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...Also, Weezy may or may not be gay (yes homo). Jay-Z loses, the hip-hop industry loses—but those in need of thirty versions of “We Fly High” come out ahead. Winner: Lil’ Wayne, who, apparently, is the best rapper alive. —Jake G. Cohen ’09 is the incoming Music editor. He’s concentrating in Thug Life, having passed Motivation 101 with flying colors...
...intense, you obviously haven’t met “Da Vek.” “It’s the most shocking transformation someone will ever undergo” says Michael B. Chow ’07 of Ramaswamy’s rapper alter-ego. Though “Da Vek” raps libertarian prose with the utmost of ease, don’t expect to see him in section. The rapper, who fearlessly showed off his skills at the Busta Rhymes concert in spring 2004, only emerges when Ramaswamy is outfitted entirely in black...
This album is not a return to the intelligent-but-unrefined rap style Jay first displayed on “Reasonable Doubt,” but it’s a solid addition to his discography. Jay-Z is obviously growing as a person; unfortunately, as a rapper, he’s grown stagnant...
...Shawn Carter) seemed to know he had cheated the odds when he announced his retirement in 2003. Then 34, he had lived the Ur-rap narrative--make tapes, launch a label, buy a De Beers diamond mine--and bragged about it on a dozen often brilliant albums. But no rapper is immune to the pull of the mike, and on Kingdom Come, his heavily hyped comeback, Jay-Z tries to subvert the problem of having said everything by saying everything a little differently. Where once his delivery had the ring-a-ding-ding smoothness of Sinatra--another vocalist who made...
...rapper, Fugee member and activist Wyclef Jean plans to give a free concert in Haiti, his first there since...