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Matt A.B. Siegler '05 calls it rap yoga. Instead of the soft rhythms—or even silence—that accompanies conventional yoga, rap yoga is set to everything from Nas to Bob Marley. After four years of practicing his tree pose at a studio in Los Angeles, Siegler recently brought rap yoga to Dunster House. What began as a request from roommates and friends for an introduction to yoga has expanded into a regular class...
Osama, Where Art Thou? New intel in the bin Laden hunt; the rap on A.Q. Khan; the Dems and the press; a crisis in Tehran; tough times for Kobe Bryant; America's forgotten internment camp...
...powerful places. Senator Jesse Helms fights to force artists to forswear any unwholesome intentions before receiving Government support. Alfred Sikes, the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, leans on radio disk jockeys to clean up their acts. No less than the FBI sends a warning letter to a rap group. Susan Baker (wife of the Secretary of State) and Tipper Gore (wife of the Tennessee Senator) lobby for proscriptive labeling of certain albums ... Stranded in the middle are the majority of Americans. They wonder at the effluence of raw language and worry about its impact on old-fashioned notions...
...changed, sounding surprisingly polished for a man whose first hit consisted of grunting “ha” at the end of each line. In fact, the only constant is Juvenile’s uncanny flair for flowing over the agile bounce beats characteristic of Crescent City rap. The title track is the album’s hidden gem, a series of compelling verses with a tense, dramatic instrumental...
...started performing Spoken Word at Harvard during the summer’s Freshman Urban Program. Spoken Word is a broad, hard to define term for performance poetry that usually falls somewhere between standard poetry and rap. Since then, I have fallen in love with this campus’s spoken word community. It has been a blessing to be able to share my pieces at different events, such as at Spoken Word Society Open Mics and Women in Color Coffeehouse Nights...