Word: mike
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...Jackson, is better known to the world as Ice Cube. As a teenager, he came straight outta South Central Los Angeles as a member of N.W.A. (Niggaz With Attitude), the most notorious rap group from the toughest ghetto in L.A. In their hit F___ tha Police, he grabbed the mike and fulminated, "Ice Cube will swarm/On any motherf_____ in a blue uniform." That sentiment earned him a stern letter from...
...Friday is more of the rambunctious same. It's Christmas Eve in the ghetto, which, the narrator tells us, is "the only place you can get robbed by Santa Claus." Cousins Craig (Cube) and Day-Day (Mike Epps), the victims of a burglary, have one day to raise the stolen rent money, so they take jobs as security guards in the local strip mall. This Elvz N the Hood is standard, vigorous fare with a terrific supporting performance by Katt Williams as a pint-size pimp...
...With reporting by Andrea Dorfman/New York, Christobal Edwards/Santiago, Stefanie Friedhoff/Walpole, Maine, Helen Gibson/London, Mike Goettig/Kunming, Robert Horn/Bangkok, Frank Sikora/Birmingham and Jiang Xueqin/Wuxi
...patience with his fetish for Zen homilies, and in his final act as a songwriter he has left mystical portent in every rhyme. On Any Road, Harrison rasps, "I keep traveling around the bend/There was no beginning, there is no end." On Stuck Inside a Cloud he takes the mike with him to the great beyond: "Talking to myself/Crying out loud/Only I can hear me/I'm stuck inside a cloud...
...captain Thomas Storch, playing in the No. 6 position, and sophomore intercollegiate No. 8 Mike Blumberg came out and set the tone early for Harvard...