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...reality, the room you are referring to has two African American women, two Caucasian women, and two Hispanic women. All six of the women are very lively, and indicated that they wanted to live with very social people who also shared their interest in music (Rap, R and B, and Reggae). For this reason, I placed them together in one room...
STEVIE WONDER People [used] to scream about explicit lyrics in rap music. Today those same people...put explicit information on the Internet for any child to see...I'm glad I'm blind...
They're just low wattage. Bernie Williams, the most talented member of the ball club, is a jazz-guitar player in a rap world. He's a nice guy, but he's not exactly being courted by William Morris agents. When Bruce Springsteen visited the Yankee clubhouse toward the end of the regular season, he gave Williams a signed guitar. When reporters asked Williams if he had given Springsteen an autographed ball in return, Bernie had to tell them that Springsteen hadn't even asked...
...Truth be told, we always did grin at that line about him being a loser and he always had been something of a likable maverick. His first album, Mellow Gold, introduced his sound: blending rural rockabilly and urban jangle into a casual aesthetic of sloppy cool. Mixing old school rap styling with twangy roots rock sounds, and fusing it all to an lo-fi punk philosophy, Beck wandered into the limelight as the ultimate slacker geek, announcing his own cheerful uselessness. His clueless sound had a certain novelty appeal, but he seemed less like a suave rock star than like...
...bleeps. Splashed through with enough classic soul samples to put Stax Records back in business, Odelay was a manifesto for eclectic electronica, busting out all over the place with the joy of being retrospective and fresh and whimsical. Odd pieces were all there--funk, jazz, roots rock, old-school rap, nonsense lyrics--but suddenly they sounded compatible, credible and organic. The self-proclaimed loser was suddenly "the enchanting wizard of rhythm," devouring and reinventing 50 years of American pop music in one democratic bite. If Beck had lassoed the presumed spirit of Generation-X cool with his way-ward loser...