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...reading music--a kind of Suzuki method meets the Rolling Stones. They almost immediately start improvising and writing surprisingly good songs--an 8 year-old's composition, Little Dinosaur, downloadable on littlekids rock.org is a child-size Sgt. Pepper's--era Beatles tune. The musical styles range from rap to folk rock. When a classmate plays a moody new original at North Star one morning, "it makes me think of some old Bob Dylan stuff," says Jessica Dunston, 16, who is proud of her broad taste in music. "Most of my friends like hip-hop. I like that. I like...
Second only to a rap duo on the charts, elder rocker ROD STEWART is charming record buyers with As Time Goes By...The Great American Songbook Vol. II. But some chatty loves from the 58-year-old Lothario's past have come to spoil the party. In a documentary on British TV this week, seven of Stewart's exes hold forth on the singer's ravenous sexual appetite, philandering ways and--say two--fondness for donning their panties. Former Bond girl Britt Ekland shares an especially painful moment--when she learned that Stewart's song You're in My Heart...
Aesop, a.k.a. Ian Bavitz, has been developing both his flow and his fan base for several years now, beginning with a string of self-released discs. He is referred to by some as the exemplar of “backpack rap,” a strain of hip-hop supposedly characterized by intellectual rhymes and nerdy beats—what Aesop refers to as “the cliché of a white kid with a backpack...
Aesop’s latest opus, titled Bazooka Tooth, came out last month. The album, like its title, is weird, unsettling and about as far an emcee can get from conventional rap. Aesop’s rhymes are dense configurations so contorted and twisted as to be mostly incomprehensible, except for occasional moments of clarity that illuminate his free association references and bizarre stories...
...dating Jennifer Lopez—he was at an altar with a rather corpulent black man on the cross. But regardless of Combs’ personal stake in his exploitation of Biggie’s death, it was an exploitation that produced positive consequences. The East Coast-West Coast rap rivalry and its participants suddenly came into the national spotlight, out of the manipulative hands of hip-hop rags that had helped fan the flames of enmity. Subsequently, the media began singling out individual rapper rivalries rather than reporting the more destructive regional disputes...