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Music: Rapper Nas' musical wake-up call...
...years later, the 20-year-old Jones, who goes by the name Nas, is breaking through as a rapper. His debut album, Illmatic, captures the ailing community he was raised in -- the random gunplay, the whir of police helicopters, the homeboys hanging out on the corner sipping bottles of Hennessy. Despite the harsh subject matter, most of the songs are leisurely paced, with amiable melodies. One track uses part of Michael Jackson's Human Nature as its basic tune. Nas' rapping is dispassionate -- like an anchorman relaying the day's grim news -- but his lyrics sometimes reveal submerged emotion...
...Nas isn't a gangsta rapper. He doesn't mean to glorify the rough world he comes from, merely to render it. "I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death," he raps. The shootings two years ago showed Nas that in a violent world you have to stay alert and aware; Illmatic is his wake-up call to his listeners...
Suleiman said Mansfield's comments reminded herof the National Association of Scholars (NAS), aright-wing organization that warns againstpolitical correctness in American universities...
...angry, too, when I hear peopleassociated with the NAS getting up and accusingHarvard of being politically correct," Suleimansaid. NAS, she said, is known to receive fundingfrom right-wing foundations with politicalagendas...