Word: rapping
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...bankers, who foreclosed on homes and farms, sent widows and orphans into the streets to beg and stoked a vivid genre of populist movies that forged in the mass audience's mind an indelible image of the pompous, rapacious plutocrat. Not since Shylock had moneylenders taken such a bad rap. Or money-nonlenders, which is what we have some of today. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...classic rock, or oldies in most houses, not all d-hall music is created equal. Afternoons at Quincy are dominated by oldies, the bosses’ favorite, with classic rock coming on after 4:00 p.m. But when Mike L. Charles is working, expect to hear some rap up in Quincy House. “That’s usually played on Saturday nights when you’re getting ready to go to the club,” explained Charles, who likes Jay-Z and Mos Def. Quincy is also known for techno night, complete with flashing lights. It?...
...currently in the course catalog. The shorter January should offer lessons in the general life skills that we bookworms have so often missed—a wood-shop class, for instance—or academic takes on our hobbies and amusements, like deciphering the true meaning of rap lyrics. But the most effective way for the College to remove all semblance of a Harvard J-term to actual school (and therefore drudgery) is to ask its students to serve as teachers...
...others laugh. "Your grandmother is so fat that God won't let her into heaven," one boy would shout at another as the crown laughed ... In the beginning I'd fall silent when it was my turn. But I started improving ... As well as the insults we had to rap for the older boys-tell stories in chanting rhythms to entertain them-and I found that I enjoyed entertaining people...
...says in a voiceover. The narration puns on the name of the debut album that Christopher—better known as The Notorious B.I.G.—recorded in 1994, entitled “Ready to Die.” The LP awakened East Coast rap from a protracted hibernation and established one of the genre’s most vital lyricists. Yet “Notorious,” the glossy new biopic of Biggie Smalls, paints Wallace’s transformation into a man in only the broadest, brightest strokes. For a movie trying to revive interest...