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...don’t want HRES to get a bum rap for this,” he said. “They don’t deserve it. One of the easiest things in the world is to beat up on Harvard...
Street lit profiles the black underworld in graphic detail. Like gangsta rap, street lit often has thieves, pushers and prostitutes as protagonists. And like gangsta rap in its heyday, street lit is hot business. In an industry that considers sales of 20,000 copies of a typical novel a success, gritty street-lit authors like K'wan are routinely doubling that number...
...catalog in this decade. But with “Release Therapy,” his fifth album in six years, this dominance, like all good things, has come to an end. While the openers on his last two albums were effective party-starters, the half-skit, half-rap intro “Warning” is one of those shout-in-your-ear cliché-fests that challenges one’s faith in hip-hop itself. You can almost hear the collective parents of the nation asking, “Is this even music?” In this...
...Enough” is certainly persuasive, it is not very original. Black intellectuals, like economists Thomas Sowell ’58 and Glenn Loury, have been making Williams’ arguments for years. Even when Williams is clearly right—such as in his broadsides against rap music (it’s misogynist) and the reparations movement (it’s a logistical nightmare)—he says little that readers haven’t heard before...
...white media is hardly a new theme for hip-hop; countless records (rightly) decry the fame and money Elvis Presley—and countless other entertainers—have gained from their recontextualization of African-American art forms. Trailblazers in many respects, Public Enemy first drew rap attention to the racism and greed of Hollywood back in 1990 with their song “Burn, Hollywood, Burn,” featuring N.W.A.’s Ice Cube and old-school legend Big Daddy Kane. In the song, a sampled white voice asks rapper Flavor Flav how he feels about...