Word: phat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to students participating in the program, mask making is "phat...
Mindful of our public image, most of our elders in the black community would rather see us repudiate rap than redefine it. But groups from the Fugees to the Roots to A Tribe Called Quest continue to blend phat beats, dope rhymes and intelligent ideas into high-powered rap, regardless of marketing data that say gangsta rap sells best. Who's pushing the rawest rhymes to No. 1 on the charts? For years now, the largest volume of hip-hop albums has been sold to white suburban kids who've deposed heavy metal and elevated hip-hop to the crown...
Your reporter concluded by quoting a volunteer in the Youth Build Boston Program: "It was just so phat." It might have been more interesting if it was reported that Dusan Makavejev, the Belgrade filmmaker now teaching at Harvard (pictured on your front page) had received the The Black Panther newspaper in Yugoslavia in the late 1960s, and if the efforts to create civil societies in both countries was touched upon. --Gerald O'Grady, Cambridge
...Ruiz, a volunteer in the Youth Build Boston program, declared, "It was just so phat...
Ramos, who hopes to work as a doctor helping innercity residents, says success in the South Bronx is defined as "living in your phat house and getting out of this hell-hole...