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...most part, the new disc finds Snoop trying to step his game into the realms of MCs that still matter to the record buying public, which seems to be mostly middle-class white boys. Ironically, only the thugs Snoop contracts for the occasion save the album from being completely awful...
...appreciable volume and “rock out.” No, the problem is not the idea of music, but the fact that the songs chosen are, inevitably, the flat-out worst songs possible. Walking to CGIS from the yard and being forced to listen to Punjabi MCs for five straight minutes? What about being forced to listen to “Don’t Break My Heart” while calmly strolling over to Fly-By? Arguments in favor of waterboarding appear far more logical after such treatment...
...abandoned warehouse. A sea of shadows sways to a beat that pours out of thumping speakers, filling the cavernous space. Two MCs. One mic. One shot. One opportunity...At least that’s how freestyle battles work in the movies. But Harvard hip-hop is hardly “8 Mile,” and a battle, organized by campus radio station last week, received mixed reviews from rappers and listeners alike.For starters, the event, held in the small confines of Harvard Square’s Massive Records, is slated to begin at 5 p.m.—well...
...Friday evening, aspiring MCs battled their way to the top in Harvard’s first and well-attended freestyle competition held at Massive Records, a hip hop music shop on Mass. Ave. The contest, co-hosted by Harvard Radio WHRB and Massive Records, featured seven student competitors, some with names like Cheddar Ted and Killer Cali. But it was Hang Liu ’09, competing without an alias, who came out on top. The contestants went head to head in three rounds of competition. The final round featured two 45-second battles between Mikal N. Floyd-Pruitt...
...themselves. There is money in the underground, and “20/20,” the latest from Rakaa, Evidence, and DJ Babu, is a product of a group that wants (and has) the money it knows it should push away. Evidence still raps about wack MCs on the radio (“The game’s fucked a thousand sound-alikes it’s sad”), and he still raps about how he shuns a mainstream sound (“I don’t fuck with that industry flow”), but his resistance...