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...endlessly evolving postures we call "hip." In the sensual ecstasies of Walt Whitman and the individualism of Ralph Waldo Emerson he finds hip's literary underpinnings. He maps the spiritual connections between the bleak machismo of West Coast--detective fiction and the desperado postures of L.A. gangsta rap. He points out the lines that connect hip-hop, with its audience of white suburban boys, to 19th century minstrel shows, in which whites in blackface strutted racial clichés before applauding white ticket buyers...
...which comes off somewhere between Radiohead and a Celtic James Taylor, makes up the album’s creative peak. But their striving for innovation leads them astray on “The Outsiders,” a bizarre didactic tale featuring some weird, tangentially connected rap performed by Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest...
Ever since the publication of Michael Lewis’ best-seller Moneyball, scouts have gotten a bad rap. For those of you that don’t know, Lewis pits the “old school” scouts that project how good a player will be based on tools against the “new school” sabermetricians whose projections are based on statistics, especially statistics derived from larger sample sizes like those available for college players...
Recognizing that our culture tolerates and accommodates domestic violence is an important first step towards eradicating it. From this point, we can—and must—act to move relationship abuse out of jokes, out of Eminem rap lyrics and out of the lives of millions of women and men in this country. That would certainly be an “outstanding contribution to human life...
...latest work, a self-titled album featuring a hip-hop potpourri of spoken word and rap, dismisses the feminine mystique that has pervaded all his previous efforts, including his first album, Amethyst Rock Star, and an earlier epic poem, “she.” Williams begins the new disc with what could only be described as a startling reclamation of his masculinity. “I ain’t got proper diction for the makings of a thug,” he tell us, not quite ironically, “though I grew up in the ghetto...