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...addresses the issue of social injustice in a different manner—he raps about it. Kabir Sen, a Wesleyan University graduate and son of Lamont University Professor Sen, will release his third album, “Peaceful Solutions,” on April 25. According to the rapper??s manager, Howard Turkenkopf, Kabir’s first two albums were well received. “His stuff has a lot more in terms of intelligence and a sort of literary feel to it,” Turkenkopf said. “It is more poetic in nature...
...commercialization. Founded on the sequential exchange of lyrics over prerecorded beats, rap is already the most explicitly historical form of popular music; enough intertextuality to make Barthes blush—whether in quoted rhymes, posse shout-outs or P-Funk samples—is a constitutive element of the rapper??s craft. The tension between lyrical innovation and “respect for the culture” allows Nas to decry “a rhymebiter’s rthyme” on his debut album Illmatic, while still drawing lyrical nourishment from idols like Rakim. Whether Vanilla...
...feud: admonishment for stealing a style, lyrics or even a whole genre. The rap world is full of MCs claiming to suffer from “jacked” or “bitten” rhymes.The Sugarhill Gang’s breakthrough hip-hop hit “Rapper??s Delight” is a classic culprit; the song liberally incorporates lyrics from Grandmaster Caz’s—of old-school favorites the Cold Crush Brothers—rhyme book. Decades before Caz’s lament, Little Richard voiced a similar criticism of Elvis...
...gives people what they want, in both his high-energy songs and his fantasy-world music videos. It was only a matter of time before he followed his mentor, Eminem—who starred in the 2002 film “8 Mile” as a Detroit battle rapper??to Hollywood.“Get Rich Or Die Tryin’” tells the story of a drug-dealer named Marcus (50 Cent) who decides to pursue hip hop after being shot nine times. There are parallels between 50’s life and Marcus?...
...while growing up. You’d never know it from “The Living Human Curiousity Sideshow,” an 87-page booklet distributed with his recent EP “Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives,” compiling all of the acclaimed underground rapper??s (neé Ian Bavitz) lyrics since his 1999 album, “Float...