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...hottest (and most expensive) producers alive: David Banner, Kanye West, The Alchemist. All together, a majority of the tracks on the album are hot, whether for the club or for a stereo. So here’s the big question: if hip-hop is truly dead, as Nas tells us, does Dr. Carter have the schooling to revive it and stitch it back together? Who’s the best rapper of all time? Most people will say “Notorious B.I.G.” or “Tupac,” two candidates to the throne...
...included Kanye West at a show for Bono's ONE Campaign and a MoveOn.org show with practically every cool indie band in America: Rilo Kiley, Death Cab, Zooey Deschanel, the Silversun Pickups, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, the Cold War Kids. There have also been shows by John Legend, Nas, N.E.R.D., Nick Cannon (as a DJ), Jakob Dylan, Fall Out Boy, Sheryl Crow, Dave Matthews, Rage Against the Machine, Melissa Etheridge, Cyndi Lauper, Rufus Wainwright and Dave Navarro. Even Sugarland, one of the most popular country bands, is here. I would not be surprised if James Taylor is going from...
Seven of the 72 new members elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) yesterday are Harvard professors, according to an NAS press release. The Academy, which the release describes as “a private organization of scientists and engineers dedicated to the furtherance of science and its use for the general welfare” currently numbers 2,041 active members. Signed into existence by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, the group is charged with acting as an advisor to the federal government on issues involving science and technology. Election to the NAS is typically regarded...
Still, the album does have some things that earlier Del albums didn’t—most notably, a sense of perspective. While he might not exactly be an elder statesman in the vein of Nas or Rakim, his lead single “Bubble Pop” serves as a worthy critique of rap culture today. Its mock-lament of the “deflation” of today’s hip-hop “helium heads” resonates powerfully over a doughy beat layered beneath the sampled bells of Bob James?...
...wearing a G-Unit t-shirt may get snickered at on the street, but he’s still white. The fact that hip-hop (and, by extension, mainstream black culture) is embraced by non-black Americans has become undeniable. Hip-hop, then, is not dead, as rapper Nas recently claimed; it’s alive and well and dominating Top 40 radio. Where once the scope of black music’s influence on white America was largely limited to how much blues the Rolling Stones decided to incorporate into a given song, black musicians today no longer need...