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...tune? "They say what the young want to say," says Cheung Chi Wai, a 29-year-old photographer who has worked with the band. "It's not about foul language. The young generation gets the lyrics because they've had the same experience." Twenty-nine-year-old lyricist and rapper Chan Kwong-yan, a.k.a. M.C. Yan, wants to make music that reflects the way people really talk. "We use a lot of Cantonese street slang in our songs. Canto-pop love songs use written Chinese," says Yan, sliding his hand through the horse's tail of hair that he sometimes...
...words of Jay-Z, “Make my money now / and then back to the streets.” Eminem, despite his Caucasian ethnicity and his mid-West origins, was able to assimilate into the West Coast contingency through his alignment with the legendary Dr. Dre. This young rapper epitomized both the acknowledgement of pop culture with such epic verses as, “Sit me here next to Brittany Spears, shit, Christina Aguillera better switch me chairs, so I can sit next to Carson Daly and Fred Durst and hear them argue over who she gave head...
...first, music seemed irrelevant. Not long after the September 11th terrorist attacks, MTV interrupted its scheduled programming to broadcast live news feeds. Record stores in New York City closed. Music sales around the country, which had been slow anyway, dipped about five percent. Several artists, including the rapper DMX, pushed back their album release dates. Marc Anthony, the pop/salsa singer, dropped plans to promote his latest single, a song about heartbreak that was written before the events. The song?s mistimed title: ?Tragedy...
...rebellious, at least insofar as the term is defined by record labels and soft-drink ads. All it takes to be a rebel in America, it seems, is to be young and loud. In a music culture where a rebel is the Backstreet Boy with a goatee or the rapper with a lifestyle like a CEO's--where being political means playing party music at the odd benefit for Tibet--the mantle hardly seems worth fighting...
...establish her career in the U.S. She recently performed a song called Blow My Whistle, which was included on the sound track of the movie Rush Hour 2. Produced by the Neptunes, one of the hottest American hip-hop production duos around, the song features a cameo from gangsta rapper Foxy Brown. Hikaru said her producers were worried at first that she and Brown might fight, given their different temperaments and backgrounds. They got along just fine. The idea of having her on the song came from Pharrell (Williams, one-half of the Neptunes), says Hikaru. "He said Foxy...