Word: rapping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Salt 'N' Pepa, as befits their name, serve things up with zest. In choosing to title their latest album Brand New, the distaff Dynamic Duo of rap are practicing their most characteristic double-play: making a straight-up bold declaration that is also coyly ironic...
Chuck D first came onto the national scene as the lead rapper of Public Enemy, a pioneering group that emerged in 1987. He recently co-authored a new book on "rap, race, and reality" and he is also a correspondent for Fox News...
Chuck D chronicled the history of rap since its inception in the early '80s, arguing that the emergence of black videos on television in the late '80s had the potential to unite otherwise isolated urban pockets throughout America, but that the white-controlled media "clamped down...
...White kids wanted to be black, black kids wanted to be like those in the video. MTV executives said, 'Let's kill rap and hip-hop, it's bringing people together--we can't have MTV be nigger TV,'" said...
...taking a considerable risk to speak at Harvard--an invitation he could quite easily have ducked. The mere fact that he is coming at all suggests that he is listening to the more enlightened among his retinue of advisers. That deserves a pat on the back, not a rap across the knuckles.--Stephen Hutcheon, fellow, Shorenstein Center, Kennedy School of Government