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...white kid wearing a G-Unit t-shirt may get snickered at on the street, but he’s still white. The fact that hip-hop (and, by extension, mainstream black culture) is embraced by non-black Americans has become undeniable. Hip-hop, then, is not dead, as rapper Nas recently claimed; it’s alive and well and dominating Top 40 radio. Where once the scope of black music’s influence on white America was largely limited to how much blues the Rolling Stones decided to incorporate into a given song, black musicians today...
...National Basketball Association, Moon realizes that his team must be one of the top three ABA teams to stay in the league. Given that most of the team can’t even make a free throw—except for Clarence Brown, played by the rapper Andre 3000—this appears almost impossible. The movie centers on the extreme measures the team takes to avoid expulsion from the league. It’s a plot that sounds extremely familiar. “Semi-Pro” is essentially a remake of 2004?...
With his latest mixtape, “Harlem’s American Gangster,” rapper Jim Jones attempts to present a depiction of Harlem street life as only a native of Harlem could do. Unfortunately, Jones fails, offering instead the conventional definition of gangsta rap that the naïve have come to accept and the knowledgeable have begun to ignore. Released on February 19th, “Harlem’s American Gangster” was not compiled as a bona fide album but as a mixtape in response to Brooklyn-born...
Grammy-nominated rapper KRS-One put United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on blast when, on his 1992 album “Sex and Violence”—he proclaimed: “You want to see the devil, take a look at Clarence Thomas.” Thomas, who now serves as the nation’s second-ever African American on the country’s highest court, has been billed as the quintessential black sellout in America because of his conservative (read: unfavorable) stance on affirmative action, his officiation of Rush Limbaugh?...
...true to his hardcore roots. “Well, I’m Pastor Troy, I got a license to kill / I’ll shove that .50 cal in ya mothafuckin’ grill” doesn’t sound like the hollow boast of a pop-rapper. Nor does it sound like the too-hard attempt of a reactionary gangsta. It sounds like the opening couplet from any old revered ’80s true-school rapper, run through a raw Dirty South filter. Between albums like this, the canonization of Scarface and the late Pimp...