Word: rapping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contrast, the French Club's modern French rap performance at this year's show was particularly refreshing. One club member began the performance by coming on stage wearing a beret and carrying a loaf of bread. He immediately dashed both to the ground, grabbing instead a microphone and starting to rap. His implicit statement: yes, berets and French bread define one part of my heritage, but don't think that you completely "understand" my sense of identity or me. Rather, he chose to show us the influence that hip-hop music and culture have had on his identity. If other...
...contrast, the French Club's modern French rap performance at this year's show was particularly refreshing. One club member began the performance by coming on stage wearing a beret and carrying a loaf of bread. He immediately dashed both to the ground, grabbing instead a microphone and starting to rap. His implicit statement: yes, berets and French bread define one part of my heritage, but don't think that you completely "understand" my sense of identity or me. Rather, he chose to show us the influence that hip-hop music and culture have had on his identity. If other...
...show featured acts by 16 student groups, ranging from a French rap by the French Club to a hula dance performed by Holoimua o Hawaii members. Afterwards, organizations offered tasty treats in the Science Center, including Arabian stuffed grape leaves and Chinese beef chow...
...songs on his computer, everything from classics by Van Morrison to the latest by the Beastie Boys. And he has never paid for a single song. "I don't know how legal that is," he says with a shrug, but free songs sure are "a good investment." His rap, techno and swing titles go directly from a laptop to the house's deejay booth. These digital music files have replaced compact discs entirely when it's time for the fraternity house to get jiggy...
...behind the rap is undeniably more complicated. He has a wife and baby he cares deeply about. He holds down two jobs as a clothing-store guard. He struggles to control mood swings and violent urges. When not wowing Century with gang-war stories and introducing him to a .50-cal. handgun known as the Desert Eagle, he alternates between sounding like a fatalist and a self-help guru. "Think negative, dwell on the negative, and somethin' negative is surely gonna happen," he tells his compliant Boswell...