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Dilated Peoples 20/20 (Capitol) “Conscious” rappers can never have too many roof parties, nor do they ever tire of strolling down the block on a cloudy day. Just watch music videos by Black Star, Talib Kweli, or Nas??when he wanted his underground credibility back. Dilated Peoples have held to the b-boy aesthetic in the past, but watch the fancy video for their new single, “Back Again,” carefully. Those props did not pay for themselves. There is money in the underground, and “20/20...
Lyrical gems like Nas?? 1994 assertion that “sleep is the cousin of death” provide ample evidence for Teskey’s claim that “if you read some of Finnegans Wake...you’ll see some remarkable similarities to rap lyrics...
Lyrical gems like Nas?? 1994 assertion that “sleep is the cousin of death” provide ample evidence for Teskey’s claim that “if you read some of Finnegans Wake...you’ll see some remarkable similarities to rap lyrics...
...ghetto life to outsiders granted America a great service: NWA’s “F--- Tha Police” exposed police brutality, while Public Enemy brazenly dissed Ronald Reagan by exposing the other side of his policies. This tradition reached its peak in the mid-1990s, when Nas?? Illmatic, the Notorious B.I.G.’s Ready to Die and the Wu-Tang Clan’s Enter the 36 Chambers conveyed vivid street tales, but permeated them with a sense of triumph over abominable conditions. After this pinnacle, gangsta rap suffered a creative crisis from...
...features verbal Claudius and Yale sophomore MC Platano—writer of such previous gems as “Pierson Sucks Dick” and “Pierson Still Sucks Dick”—and a trio of wannabe hip-hoppers rapping over a sample of Nas??s “Hate Me Now,” spinning rhymes an SAT tutor would be proud...