Word: rapping
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...MURS for President,” underground hip-hop icon MURS is trying to shake things up in his own way. It’s easy to connect the frustration of “MURS for President” and the artist’s inspi-rap of change with Barack Obama’s message of hope. But as similar as the two campaigns may be, “MURS for President” is fundamentally about the struggle of MURS (Making Underground Raw Shit) to maintain authenticity within the hip-hop discipline. Despite all his rhetoric, the artist...
...been a tube this famous since the London subway. The collider’s renown is likely because most of the news about it has been bizarre: The Wall Street Journal ran an article about physicists there studying with a comedy coach to help them think creatively. A rap about the collider reached three million views on YouTube. Rumors swirled that the LHC might suck the whole world into a black hole when the scientists switched on the power, which spawned even more news as hackers attacked the CERN computer system in an act of vigilante justice...
Breaking into mainstream music can be difficult, especially for a folk-band when genres like pop and rap generally stand at the forefront. Last year, Blitzen Trapper, the energetic yet pensive Portland-based sextet, garnered recognition for their single “Wild Mountain Nation” from their third album of the same name. After signing last summer with Sub Pop Records, Trapper seems right at home with their record label, as their fourth album “Furr” showcases their talent well.Influenced heavily by nature and their own spirituality, Trapper creates interesting tunes through light guitar...
...dance, and, more importantly, he’s just not cool enough. These guys are so fly they even made me jealous of the way they clap. In the video, Ludacris and his friends, Sean Garrett (S.G. to his homies) and Chris “Breezy” Brown, rap and dance with scores of token, mind-blowingly beautiful women. The three apparently constitute the only males at the party, except for one scrubby dude who needs some Listerine and a couple of white men who appear near the end of the video having fulfilled Luda’s earlier...
...about "your tone" and "Why you gotta be like that?" and "Stop playing me," followed by "I wrote you a poem." When the phone call ended, I said, "Flo, you've got 100 problems." He said, "Why's that?" I said, "99 plus one." It was the first rap joke I'd ever made. Trust me, if you know Jay-Z, it's a good...