would have happily watched Ozzy, Sharon, Kelly and Jack for the whole two hours - presenting the awards, accepting the awards, performing all the musical numbers - just to see what rock's wackiest family was going to do next. Would Sharon swear? (Naturally.) Would Ozzy mess up his lines? (Yep, both of them.) Would Kelly and Jack fight? (Alas, no.) Would Kelly and Sharon? (Almost...