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...rapper Nas released an album several years ago titled Hip Hop Is Dead. The first line of your book is "Hip hop is not dead, but it is gravely ill." Why do you think that? Many people would say it died a long time...
...more inches I’da been in that casket / According to the doctor I could of died in traffic.” This paradox—and his delusions of grandeur—are perhaps best embodied by that self-given sobriquet: “best rapper alive.” Government I Can Trust This Brother: Nas and Obama’s Politics of Hope Primary source: “Black President.” Prospectus: Jay-Z may have been a “Black Republican,” but Nas has always described himself...
...incapable of mature self-expression, an impression “808s” confirms. Sure, he’s hurt, but the album’s few flashes of actual honesty can only depict the skeletal outlines of a relationship, only make for a handful of wrenching tracks.As a rapper in a genre dominated by macho swagger, his limited emotional palette worked wonders. Here, he’s a singer-songwriter, and he’s lost his acute powers of observation and his humor. The aesthetic shift belies his “Graduation” claim that...
...theme behind it seems to be mood swings), with songs that “co-star” artists like Lil’ Wayne, Nas, Jay-Z, and T.I., as well as some more unexpected guests like Floyd Mayweather, Chris Rock, and Spike Lee. The first group of rappers adds flourishes of the usual gangsta rap fare throughout the disc, but it’s Lee’s influence that brings a certain depth to “Theater of the Mind.” While Ludacris’s claims to supremacy and boasts of sexual prowess...
...Leading the way with eight nominations is Lil Wayne, the tiny mixtape-making, cough-syrup-swilling stream-of-consciousness New Orleans rapper whose Tha Carter III truly was one of the best albums of the year. His competition in Grammys' glamour category comes from Coldplay's slightly overhyped Viva La Vida, Ne-Yo's Year of the Gentleman, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss's elegant Raising Sand and Radiohead's record-industry death knell In Rainbows...