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Johnson says the rapper Nas is his favorite musical artist “because he speaks the truth—he doesn’t just make it sound cool...
...those other records are boring, so buy mine--the lyric was also a pointed rejection of the get-alongism that prevailed after 9/11. (As if his words weren't enough, he dressed up as Osama bin Laden in the video.) On the album's opening cut, White America, the rapper whose lyrics preoccupied moralists in Congress in the summer of 2000--when they had more time on their hands--declared war on the Bush Administration and slammed his critics as racial hypocrites who discovered rap only when white teens started listening to it: "Hip-hop was never a problem...
...Eminem CDs. At the MTV Video Music Awards, he threatened to deck Moby, the pencil-necked vegan techno musician who criticized him for his homophobic lyrics. And yet this fall Eminem managed to win over even p.c. middle-aged white critics with his semiautobiographical movie, 8 Mile, playing a rapper from Detroit who defends gay men and pulls himself up by his vocal cords to escape wage-slave trailerdom. The movie's implicit premise is one that our public figures rarely acknowledge: that a poor white kid has more in common with poor black kids than with more-well...
...Wannabe rapper Casey B. Weinstein ’03 has stopped dicking around. “I think it’s more respectful to the girl to just lay it all on the table,” he says. Commented Liz D. Wellbridge ’05, “Why did that weird guy just tell me he wants to trizz all over my grill-spot...
...Rapper Eminem now has a successful film, 8 Mile, to his credit [SHOW BUSINESS, Nov. 11]. He is an example of the evolving aspect of hip-hop. It is no longer just a music genre. It has become a way of life. It permeates all parts of North American culture: the way we speak, dress and act. In 10 to 20 years, artists like Eminem will be the norm in hip-hop. Urban or street-based music like jazz, blues and rock 'n' roll eventually changes the norm, and what is mainstream today was once considered street territory...