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...Rap Superstar Kanye West...
...high stakes too. The band's commitment, to its audience and its music, sanctions and encourages the kind of social concern that in the Reagan '80s became unfashionable, even antique. The album that The Joshua Tree displaced from the top of the chart is a revisionist rap record by the Beastie Boys, three well-born white teens copping street attitude but assuming social postures that teeter between preening smugness and snide irresponsibility. After arriving in Arizona, U2 discovered that Governor Evan Mecham had canceled the state's observance of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. U2 considered canceling the concerts...
...real: How many times must you hear lyrics about your hot car, how you degrade your (black) women, how you will mess someone up if he comes at you and your bling-bling a certain way? Sad to say, those repetitive strains are in R&B and rap music. I love Gavin DeGraw's I Don't Want To Be, Nickelback's How You Remind Me and Green Day's Time of Your Life. The lyrics of those songs hit home with anyone--black or white...
...curators of this seven-disc set neglect whole chunks of rap and dance music and package the compilation in a cover featuring vacuum-packed coffee beans. They may be going for high camp, but the 130 songs, arranged chronologically--starting with M.C. Hammer's sample-based U Can't Touch This and ending with Moby's sample-based Natural Blues--more or less re-create the bipolar experience of listening to commercial radio...
...transplant. Very soon his body is going to go into rejection." Henderson went in with New Orleans police, and when people saw him in scrubs, they surged at him from every side. He tried to tend the sickest and the babies first. "The crowds here have gotten a bad rap. There are not many human beings you could cram into a building with 10,000 others, in 105° heat, that wouldn't get just a little pissed off." He tried to get them settled and asked them to show him the sickest. "And they lead...