Word: rapping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...material from Baduizm, finding new life in its hits. Live begins with a rift on Miles' "So What" with background singers cooing "Badu." She goes quickly into a breezy rendition of "Rim Shot." "On & On" starts out as a fairly slow number, until midway through when Badu begins to rap. Using the beat from Lil Kim's hit-that-will-not-die, "Crush on You," she proves herself to be an above-average emcee with such lines as "You can read about Badu in your hip-hop Times...
Sean Combs, aka "Puff Daddy," has many talents, one of which is not performing. While Puffy--at 26, a successful CEO of Bad Boy Entertainment who has produced songs for a wide range of musicians from Sting to Mariah Carey--is arguably the most powerful force in the mainstream rap music industry nowadays, he lacks the ability to display his personal musical talents...
...During his signature song, "Woo Hah!! Got You All In Check," the capacity crowd repeatedly bounced up and down while singing along. The highlight of his act was the "Take off your clothes" dance during which he and the Last Boy Scout stripped down to boxer shorts and sang rap songs while half naked...
...more time changing costumes and addressing the audience than actually performing. He did a number of tributes to slain rapper Tupac Shakur during which he played Tupac songs and asked the audience to sing along with the records. There were also a number of tributes to Puffy's former rap partner, the Notorious BIG, who was shot to death last year...
Between spreading his messages of peace and love for the rap community, Puff Daddy performed some of his more popular songs, most of which are remakes of earlier '80s rap or rock songs, including "I'll Be Missing You," a remake of the Police's "Every Breath You Take," "Mo Money Mo Problems," "It's All About the Benjamins" and "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down." The audience itself, primarily teenagers dressed up as Puff Daddy look-alikes, only showed enthusiasm for Puff's sampled songs (the majority of his works) over his original ones from...