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...form in which even an adolescent, Lil Bow Wow, 15, has to worry about overstaying his welcome (he recently dropped the Lil in hopes of fashioning a fresh image), LL Cool J, 34, is a bona fide curiosity: the world's oldest living rapper. It has been nearly two decades since he debuted as a baby-faced teen in Krush Groove and a dozen years since he declared himself still relevant ("Don't call it a comeback/I've been here for years!") on Mama Said Knock You Out. But on Oct. 15, LL will reach an unprecedented hip-hop milestone...
...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...
...stereo. His room, with its throbbing hip-hop beat and many self-consciously collegiate posters advertising four years of a raging party, seems closer to the WB’s idea of the typical dorm room than to reality. The pulsing speakers blast songs full of dilemmas. One rapper just doesn’t know what to do with his car full of girls. Another complains, “Every other city I go, I see the same hos.” Tillery’s life, though, is less problematic—at least...
...those in the know, the release of underground rapper Mr Lif’s debut I Phantom is a momentous occasion. Having spent years building up a following in his native Boston releasing raw singles and playing awe-inspiring live shows, Lif was becoming increasingly hot property and was snatched up by the powerhouse underground label Definitive Jux. He released an EP on Def Jux this summer entitled Emergency Rations, an angry firestorm of an album that included on its lead single the lyrics “Headlines: Bush steals the presidency” and “Planes...
...potent influence is abundantly apparent, particularly in the industrial beats and dystopic family theme of “Success,” which recalls El-P’s own “Stepfather Factory.” However, Lif is a much more elegant, talented and hard-hitting rapper than El-P, and now he finally has the album out to prove it. Hip hop may be wack these days, but if anyone can bring back the B-Boy, I’d put my money...