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...accompanying his recent album Bo$$ Hogg Barbarians, rapper J-Zone sits in his studio and answers fans’ questions. After he answers a question about what a vagina would say if it could shrink itself, the interviewer says, “The next question is from Christopher. He goes to Harvard…” “Oh shit!” J-Zone interjects. “You actually have Harvard kids listening to my records? Are you trying to bring down your IQ by listening to my music? That’s scary! A Harvard...
GNARLS BARKLEY ST. ELSEWHERE Rapper Cee-Lo and producer Danger Mouse (he of the gene-spliced Grey Album--a mix of the Beatles' White Album and Jay-Z's Black Album) present the best psychedelic soul record since the P-Funk era. Cee-Lo has Bobby Womack-style chops and a willingness to get vulnerable, but Danger Mouse replaces all the moldering soul tropes--over-the-top strings, key-changing hysterics--with minimalist bass lines, trippy samples and planetariums full of crunchy galactic sounds. The result on Necromancing, Just a Thought and the superb Crazy (the first single...
...racial tension. “Akeelah and the Bee” presents scholarly achievement as a viable alternative to the unfortunate stereotypes about black families.However, peripheral characters, such as Akeelah’s father, who is deceased, her brother, who is the protégé of an aspiring rapper, and her mother (Angela Bassett), who works too many jobs to monitor her children, evoke these film cliches.Akeelah aptly transcends her familial circumstances by preparing for the spelling bee with the assistance of the renowned, though reclusive, Dr. Larabee (Laurence Fishburne) and the people living in her community. In fact...
...have [grown] up in the inner city, [or have a] going-to-a-public-school perspective, so he addresses issues from a unique position,” he said. Sen said his son started his career playing classical music on his recorder. And the rapper, who is half-Italian, has experimented with classical South Indian music, jazz, blues, and eventually hip-hop, he added. “Quite a lot of migration—but I like that,” Sen said. “I have always moved my area of work from one field to another...
...characters, and in that sense they have an independence that is very rare in hip-hop. Stereotypes like Tupac’s reformed thug or 50 Cent’s muscled, gun-totin’, sex god aren’t characters; they’re devices a rapper can use to move a song along. Ghostface lets his characters get away from him. His stories are so exhilarating to listen to because he doesn’t seem to have complete control over them...