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...Rap cleared its last pop culture hurdle?an Academy Award for best song. Three 6 Mafia became the first rap act to win on Oscar night, for Hustle & Flow?s It?s Hard Out Here for a Pimp. They also introduced the Academy to the latest high-end accessory?diamond-encrusted teeth. How about a set in next year?s swag...
...there was an explosive surprise, it came with the awarding of Best Song to a rap anthem in praise of a flesh peddler. Old-timers may look at the Best Song category and see a dreadful devolution over the decades, from the Gershwin and Kern winners of the 1930s to ?It?s Hard Out Here for a Pimp? this year. But, hell, the competition comprised of a woozy liturgical ballad from Crash and an uptempo number from the bottom of the Dolly Parton song trunk. And the winners, three exponents of Memphis hiphop, expressed more astonished delight than anyone except...
...talk. I gather Harvard was paying West about a quarter of a million dollars a year. West, whom my classmate and friend Leon Wieseltier aptly described in The New Republic as “self-endeared,” had found time to make a rap CD that his own website touted as a seminal event in musical history. But he was frequently absent from Cambridge, and had published very little scholarly work. Many thought Summers’ request that West stay at home for a bit and write to be the height of impertinence. At the time it seemed...
...start with whoever you see on MTV,” he says. “Depending on your background, popular culture is the only way you can get exposed to certain things, and the door by which you can enter the whole culture. That was my introduction to rap.”Hearing Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. prompted hours spent poring over West Coast underground rap records in Manhattan. After that, the shift from fan to artist happened quickly. “I got my first set of turntables with my Bar Mitzvah money,” he recalls.If...
...inter-mixes artistic production with industrial and economic production.” CONCLUSIONBut even as each side of the debate confidently asserts its arguments, there are concessions, some of them surprising, being made to the opposition.Stevens says he finds Teskey’s argument–that for every rap song added to a curriculum, a Keats poem is subtracted—“compelling.”On the other side, Teskey says he doesn’t think his colleagues choose to include pop culture in their syllabi to pander to undergraduates. “I know...