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...source close to Viacom, Karmazin referred to the creative folks as the "arts and crafts people." Viacom's Paramount movie studio earned a reputation for pennypinching during his reign, and after Karmazin left, Paramount executives were encouraged to take more risks on potential blockbusters. "Sumner was always Mr. Content Is King, and that was a little in conflict with Mel's natural tendency to drive quarterly growth," says a source close to the execs. Karmazin says he was never that tight with a buck if a deal was worth it. "Didn't I get the NFL back...
...world, perhaps because only a few of the rappers working at these boundaries of lyrical representation have been able to achieve some modicum of national visibility. Some stars of this subset include much of the roster of Aesop’s home label Definitive Jux (Cannibal Ox, El-P, Mr. Lif), shapeshifting scene veteran Daniel Dumile (MF Doom to most), and Anticon Records’ obscurantist crew (Sole, Dose One, Sage Francis...
While figurative lyrical flourishes were once treated as mere embellishments on relatively representational rhymes with concrete subjects, today’s avant-garde rappers approach abstraction for its own sake. When Mr. Lif and Insight, two Boston rappers still on the fringe of broad recognition, collaborated on the track “Iron Helix” on Lif’s “I, Phantom” concept album, they didn’t trade spars about each other’s virility or compare bling quotients...
...acoustic instruments grooved seamlessly, somersaulting over blaring samples of found pronouncements in “That Right Ain’t Shit” and “A True Story of True Love,” while “An Animated Description of Mr. Maps” transformed the polite instruments into a percussive gale...
...performances include roles as Mr. Bungee in William Finn’s “A New Brain,” Lewis in “Pippin,” Herold in “Assassins,” Walter in “Chess,” and his most recent musical role, Arpad in “She Loves...