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...college, Rakim markets his next album, and KRS-One yells about something or other. Nas, with his smooth and raspy delivery, is the video’s only savior—everything from the camera angles to the lighting suggests classic Nas videos like “One Mic.” In the end, this video is no “My Adidas” or even an “Air Force Ones.” It’s a poor hoax that, after five-plus minutes, the clip leaves the audience nostalgic for something a little...
...Best of all, Nas and Jay-Z reconcile on the triumphant “Black Republicans." It might finally be time to accept the post-”Illmatic” Nas. His effortless flow throughout the album and his mere happiness to be on the mic suggest that this is nothing less than another hip-hop classic...
...cheated the odds when he announced his retirement in 2003. Then 34, he had lived the ur-rap narrative-make tapes, launch a label, buy a De Beers mine-and bragged about it on a dozen often brilliant albums. But no rapper is immune to the pull of the mic, and on Kingdom Come, his heavily hyped comeback, Jay-Z tries to subvert the problem of having said everything by saying everything a little differently. Where once his delivery had the ring-a-ding-ding smoothness of Sinatra-another vocalist who made callousness seem like charm-Jay recognizes that...
...green room for the artists, where the interview will take place. A PR lady tells me not to hug Beck. Then, we wait. And we wait. Suddenly, there are whispers on the other side of the door. Ted rushes out to set up Beck’s mic...
...eulogy that began “today we mourn the death of a living document” as students dropped daisies on a pile of dirt below a cardboard headstone that read “RIP the Constitution.” The mock funeral took place after an open-mic forum in which speakers expressed their views on U.S. treatment of detainees, and their opposition to or support for the Guantanamo bill. The legislation resulted from a compromise between the Bush administration and a group of Republican senators who believed that the bill initially proposed by the administration was unconstitutional...