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...rapper. Nor does it sound like the too-hard attempt of a reactionary gangsta. It sounds like the opening couplet from any old revered ’80s true-school rapper, run through a raw Dirty South filter. Between albums like this, the canonization of Scarface and the late Pimp C, and the rise of rappers like T.I. and Lil’ Wayne, maybe the South will soon get its own pantheon of rap gods. Maybe Pastor Troy will be hovering somewhere nearby, a Spice 1 or MC Shan waiting in the wings. —Reviewer J. Samuel Abbott...
...every party we’ve ever been to or even walked by this year, we’re all tired...so tired. Can we just listen to some slow jams or something? And now there’s a Soulja Girl song. Where will it end? 1. Pimp C—Why, God? Why? We had to listen to everybody say “Free Pimp C” for years, then he makes one music video, cuts one album, and dies. Where’s the justice in that? At least he could have showed some consideration...
...pose on a high-rise rooftop as the latter sings, “I’m hood, I’m street / Still standing in the middle of the heat / I’m a mack, I’m a thug / I’m a pimp, I does all the above.” Still, the video isn’t trying to reach new creative heights or push the visual envelope. We get the usual rap video schtick—a swanky hotel and club, gorgeous scantily clad women, and free-flowing champagne. Beanie...
...pimp, and pimps don’t commit suicide.” Such is the reasoning of Boxer Santaros as he struggles to save the world in Richard Kelly’s “Southland Tales.” Played by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (“The Scorpion King”), Santaros mysteriously turns up at the beginning of the film with amnesia. He’s a movie star who co-writes a screenplay (with a porn star, no less) about the end of the world as we know it. What...
...corporate ads posted on Facebook, or from abandoned positions to be picked up by friends and roommates, like the now infamous Papa John’s campus rep Merrily E. McGugan ’09 (see the March 15, 2007 article, “Papa John’s... Pimp My Ride!”).And others hardly have to search outside of Harvard’s prestigious wrought-iron gates, like Kiehl’s campus rep Ravi K. Manglani ’08.In the fall of 2006, after responding to a listing on the Harvard Student Employment Office...