Word: quests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last two albums to generate real excitement were A Tribe Called Quest's Low End Theory and Cypress Hill's Cypress Hill. Since then, a rash of albums have been put out by groups more adept at marketing concepts than they are at music...
...whole West Coast "gangsta" genre) have little to offer to people who think hip-hop means more than just wearing baggy pants and jumping around. And when Cypress Hill's latest album Black Sunday marked their full transformation from edgy hip-hop innovators into cartoonish potheads, A Tribe Called Quest seemed to be one of the last hopes for the hip-hop nation...
Unfortunately, Quest's new album Midnight Marauders doesn't quite come through. It's not so bad that it's time for complete despair, but then again its many good parts don't point out new directions for the music to take...
...free" or "libertarian" market agency that mediates values in the American system, be they economic values or cultural values such as speech. Whether Billett recognizes it or not, the free-market agency of Prof. Mansfield's hate-speech directed at gays is little more than a mask for a quest for what I would call Nativist Hegemony...
...speech discourse that Prof. Mansfield and other New Right intellectuals traffic in under the free-speech cultural agency is an extra-democratic bid to entrench privileged cultural enclaves and status enclaves. hate-speech of the type that Mansfield traffics in (viz. homosexuality "undermines civilization") is not just another disinterested quest via the free-market agency for a benign pedagogical outcome...