Word: rapping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SPIN DOCTOR: Deejays in the '90s are what double-neck guitars were to rock bands in the '80s: cool to have but not essential. Lately, though, deejays have been taking center stage themselves. DJ Rap is a female pioneer. The British singer/deejay's U.S. debut, Learning Curve, combines pop vocals with drum-'n'-bass grooves. A few tracks are a bit dull, but on the single Good to Be Alive her skills are on full display...
...songs continued when the class marshals who introduced Institute of Politics Director Alan K. Simpson, Jante C. Santos '99 and Nicholas K. Davis '99, alternated original rap lyrics to the beat of clapping audience members...
That was in Philadelphia, where Goodman grew up, and still defended clients. And on that Tuesday--just as he had promised--nine reputed members of a local crime family, including a Goodman client nicknamed Crazy Phil, beat a murder rap. Goodman had vowed to mark the moment by jumping nude into the fountain of the Four Seasons Hotel, but was stopped by hotel security. He put his clothes on and joined a party of hundreds of the defendants' friends feasting on champagne and hoagies...
...afternoon consisted of four "Rap Sessions" or panel discussions and a keynote speech by KRS- One, Ostensibly the interchange at the Rap Sessions was to focus on educating audience members about the music industry while structuring discussion topics on the content and constituency of hip hop. Artists, producers, decjays, journalists, executives, lawyers and other insiders sat on four panels. Each session was moderated by Dahni-el Giles '99, Caille Millner '01, Baratunde Thurston '99 and Jason Phillips...
...exist as a new institution which plays by the rules of capitalism? Rather than draw rhetorical lines in the sand, much of all the "rap sessions" highlighted agency in the industry. yet, in a capitalist system, agency really rests on consumers--music won't sell that the masses won't purchase. To consider this one aspect of an amplification of audience is to consider how the musical genre may be subject to a dilution of substance through absorption by this very capitalist culture...