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...conspicuous shortcomings of the album come on tracks that are limited by a rap vocabulary. “Sweepstakes,” which features Mos Def, contains the album’s only mention of stock hip-hop figures, as the rap star confidently spits, “There’s rappers and dealers and players and me / They say that they’re winners / Okay, well let’s see.” Not only are these rhymes depressingly conventional, but worse, they cast the beats in the background, thereby preventing the best aspect...
...very much connected to a lot of these cases based on the time he was in and out of custody, his location in regard to a lot of these crimes, the crimes we have proved against him already and the modus operandi on those crimes, [which] match the MOs on these crimes," says Detective Richard Bengtson of the Los Angeles Police Department's Robbery Homicide Division, Cold Case Homicide Section, which cracked the case. "If we are able to prove even half of these cases, it would make him [one of] L.A.'s most prolific serial killers...
...when Mike L. Charles is working, expect to hear some rap up in Quincy House. “That’s usually played on Saturday nights when you’re getting ready to go to the club,” explained Charles, who likes Jay-Z and Mos Def. Quincy is also known for techno night, complete with flashing lights. It’s dinner time at Currier and a Celine Dion remix is pumping at the grill, courtesy of d-hall manager Amy Lester. “She plays so much garbage,” complained cook...
...cross over not just in terms of style, but in terms of color, from country-boy black to white radio. He finds Chuck Berry, the guitar-slinging, pioneering rocker of “Johnny B. Goode” fame with only one vice: women. Chuck Berry, played by Mos Def, is soon incarcerated for his antics and Chess sets off to uncover yet another star. This time, Chess’s salvation comes in the form of talented jazz/blues singer Etta James, played by Beyoncé Knowles. While Beyoncé’s voice doesn’t quite...
Coincidentally, I was watching the concert movie Dave Chappelle's Block Party the other night, in which he puts on a bunch of these alternative hip-hop artists that you talk about in your book - Common, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Kanye West. Other than Kanye, why don't these artists sell as well as the Jay-Zs or the 50 Cents...