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Though Harvard boasts any number of poets, novelists, and actors among its alumni, it curiously (or perhaps not so curiously) lacks on the list of illustrious elite in one group of artists: rappers. The hustling thug-life portrayed by popular rappers may seem incongruous with Harvard’s academic atmosphere, but for the participants of OUTWIT 2009, the combination of Harvard and hip-hop could allow audiences to overcome any preconceived notions of the two. OUTWIT, a freestyle rap competition that also features spoken word, beatbox, and song, is an annual event held by Tuesday Magazine—taking...
...desired. One song in particular is exemplary of the fact that listeners will find what they expect to find, but nothing more. “Maybach Music 2” provides an accurate summary of what seems to be the only correct recipe, give or take an artist, for popular remixes and song sequels over the past two years: an Auto-Tuned chorus from T-Pain, lyrics about basking in gratuitous luxuries, and 16 bars from Weezy or Yeezy. “Maybach Music 2” has every such ingredient.Listeners who have grown weary of the Auto-Tune gang...
...very next line he goes on to try: “The sundown light on that dog-hair lodgepole pine and the dead branches of spruce trees.”In this volume, Wright draws on every source he can—religion, science, mythology, and even popular music—to try to pin down an image or emotion. “Sundown Blues” concludes with the “sundown light” he had just described “chameleoning” away and captures the feeling with the down-to-earth rhythms...
...opportunity, somewhere along that journey he lost himself. The movie never gives sufficient evidence as to why or how, but when we first see him, he’s living homeless and schizophrenic in the tunnels and streets of Los Angeles. Enter Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.), an eccentric, popular Los Angeles Times columnist who, despite his professional success, seems to be barely keeping it together. He goes flying over his bike on the way to work, accidentally sprays a bag of coyote urine in his face as he cleans his backyard, and works with his snarky ex-wife (Catherine...
...features on the Web site display graphics comparing the amount of sugar in popular brands of carbonated soft drinks, fruit juice, fruit punch, energy drinks, and others...